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Kalamazoo-area preservationists -- heartbroken over the planned demolition of three of the four buildings on WMU's historic East Campus -- have been urging the university to reconsider since the plans were announced in December.

Felicia Watkins will barbecue with some family today and hope someone has information about her missing son.

Meth fire: Meth components were found at the scene of a Portage house fire early Wednesday morning.

Miller, 60, is seeking her fifth term on the commission. Miller said the commission is undertaking one of its most important decisions that will affect Kalamazoo's future -- choosing the next city manager.

With a rising senior population and a reduced budget, the Kalamazoo County Area on Aging is trying to figure out how to do more with less in 2014.

The first anniversary is paper, and the 25th is silver, but to celebrate their 70th, Weber Specialties Company built a new facility in Schoolcraft, MI.

Colleagues International, the Kalamazoo area's main organization for international exchange, seeks home hosts for high school students from Eurasia for the 2013-2014 school year.

According to news reports, the refinery issues in the midwest seem to be lessening, which means lower prices for gas.

Michael List embraced other former employees of Kalamazoo County Head Start, describing the group as "elated" after the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners voted 9-1 Tuesday to approve severance packages for 63 union members.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are set to release their next, self-titled album on July 23rd, just one year after they released their second record, Here.

It was an argument over cooking a meal that led to Monday's fatal shooting of Nancy Kovach, 40, by her husband, John , in the couple's Comstock Township home, said Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas.

The Village of Richland, in Kalamazoo County, is leading the state with the amount of arrests made for people operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

The deal by Phoenix Properties Inc. to buy and convert the former Kalamazoo Gazette newspaper building into a multi-use commercial/retail space is off the table.

A principal of the Kalamazoo-based property management and development company said The Exchange Building is still planned for the southeast corner of Rose Street and Michigan Avenue.

Laura Sprague uses plastic swords and hula hoops to get the members of her cardio class sweating at the Body Love Project.

As a girl, Emily Deering remembers eating jerk chicken from a road-side cart and lobster diving late at night during family vacations in Negril, Jamaica.

Anyone caught setting off fireworks in the early morning hours in Kalamazoo could be subjected to a $500 fine under an ordinance being considered by the Kalamazoo City Commission .

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Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller said police were called to the 6000 block of East Main Street at 8:50 p.m. Monday on the report of a shooting that killed a person.

The Kalamazoo Downtown Development Authority will put off some downtown parking improvements and will take longer to repay a loan from Kalamazoo County after making budget adjustments Monday in anticipation of about $196,000 less in 2013 revenues.