Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance - Sat Nov 07

This lot in Wyoming at 3480 S. Division Ave. was the site of a gas station. Kent County is poised to add a land bank authority as another tool to combat foreclosed homes and abandoned property, under a proposal headed to the Kent County Board of Commissioners.

MLive.com - Sat Nov 07

A Plainfield Township firefighter and deputy clerk -- who township officials knew was a registered sex offenderbut visited local schools anyway -- is being investigated for allegedly soliciting a teenager for sex online via Facebook, police said Friday.

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance - Sat Nov 07

Her childhood bout with the swine flu was more three decades ago, but Lisa Verbraska hasn't forgotten the misery.