Category Archives: State News
Missing Hillsdale County boy found - again
HILLSDALE, MI (WTVB) – A missing 9-year-old Hillsdale County boy has been found. Troopers from the Michigan State Police Jackson Post located Jace Landon Lyon, safe and unharmed, Monday night af...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 18, 2017
Lion exhibit now open at Binder Park Zoo
BATTLE CREEK (WTVB-AM) — The new lion exhibit is opening to the public this week at the Binder Park Zoo after a ceremonial ribbon snipping late Monday afternoon. It's the animal that has most of...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 18, 2017
Missing Portage woman's husband back in jail
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — The husband of a missing Portage woman is back in jail after being arrested for a traffic violation. It comes after Christopher Lockhart was arrested for cutting the int...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 18, 2017
Snyder signs bill lifting switchblade ban
LANSING (WKZO-AM/FM) — Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a bill lifting Michigan’s ban on switchblades. Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, sponsored the legislation. The former sheriff of Eaton Cou...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 17, 2017
Lawmakers voice concerns about part-time proposal
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Lawmakers in Brian Calley’s own party say they have concerns about the lieutenant governor’s proposal for a part-time legislature in Michigan. Sen. Margaret ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 17, 2017
WMU applicant set to be beheaded
UNDATED (WKZO-AM/FM) — A number of human rights groups, the American Federation of Teachers and Western Michigan University are calling on the Trump Administration and Gov. Rick Snyder to use th...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 17, 2017
10 thrown from boat, injured, in Lake Gage accident
LAKE GAGE, IN (WTVB) – 10 people were thrown from a speeding boat, including the allegedly drunk driver, in an accident on Lake Gage, just south the of the Michigan-Indiana border Saturday night...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 16, 2017
Farmer hurt in tractor accident
MARCELLUS TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM/FM) — A senior is being treated for injuries he sustained after being run over by his own tractor at his property on East Street. Cass County Sheriff’s deputies...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 16, 2017
Governor Snyder signs budget in West Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO AM/FM) — Governor Rick Snyder came to West Michigan to sign the budget for the next fiscal year and to promote one of his pet projects, vocational education, doing the honors ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 15, 2017
Clogged toilet results in additional charge
DOWAGIAC (WKZO-AM/FM) — A clogged toilet could cost a Kalamazoo woman more time in jail after the Cass County Drug Enforcement Team got a tip that she and several others would be traveling there...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 15, 2017




