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Mother charged for allowing boyfriend to rape, kill 10-year-old daughter
NEW MEXICO - When police were called on Wednesday to an apartment complex in Albuquerque, New Mexico, they thought they were responding to a battery call.Instead, they found 10-year-old Victoria Martens. She had been killed hours before her 10th birthday party.The girl's mother, Michelle Martens, 35; Martens's boyfriend, Fabian...Man arrested for killing two nuns
DURANT, Miss. - A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home confessed to the killings, a sheriff said Saturday.Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Mississippi was arrested and charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill. Both women were 68.Mississippi Department of...Chinese hotels ordered block guests from five Muslim countries
Police have ordered some low-end hotels in the Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou not to allow guests from five Muslim-majority countries to stay, though China's foreign ministry said it had never heard of the policy.Three hotels with rooms costing about 150 yuan ($23) a night told Reuters that they had received police notices from as...
Dearborn Police: Young man drove recklessly in fatal motorcycle crash
August 28th, 20160 Mohamad Hazimi.DEARBORN — A 19-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle accident near Warren and Schaefer around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 28.Mohamad Hazimi was riding his bike westbound on Warren Ave. when he struck a Jeep that made a sudden U-turn. The incident occurred between Jonathan Street and Bingham Street. Surveliance...Florida dad murdered on second date by woman he met online
There was no reason for Adam Hilarie to believe anything but the obvious: He had just been on a promising first date with a pretty girl.Hilarie had met Hailey Rose Bustos on PlentyOfFish, which bills itself as the largest dating site in the world. He'd picked her up and they went bowling in Winter Haven, Florida, at Cypress Lanes,...Dingell facilitates grants for Dearborn, Trenton fire departments
DEARBORN — Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) announced that the Dearborn and Trenton Fire Departments will receive funding for fire prevention and safety through the Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program. The Dearborn Fire Department has already installed 2,000 smoke alarms for...Six candidates vie for three seats on Dearborn School Board
DEARBORN — Six candidates, including five Arab Americans, are competing for three vacant seats on the Dearborn Board of Education. Four are running for two full-term spots and two are looking to fill the vacancy left by former trustee Aimee Schoelles, who resigned from the board and moved to Ohio last year. The terms of trustees...Arab Americans slam Trump, promote cooperation at town hall
DEARBORN — The rise of Donald Trump is permitting bigoted individuals to turn violent, like the "goof" who fatally shot Khaled Jabara in Tulsa, Arab American Vietnam veteran Ron Amen said at a town hall meeting on Wednesday. Arab American leaders slammed the Republican presidential nominee at the event, which was hosted and...
Arab, Muslim and brown: Complex identities in the age of Trump
August 26th, 20160 Family members of victims on the one-year anniversary of a mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Aug. 5, 2013DEARBORN— For Millions of Arab Americans, ethnic and religious backgrounds are not at odds with American values. An inseparable myriad of cultures and traditions form their identities.Vandalized homes, unjust terrorist...Khan’s parents to speak at ACRL gala
The Khan family. DEARBORN — The Muslim American parents of fallen Capt. Humayun Khan will speak at the Arab American Civil Rights League banquet in Dearborn next month. Ghazala Khan and her husband, Khizr Khan, engaged in a highly publicized feud with Donald Trump after the couple questioned the Republican nominee's sacrifices at the...Does Muslim Always Mean Islamic?
What is Muslim versus what is Islamic concerns the question of normative Islam. Due to the difficulty of discerning Islam from its political developments, some have thrown in the towel and declared, "Islam is as Islam does." It is easy to see why some observers draw that conclusion: Islam – through its twin sources of Quran...Michigan State Police cited for thousands of inaccurate alcohol related cases
LANSING — A calibration error in 4,001 alcohol cases resulted in inaccurate records in some of them, drawing criticism from defense attorneys and forcing prosecutors to take a second look. An examination of the cases, where testing was done at Michigan State Police labs, showed some...
