Category Archives: Top News Stories
Suspects sought in robbery of business in Calhoun County
SPRINGFIELD, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Calhoun County Sheriff's Deputies are searching for suspects who broke into a food market early Friday morning, July 8. Police responded to a burglar alarm around 4 a.m...
Jul 10, 2022 Photo provided by the Callhoun County Sheriff's Office.
KDPS investigating two Saturday shootings happening within an hour of each other
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety police responded to two separate shootings on Saturday, July 9. The first one happened around 8 p.m. at LaCrone Park in the 500 bloc...
Jul 10, 2022 KDPS Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety cruiser (Photo by Jeana Gondek)
Galesburg teen victim of 2021 BB gun accident dies at home
GALESBURG, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Galesburg teenager who was shot in the head with a BB gun in April 2021 has died. Deven Free, who was shot while he and his friends were playing with a BB gun died at h...
Jul 08, 2022
Allegan County man to spend 50-75 years in prison for online sex crimes
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An Allegan County man was sentenced Thursday to 50 to 75 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple online sex crime counts. Steven Lee Foupht was arrested November 1...
Jul 08, 2022 Steven Lee Foupht (courtesy of Allegan County Sheriff's Office)
Kalamazoo commissioners asked to approve resolution supporting "Medicare for All"
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- It wasn't on the agenda but a group called the Democratic Socialists of Southwest Michigan has been asking Kalamazoo Commissioners for weeks to approve a resolution suppo...
Jul 08, 2022 Kalamazoo City Commission meeting June 6, 2022 (photo credit: John McNeill)
Carjacking suspect in custody after being shoot during the incident
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Around 6:00 p.m. Thursday the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded to the 800 block of North Rose Street for the report of a shooting. Simultaneously, a call wa...
Jul 08, 2022 Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety logo
Death rate in Kalamazoo County increased dramatically during the pandemic, but not just because of COVID-19
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It should be no surprise that the death rate has spiked in Kalamazoo County in the last two years, but COVID-19 wasn't the only big killer. County Medical Examiner Joyce d...
Jul 07, 2022 Joyce L. deJong, DO
Medical Examiner (courtesy of WMU School of Medicine)
Police believe blown tire to be main cause of deadly accident at Battle Creek's Field of Flight Air Show
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Battle Creek Police believe a blown tire to be the cause of the jet truck accident and death of 40-year-old Chris Darnell on Saturday, July 2, during the Field of Flig...
Jul 06, 2022
Portion of Portage under boil water advisory starting Thursday
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A water main replacement project is prompting a boil water advisory to start at 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 7, in Portage. The advisory is in effect on Lovers Lane from I-94 t...
Jul 06, 2022 Image provided by the City of Kalamazoo.
$500K gift establishes Getman endowment for equity in women's athletics at Kalamazoo College
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo College has received a $500,000 gift in support of women's athletics from one of it's own. Alumni Dana Getmen presented the gift during a fund announcement even...
Jul 06, 2022 Dana Getman with Director of Athletics Becky Hall and Women’s Athletics Coaches: A fund announcement event for the establishment of the Getman Endowment for Equity in Women’s Athletics included (front row, left to right) Director of Athletics Becky Hall, Dana Getman ’68, Women’s Lacrosse Coach Jess Smith, Women’s Basketball Coach Katie Miller, (back row, left to right) Women’s Tennis Coach Mark Murphy, Softball Coach Kelli Duimstra, Women’s Soccer Coach Bryan Goyings, Swimming and Diving Assistant Coach Beth Mitchell, Women’s Volleyball Coach Hunter Bishop, Cross Country Coach Kyle Morrison and Golf Coach Josh Burt. (Photo provided by Kalamazoo College.)
