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Motorcyclist hurt in crash with SUV near Plainwell
GUN PLAIN TWP., MI (WKZO-AM/FM) - A 51-year-old Otsego man suffered critical injuries in a collision involving his motorcycle and a SUV near Plainwell on Tuesday afternoon. According to Allegan County...
Gary Stevens Jun 01, 2022 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)

Semi truck driver charged with hitting MSP trooper and cruiser pleads no contest
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Virginia semi truck driver accused of crashing into a Michigan State Police trooper on April 8 has pleaded no contest to his felony charges. 24-year-old Easton Norby-Va...
Jerry Malec May 31, 2022 Rumble Press / CC

Man kills girlfriend, her two children, then turns gun on himself
WYOMING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The City of Wyoming Department of Public Safety have confirmed that they found a man, a woman, and two girls fatally shot early Tuesday morning, May 31. The discovery was m...
Jerry Malec May 31, 2022 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC

Kalamazoo hopes to use tax recovery strategy to make Northside improvements
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There may be some controversy about development projects near the Graphics Packaging plant, but none at all about the rest of Kalamazoo's Northside. In fact they hope to b...
Ken Delaney May 31, 2022 Maddie Jordan Woods of the Northside Association for Community Development

Pullman man killed in Memorial Day crash
TROWBRIDGE TWP., MI (WKZO-AM/FM) - A 62-year-old Pullman man lost his life in a single vehicle crash on Monday morning. According to Allegan County Sheriff's Sergeant Ben Haas, deputies and other firs...
Gary Stevens May 30, 2022 Fatal crash graphic (Photo courtesy of Midwest Communications)

One death resulting from two Memorial Day morning crashes
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Michigan State Police are confirming that at least one person has died as a result of a crash that happened early Monday morning, May 30, in Oshtemo Township. Oshtemo Fir...
Jerry Malec May 30, 2022 Police lights

One is dead after Sunday afternoon shooting at a Kalamazoo home
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 34-year-old man is dead and police are looking for the suspect, in a shooting that happened Sunday afternoon in Kalamazoo. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety resp...
Ken Delaney May 30, 2022 Crime scene tape
KDPS arrests suspect in connection with stolen vehicle, pursuit
KALAMAZOO MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety authorities continue to investigate an incident involving a stolen truck and pursuit that landed a 41-year-old Kalamazoo man in jail. ...
Jim McKinney May 29, 2022

UPDATE: Missing teen from Gobles found safe
GOBLES, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The search for a 15-year-old Gobles boy who apparently ran away from home earlier this month has ended. According to the Van Buren County Sheriff's Department, Gabriel Reynos...
Gary Stevens May 28, 2022 Gabriel Reynoso (photo courtesy Van Buren County Sheriff's Dept.)

Cass County's Ross Beatty High School in lock down as police investigate subject spotted near campus with firearm
CASSOPOLIS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Ross Beatty high school in Cass County's Jefferson Township went into lock down Friday morning, May 27, at 10:47 a.m. as the Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a ...
Jerry Malec May 27, 2022 Cass County Sheriff's Office sign. (Photo by John McNeil)




