Kalamazoo MI

MENDON — Four local football teams are heading on to the next round of the MHSAA football playoffs. On Saturday, both Constantine and Mendon were able to pick up playoff victories at home in the opening round. Mendon to host regional final The top-ranked Mendon Hornets gave up nearly 60 points to Adrian Lenawee Christian in the regular season finale. As fate would have it, the two teams met up again in the opening regional round game for Division 8-player playoffs on Saturday. Mendon was a bit i

COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Detectives with the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office are seeking information that could help them solve a homicide that happened in 2025 at a Comstock Township apartment complex. Joshua Russcher, 35, was shot and killed while outside of his apartment at Comstock Village Apartments on the...

PORTAGE, Mich. — Sparks from a welding operation hit spilt gasoline, igniting a fire that caused $15,000 in damage and left two people injured on Sunday, according to the Portage Fire Division. Firefighters were called to the fire on Vickery Road near Woodlawn Drive at 1 p.m. Local: Bradford...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A man will spend the rest of his life behind bars without parole for stabbing his on-and-off-again girlfriend to death in Battle Creek. Tommie Heard, 35, was sentenced Monday to first-degree premeditated and felony murder, as well as domestic violence third-offense. This comes over two...

BATTLE CREEK, MI (WTVB) – A former Coldwater and Harper Creek student, 20-year-old Breonna Sue Dearman of Battle Creek, was killed early Saturday morning in a multi-vehicle crash in Calhoun County’s Marengo Township. According to the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office, the initial accident occurred around 3:47 a.m. when...

The 35-year-old father was killed outside a Comstock Township apartment complex in November 2025.

Gasoline ignites during vehicle welding, sparking an attached garage fire Sunday afternoon.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — One person is in the hospital after a shooting Sunday morning, making it the third shooting in Kalamazoo over the weekend. Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety received information around 5:10 a.m. about a 20-year-old at the local hospital suffering from a gunshot wound. He was treated for his injuries, which were […]

Nobody wants to see their hometown on a list like this. Five Michigan cities just landed among America's 100 least safe small cities. Is yours one of them?

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — One person is dead, and another is in the hospital after crashing into a building Sunday morning, police say. It happened near S. Westnedge Avenue and Howard Street around 2:20 a.m., when the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety was called to the scene of a vehicle that struck a building. At […]