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Gas prices up 9-cents a gallon in Michigan
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's more expensive to fill the gas tank in Michigan compared to last Monday. Triple-A Michigan s...
10h ago
AUDIO: Bronze statue of late Comstock Township Fire Chief unveiled
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new bronze statue honoring late Comstock Township Fire Chief Edward Switalksi has been...
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AUDIO: Kalamazoo city commission to hold public hearing on water, sewer rate hikes
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo city commission will hold a public hearing tonight on a proposal to raise water an...
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MDOT looking for public input traffic noise study for US-131/I-94 interchange improvements
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -The Michigan Department of Transportation has set a public meeting later this week to discuss the...
Nov 17, 2024
Charges being sought after Vicksburg child dies in a car in a grocery store parking lot
VICKSBURG, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Charges are reportedly being sought for a father whose three-year-old died in August after being...
Nov 15, 2024
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911 call from hunter in Emmett Township leads police to fugitive
EMMETT TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 9-1-1 call from a deer hunter on opening day of firearm deer season Friday helped Michig...
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Gas prices up 9-cents a gallon in Michigan
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's more expensive to fill the gas tank in Michigan compared to last Monday. Triple-A Michigan s...
10h ago
Dog rescued from Battle Creek house fire
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Battle Creek firefighters rescued a family dog from a house fire early Sunday morning. The fl...
10h ago
AUDIO: Bronze statue of late Comstock Township Fire Chief unveiled
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new bronze statue honoring late Comstock Township Fire Chief Edward Switalksi has been...
10h ago
Crews scheduled to begin well drilling work at Bailey Park on Monday
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Contractors for the City of Battle Creek are scheduled to begin well drilling at the northern ...
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State
Gas prices up 9-cents a gallon in Michigan
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's more expensive to fill the gas tank in Michigan compared to last Monday. Triple-A Michigan s...
10h ago
General Motors announces lay offs
DETROIT -- General Motors Co. today laid off roughly 1,000 people with a majority of those apparently working out of the auto...
Nov 15, 2024
Kalamazoo man headed for prison dies while trying to escape transport van
BIG RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man has died while apparently trying to escape a sheriff's department transport va...
Nov 15, 2024
Charges being sought after Vicksburg child dies in a car in a grocery store parking lot
VICKSBURG, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Charges are reportedly being sought for a father whose three-year-old died in August after being...
Nov 15, 2024
Kalamazoo senator proposes sweeping expansion of Michigan's bottle deposit law
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - State Senator Sean McCann (D-Kalamazoo) has introduced legislation he says will put the question o...
Nov 14, 2024
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WMU misses out on bowl eligible win, falling 31-13 at Bowling Green
BOWLING GREEN, OH (WKZO AM/FM) - The Western Michigan University football team dropped its second-straight mid-week game, fa...
Nov 13, 2024
WMU suffers first MAC football loss
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Western Michigan University football team suffered its first Mid-American Conference loss of...
Nov 07, 2024
Zeigler Kalamazoo Marathon course to be different for 2025
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Zeigler Kalamazoo Marathon course will be different in 2025. Organizers said yesterday in ad...
Oct 25, 2024
WMU men's soccer alum makes $400,000 donation to the program
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Western Michigan University's men's soccer program has received a record-setting $400,000 donati...
Oct 23, 2024
WMU tight end Bosma earns MAC Player of the Week honors
CLEVELAND - Western Michigan University tight end Blake Bosma has been named the Mid-American Conference Co-Offensive Player ...
Oct 22, 2024
National Sports
Top 12 unchanged, South Carolina still consensus No. 1
Led by unanimous No. 1 South Carolina, the top 12 teams were unchanged in The Associated Press Top 25 women's college basketb...
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Reports: RHP Nick Martinez accepts Reds' qualifying offer
Right-hander Nick Martinez accepted the Cincinnati Reds' $21.05 million qualifying offer, multiple outlets reported Monday. M...
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Motor racing-Women's F1 Academy to hold Las Vegas finale in 2025
LONDON (Reuters) - Las Vegas will host the finale of next year's all-female F1 Academy series after races on three continents...
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Panthers rookie RB Jonathon Brooks to debut vs. Chiefs
Carolina Panthers rookie running back Jonathon Brooks will make his debut this week against the Kansas City Chiefs, head coac...
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Sixers C Joel Embiid doubtful Monday at Miami
Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid was downgraded to doubtful for Monday night's game at Miami due to illness. The former ...
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National
Alex Jones-affiliated company challenges the Onion's Infowars purchase
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - A losing bidder connected to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones challenged on Monday the ...
46m ago
New York transit approves $9 Manhattan congestion charge to start Jan. 5
(Reuters) - The Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted on Monday to implement a $9 congestion mitigation charge for driv...
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US House Ethics panel to meet amid calls for report on Trump AG pick Gaetz
By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee is expected to discuss next steps on...
1h ago
San Francisco mayor-elect taps OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for transition team
(Reuters) - San Francisco's mayor-elect Daniel Lurie named OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as one of seven co-chairs of his transition ...
1h ago
Trump search for Treasury pick widens, sources say
By Steve Holland WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump's search for a Treasury secretary is wideni...
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World
Lebanon submits written response to U.S. truce proposal, Lebanese official and local media say
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon has submitted a written response to a U.S. truce proposal, a Lebanese official source and Lebanese...
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Germany's Scholz to address drones for Russia with China's Xi
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday he would discuss the delivery of dual-use goods with ...
