Burton News

A prospective RV buyer's dreams of luxury travel went up in smoke Wednesday afternoon in a Kmart parking lot.

Anthony Lubkin can't say enough about retired Flint police chief Brad Barksdale, and now he's asking the Burton City Council to speak for him.

Burton firefighters paid a visit to a Mexican restaurant Monday afternoon after someone smelled gas.

The prostitutes along Dort Highway near Hemphill Road in Burton have been around for ages, neighbors and police say.

Adam Crossnoe says the life cut short by shots in the Palace Poker Room early Wednesday morning didn't have to end that way.

A 19-year-old Flint man turned himself into Burton police Wednesday evening, the day after shooting another man in the leg.

While Frankenmuth is rich with German culture, the Volkslaufe has American roots.

Burton police are investigating two shootings, including one at a local poker club that left the suspect dead.

Wednesday, July 01, 2009 at 6:36 a.m. We are following breaking news this morning out of Genesee County.

The Flint Journal's online audience through MLive was buzzing over the weekend in response to some residents expressing complaints about the presence of prostitutes in their Burton neighborhood.

Here is a sampling of recent items reported to the Burton police: On June 25 at 5:37 a.m. an officer stopped a man riding a bicycle in front of Delta Mobile Home Park.

Dorna Hainds said had she not come to the United States to be adopted and met the Shriners, she would be in an Indian orphanage still crippled from polio.

Ingrid Lutze recalls fondly a campaign waged by her neighbors to keep prostitutes out of her neighborhood on Burton's north side two years ago.

The Genesee County Health Department is advising residents to avoid swimming in Burton's Kelly Lake due to elevated levels of E. coli bacteria.

Larry and Monica Stevenson, pictured on the back deck of their summer home in Burton, blame Consumers Energy for more than $40,000 worth of damage done to their home while they were living in Tennessee.

Charlene Lizotte says having cerebral palsy has made her more driven. "Having a disability makes you more outgoing," said Lizotte, 41, of Burton, who last summer launched a disability awareness consulting business.

When the judge handed down his drunken driving sentence, James D. Branscum Jr. of Burton was ordered to spend a year in jail.

Some deadbeat dads got early Father's Day greetings from the Genesee County Friend of the Court.

Caleigh Kennedy, 17, of Burton, tries to stay out of the water in the flooded James Street in Burton Wednesday while holding onto her friend Jennifer Beck, 17, as she and their friend Erik Owen, 21, splash each other after helping their friends get their flooded cars out of the street.

Twelve owners and employees at four bars in the Flint area face charges of operating illegal casinos at their facilities and other charges related to gambling, the Michigan Attorney General's office announced today.