FLINT TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- Jamil Hamady was a business man through and through.

Whether it was owning his own business as a young man in Lebanon or working for the family business, Hamady Bros. grocery stores in Flint, or as the founder and owner of The Bread Basket on Corunna Road, business was always on Hamady's mind.

Hamady, 78, of Flint Township, died Thursday. The cause of death is unknown, but he suffered from Parkinson's disease and heart disease.

FLINT TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- The small tan home on Herrick Street may forever be known as the house of drugs and death.

The home where a 38-year-old mother of two died on Aug. 9 from a drug overdose is the same place where two Flint Township men -- including her husband -- were found Tuesday.

FLINT TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- Almost one year exactly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, Brenda Thompson of Flint laced up her white walking shoes Saturday and kept a promise to her family, her co-workers and herself.

Just days after her diagnosis in October 2007, Thompson's doctor told her then-11-year-old daughter that her mother would be at the Making Strides for Breast Cancer walk in 2008 and that the two of them would take on the 3.5-mile trek together.

FLINT TOWNSHIP, Michigan. -- It's a love story of the patriot and his princess.

Wearing his U.S. Marine "dress blues," Lance Cpl. Ian Thomas married Krista Moore on Oct. 4.

"It's like a fairy tale," said Ian Thomas, 21, of Flint Township. "It's perfect."

FLINT TWP. -- It was 1948, there were no malls and downtown Flint was the place to shop. Pat Wallace was hired for her first job at the Singer sewing machine store on Saginaw Street.

Sixty years later, Wallace is still selling the machines and teaching customers how to use them at All Sew on Miller Road.

FLINT TOWNSHIP,Michigan -- Hobby Lobby fans soon won't have to drive to Port Huron or Saginaw to shop at their favorite craft and home decor store.

The latest in the chain of more than 400 stores in 32 states opens Oct. 20 in Oak Brook Square, across Linden Road from Genesee Valley Center.

FLINT TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- Eddie Ballard's palate is happy he found a new eatery on Miller Road.

"I'm a regular," Ballard, 28, of Flint Township said of Happy's Pizza.

It is the third Happy's in Genesee County -- others are at Clio and Pierson roads and on South Dort Highway in Burton.