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Flint budget hole may be $19 million deep in five years: 'There just has to be more money,' finance director says FLINT, MI - Flint may have a balanced budget next year for the first time since 2007, but the city still is projected to be a combined $19.3 million in the hole five years from now.

While Oklahoma is no stranger to powerful tornadoes, Mid-Michigan has seen only a handful of EF-4 or EF-5 tornadoes.

A Flint teen accused of beating and strangling an elderly man has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to see if he is competent to stand trial.

A Flint man has been ruled incompetent to stand trial on charges he made threatening phone calls to at least three federal lawmakers.

Two Flint men accused of fatally shooting two people whose bodies were found near a burning car on the city's west side face the possibility of life in prison as their trial gets underway.

Flint native and dancer Anthony "JFreeze" Naylor Jr. is following in his mother's footsteps with his dancing career, but he's moving a lot faster: At 4 years old, he has already landed in a pair of commercials, and Tuesday, May 21, he appears on Fox TV's "So You Think You Can Dance." Anthony Naylor Jr.

Expert Human Resources, a Flint-based company, will host a seminar dealing with employment law and regulations on Thursday, May 23, from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., at the America's Best Inns and Suites Hotel on Hill Road in Flint.

For the 13th consecutive year, Flint STRIVE - a specialized employment services organization - has been awarded a sizeable grant from the Flint-based Charles S. Mott Foundation to help offset operating costs.

"Is Port Huron doomed to become Little Flint, or Nova Pontiac, the next Midwestern lemming to plunge mindlessly from the heights into a roiling sea of poverty?" Connell asks in his recent column .

One man is in good condition after he was shot Sunday, May 19, at Hardy Apartments near downtown Flint.

City officials want the state Legislature to approve an income tax increase in Flint that they say would give the city a stable source of revenue as property values continue to decrease.

A Flint man was sentenced to prison following a string of armed robberies with a fake gun.

Liya Hines, 24, a resident of Evergreen Regency, reacts to a new study by Neighborhood Scout claiming that the neighborhood to the east of Dort Highway on Flint's southeast side, between Lippincott Boulevard and Atherton Road, is in the top 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in the country.

Top headlines: Flint teen earns three college degrees before high school diploma, man shot in the buttocks in Flint apartment Jasmine Cofield, who graduates from Mott Middle College within a month, has earned three associates degrees from Mott Community College while she was also taking her full high school class load.

Volunteers hold signs and pose for photos after loading the Santa Claus display onto a pickup truck loaned by Soggy Bottom bar.

A 2005 photo shows former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, 28, of Flint, Mich., who is being detained in Iran accused of being a CIA spy.

This MLive-Flint Journal file photo shows attendees at a Flint Great Gatsby party.

Brittany Seavey of Flint, MI has been named to Ohio Dominican University Fall Semester 2012 Dean's List.

Flint Township residents Tyson Berry and Pat Berry participate in the Flint Downtown Development Authority's annual flower planting event in downtown Flint.

A look at the back end of the 1968 Plymouth GTX, complete with license plate 34YRDRM, that Ortonville residents Joe and Donna Hosner repaired with help from sons Brian and David Hosner.