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Farmington Hills teen accused of murdering mother to be tried as adult
August 28th, 20170 FARMINGTON HILLS ― A 16-year-old boy accused of killing his mother by pushing her out a window of their mansion, will be tried as an adult, police announced Monday. Nada Huranieh, 35, was found dead on the patio outside the family's home at around 6:40 a.m. on Monday. Officers originally believed Huranieh's fall from the...
FBI terror unit detains Ypsilanti man
August 28th, 20170 YPSILANTI ― An Ypsilanti man is facing federal charges after weapons without serial numbers were found in a storage unit in Ann Arbor. He was detained before he was due to fly to the Middle East with his family. Yousef Mohammad Ramadan, 28, is charged with possession of a firearm with an wiped out serial number, which had moved in...
Yemen: Saudi-led coalition air raid kills at least 12, including six children
August 25th, 20170 SANAA - An air raid by Saudi led Coalition struck a building in Yemen’s capital on Friday, killing at least 12 people, six of them children, when an adjacent apartment block collapsed, residents said. RThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) denounced the loss of life as outrageous and put the death toll in the early...
Police looking for White man who threw explosive in Dearborn church
August 25th, 20170 Dearborn — While prayer was taking place at Divine Child Church on Wednesday morning, an identified man threw into the chapel what an investigation revealed to be a commercial grade firework. A Bible was burnt, but no one was harmed. Witnesses told officers the man was about a 30 to 40 year old White man with short dark hair. The...
Some jobs tied to higher risk of rheumatoid arthritis
August 25th, 20170 Workers exposed to airborne toxins may have an elevated risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, an immune system disorder that causes debilitating swelling and pain in the joints, a Swedish study suggests. Among men, bricklayers, concrete workers and electricians had at least twice the risk of rheumatoid arthritis they would have in...
Using unproven methods to tackle cancer could be deadly
August 25th, 20170 People who decide to tackle their cancer using only unconventional methods are likely to die sooner than patients who opt for conventional treatments, according to a new study. People with various kinds of cancer who turned down treatments like chemotherapy or radiation in favor of alternative medicine were two to six times more...
Garden City Hospital dedicates new ER for seniors
August 25th, 20170 GARDEN CITY — As the times change, so does the health needs of its residents — and the best quality care happen when facilities form partnerships with communities. Tailoring its efforts to a growing aging local population, Garden City Hospital opened a new Senior Emergency Room, a separate department tailored for patients with...
Winning a battle against opioid abuse doesn’t mean the war is over
August 25th, 20170 The community’s collective awareness and complaints that prompted police to investigate and eventually raid a Dearborn Medical Clinic— which turned out to be a white coat dealer’s opioid prescription hub, as many suspected— should not be a reason to let our guard down, but rather to keep up our unified activism against our...Teen accused of pushing mother from window to her death
August 24th, 20170 FARMINGTON HILLS ― A 16-year-old boy is facing murder charges for allegedly pushing his mother out the window of their home. The teen is accused of the first-degree murder of his mother, 35-year-old Nada Houranieh, a personal trainer at Franklin Athletic Club. Prosecutors say the teen threw her out of a third-floor window of...
Six dead in clashes in Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
August 24th, 20170 SIDON, Lebanon ― Two members of the Palestinian group Fatah were killed in clashes with Islamist groups in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon on Wednesday, medical sources said, bringing the number of dead to six in nearly a week of fighting. The two sides later agreed a ceasefire deal, Palestinian officials said, as a security...
Charlottesville shrouds divisive Confederate statues in black cloth
August 23rd, 20170 CHARLOTTESVILLE- To applause from spectators, workers in Charlottesville, Virginia, covered two statues of Confederate generals with black tarpaulins on Wednesday in honor of the woman who was killed during a rally by white nationalists in the liberal-leaning college town. City councilors voted unanimously to cover the monuments...
Police use pepper spray to disperse protesters at Trump’s Phoenix rally
August 23rd, 20170 PHOENIX ― Police fired pepper spray to disperse protesters outside a rally by President Trump in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday after being pelted with rocks and bottles, police said. Police have not given an estimate of the number of protesters, but Arizona media said there were several thousand. Police did not say whether the pepper...
Charlottesville to cover Confederate statues after chaotic meeting
August 22nd, 20170 CHARLOTTESVILLE- City council members in Charlottesville, Virginia, voted unanimously on Tuesday to cover two statues of Confederate war generals in black fabric after ejecting spectators from a chaotic council meeting as residents demanded answers over how a recent white nationalist rally turned deadly. Many activists and local...
