Saginaw County News

The seventh failure over the years to convince voters to lift a 7.5-mill property tax cap in the city of Saginaw has left leaders in the familiar quandary of trying to fund needs while tax revenues stagnate or shrink.

Nick E. Thiel, 24, of Brady Township, stands with his feeder pigs inside the barn behind his home on Hemlock Road where he owns and operates Circle B Farms raising hogs, beef cattle, corn and soy beans.

The preliminary hearing for a Saginaw man charged with shooting his 11-year-old nephew was delayed again on Friday.

A truck passes by one of several trees along Van Wormer Road that have been marked to be cut down once the project to improve the stretch of Van Wormer between Ederer and Swan Creek roads begins.

Though considered an off-year election for most of Saginaw County, Tuesday's election holds much more importance for voters in the city of Saginaw.

The Saginaw County Department of Public Health has four H1N1 vaccine clinics scheduled this month.

Bob Van Deventer acknowledges he headed for the Internet for information when Sister Marietta Fritz from Saginaw's Emmaus House was nominated for the Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce's 2009 Community Leadership Awards.

A homeless assistance program that rolled out Monday already has received 50 calls from Saginaw County people looking for help.

A Saginaw man and Bridgeport Township woman will wait another week and a half to see whether prosecutors have enough evidence to take them to trial for stealing two cell phones at gunpoint.

SAGINAW, COUNTY, Mich. -- The Saginaw County Department of Public Health is holding its second public clinic for the H1N1 vaccine Monday.

Saginaw County sheriff's deputies continue to investigate a two-vehicle crash just after 5 p.m. Saturday on southbound Interstate 75 near Crane in Kochville Township.

Saginaw County is holding its first public H1N1 flu clinic Friday. The clinic will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at Carrollton Middle School, 3211 Carla.

Health officials in Saginaw County handed out doses of the H1N1 vaccine Friday to Saginaw County residents in Carrollton.

Sterling L. Berrian likely will spend at least nine years in prison after he pleaded guilty to armed robbery.

The wait for the H1N1 vaccine in Saginaw County is almost over. MORE: Mid-Michigan flu clinic information.

The Saginaw County Department of Public Health will hold its first public H1N1 vaccine clinic from 9 a.m. to noon Friday at Carrollton Middle School, 3211 Carla Drive.

Saginaw County is the only Mid-Michigan county yet to announce plans for its own flu clinic.

Volunteers board up windows at a house at 3301 Ruckle in Saginaw as part of this year's Saginaw Arson Watch Board Up Wednesday morning.

Attendants listen to one of the nine speakers during Saginaw Underground Railroad's annual Domestic Violence Candlelight Vigil at the Andersen Enrichment Center in Saginaw on Monday evening.

What if terrorists ambushed Frankenmuth High School and barricaded themselves in a classroom? What if two hours later the same thing occurred at St.