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Aggressive dog incident in Pennfield Township results in use of force
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WTVB)- At approximately 5:11 p.m. on Friday, May 23, the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) responded...
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Kalamazoo Rotary Club to host Memorial Day event in downtown and Riverside Cemetery
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Rotary Club will be hosting its annual Memorial Day Celebration Monday, honoring t...
May 24, 2025
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Michigan House approves two bills banning transgender girls from female sports
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two controversial bills that ban transgender girls from playing female sports in school have been ...
May 23, 2025

AUDIO: Ribbon cutting held for KRESA Career Connect Center
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Hundreds of local residents have gotten their first look at Kalamazoo's new Career Connect Cente...
May 23, 2025

Curbside collection of storm debris starts Tuesday in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Even though the power is back on, the clean-up from the May 15 major storm in Kalamazoo continue...
May 23, 2025
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Kalamazoo Rotary Club to host Memorial Day event in downtown and Riverside Cemetery
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Rotary Club will be hosting its annual Memorial Day Celebration Monday, honoring t...
May 24, 2025
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DNR cautioning people about northern Michigan ice storm damage
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is cautioning people heading to northern Michigan thi...
May 23, 2025
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Michigan House approves two bills banning transgender girls from female sports
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two controversial bills that ban transgender girls from playing female sports in school have been ...
May 23, 2025

Kent County prosecutor won't retry former Grand Rapids police officer after mistrial
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker says former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schur...
May 23, 2025

AUDIO: Parents plead with KPS to not cut elementary assistant librarian
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Parents at Parkwood-Upjohn and Winchell elementary schools are appealing to Kalamazoo Public Sch...
May 23, 2025
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DNR cautioning people about northern Michigan ice storm damage
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is cautioning people heading to northern Michigan thi...
May 23, 2025
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Michigan House approves two bills banning transgender girls from female sports
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two controversial bills that ban transgender girls from playing female sports in school have been ...
May 23, 2025

Kent County prosecutor won't retry former Grand Rapids police officer after mistrial
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker says former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schur...
May 23, 2025

Police share details about Mackinac Bridge chase, arrest
ST. IGNACE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police are sharing details about a chase over the Mackinac Bridge and a carjacking Monday. The ...
May 22, 2025

Ingham County Clerk announces run for Secretary Of State in 2026
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum is running for the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State. By...
May 22, 2025
Local Sports

KCC baseball team wins regional championship, heads to Junior College World Series
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kellogg Community College baseball team are regional champions for the second consecutive...
May 21, 2025

AUDIO: Ad hoc committee to pick youth sports complex location is set
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new ad hoc committee picked to decide the location for Kalamazoo's new youth sports complex ha...
May 21, 2025

First Kalamazoo Wings coach, GM dies at 80
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The first head coach and general manager of the Kalamazoo Wings hockey team has died. The ECHL t...
May 14, 2025

Kalamazoo County hotel owners approve adding fee to room charges for youth sports complex
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Tuesday was a tough day for three funding requests on the ballot locally. Two school bond issues...
May 08, 2025

