Category Archives: Top News Stories
Kalamazoo County Commissioners to distribute more covid relief funding during Tuesday meeting
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo County Commissioners are set to hand out more American Rescue Plan money at their meeting Tuesday evening, October 4, as they near the end of their process for ...
Oct 04, 2022 Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners meeting March 1, 2022 (photo courtesy of John McNeill)
Kalamazoo woman's medical legacy being honored Tuesday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Today has been declared Henrietta Lacks Day in the City of Kalamazoo. If you don't know the story, Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cancer in the early 1950's. Her tissu...
Oct 04, 2022 Kalamazoo City Commissioners and members and friends of the Henrietta Lacks family Oct. 3, 2022 (courtesy of John McNeill)
Sister in 3 sibling double murder trial to be released from jail
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A three-sibling double murder case: one acquitted, one convicted, and one leaving jail. As the youngest sibling, Tikario Taylor-McMillion was found not guilty by a jury l...
Oct 03, 2022 Best Law
Fire at Kalamazoo home quickly put out Sunday afternoon
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Investigators continue to look into the cause of a Sunday afternoon fire in Kalamazoo. At approximately 4:00 p.m. the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded to a ...
Oct 03, 2022
Private 1st Class Hofman returns home after being MIA for 77 years
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- After 77 years, the body of a Grand Rapids soldier has finally come home. According to MLive, the remains of Private First Class Donald Hofman arrived at Gerald R. For...
Oct 02, 2022 U.S. Army Soldier Donald Hofman. (Photo from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency)
Suspect arrested after attempted break in of Ceresco Post Office
-CERESCO, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Calhoun County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a 26-year-old man from Battle Creek on Saturday morning after a break in was responded at the United States Postal Service ...
Oct 01, 2022
West Nile Virus detected in Allegan County wild bird
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A case of West Nile Virus has been detected in a wild bird in Allegan County. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services notified the Allegan County Health...
Sep 30, 2022
KRESA breaks ground on new $100-million dollar Career Technical Education Center
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- It was a big day in Kalamazoo on Friday, September 30 as hundreds from the community turned out for the Groundbreaking of the new $100-million dollar Career Technical Edu...
Sep 30, 2022 An artist's rendering of what the new building is expected to look like. (Image provided by John McNeill)
Youngest of 3 siblings found not guilty on double murder of Kalamazoo couple
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A jury has found a man not guilty of double murder of a Kalamazoo Township couple. 19-year-old Tikario Taylor-McMillon was found not guilty on all counts related to the m...
Sep 30, 2022 Best Law
KPS officials say added pension debt is hurting their efforts to hire and retain employees
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Under pressure from labor groups to increase wages, the Kalamazoo Public Schools Board of Trustees will be getting a crash course in education compensation over the next f...
Sep 30, 2022
