Category Archives: State News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be on Michigan presidential ballot
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be on Michigan's presidential ballot in November as the Natural Law Party nominee. Kennedy was working on collecting 12,000 signatures needed to b...
Apr 19, 2024 (courtesy of the State of Michigan at michigan.gov/sos)
Fewer Michigan inmates are going back to prison after their release
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new study from the Michigan Department of Corrections says less inmates released from prison are heading back again. The study of over 6,000 inmates who left prison in 202...
Apr 18, 2024 (courtesy Michigan Department of Corrections)
AUDIO: Nuclear Regulatory Commission holds forum on future of Palisades
BENTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is inspecting the Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert Township near South Haven to ensure when it restarts it will be safe. The...
Apr 18, 2024
Democrats regain control of Michigan House after two special election wins Tuesday
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Democrats have regained their two-seat majority in the Michigan House of Representatives with yesterday's special elections in Wayne and Macomb counties. In the 13th House D...
Apr 17, 2024 Marco Verch Professional Photographer / CC
Former Michigan State House Speaker, wife charged on multiple counts
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is being charged with 13 counts of embezzlement, conspiracy, and larceny and faces decades in prison. Attorney General Dana Nesse...
Apr 17, 2024
U.S. nuclear regulators to hold meeting on Holtec's license for Palisades Plant Wednesday
BENTON HARBOR, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The future of the Palisades Power Plant site in Van Buren County's Covert Township will be discussed Wednesday evening. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding a ...
Apr 16, 2024
Whitmer: Anyone in Michigan illegally should not get state benefits
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Whitmer says anyone in the state illegally should not have any access to state benefits. She said that in response to a question in Grand Rapids yesterday abou...
Apr 16, 2024 Gov. Whitmer signs legislations No. 20, 2023 at the YWCA in Kalamazoo, MI (courtesy Office of the Governor)
AUDIO: Senator Nesbitt discusses visit to Mexican border
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt is back in Michigan after he took a trip to the Mexican border in Texas. The Van Buren County Republican was joined on the trip to ...
Apr 16, 2024 State Senator Aric Nesbitt filing for paperwork for the 20th Senate District (submitted photo)
Van Buren County man sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for striking and killing road worker last year
PAW PAW, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Hartford man convicted of striking and killing a Van Buren County Road Commission worker last year has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. 58-year-old Rene Rangel,...
Apr 15, 2024 Photo of Rene Rangel provided by the Van Buren County Road Commission.
ABC News documentary on James, Jennifer Crumbley coming this week
OXFORD, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A documentary from ABC News on James and Jennifer Crumbley will be released on Hulu Thursday. Titled "Sins of the Parents," it details their failings as parents that led to t...
Apr 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Ethan Robert Crumbley, 15, charged with first-degree murder in a high school shooting, poses in a jail booking photograph taken at the Oakland County Jail in Pontiac, Michigan, U.S. December 1, 2021, in a combination photograph with his parents Jennifer Lynn Crumbley and James Robert Crumbley who were taken into custody December 3, 2021. Oakland County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
