Clayton Township, MI

GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- Nearly three decades ago, after his first trial ended with a hung jury, prosecutors were talking about making a plea deal with Connell Howard, a 22-year-old Flint man who was facing a double murder charge in a sensational, racially charged case. However, there was one problem....

(GRAND BLANC TWP, Mich.) - The governor says you don't have to wear a mask after June 22nd, but businesses like We'reDough in Grand Blanc Township says you will be required to wear one when entering their store. "We're looking at requiring them until we get to 75% vaccinated just...

Officers are responding to a pin-in crash involving two vehicles in Bridgeport Township. It happened Thursday evening, June 18 at the intersection of Dixie Highway and E. Curtis Road. According to police on the scene, two people sustained serious injuries from the crash. Stay with TV5 as we are working...

FLINT, MI -- The man who, at age 16, pulled the trigger that killed one boy and injured two others in the notorious Flint Bonner Park shooting, has been resentenced following a law change for juvenile lifers. Tyrone Reyes, now 40 years old, was sentenced in 1998 to life in...

A family is trying to get their heirlooms back after they were stolen right out of their driveway. Now they’re asking people across the state to help them track down a trailer full of irreplaceable items. Whoever took the trailer left one of the wheel chocks under a wheel, which...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- A hung jury led the first Genesee County jury trial of 2021 to end in a mistrial. The jury trial for Dominick Wright, which started Wednesday, June 9, in from of Judge David Newblatt in Genesee County Circuit Court, ended in a mistrial Thursday, June 17.

FLINT, MI -- This year’s Juneteenth celebrations are going to be the biggest the city of Flint has ever seen, including a new three-day festival beginning with Black Wall Street, the Champions Parade, and the gospel festival. Black Wall Street commenced the weekend’s celebrations on Friday, June 18, featuring Flint’s...

FLINT, Mich. --- Juneteenth is now a federal holiday. The holiday commemorates the day on June 19, 1865 when slaves in Galveston, Texas finally received word that they were free. Mid-Michigan Now's Bria Jones talked to the woman known as the "Mother of Juneteenth" in Flint to get her reaction...

FLINT, MI -- One developer has received a tax break to build new apartments for low- and moderate-income renters in the area of Hurley Medical Center and Atwood Stadium while another is in negotiations to bring a metal stamping facility to an industrial park on James P. Cole Boulevard. The...

LAPEER, MI -- Motorcycle aficionados can swing through downtown Lapeer on Friday nights this summer to eat at local restaurants, enjoy live music, and see a variety of bikes. Friday Night Bikes typically begins at 6 p.m. and takes place on Nepessing Street between Mason and Court streets. Those streets are closed to thru-traffic on the day of the event.

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Surprising is how Dr. Jennifer Morse, Medical Director from Central Michigan District Health describes her reaction to Governor Whitmer’s announcement of lifting Michigan’s COVID 19 restrictions more than a week before the target date. “It was a bit of a surprise, at least to myself,” she...

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - (06/18/2021) - Flint’s three-day Juneteenth celebrations are kicking off with Black Wall Street, featuring some of the community’s up-and-coming Black-owned businesses. Flint’s Black Wall Street is giving small Black-owned vendors the opportunity to showcase their products for the community like scented candles from The Flintstone Candle...

FLUSHING, MI - Flushing’s Movies in the Park is back for its 25th year with five new features for summer-long family fun nights starting Saturday, June 19. One of Flushing’s favorite pastimes will be held every other Saturday evening, beginning at dusk at the Riverview Park Bandshell, located at 230 S. Cherry St.

SAGINAW – The Michigan Women’s Amateur Championship has been on the bucket list of Midland’s Kimberly Dinh since her undergraduate days as a golfer at the University of Wisconsin. The 28-year-old Senior Research Specialist for Dow Chemical checked it off Friday winning a tense 1-up title match against University of...

Flint, MI–The Flint City Council voted June 17 to schedule and hold a public hearing on the potential rezoning of Raspberries Rhythm Bar & Grill to allow for a marijuana dispensary. The council was divided on whether to approve the hearing. Some members said they’d received several calls from constituents...

GRAND BLANC, MI -- More than fifty people gathered outside Joe Pitock Field to celebrate the Grand Blanc baseball team as they prepare for the program’s first appearance in the Division 1 state championship. The Bobcats will face off against Portage Central at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 19, 2021, at...

GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - Restaurants are quickly trying to find staff after the early announcement that the state will be reopening to full capacity starting Tuesday. During the pandemic, restaurant owners have struggled to hire staff for even lower capacity limits. Now, they’re are scrambling to find enough staff...

ATLAS TWP, MI -- The search for a 21-year-old Southfield man who didn’t make it back to shore after a rowboat he was fishing in capsized in the Atlas Millpond Thursday night. The Genesee County dive team will continue efforts to recover the victim throughout the day and night utilizing...

(FLINT, Mich.)- For many African-Americans in Flint celebrating Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, has been a tradition for nearly half a century, but tomorrow for the first time Juneteenth will be recognized around the country as a national holiday. It's a day that commemorates the last known slaves in Texas learning of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation in June of 1865.

FLINT, Mich. - A Genesee County circuit court judge and a Michigan Court of Appeals judge this week have denied motions for preliminary examination and immediate appellate review filed by defendants charged in the Flint Water Crisis prosecution. On Wednesday, Judge Elizabeth A. Kelly of the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court...