Flint News

The University Avenue corridor in downtown Flint has a chance to win paint, supplies and design expertise in a national contest sponsored by Benjamin Moore Paints.

Forget about what's under the hood. This year at Back to the Bricks, organizers are looking to see what artists can do on the hood.

MLive.com James Lee Horn, of Flint, Michael Eason, of Mount Morris, Nancy Edna Johnson, of Davison, and Matthew Allen Riselay, of Flint, listen to Judge David Goggins list the charges against them on Wednesday in the carjacking murder of 55 year-old Leslie Mills, of Grand Blanc, at the Mobil Gas Station in Flint Township.

The Huffington Post recently ran a story featuring a special kind of road trip where stopping to eat was the whole point of the trip, and one Flint eatery made the list on a Michigan food tour.

But it's the suburbs that have seen the largest poverty growth in the last decade, according to a new study released this week.

As part of "Love Your City Month," residents on Flint's north side cleaned up a popular dumping spot along Kelly Alley.

Three charter schools are set to open in Flint or Mount Morris Township, the Michigan Association of Public School Academies said in a statement.

The Flint & Genesee Leadership Alliance announced Wednesday, May 22, that it will begin accepting applications for a six-month-long program developed to provide private and public sector leaders with the skills needed to facilitate shared collaborative services and enhance efficiencies.

A Flint man was ordered to prison for his role in the Pierson Hood street gang after his case spent more than five years in Genesee County courts and despite a last-minute effort by his attorney to delay the sentencing.

The parents of a 1-year-old boy who officials said drowned in a bathtub have been charged with second degree murder and child abuse.

An international recognized rights activist from South Africa will speak will speak to the community next month at University of Michigan-Flint. Albie Sachs, the co-author of the South Africa Constitution, will give the presentation "Nelson Mandela as a Leader, Comrade, and Friend" at 6 p.m. June 4 in the Michigan Rooms of the Harding Mott ... (more)

Flint rapper Jon Connor works on music in a studio in his home in this MLive-Flint Journal file photo from 2012.

The Flint City Wide Choir, a collaboration of 50 Flint church choirs, and the Flint Male Chorus, a group of singers descending from an in-house Chevrolet singing group, perform together at the former auto manufacturing plant site of Chevy in the Hole Sat., April 27.

The Community Foundation of Greater Flint celebrates its 25th anniversary and announces Give Forward, a new initiative for young professionals in Genesee County.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced that Flint's Grand Traverse District Neighborhood was one of three neighborhoods statewide to have been selected by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority to take part in the new MI Neighborhood program.

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.