Category Archives: State News
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
Whitmer predicts national abortion ban if Trump elected in November
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It appears abortion will be a top issue for voters in the upcoming presidential election. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer told NBC's Meet The Press there's a real possibi...
Apr 15, 2024 Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer at a news conference in Taiwan March 4, 2024 (courtesy Focus Taiwan)
As National Work Zone Awareness Week, man to be sentenced today for killing Van Buren County road worker
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - This is National Work Zone Awareness Week and the Michigan Department of Transportation says nearly 1,900 people were injured in work zones last year. Among those, 20 people...
Apr 15, 2024
Michigan gas prices up 15 cents a gallon in the past week
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan's average gas price is up 15 cents a gallon from last week to $3.69. AAA Michigan says that is 19 cents more than last month and but two cents less than last year....
Apr 15, 2024
Two Lansing police officers, suspect shot
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two Lansing police officers are hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after they were shot by a suspect around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. The 28-year-old suspect is als...
Apr 11, 2024 (courtesy Lansing Police Department)
State tourism conference wrapping up today in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The annual Pure Michigan Governor's Conference on Tourism wraps up today in Kalamazoo. It is held in different locations every year and over 500 tourism leaders in the sta...
Apr 11, 2024 (courtesy Michigan Economic Development Corporation)
First Adopt-A-Highway clean-up of the year starts this weekend
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Volunteers will fan out across lower Michigan beginning Saturday to give state highway roadsides their first cleaning of the year as part of the Michigan Department of Trans...
Apr 10, 2024 110TH AIRLIFT WING / CC
Parents of Oxford school shooter each sentenced to ten to 15 years in prison
PONTIAC, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The parents of the Michigan school shooter were each sentenced to ten to 15 years in prison Tuesday. James and Jennifer Crumbley were convicted in separate trials of involun...
Apr 09, 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
Michigan gas prices drop this week, but still higher than last month
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Gas prices in Michigan are down eight cents compared to last week with drivers are now paying an average of $3.54 per gallon for regular unleaded. AAA Michigan says the pri...
Apr 08, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Simon & Schuster to publish "True Gretch," written by Governor Whitmer
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer has a book being published on July 9. Simon & Schuster has announced it is publishing "True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, a...
Apr 05, 2024
