Category Archives: State News
Red Cross sends more volunteers south
TEXAS (WKZO-AM/FM) — Thirty-three Red Cross volunteers and seven emergency response vehicles from Michigan have now been deployed to Texas to the area devastated by Hurricane Harvey. The ERVs wi...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 27, 2017
"Money" Mayweather lives up to his name
LAS VEGAS (WKZO-AM/FM) — Grand Rapids native Floyd Mayweather Jr. has beaten Conor McGregor in their Saturday bout in Las Vegas. It was unusual because Mayweather, who was considered the best po...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 27, 2017
Farm accident kills Lake Odessa man
ODESSA TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM/FM) — A 59-year-old man from Lake Odessa was found dead near his overturned tractor in a drainage ditch at a farm in Ionia County late Saturday. Searchers went looking f...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 27, 2017
Politicans rank low but economy soars in poll
EAST LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — The latest state-of-the-state survey conducted by Michigan State University’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research found only 28 eprcent willing to g...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 26, 2017
Asian tiger mosquito found in Michigan
LIVONIA (WKZO-AM/FM) — An Asian tiger mosquito was reportedly captured in a trap in an industrial area in Livonia. There were rumors about the insect being in west Michigan, but this is the firs...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 26, 2017
The politics of hate surfaces here
PORTAGE (WKZO AM/FM) — A website that carried the headline, “Sen. Margaret O’Brien wants Kzoo to be the next Charlottesville,” has been taken down at the request of several Dem...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 26, 2017
Red Cross stepping up Harvey mobiliztion
CORPUS CHRISTI (WKZO AM/FM) — Kalamazoo now has four Red Cross Volunteers working in Texas to help shelter refugees from Hurricane Harvey, and 20 more from all over the state are on their way to...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 26, 2017
MSP Leads Sex Offender Sweep in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Police are sweeping the state for sex offenders who are not complying with state registration laws. In Grand Rapids, more than 600 known sex offender residences w...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 25, 2017
Red Cross prepping for Harvey
UNDATED (WKZO AM/FM) — Red Cross officials in Michigan are gearing up, just in case they are dispatched to Texas to help with recovery operations from Hurricane Harvey. Forecasters say it could ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 25, 2017
Governor says Universities not ready for future
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Governor Rick Snyder is challenging Universities to prepare for decades of social transition as fewer young people will be coming up and the work force will go through a...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 25, 2017