ACEing Autism, USTA welcome 87 tennis players for inclusive tennis clinic at Portage YMCA
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The USTA and ACEing Autism welcomed 87 tennis players of varied abilities to the Portage YMCA this...
May 07, 2025
National Sports
Tennis-Sabalenka, Svitolina make fast starts at French Open
By Shrivathsa Sridhar PARIS (Reuters) -Aryna Sabalenka sent out an early warning to her French Open rivals as the world numbe...
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Tennis-French Open Day One
PARIS (Reuters) - Highlights of the first day at the French Open on Sunday (times GMT): 1023 SVITOLINA BREEZES PAST SONMEZ TO...
1h ago
Exclusive-Motor racing-Ben Sulayem declares bid for second term as FIA president
By Alan Baldwin MONACO (Reuters) -Mohammed Ben Sulayem will stand for a second four-year term as FIA president in December, s...
1h ago
MLB roundup: Twins get second straight walk-off win over Royals
Brooks Lee gave Minnesota its second walk-off win in as many days as his ninth-inning RBI single lifted the Twins to a 5-4 co...
4h ago
Tennis-Raducanu overcomes fear of needles to manage back injury ahead of French Open
(Reuters) - Former U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu has overcome her phobia of needles in a bid to relieve a back injury ahea...
6h ago
National
Five years after George Floyd's murder, racial justice push continues
By Kat Stafford, Bianca Flowers and Evan Garcia (Reuters) -Shareeduh McGee is fighting to keep the memory of her cousin Georg...
1h ago
Exclusive-FEMA chief was set to be fired before public break with Trump
By Nathan Layne and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Before Cameron Hamilton headed to Capitol Hill on May 7 to testify about...
1h ago
Australian authorities airdrop supplies to farmers stranded by flood crisis
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Helicopters were being used on Sunday to drop animal feed to farmers in Australia's New South Wales state s...
11h ago
'It Was Just An Accident' by Iran's Jafar Panahi wins Cannes' top prize
CANNES, France (Reuters) -"It Was Just An Accident" by Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Cannes Film Festival's...
19h ago
India's monsoon rains arrive 8 days early, earliest in 16 years
By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) -Monsoon rains hit the coast of India's southernmost state of Kerala on Saturday, eight d...
20h ago
World
Rival marches draw thousands in Warsaw ahead of presidential vote
WARSAW (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Warsaw on Sunday to show support for candidates vying to...
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Swiss authorities exploring probe into US-backed Gaza aid group
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Swiss authorities said on Sunday they were exploring whether to open a legal investig...
1h ago
Israeli strikes kill 23 in Gaza, including a journalist and rescue service official
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli military strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including a local ...
1h ago
Erdogan, Pakistan PM Sharif to meet in Istanbul on Sunday
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will hold talks with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Istanbu...
3h ago
Russia and Ukraine complete largest prisoner swap, Moscow says
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine have completed a three-day prisoner of war exchange, with each side swapping 303 more de...
3h ago
Business
Bank of Israel MPC back to full strength after economist Heffetz approved
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel's cabinet approved the appointment of Ori Heffetz to the Bank of Israel's moneta...
3h ago
Musk's X down for tens of thousands of US users, Downdetector shows
(Reuters) -Elon Musk's X was down for tens of thousands of users in the United States on Saturday, according to outage tracki...
23h ago
Nvidia CEO calls Trump re-industrialisation policies 'visionary'
By Supantha Mukherjee NORRKOPING, Sweden (Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Saturday praised U.S. President Donald Trump's...
May 24, 2025
Pirelli in risky situation without a deal with Sinochem, CEO tells Corriere
MILAN (Reuters) -Italian tyre maker Pirelli is in a risky situation after its Chinese leading shareholder Sinochem rejected a...
May 24, 2025
Indonesia to launch economic stimulus to boost consumption
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia plans to announce economic stimulus measures on June 5 to boost economic activity and consumer p...
May 24, 2025
Politics
Trump administration puts new limits on reporters at Pentagon
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday issued orders that require journalists to have offi...
May 24, 2025
Trump administration must restore health articles scrubbed for transgender mentions, judge rules
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to restore articles by doctors a...
May 23, 2025
White House National Security Council hit by more firings, sources say
By Gram Slattery and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A large restructuring of the White House National Security Council g...
May 23, 2025
US judge strikes down Trump order against law firm Jenner & Block
By David Thomas (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday overturned President Donald Trump's executive order targeting Jenner & ...
May 23, 2025
'Little, little screws' one of many hurdles to US-made iPhones
By Jody Godoy, Karen Freifeld and David Shepardson (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's bid to bring manufacturing of Apple's ...
May 23, 2025
Health
Caris Life Sciences discloses rise in revenue in US IPO filing
(Reuters) -Biotech company Caris Life Sciences filed its paperwork to go public in the U.S. on Friday as the stock market sho...
May 23, 2025
Moderna files application for updated COVID vaccine
(Reuters) -Moderna said on Friday it had filed a marketing application for an updated COVID vaccine to the U.S. Food and Drug...
May 23, 2025
ISS backs Dynavax directors in board fight with Deep Track Capital
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services urged Dynavax Technologies ...
May 23, 2025
Brazil state says it rules out bird flu in commercial flock
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil's Santa Catarina state said it has ruled out an outbreak of bird flu in a commercial ...
May 23, 2025
Measles cases in Texas rise by six to 728, state health department says
(Reuters) -The Texas health department on Friday reported 728 cases of measles in the state, up by six cases since its last u...
May 23, 2025
Science
Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado dead at 81
By Manuela Andreoni SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Sebastiao Salgado, the Brazilian photographer whose black-and-white images of worke...
May 23, 2025
Astronomers spot galaxy shaped like the Milky Way but is far more massive
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history ...
May 23, 2025
FAA approves return to flight for SpaceX's Starship rocket
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday said it approved SpaceX's Starship to return to fl...
May 22, 2025
Two galaxies seen in a 'joust' preceding a cosmic mega-merger
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars ...
May 21, 2025
Study casts doubt on water flows as cause of streaks on Martian slopes
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Images taken of Mars from orbit dating back as far as the 1970s have captured curious da...
May 19, 2025
Technology
Pakistan allocates 2,000 megawatts of electricity to bitcoin mining, AI data centres
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan will allocate 2,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity in the first phase of a national initiative t...
4h ago
Musk's X down for tens of thousands of US users, Downdetector shows
(Reuters) -Elon Musk's X was down for tens of thousands of users in the United States on Saturday, according to outage tracki...
23h ago
Exclusive-Nvidia to launch cheaper Blackwell AI chip for China after US export curbs, sources say
By Liam Mo and Fanny Potkin BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -Nvidia will launch a new artificial intelligence chipset for China at a...
May 24, 2025
Informatica explores sale again, Salesforce among suitors
(Reuters) -Informatica is exploring a sale after attracting renewed takeover interest from suitors, including Salesforce, a p...
May 23, 2025
CommScope considers sale of broadband arm for as much as $10 billion, Bloomberg News reports
(Reuters) - CommScope Holding is exploring the sale of its broadband connectivity and cable solutions (CCS) division, Bloombe...
May 23, 2025
Entertainment
'It Was Just An Accident' by Iran's Jafar Panahi wins Cannes' top prize
CANNES, France (Reuters) -"It Was Just An Accident" by Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Cannes Film Festival's...
19h ago
Josh O'Connor drawn to flawed protagonist in Cannes entry 'The Mastermind'
By Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) -Rising British actor Josh O'Connor was drawn to how normal his character in "...
21h ago
Who will win the 2025 Cannes Film Festival's top prize?
By Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) -After nearly two weeks of exciting premieres, star-studded press conferences and ...
May 24, 2025
Joachim Trier's 'Sentimental Value' captivates Cannes with family drama
By Hanna Rantala CANNES, France (Reuters) - Acclaimed director Joachim Trier said his new Cannes competition entry "Sent...
May 23, 2025
Iran's Roustaee concerned about return home despite cautious Cannes film
By Michaela Cabrera and Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) -Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee said on Friday that he was ...
May 23, 2025