KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- As west Michigan transitions from the winter season to the pothole season, and then on to construction season, M-DOT crews will be out on I-94 and U.S. 131 at night, filling in potholes and sealing cracks before they become potholes. They won’t be closing any lanes ...More
PORTAGE (WKZO) -- Your home may be your castle but in Portage, it’s not supposed to be your business too unless you have registered with the city. For now a proposal to expand those regulations has been shelved by the city council. The ordinance would have created a new class ...More
VAN BUREN COUNTY (WKZO) -- Could sudden acceleration have contributed to a spectacular fatal wreck involving multiple vehicles on M-43 Monday night? Police say it was more likely alcohol, but they are investigating…
The Van Buren County Sheriff's Department reports 58-year-old Everett Painter was driving westbound on M-43, when he ...More
JACKSON (WKZO) -- Funeral Services have been set for a young Jackson Police officer, shot in the line of duty on Monday. Twenty-six-year-old officer Jim Bonneau died and his partner, Darrin McIntosh, is recovering from a bullet wound, after what started as a routine domestic dispute that turned into a terrifying ...More
COLDWATER(WTVB) -- A Jackson city Police officer was shot and killed early today while investigating a domestic dispute. Authorities say 26-year-old Officer James Bonneau was shot by 63-year-old Elvin Potts around 12:30 this morning.
Bonneau and Blackman Township Police officer 22-year old Darrin McIntosh were at Potts' home after ...More
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder says running for Governor was his wife’s idea. He says he was happy making new companies, but he says many of the same techniques can be applied to Government.
He brought his “Reinvent Michigan Tour” to Kalamazoo yesterday and packed the big ...More
PORTAGE (WKZO) -- A third suspect in the heroin death of 19 year old Amy Bousfield has cut a deal with prosecutors as police work their way up the chain of drug dealers who were involved in supplying the drugs that caused her 2008 overdose.
Sgt. John Blue says the dealers ...More
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- Two men have now been charged with Kalamazoo’s first Homicide of the year. Public Safety claims that 26-year-old Alberto Sanchez Jr. and 31-year-old Dennis Suarez went to collect money they were owed from 50 year old Jackson Watson, confronting him in his apartment and beating him.
The ...More
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- Police are looking for four black males who are believed to be responsible for a series of four armed robberies, in a crime spree that began late Saturday night and ran into the early morning hours of Sunday.
The first was a stick up at 11PM the 7-11 ...More
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO) -- A local board established to decide how to spend the Firekeepers Casino money that will be shared with local governments will meet again this morning to see if it can compromise on the rules for distribution of the money. Two percent of the revenue from slot machines ...More