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U.S. Senate to consider measures blocking some weapons sales to Israel
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate could vote as soon as Wednesday on legislation that would block a...
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US Sudan envoy meets army chief Burhan on first visit
DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. special envoy to Sudan travelled to the African country for the first time on Monday to...
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US warns Turkey against hosting Hamas leaders
By Simon Lewis and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned Turkey on Monday against hosting Hamas l...
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Business
Nippon Steel not to import from overseas mills in bid to save U.S. Steel deal
(Reuters) - Nippon Steel will not import steel to the U.S. from its international mills, the Japanese company's Executive Vic...
A few minutes ago
Wolfspeed ousts CEO Gregg Lowe as slowing EV sales hit growth
(Reuters) -Chipmaker Wolfspeed said on Monday that its board ousted Gregg Lowe as its CEO without cause, amid growing challen...
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Stellantis CEO says will adapt to U.S. market under Trump
RENNES, France (Reuters) - Stellantis' will adapt to changes in the U.S. car market expected under a Trump government, CEO Ca...
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Alex Jones-affiliated company challenges the Onion's Infowars purchase
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - A losing bidder connected to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones challenged on Monday the ...
46m ago
San Francisco mayor-elect taps OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for transition team
(Reuters) - San Francisco's mayor-elect Daniel Lurie named OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as one of seven co-chairs of his transition ...
1h ago
Politics
US House Ethics panel to meet amid calls for report on Trump AG pick Gaetz
By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee is expected to discuss next steps on...
1h ago
San Francisco mayor-elect taps OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for transition team
(Reuters) - San Francisco's mayor-elect Daniel Lurie named OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as one of seven co-chairs of his transition ...
1h ago
Trump search for Treasury pick widens, sources say
By Steve Holland WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump's search for a Treasury secretary is wideni...
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US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Alaska campaign finance law
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge based on constitutional free speech...
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RFK Jr. vaccine views 'dangerous', says cousin and US ambassador Caroline Kennedy
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s views on vaccines are dangerous, his cousin and outgoing U.S. amb...
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Health
Exclusive-Activist investor Ananym Capital pushes for changes at Henry Schein, sources say
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activist investor Ananym Capital Management is urging healthcare products distrib...
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USDA confirms domestic flock infected with bird flu in Hawaii
(Reuters) -The United States Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of bird flu in Hawaii on Monday, the first case...
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Novo Nordisk launches obesity drug Wegovy in China
By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) -Novo Nordisk said on Monday it has launched its popular obesity drug Wegovy in China, the wo...
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US Supreme Court declines to hear patent dispute over Bausch blockbuster diarrhea drug
By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a bid by Alvogen's subsidiary Norwich P...
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Nigeria begins delayed mpox vaccination programme
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria started mpox vaccinations on Monday, administering shots to health workers and peo...
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Science
Fossil from Germany unlocks history of ancient flying reptiles
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying...
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Samples obtained by Chinese spacecraft show moon's ancient volcanism
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples ...
Nov 15, 2024
The 'morphing' wheel from South Korea that may transform lives and robots
By Hyun Young Yi, Daewoung Kim and Jack Kim DAEJEON, South Korea (Reuters) - Imagine a wheelchair equipped with wheels flexib...
Nov 14, 2024
'One-of-a-kind' skull fossil from Brazil reveals bird brain evolution
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity riva...
Nov 13, 2024
Researchers document huge drop in African elephants in a half century
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent a...
Nov 11, 2024
Technology
Wolfspeed ousts CEO Gregg Lowe as slowing EV sales hit growth
(Reuters) -Chipmaker Wolfspeed said on Monday that its board ousted Gregg Lowe as its CEO without cause, amid growing challen...
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San Francisco mayor-elect taps OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for transition team
(Reuters) - San Francisco's mayor-elect Daniel Lurie named OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as one of seven co-chairs of his transition ...
1h ago
Roblox tightens messaging rules for under-13 users amid abuse concerns
(Reuters) - Video game maker Roblox said on Monday that it is rolling out safety measures to prevent users under 13 from dire...
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Revolut gets UK trading license, set to offer UK & EU stock trading
(Reuters) - Fintech Revolut said on Monday it has got a UK trading license from the British financial regulator that will all...
3h ago
Software startup ServiceTitan reveals paperwork for US IPO
(Reuters) - Software startup ServiceTitan on Monday revealed its paperwork for an initial public offering in the U.S. The Gle...
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Entertainment
Russian police look into death of celebrated ballet dancer Shklyarov after balcony fall
By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) - Investigators in Russia are looking into the death of Vladimir Shklyarov, a principal dancer at ...
3h ago
Late Quincy Jones, Bond film producers bestowed with honorary Oscars
By Mary Milliken LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Just weeks after his death at the age of 91, renowned music producer and composer Qu...
8h ago
Netflix says 50 million households worldwide tuned in for Paul-Tyson match
(Reuters) - Netflix said on Saturday that 60 million households worldwide had tuned in for the highly anticipated boxing matc...
Nov 17, 2024
U.S. fans celebrate K-pop group Seventeen amid company tussle
By Danielle Broadway OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - South Korean boy band Seventeen had fans chanting their names in Oakland...
Nov 16, 2024
And the next Oscars host will be ... Conan O'Brien
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian, writer and former late-night host Conan O'Brien will be the host of th...
Nov 15, 2024