Christina Hall covers Macomb County and assists on coverage of southeast Oakland County. She reports stories that are suburban/regional or statewide in nature that may germinate from issues, ideas or topics in metro Detroit. Christina has been at the Free Press for 16 years, previously working as a police reporter for seven years at the Toledo Blade newspaper and as a suburban reporter for about four years at The Intelligencer newspaper in Doylestown, Pa., north of Philadelphia. The southwestern Pennsylvania native is a wife, mom, wannabe chef and a proud West Virginia University graduate who loves the Pittsburgh Steelers and Penguins. In her spare time, she enjoys cultural activities, music, wine and reading, especially true crime and stories about Chicago, gangsters, Prohibition and other events from the early 20th Century.