Burton News

Several Flint-area businesses thrive on serving those who wait until the last minute to buy Valentine's Day gifts.

It was 1949, when Alex Xydias decided to make an assault on the 200-MPH barrier at Bonneville.

The Bentley varsity girls will take on Genesee in the "Play for a Cure" game. Donations will be collected to help out 6-year-old Allie See.

BURTON, Mich. - Officials in the Flint area say they believe that a man sexually assaulted an infant while his wife took pictures.

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City officials will reevaluate an ordinance regarding tax-reverted property sales after residents complained that the process does not give them enough opportunity to buy.

A 30-year-old Burton man accused of setting a series of fires at Twin Meadows mobile home park was arraigned in Genesee District Court today on two counts of arson of a dwelling, said Judge Christopher Odette.

A 30-year-old man has been arrested and charged with multiple felonies in connection with the arson fires at Twin Meadows mobile home park.

Female attendees at the seventh annual Wine, Women & Chocolate event at IMA Brookwood Golf & Banquet Center can indulge in warm beverages, take a walk on the golf course and receive a massage all in the same day.

A violent weekend in Flint, where two people were shot dead spilled over into Monday afternoon in Flint Township, where a shootout occurred, apparently outside the home of one of the homicide victims.

Sheila Moll , of Genesee Township, lifts her head from her plate after finishing her chocolate cream pie in first place against other women competing in a pie-eating contest on Monday during the opening day of the 2012 Winter Senior Games at the Burton Senior Center.

Twin Meadows resident Michael Like Jr. is thinking about moving following two more suspicious fires this weekend in the mobile home park off Fenton Road that puts the total at 16 since September.

In Genesee County, chose the wrong charter and the student is among the lowest performing schools in the state with students testing below those in their neighborhood, traditional public school.

State Rep. Charles Smiley, D-Burton, presents a proclamation to Dr. Bradley Habermehl Wednesday.

"It was just a whole wall of flames," said Stogner, 69, of a Jan. 25 blaze, the latest in a string of 14 suspicious fires that have taken place at Twin Meadows off Fenton Road.

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You can tell it's winter and we're bored. Why else would so many people get their shorts in a bunch over a school's hair policy? OK, what the heck, it's February and I'm bored, too, so I'll play.

Public Access Committee members will present a report on the progress of a possible historical society that would trace the area's origins in the early 19th century, to Burton Township and eventual incorporation in 1972.

Gaskins, a 17-year-old senior at the Burton charter school, was suspended earlier this month for violating the school's policy.

Resident Robert Weycker says the city's rock-bottom prices for their tax-reverted properties are pulling down values of neighboring home.