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Education organization says Kalamazoo and most schools in Michigan do worse than national comparison districts
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new education dashboard says Kalamazoo Public Schools performs well behind similar districts i...
5h ago
Kalamazoo County jobless rate inches up in February
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - It was a slight increase but Kalamazoo County's unemployment rate went up in February. According to data...
13h ago
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One killed in fire at Concord Place Apartments
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One person has died in a fire Thursday morning at Concord Place Apartments in Oshtemo Tow...
20h ago
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Chinese native charged with damaging religious property
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Chinese native is charged with damaging religious property after the U.S. Attorney's Office fo...
22h ago
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Two Kalamazoo residents arrested by Calhoun County Sheriff's Department in counterfeit bill investigation
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Two Kalamazoo residents were arrested Wednesday by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office after...
Mar 28, 2024
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Education organization says Kalamazoo and most schools in Michigan do worse than national comparison districts
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new education dashboard says Kalamazoo Public Schools performs well behind similar districts i...
5h ago
Kalamazoo County jobless rate inches up in February
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - It was a slight increase but Kalamazoo County's unemployment rate went up in February. According to data...
13h ago
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Suspected drunk driver crashes into Dollar General store in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Battle Creek Police say both speed and alcohol appear to be factors as a vehicle crashed into...
13h ago
Coldwater man killed in Calhoun County head on crash, Richland man injured
MARSHALL TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - A 27-year-old man from Coldwater was killed Thursday in a Calhoun County two vehicle head-on c...
13h ago
One killed in fire at Concord Place Apartments
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - One person has died in a fire Thursday morning at Concord Place Apartments in Oshtemo Tow...
20h ago
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State
Trump to hold rally in Grand Rapids Tuesday
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former President Donald Trump is planning another campaign rally in Michigan. His team announ...
39m ago
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Netflix releases trailer for Pop-Tart movie set in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Netflix says a movie about the creation of Kellogg's Pop-Tart in Battle Creek in 1963 will be...
48m ago
Former owner of Dark Horse Brewery pleads guilty to 20-year felony
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The former owner of Dark Horse Brewery in Marshall had pled guilty to stealing money from his...
Mar 28, 2024
Department of Energy announces $1.52 billion loan to reopen Palisades Nuclear Power Plant
COVERT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Local and state lawmakers are praising the U.S. Department of Energy's decision on the conditional ...
Mar 27, 2024
New poll shows Biden gaining ground in swing states, tied with Trump in Michigan
NEW YORK, NY (WKZO AM/FM) - A new poll shows President Biden gaining ground against Donald Trump in six swing states, with th...
Mar 27, 2024
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Local Sports
Tennis-Murray pulls out of Monte Carlo, Munich due to ankle injury
(Reuters) - Andy Murray will miss the Monte Carlo Masters and Munich Open next month as he recovers from a severe ankle injur...
1h ago
NHL roundup: Stars, Hurricanes win, seal playoff bids
Jamie Benn's power-play goal broke a tie late in the third period and helped give the visiting Dallas Stars a 3-1 victory ove...
3h ago
MLB roundup: Corbin Burnes, O's crush Angels in opener
Corbin Burnes pitched six innings of one-hit baseball in his Baltimore debut and the Orioles rolled past the visiting Los Ang...
3h ago
Tennis-Alcaraz says Dimitrov made him feel like a 13-year-old in Miami masterclass
(Reuters) - World number two Carlos Alcaraz said he felt like a frustrated 13-year-old searching for answers after his crushi...
6h ago
Cricket-Crawley calls for refinement to 'Bazball' after India defeat
(Reuters) - England need to remain positive and make some adjustments to their aggressive style of play in test cricket follo...
6h ago
National Sports
Tennis-Murray pulls out of Monte Carlo, Munich due to ankle injury
(Reuters) - Andy Murray will miss the Monte Carlo Masters and Munich Open next month as he recovers from a severe ankle injur...
1h ago
NHL roundup: Stars, Hurricanes win, seal playoff bids
Jamie Benn's power-play goal broke a tie late in the third period and helped give the visiting Dallas Stars a 3-1 victory ove...
3h ago
MLB roundup: Corbin Burnes, O's crush Angels in opener
Corbin Burnes pitched six innings of one-hit baseball in his Baltimore debut and the Orioles rolled past the visiting Los Ang...
3h ago
Tennis-Alcaraz says Dimitrov made him feel like a 13-year-old in Miami masterclass
(Reuters) - World number two Carlos Alcaraz said he felt like a frustrated 13-year-old searching for answers after his crushi...
6h ago
Cricket-Crawley calls for refinement to 'Bazball' after India defeat
(Reuters) - England need to remain positive and make some adjustments to their aggressive style of play in test cricket follo...
6h ago
National
Factbox-Major cases before the US Supreme Court this term
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's current term features major cases involving former President Donald Trump's ballot disqu...
16m ago
Kamala Harris pushes the envelope as Biden struggles with some Democrats
By Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) - Hosting rapper Fat Joe at the White House to talk about reforming marijuana laws. Visiting an...
1h ago
'Adopt a penguin egg' Easter campaign helps endangered African birds
By shafiek tassiem and Tim Cocks CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Bored of buying eggs made of chocolate and wrapped in foil with predic...
1h ago
Madagascar cyclone Gamane kills at least 11, displaces thousands, government says
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - A tropical cyclone that swept across the island of Madagascar this week killed at least 11 people an...
1h ago
Texas judge transfers lawsuit over card fees to Washington, D.C
By Jody Godoy (Reuters) - A federal judge in a Texas court that has become a favorite for conservative challenges to Biden ad...
10h ago
World
India's Congress says facing 'tax terrorism' after second tax notice
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's main opposition party said on Friday it had been asked to pay an additional...