Los Angeles seeks to join lawsuit over federal sanctuary policies
August 22nd, 20170 SAN FRANCISCO ― The city of Los Angeles on Tuesday sought to join a lawsuit against the Department of Justice over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so-called sanctuary cities, according to a court filing. The state of California and city of San Francisco earlier this month filed legal challenges that accused the...
You will need a new Michigan driver’s license to fly in 2020
August 22nd, 20170 LANSING ― Michigan residents will need to get a new driver's license or state ID card by 2020 if they want to fly or enter federal buildings. The Secretary of State will begin taking applications next Monday, Aug. 28 for the new driver's licenses. Beginning Oct. 1, 2020, the government will not allow Michigan residents carrying a......
Trump commits U.S. to Afghanistan war; Taliban vow ‘graveyard’
August 22nd, 20170 WASHINGTON — President Trump committed U.S. troops to an open-ended war in Afghanistan, a decision the Afghan government welcomed on Tuesday but which Taliban insurgents warned would make the country a "graveyard for the American empire". Trump offered few specifics in a speech on Monday but promised a stepped-up military campaign...
Molina Healthcare plans to close Dearborn clinic
August 20th, 20170 DEARBORN — Molina Healthcare, a 24-hour Midwest Medical Center, plans to shut down on Sept. 30. All 120 workers at the center will be laid off. The clinic is located at 4700 Schaefer and offers urgent care, primary care, physical therapy and other service. The clinic is ran by Molina Medical Management. "We regret the impact this......
Lebanon scraps law absolving rapists who marry victims
August 20th, 20171 BEIRUT — On Wednesday, Lebanon's parliament abolished a law that absolves rapists if they marry their victims, joining other Arab states that have repealed "marry-your-rapist" laws in recent weeks. Lawmaker Elie Kayrouz, who backed ending the law - article 522 of the penal code - said other clauses also required changes to protect...
Yemen hit by more airstrikes in first half of 2017 than in all of last year
August 20th, 20170 SANAA — Yemen suffered more airstrikes in the first half of this year than in the whole of 2016, increasing the number of civilian deaths and forcing more people to flee their homes, according to a report by international aid agencies. The pace of clashes on the ground has also intensified this year, especially around Yemen's third...
Militant allies: U.S. forces to stay in Syria for decades
August 20th, 20170 AIN ISSA, SYRIA — Washington's main Syrian ally in the fight against ISIS says the U.S. military will remain in northern Syria long after the jihadists are defeated, predicting enduring ties with the Kurdish-dominated region. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of militias dominated by the Kurdish YPG,...
Lebanese, Syrian ministers vow to improve economic ties
August 20th, 20170 BEIRUT — Lebanese and Syrian ministers pledged to boost economic ties on Wednesday, part of a visit that has challenged the Lebanese state's policy of neutrality toward Syria's war. Government ministers from Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Amal party arrived in Syria for a trade fair, a trip that has ignited a political row in......
For diabetics, aquatic exercise as good as working out on land
August 20th, 20170 For people with type 2 diabetes, exercising in water is just as effective at improving blood sugar as other types of workouts, according to a review of existing research. People who face obstacles in getting to a gym or exercising outdoors should consider hitting the pool to meet their exercise goals, the authors write in Acta...
Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS turn up the heat on generic drugmaker deals
August 20th, 20170 The largest U.S. retail pharmacies, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., are wielding more leverage when buying generic drugs, accelerating a decline in prices likely to affect drug companies for some time, industry experts said on Thursday, Aug. 3. That pressure is exacerbated by efforts from U.S. health......
Senate Bill 720: Making it a crime to support Palestinian human rights
August 20th, 20170 By James J. Zogby It is fascinating to watch some U.S. senators tripping over themselves as they attempt to defend their support for or opposition to proposed legislation that would make it a federal crime to support the international campaign to Boycott, Divest or Sanction (BDS) Israel for its continued occupation of Palestinian...
Charlottesville tragedy can be lesson to community
August 20th, 20171 By Abed Hammoud The recent tragic events in Charlottesville, VA should be a lesson to our Arab and Muslim community here in Metro Detroit, specially in the Dearborn-Dearborn Heights area. These events show that personal attacks, character assassination and the spread of false information on social media and elsewhere can have......
