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Tis the season of Flint politics: Maurice Davis tries to chum up with old pal Eric Mays
Davison school board member complains how their meetings are virtual when students in classrooms
Davison school board member complains how their meetings are virtual when students in classrooms
Maurice Davis used his Facebook Live video to dial up an old friend Saturday night. He instructed wife and co-host Beverly to get Eric Mays on the line, and the 1st Ward city councilman answered the call. READ MORE
Davison school board member complains how their meetings are virtual when students in classrooms
Davison school board member complains how their meetings are virtual when students in classrooms
Davison school board member complains how their meetings are virtual when students in classrooms
DAVISON (CCN) — A Davison Board of Education trustee says it's wrong for the district to have students in classrooms while their board meetings are conducted virtually via computer Zoom hook-ups. Matthew Smith convinced his colleagues to send a letter to Governor Gretchen Whitmer to urge her to change the law. READ MORE
Flint's Anthony Dirrell fights to draw on national TV; FOX broadcast team says he won
Davison school board member complains how their meetings are virtual when students in classrooms
Flint's Anthony Dirrell fights to draw on national TV; FOX broadcast team says he won
LOS ANGELES (CCN) — Flint's Anthony Dirrell made his first return to the boxing ring since losing his middleweight championship belt 17 months ago, and the national TV broadcast team expressed shock in the judges ruling it was a draw in his bout with Tyrone Davis of New Jersey. READ MORE
Human foot found inside work boot floating in Flint River
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Flint's Anthony Dirrell fights to draw on national TV; FOX broadcast team says he won
TAYMOUTH TWP. (CCN) — A human foot was found inside a work boot floating in the Flint River on Friday (Feb. 26, 2021) in Saginaw County's Taymouth Township, according to a report by ABC TV's WJRT 12. Two teenage boys found it while fishing and called 911.
The Saginaw County Sheriff's Department's dive team didn't find any other body parts during a subsequent search of the river in the area where the boot was found. Investigators are now working to identify where the foot came from and no possible victims have been identified.
Two Tuesday shootings as violence continues in City of Flint
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FLINT (CCN) — Tuesday was another violent day in the City of Flint. The Flint Police Department added another homicide victim to its murder count that's already on pace this year to break last year's near-record number of 61 homicides, which was one away from the city's all-time record.
Police are investigating a 49-year-old man’s death at a home in the 3400 block of Herrick Street at about 10:40 a.m. on Tuesday.
Police are also investigating a shooting after a 34-year-old man showed up at a local hospital with gunshot wounds to his legs at about 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday. The victim told investigators he was shot while riding in a vehicle in the area of East Boulevard Drive and Pierson Road in Flint.
Both incidents were handled by troopers from the Michigan State Police post on Corunna Road in Flint Township that continues to assist the Flint Police Department with fighting crime in its city.
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kerry nelson joins wantwaz davis in comeback bid
Former Flint City Council President wants to return as 3rd Ward representative
FENTON (CCN) — Kerry Nelson is making another run at the 3rd Ward seat he has twice before held on the Flint City Council. Nelson was beaten by first-time candidate Santino Guerra in 2017 while serving as the council's President.
Guerra beat him with more than 61 percent of the vote to become the youngest person ever elected to the Flint City Council. Guerra isn't seeking re-election.
Nelson has pulled petitions from the Flint City Clerk's office to run in the August 2021 primary. Rich Jones was the first to announce for the seat last moth, followed by A.C. Dumas and Quincy Murphy who were beaten by Nelson and Guerra in the 2017 primary. Jones and Murphy are political activists and Dumas is a radio show host at WFLT 1420 AM. Dumas is also a former President of the NAACP's Flint branch and its current Vice President.
Nelson was hurt in the 2017 campaign by bad publicity of a criminal investigation and lawsuit over how more than $1 million was spent by a church where he was a deacon. Other deacons at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church made serious accusations against Nelson who was never charged with a crime after a police investigation by the Michigan State Police's Corunna Road post in Flint Township. Police said the investigation stalled when church records became unavailable during the investigation.
Nelson won his seat back in 2013 after previously serving until targeted by former Flint Mayor Don Williamson in the 2009 primary when the multi-millionaire businessman targeted Nelson with other political enemies on the city council who were voted out.
Nelson is a former bank employee.
He became the second former Flint City Council member voted out in 2017 who wants to return. Wantwaz Davis announced last month that he wants his 5th Ward seat back after losing the 2017 race to Jerri Winfrey-Carter. Davis won in 2013 after serving 19 years for a murder conviction when he was 17 years old. Davis said he shot and killed a man who raped his mother.
Like Nelson, Davis was also hurt in the 2017 campaign by court problems. He was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, but insisted someone was chasing him in a vehicle on the expressway with a gun. He initially tried to talk the police officer into taking him to his office, saying he was a councilman. Davis subsequently accused a Flushing judge of "being out to get him" after encountering him drunk at a Flint bar when jailed for violating terms of his bond by using marijuana. Davis contended it was for medical reasons and was jailed by the judge. He later pleaded guilty to impaired driving and served a jail sentence at the Genesee County Jail, but refused to resign his position on the council. Davis was also accused during his term of threatening to kill 1st Ward Councilman Eric Mays who filed a police report about it, but no charges were filed in the case.