Category Archives: Top News Stories
Parole absconder arrested in Three Rivers
THREE RIVERS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Three Rivers police and the Michigan State Police Fifth District Fugitive Team have arrested a 44-year-old Three Rivers man and made a drug bust. MSP troopers saw him e...
Mar 15, 2024
Firekeepers announces $6.2 million contribution to local revenue sharing board
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP), owners of FireKeepers Casino Hotel in Battle Creek, announced on Thursday that over $6-point-2 million will be goin...
Mar 15, 2024 Courtesy Firekeepers Casino and Hotel Facebook page
AUDIO: Four years later, WMU professor says high school age students might have been affected most by pandemic
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - This week marks the marks four-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic. Among other things, it began a cascade of school and...
Mar 15, 2024 Western Michigan University professor Dr. Regena Fails Nelson (courtesy WMU)
Body pulled from Kalamazoo River Monday identified as Paw Paw man
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The body of a man recovered from the Kalamazoo River Monday afternoon has now been identified. Investigators say they are still looking into the circumstances sur...
Mar 14, 2024 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
Single vehicle crash in Comstock Township kills one
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A single vehicle accident late Thursday morning claimed the life of a 61-year-old man. Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to the vicinity of No...
Mar 14, 2024 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)
AUDIO: Prosecutors asking for more money from lawmakers for staff shortage
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan is urging state lawmakers to give them $230-million to help get rid of what they are calling a "desperate shortage" of pr...
Mar 14, 2024
Four arrested in Kalamazoo with drugs, guns
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Four people have been arrested in Kalamazoo this week after the driver of a vehicle crashed into two Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team vehicles on West Main Street. The of...
Mar 14, 2024 Ken Hawkins / CC
No injuries reported after $125,000 BC house fire; smoke detectors credited with alerting occupants
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Electrical wiring is being listed as the probable cause of a house fire in the 200 block of North Woodlawn Avenue on Wednesday morning which caused over $125,000 in dama...
Mar 14, 2024 Battle Creek Fire department (Photo by John McNeil)
Five juveniles hurt in crash in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Five juveniles are recovering after being injured in the crash of a Dodge Ram pickup truck Tuesday evening. They were riding in the bed of the truck when the 35-year-old dri...
Mar 13, 2024 Portage Police cruiser (photo by John McNeil)
Woman to face trial in toddler's death
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo woman will face trial in the October 2023 death of a 15-month-old girl she was watching. Tiffany Moore's preliminary hearing was held Tuesday and the girl's mo...
Mar 13, 2024 Brian Turner / CC
