Western Michigan University to meet with pro-Palestinian protestors
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Western Michigan University officials will meet today with pro-Palestinian protestors after they packed up and cleared out of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. The students want WMU to adopt a ceasefire resolution concerning the Israel-Hamas war and want to see the university's financial reco...
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Kalamazoo detectives identify fatal hit and run victim, seeking the public's assistance in their investigation
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety has identified the victim of a fatal hit and run accident Saturday night as 60-year-old Leroy Carl Lawson of Kalamazoo . At 10:08 p.m. a passerby alerted officers to a body in the roadway on Mills Street near Oneil Street. Officers checked and loca...
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Man guilty of ex-girlfriend's 2019 death
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo jury has found Anthony Ozomaro guilty of second degree homicide and felony firearm in the death of his ex-girlfriend in March 2019. He was charged with the murder of Nikkole Riojas and was convicted Tuesday. Kalamazoo Public Safety says they hope the verdict brings "a measu...
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AUDIO: Two Men and a Truck to collect donations for women in need
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two Men and a Truck are going to be gathering donations for women who have been physically abused this weekend and delivering the supplies in time for Mother's Day. The company's Kalamazoo marketing specialist Claire Bouwens says they will have a truck at Harding's on South Westnedge in Porta...
May 01, 2024
Paws With a Cause seeking funding for renovations of headquarters
WAYLAND, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Paws With a Cause is seeking funding in its first public capital campaign called Embrace the Journey. The organization has been helping people with disabilities for the past 45 years and their headquarters have not been improved much since 1994 in Wayland. CEO Michele Suchovsky says they need...
May 01, 2024
Protestors want WMU to divest from Israel
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Western Michigan University students are protesting for the Palestinian people in the war between Israel and Hamas. Some protestors feared being on camera as news crews went to the campus in Kalamazoo yesterday, saying they are Palestinian and fear they won't be allowed back to Israel if th...
May 01, 2024
Former Kalamazoo Township manager to face trial
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former Kalamazoo Township Manager Dexter Mitchell's case has been bound over for trial in circuit court. Mitchell is accused of eavesdropping on a closed meeting by allegedly secretly recording it in March 2023. Security camera footage showed him putting the device in the room before the to...
May 01, 2024
State and federal officials announce human trafficking charges against three from Three Rivers
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Three people from Three Rivers have been charged with human trafficking a 33-year-year woman from India under the auspices of marriage. At a press conference at the YWCA Kalamazoo Tuesday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, alongside members of the Department of Attorney General, repres...
Apr 30, 2024
Two arrested for allegedly threatening a business in Kalamazoo County's Cooper Township
COOPER TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two people are in custody after police say they were involved in threatening a business in Kalamazoo County's Cooper Township Tuesday morning. The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office says deputies arrested the pair on multiple felony warrants around 9:45 a.m. They say a coordinated effo...
Apr 30, 2024
WMU officials say overnight camping is not permitted, university encourages protesters to take down encampment
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - While a Pro-Palestinian group encampment at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is now in its second week, some tent still remain at Western Michigan University. A representative from the university said the encampment began at WMU Saturday, the same day as Spring Commencement on campu...
Apr 30, 2024