Post Civil war era film shoots at Greenfield Village
August 26th, 20160 DEARBORN — A film production used Greenfield Village's unique and historic scenery as a backdrop for its post Civil War-era plotline. "Akoma", a short film shot around the metro Detroit region with the assistance of local producers, actors and crew-members, recently wrapped its shoot after a summer production that highlighted...Midwest Recycling leads backpack donations across metro Detroit
INKSTER — Midwest Recycling donated hundreds of backpacks filled with school supplies to the "We Got Your Back" campaign, just days ahead of the start of the new school year. Midwest Recycling donated 200 backpacks filled with school supplies to the “We Got Your Back” campaign.“We are always looking for local companies...
France’s ‘burkini’ ban: Hypocrisy and racism
August 26th, 20161 A protest against France's burkini ban, outside the French Embassy in London (Reuters)If you are a man in France, you can wear a wetsuit that covers your head and entire body. But a Muslim woman who chooses to wear a hijab at the beach will be ticketed and ordered to shed some clothing.The hysteria and hypocrisy surrounding French......
Illinois man charged with bomb attempt ruled mentally unfit
A U.S. judge ruled on Thursday that a Chicago-area man was mentally incompetent to stand trial on charges he tried to set off what he thought was a car bomb outside a bar. The suspect, Adel Daoud of Hillside, Illinois, sincerely believes that his lawyers are Freemasons, U.S. District Judge Sharon...N.Y. police regularly violated rules on probing Muslim groups
NEW YORK - The New York City Police Department routinely violated court-mandated rules on handling investigations of political activity, particularly Muslim groups or individuals, the department's watchdog said in a report released on Tuesday. The 64-page report by the Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD found police......
Trump, Clinton feud over minority voters
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed on Thursday over who would make a better U.S. president for minority voters, accusing each other of posing a threat to the interests of blacks and Latinos.Clinton needs to retain support from minority voters to defeat her Republican rival in the Nov. 8 election and was delivering a...Mentally ill man stabs two people, media assumed he was a terrorist
The FBI is investigating a double stabbing by a Virginia man who shouted the Muslim phrase "Allah Akbar," while authorities on Tuesday denied media reports that the attack may have been an attempted beheading. The suspect, Wasil Farooqui, 20, of Roanoke, is charged with randomly attacking a man and woman with...
Gum disease linked to heart disease
August 25th, 20160 A report from The Netherlands adds to the evidence tying chronic gum disease to heart disease and stroke. In a study of more than 60,000 dental patients, those with gum disease were twice as likely to have had a heart attack, stroke or severe chest pain. At the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, the largest dental school in the...
Concerns rise over EpiPen price increase
August 25th, 20160 Members of Congress are demanding more information on why the price for lifesaving EpiPens has skyrocketed. EpiPens are injection devices used to ward off potentially fatal allergic reactions and the price has surged in recent years. A two-dose package cost around $94 nine years ago. The average cost was more than six times that in......
Israel’s War on NGOs takes a worrying turn
You deserve to see your loved ones suffer and die. But, maybe, you would be hurt before them," was part of a threatening message received by a staff member at Al-Mezan, a Gaza-based human rights group. The photo attached to the email was of the exterior of the activist's home. The gist of the message: "We are coming for...
Entrapment: Legal experts criticize FBI tactics
August 25th, 20160 Abu-Rayyan/ Hamdan before he was arrested at the airportDETROIT — Over the past two years, the FBI has arrested so many terror suspects that one would think extremists have a foothold on our shores. But a closer look at those cases reveals that the authorities were heavily involved in constructing the plots they pride themselves on......
Two sisters killed in Dearborn Heights after colliding with semi
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (WXYZ) - Dearborn Heights police said two sisters were killed in an accident involving a semi truck on Thursday morning.The accident happened around 9 a.m. near the intersection of Van Born and Beech Daly. Police said 22-year-old Heidi Fox and 19-year-old Samantha Fox were traveling in a Ford Focus on Beech...Kerry tackles Yemen, Syrian conflicts in Saudi Arabia talks
JEDDA — Secretary of State John Kerry met Saudi Arabia's King Salman and the country's powerful deputy, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday to discuss ways to end conflict in Yemen and resume peace talks between the warring sides. Kerry arrived in Jeddah late on Wednesday from Nigeria for discussions with Saudi leaders and......