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Saginaw Tops Flint: Michigan Reports 6.20.2009

The Flint-Saginaw All-Star Basketball went to Saginaw 79-75. Katie Vinkie (Chesaning) had 28 points for Saginaw. Latosha Beasley (Flint Northern) and India Hairston (Flint Hamady) each had 14 points a piece for Flint. From WJRT and the Flint Journal . 08:27:24 2009-06-21

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Money woes force Flint to call off fireworks show

FLINT — The ongoing economic meltdown already has taken a heavy toll on Flint. Now it's claimed the city's annual fireworks show.

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Jury Convicts Flint Man in Ex-Chief's Son's Death

FLINT, Mich. (AP) - A jury has convicted a Flint man of killing the son of the city's former police chief on the day his father was named to the position. The Flint Journal reports a Genesee County jury on Thursday convicted 24-year-old Dekoven Kerr

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Flint man, 19, fatally shot on city's north side

FLINT -- Authorities say a 19-year-old Flint man has died after being shot on the city's north side.

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Annual Flint foot race adds Iraq leg

FLINT -- Flint's Crim Festival of Races is expanding — to Iraq.

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Body of missing woman discovered in Bay County

MONITOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - The body of a woman missing since last week has been found in Bay County. The Flint Journal reports it appears Emily Jane Plouffe-Simunic died in a car crash. WJRT-TV and WNEM-TV say the 29-year-old and

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Changes announced at Grand Rapids, Muskegon papers

... news editor in 1989.Keep was appointed editor of The Bay City Times in 1993 and editor of The Flint Journal in 1999. He returned to Muskegon as editor in 2006 and publisher was added to his title a year later.Westphal, 54, formerly was the Press' director of advertising and marketing. He has also held management positions at newspapers in Spokane, Wash.; Dubuque, Iowa; and Gary, Ind.Fairfield,...

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Three newspapers add WSJ Sunday

Three newspapers — The Flint Journal (Flint, Mich.), Newsday and The Register-Guard (Eugene, Ore.) — have agreed to begin running the Wall Street Journal Sunday content in their weekend paper. The Flint Journal, published by Booth Mid-Michigan Newspapers Inc., has combined editing and production operations with two existing Michigan-based Sunday...

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My old school on the cutting edge

Clio Area Schools, from whose high school I graduated, will this fall be offering Chinese language instruction. It says so, right here in the Flint Journal. One in five people in the world speak Chinese. But that number will increase this fall when Clio schools becomes the first district in Genesee County with its own Chinese language instructor. "The concept of Chinese instruction...

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Stephen Colbert makes appearance at Michigan graduation - via Iraq

What an amazingly heartwarming story! From the Flint News: Stephen Colbert makes surprise appearance from Iraq to congratulate Goodrich, Michigan, Class of 2009 by David Harris | The Flint Journal Sunday June 07, 2009, 5:33 PM GOODRICH, Michigan — The lights went out, the screen flickered and on came Lt. Col. David St. Aubin, Goodrich High School’s [...]

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Lake Michigan's Beaver delivers gobblers, friendly folks - MLive.com

Lake Michigan's Beaver delivers gobblers, friendly folksMLive.com, MIby David V. Graham | The Flint Journal BEAVER ISLAND, Michigan — This big island in northern Lake Michigan has long been known as a summer destination, but it is also a good place for turkey hunting. We discovered that last week when four of us from …