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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.

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.