Category Archives: Top News Stories
Speaker Hall says FOIA expansion passed by Senate a "very low priority" in House
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall says bills that have been passed by the state Senate to expand the Freedom of Information Act will not get a vote in the House. The FOIA exp...
Jan 31, 2025
Suspect charged with murder of Minette Weaver in November 2024
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Prosecutors have charged 53-year-old Marvin Humphrey of Kalamazoo with open murder in the death of 68-year-old Minette Weaver in November 2024. Humphrey was arrested Wedne...
Jan 31, 2025 (Photo of what the new Kalamazoo County Justice Center will look like upon completion)
Topping-Out ceremony marks completion of steel erection at BlueOval Park
MARSHALL, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The controversial BlueOval Battery Park in Marshall recently reached a major construction milestone. The final steel beam was raised December 19 on the primary facility. Con...
Jan 31, 2025 Courtesy Ford Blue Oval Park
AUDIO: Grand Rapids mother now charged with murder of daughter
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - In Grand Rapids, charges against 46-year-old Roconda Singleton have been revised to include murder in the Saturday fire that killed her 12-year-old daughter Shamiya Ste...
Jan 30, 2025
New Kalamazoo Event Center expected to generate millions for other businesses
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - What kind of gamechanger will Kalamazoo's new $300-million Event Center be for downtown Kalamazoo. Right now it's just piles of dirt next to the new Kalamazoo County Court...
Jan 30, 2025 Discover Kalamazoo Director Jane Ghosh (photo by John McNeill)
Congressman Bill Huizenga among those weighing a U.S. Senate run in 2026
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Several politicians are weighing a run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan next year with the announcement that Democratic Senator Gary Peters won't seek a third term. Veteran...
Jan 29, 2025 Michigan 4th District Congressman Bill Huizenga (R-Zeeland)
AUDIO: Women who built Gibson guitars in Kalamazoo in World War II celebrated tonight
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The women who stepped up during World War Two and made guitars at the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo will be celebrated tonight at Bell's Eccentric Caf. John Thomas wrote a b...
Jan 29, 2025
Third suspect in 2023 murder of Jack Snyder arrested, charged
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Battle Creek police have arrested the third suspect in the February 2023 murder of 17-year-old Battle Creek Central High School student Jack Snyder. 20-year-old Marcus ...
Jan 29, 2025 Photo take from the family's GoFundMe page.
Four arrested when KVET executes four search warrants January 16 and 23
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Four people have been arrested by the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team as they served four search warrants on January 16 and January 23. The first search warrant was carr...
Jan 28, 2025
Area officials say they are ready if frigid weather returns
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Temperatures are predicted to hover around the 30-degee mark for the next week, but if they dip back down to zero again this winter, like they did last week, local officia...
Jan 28, 2025 Peter Toporowski / CC
