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Kalamazoo Deputy City Manager Rebekah Kik leaving for Notre Dame job
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Deputy City Manager Rebekah Kik is leaving her position effective July 3rd. She submitted a letter of resignation to the city Tuesday and will start teaching at the University of Notre Dame's graduate school of architecture this fall. Kik will be Notre Dame's co-director of the Ho...
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Man sentenced to life in prison for 2018 Kalamazoo murder
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A judge has sentenced a man to life in prison without parole for a 2018 murder in Kalamazoo. James Reed was found guilty in April of this year in the shooting death of 32-year-old Marcus Ford on November 17th, 2018. The case was cold for several years before investigators charged Reed with ...
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LOCAL NEWS
Two injured, one missing from Tuesday morning house explosion that was felt three miles away
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A massive, fiery house explosion completely leveled a home o...
May 26, 2026
Michigan's average gas price down 20¢ in past week
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The average price for gas is 20¢ lower per gallon in Michigan compa...
May 26, 2026
Bronson man killed in off road vehicle crash Monday morning
CAMDEN TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - A 20-year-old Bronson man was killed and another man was hurt after an ...
May 25, 2026
Kalamazoo man arrested in Berrien County for drug possession
BERRIEN SPRINGS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 31-year-old Kalamazoo man is in police custody in Berrien Count...
May 25, 2026
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Reckless driver in Battle Creek captured after running from police, crashing his vehicle
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 17-year-old from Jackson after crashing his car, running from poli...
May 24, 2026
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STATE NEWS
Governor Whitmer signs bill funding Selfridge ANG Base improvements
MACKINAC ISLAND, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Macomb County will be getting $152-million from the state to upgrade runways before a new fighter mission arrives. Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the bill providing the funding for the base on Mackinac Island yesterday. President Donald Trump...
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MSU president leaving for same job at Clemson University
EAST LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan State University president Kevin Guskiewicz is leaving East Lansing. He had nearly three years left on his contract with MSU, and the board of trustees doubled his salary to two-million-dollars a year in an emergency meeting on Sunday, May 17th. Guskiewicz is leaving Michigan St...
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Police: Plainfield Township home explosion was attempted murder-suicide
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kent County Undersheriff Bryan Muir says the home explosion in Plainfield Township Tuesday morning was intentional and was a murder-suicide attempt. A man died in the blast and his wife was pulled from the burning home by neighbors and she is hospitalized with serious injuries. Mu...
May 27, 2026
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
CNN files suit against Perplexity alleging unlawful content distribution
May 28 (Reuters) - CNN on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, alleging the AI search engine provider is unlawfully distributing its copyrighted content, marking the latest legal tussle between the AI firm and a news publisher. "CNN's lawsuit...
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Fertitta-owned firm to buy Caesars Entertainment in nearly $18 billion leisure push
May 28 (Reuters) - Caesars Entertainment said on Thursday it will be bought out by Tilman Fertitta-owned firm in a $17.6 billion deal, as the hospitality billionaire looks to expand his leisure empire. The deal, which will take one of the Las Vegas S...
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Jury retires at Austrian trial over foiled attack on Taylor Swift concert
By Francois Murphy WIENER NEUSTADT, Austria, May 28 (Reuters) - The jury at the trial of a 21-year-old over a foiled Islamist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024 retired for deliberations on Thursday, with the defendant having already pl...
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