Category Archives: State News
MSP Trains New Motor Carrier Officers
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – The Michigan State Police will have another batch of new uniformed and armed officers ready to go by this winter. New recruits have just entered the MSP's 22nd Motor C...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 14, 2017
Michigan Mental Health Task Force Comes To Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – A new Michigan House Mental Health Task Force is coming to Grand Rapids this week to gather information about mental healthcare, housing, and job training. The he...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 14, 2017
One dead after wrong-way U.S. 131 crash
WAYLAND TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM/FM) — Sheriff’s deputies in Allegan County say a person is dead after a wrong-way two-vehicle crash Sunday on U.S. 131 near Gun Lake Casino. WOOD-TV reports it ha...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 14, 2017
AAA: Michigan's average gas price up 7 cents
DEARBORN (WKZO-AM/FM) — AAA says Michigan’s average gas price is up seven cents this week to $2.49. “That has to do with more travel, summer travel is still high, and we’re als...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 14, 2017
U.I.A. agrees to pay victims of computer malfunction
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) –The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency says it will return $21-million to 44-thousand people they wrongly accused of fraud, after a computer program that was created to...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 14, 2017
UPDATE: Murder investigated near Niles
NILES TOWNSHIP (WKZO AM/FM) — The FBI Violent Crimes Task Force and the Berrien County Homicide task force has joined the investigation into the murder of a Niles Township woman who was gunned d...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 14, 2017
Rally in the park to protest Charlottesville violence
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — About 450 people turned out for a hastily called afternoon rally in Kalamazoo Sunday afternoon to protest the events in Charlottesville over the weekend. Three died and ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 14, 2017
Man critically hurt after Comstock Township shooting
UPDATE: A suspect, a man from the Comstock Township area, is in custody. Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Pali Matyas says the victim is said to be a man in his 40s from the Plainwell area. ORIGINAL STOR...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 14, 2017
Singer Bruno Mars to donate $1M to Flint
FLINT, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Singer Bruno Mars has announced he is making a donation to help the residents of Flint. During his concert Saturday nifght at the Palace of Auburn Hills, he announced a ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 14, 2017
Michigan reacts to violence in Virginia
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — A peaceful march was held in Kalamazoo Saturday night to protest violence in Charlottesville, Virginia by white supremacist groups. The violence in Virginia resulted in ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 13, 2017