18m ago
Tajikistan detains 9 people over Russian concert shooting - source
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan's State National Security Committee has detained nine people this week who it believes have l...
19m ago
Illness, scandal and discord leave UK royal family looking depleted
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - King Charles is due to make his first public appearance at a royal event since his cance...
20m ago
China joins probe into deadly Pakistan suicide attack on its nationals
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Chinese investigators arrived in Pakistan on Friday to join a probe into the killing of...
21m ago
Kyiv's top general says Ukraine needs fewer troops than expected
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military will need to mobilise fewer people than initially expected to fend off Russia's two-year-...
55m ago
Business
US probes Stellantis 2022 RAM truck models over K1 snap ring transmission failures
(Reuters) -The U.S. Office of Defect Investigations (ODI) has opened a preliminary evaluation of a failure of the K1 snap rin...
17m ago
Fed's balancing act could see June rate cut in play even with sticky inflation
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the central bank is not growing more tole...
17m ago
Investors eye Fed rate cut, earnings as key to sustaining market rally
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a stellar start to the year for stocks, investors are on guard for potential bump...
18m ago
China's red carpet draws CEOs but few expect their money to follow
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) - China's government devoted the week to a red carpet welcome for foreign executives to try to ...
1h ago
Old Xi Jinping speech sparks China monetary easing speculation
By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - A sentence from a months-old speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping has sparked speculation t...
1h ago
Politics
Trump can't match Biden's 2024 fundraising, Republican's campaign says
By Tim Reid and Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Donald Trump will be unable to match President Joe Biden's fundraising totals in thi...
10h ago
US House to deliver Mayorkas impeachment to Senate April 10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will deliver two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security S...
17h ago
Obama, Bill Clinton to join Biden to raise $25 million at event with Queen Latifah and Lizzo
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will get a boost from Democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Bill ...
Mar 28, 2024
Pennsylvania can discard undated mail-in ballots, US appeals court rules
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rejected a challenge to a Pennsylvania rule that allowed the st...
Mar 28, 2024
Ex-Trump lawyer Eastman should be disbarred, California judge rules
By David Thomas (Reuters) - A California state judge on Wednesday said attorney John Eastman should be stripped of his law li...
Mar 27, 2024
Health
Brazil's Hapvida posts 105% increase in fourth-quarter adjusted profit
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian healthcare operator Hapvida posted on Thursday a 104.8% increase in its adjusted net profit f...
10h ago
Rite Aid moves ahead on restructuring as sale efforts continue
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rite Aid, one of the largest U.S. pharmacy chains, received permission from a U.S. ju...
12h ago
US FDA extends review of Applied Therapeutics' genetic disease drug
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has extended its review of Applied Therapeutics' experimental drug to treat...
13h ago
Bristol Myers' bowel disease drug fails to meet main goal in late-stage study
(Reuters) - Bristol Myers Squibb said on Thursday its experimental drug to treat Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory bowe...
14h ago
US CDC warns of increase in meningococcal disease
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday issued a health advisory to alert healthcar...
15h ago
Science
Dogs can associate words with objects, study finds
By Krisztina Fenyo BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Dogs are able to understand that some words refer to objects in a way that is similar...
3h ago
Secret planting operation boosts critically endangered Welsh shrub
By Helena Williams LONDON (Reuters) - At a secret location in the Welsh countryside, naturalists have planted 30 young specim...
20h ago
A million solar eclipse enthusiasts expected at Niagara Falls
By Wa Lone and Nivedita Balu NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (Reuters) - From vintage train rides costing almost $4,000 per person to ...
Mar 28, 2024
Scientists chronicle the earliest stages of a supernova
By Ari Rabinovitch REHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) - About 20 million years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a large star exploded...
Mar 27, 2024
Twisted magnetic field observed around Milky Way's central black hole
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers on Wednesday announced that they have detected a strong and organized magne...
Mar 27, 2024
Technology
China's Huawei continues rebound with strongest earnings growth since 2019
By David Kirton SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies saw its fastest growth in four years in 2023, with a ...
1h ago
Musk's xAI to launch improved version of chatbot
(Reuters) - Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI said on Thursday it will launch an improved version of its chatbo...
9h ago
Automotive computer chip maker NXP rolls out new platform
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - NXP Semiconductors NV, the biggest maker of computer chips for cars, on Thursday said it had introduced...
13h ago
US may soon unveil list of Chinese chip factories barred from receiving tech
By Karen Freifeld and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration is drawing up a list of advanced Chines...
13h ago
Apple's new iPad Pro likely to launch in May, ramps up overseas production, Bloomberg News reports
(Reuters) - Apple's overseas suppliers have increased production of the company's new iPad models and plans to launch them in...
13h ago
Entertainment
'Oppenheimer' director Christopher Nolan to be given knighthood
LONDON (Reuters) - British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan, fresh from his Oscar victory for historical drama "Oppe...
14h ago
Blackwells sues Disney in Delaware over disclosure in relationship with ValueAct
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blackwells Capital is ratcheting up the pressure on Walt Disney in a bruising boardroom battle by suing ...
15h ago
'The Batman,' a 2022 blockbuster, wasn't plagiarized, US judge rules
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warner Bros Entertainment didn't steal the plot for its 2022 blockbuster "The B...
Mar 27, 2024
Spice Girl Mel B shares more in expanded memoir, aims to help abuse survivors
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spice Girl Mel B is releasing an expanded version of her 2018 memoir, sharing more deta...
Mar 27, 2024
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyer says rapper subject to 'witch hunt'
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawyer for music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs said Tuesday the rapper was be...
Mar 27, 2024