Category Archives: State News
Proposal to end state benefits for unmarried couples
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Changes could be coming to unmarried partners of State of Michigan employees. Republican Senator Rick Jones has introduced a bill to take away benefits from domestic p...
Jul 25, 2017
U.S. judge halts deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals
By Steve Friess DETROIT (Reuters) – A federal judge in Michigan halted on Monday the deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals from the United States, the latest legal victory for the Iraqi...
Jul 24, 2017
Hoekstra nominated ambassador to Netherlands
WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM) - Pete Hoekstra is apparently going to be rewarded for his support of Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Campaign after all. The former Congressman from Holland, who had bac...
Jul 24, 2017
Stryker breaks ground on new research facility [PHOTOS]
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM/FM) — Stryker Corporation held groundbreaking ceremonies at the site of their newest facility on Monday. Quite a bit of site work has already taken place but the actual construc...
Jul 24, 2017
Michigan's average gas price up to $2.40
DEARBORN (WKZO-AM/FM) — AAA says the average price for a gallon of gas in Michigan is up to $2.40. That’s up five cents from last week and up 14 cents from the same time last year. “...
Jul 24, 2017
Holland Man one of 11 Former Employees Charged in GR Home for Veterans Investigation
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – On Monday, July 24, Attorney General Bill Schuette announced charges have been filed in the 61st District Court in Kent County against 11 former caregivers of the...
Jul 24, 2017
Limousine bus catches fire
SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – A limousine bus caught fire in Van Buren County Sunday morning, July 24. South Haven Area Emergency Services officials say it took 600 gallons of water to put out ...
Jul 24, 2017
Road rage on I-69 Saturday night
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A road rage incident on I-69 in Branch County Saturday night led to the arrest of a woman, after Michigan State Police say she pointed a handgun. Troopers say two vehicles...
Jul 23, 2017
Person of interest in wife's disappearance behind bars again
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — For the third time in as many weeks, Christopher Lockhart finds himself in the Kalamazoo County Jail. Lockhart, a Pfizer employee, is a person of interest in the disappe...
Jul 23, 2017
Fred Upton makes pitch for Foxconn plant
UNDATED (WKZO AM/FM) — There was a lot of talk about the Governor's Good Jobs tax incentive package being motivated by the search by a Taiwanese company in the Midwest for a plant site to make s...
Jul 22, 2017
