Category Archives: State News
No criminal charges will be filed in Calhoun County killing of gray wolf
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - No criminal charges will be filed after a hunter killed a gray wolf in Calhoun County during a legal coyote hunt with a guide last January. The hunter had thought it wa...
Jun 14, 2024 Tony Hisgett / CC
Man sentenced for selling meth as Adderall
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Federal prosecutors say a 26-year-old Battle Creek man has been sentenced to a decade in prison for possessing more than four kilograms of methamphetamine. Travon Mansk...
Jun 13, 2024
Coldwater Lake man faces life in prison for allegedly running down elderly couple with his pick-up
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A Coldwater Lake man is being held on $1 million bond for allegedly using his pick-up truck to run down an elderly couple in Branch County's Kinderhook Township Monday night. 22...
Jun 11, 2024 zeferli@gmail.com / Depositphotos.com
Man in wheelchair struck and killed by train in Vicksburg Tuesday morning
VICKSBURG, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police say a man who got his wheelchair stuck on the tracks was struck and killed by a train Tuesday morning in Vicksburg. Vicksburg Police Chief Scott Sanderson Says the ...
Jun 11, 2024 Village of Vicksburg Police Department cruiser (photo by John McNeil)
Trump to be in Detroit this weekend
DETROIT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former President Donald Trump will be in Detroit this weekend for a community roundtable. He will be at 180 Church at 13660 Stansbury Avenue for the event. The roundtable wi...
Jun 11, 2024 samael1986 / Depositphotos.com
Independent UAW monitor investigating union president
DETROIT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - United Auto Workers union president Shawn Fain is being investigated by the independent UAW monitor. The Detroit Free Press reports the monitor is also investigating secreta...
Jun 11, 2024 rafapress / Depositphotos.com
Republican 2022 AG candidate DePerno weighing Supreme Court bid
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The 2022 Michigan Republican Party Attorney General nominee Matt DePerno is considering running for the state Supreme Court. DePerno is a Portage attorney who says several p...
Jun 10, 2024 Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Kalamazoo area attorney Matthew DePerno in his bid for Michigan Attorney General in 2022 (courtesy of Deperno for Michigan)
Ethan Crumbley appealing guilty pleas, life sentence
OXFORD, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Ethan Crumbley's attorneys have filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea in the November 2021 Oxford High School shooting. They have filed the request to have him resentenc...
Jun 10, 2024 Brian Turner / CC
Gov. Whitmer speaks on RFK Jr. support in Michigan
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. give her "some concern" for President Biden's reelection chances in November. She w...
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Governor Whitmer requesting Major Disaster Declaration for SWMI tornadoes
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer is asking President Biden for a Major Disaster Declaration for Branch, Cass, Kalamazoo, and St. Joseph counties due to the May 7 tornadoes. The dec...
Jun 06, 2024 Governor Gretchen Whitmer announcing her Lowering MI Costs Plan in Lansing, MI Feb 6, 2022 (courtesy Office of Governor)
