Saginaw County News

Saginaw's unemployed have some relief on the way. The Saginaw County Community Action Committee is sponsoring its first free job readiness development and training program on Monday, although officials said those interested can join as late as Tuesday.

The first person Saginaw police officers arrested thanks to ShotSpotter technology has pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon.

On this day back in 1999, the body of a Saginaw woman was discovered in a secluded area of Genesee County.

Saginaw firefighters spent three hours this morning battling a fire in an abandoned home at 1654 Ward on the city's East Side, said Saginaw Fire Department Captain Tyrone E. Harge.

A Mid-Michigan family is Florida-bound after wining HGTV's 2009 Green Home Giveaway on Sunday.

Three Flint men who are wanted in at least five other counties were in jail today after a judge arraigned them on charges of possessing more than $20,000 in stolen property.

Employees of Saginaw County will no longer be able to use a cell phone while operating a county vehicle.

Michael E. Young Jr. had a gun in his hand a "couple of minutes" before someone shot and killed Saginaw resident Michael A. Taylor, the victim's brother testified.

Fifty times or so every year, Saginaw Township on-call paid volunteer fire crews hustle to false alarms at businesses, said Fire Chief Jim I. Peterson.

Jon Lynch feels Saginaw and Bay City's pain. The Midland city manager knows the Michigan Tax Tribunal appeals process that started when General Motors Corp.

Saginaw -- 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, at the Saginaw County Governmental Center, in the conference room in the basement, 111 S. Michigan; and 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 25, in the parking lot at Saginaw County Mosquito Control, 211 Congress.

Thousands of Saginaw-area residents waited hours in line Thursday to receive a share of 30,000 to 40,000 pounds of food handed out on Ojibway Island in Saginaw.

Saginaw County law enforcement and area youth programs would share nearly $800,000 under a U.S. House bill approved Thursday, U.S. Rep.

Saginaw County leaders might have to grapple with a $2 million to $7 million deficit and a modern-day, record-setting plummet in property values of up to 10.1 percent preliminary estimates show, but officials won't know final numbers for months, said County Controller and Chief Administrative Officer Marc A. McGill.

A dispute involving three men over a trailer payment took to the streets of Saginaw at about 7 a.m. today, said Saginaw County Sheriff's Detective Sgt.

A Saginaw County Circuit Court judge today arraigned a Saginaw man accused of beating his wife to death with a hammer in November.

Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 8:03 p.m. Mosquitos love to breed in standing water.A A So, when that old used tire sits in the rain, it transforms into a bigA mosquito-maker. This week the Saginaw County Mosquito Abatement CommissionA is putting on its second tire drive of the summer in an effort to keep the mosquito population down in Mid-Michigan.

Saginaw police say they believe they have found the man responsible for several armed robberies in the city.

The Saginaw Community Foundation wants to pay $100,000 less for the Morley Building in downtown Saginaw than it tentatively said it would last year because of a battered real estate market and falling property values.

The Saginaw Community Foundation plans to celebrate its 25th anniversary by giving $250,000 to Saginaw County agencies.