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Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad: Be cautious but remain at ease
November 26th, 20150 Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad. DEARBORN — Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad told The Arab American News that the department is doing its best to ensure residents are safe following potential threats last week aimed at the community. A social media threat made by Navy veteran Sarah Beebe started a wave of fear and anxiety across the...
Dearborn Police’s internship program grooms students from community
November 26th, 20150 Officers in the Dearborn Police Internship Program with Chief Ron HaddadDEARBORN — The Dearborn Police Department’s latest group of interns are a diverse group of students who simultaneously attend Henry Ford College or the University of Michigan-Dearborn while working part time with the department. The internship program has been...
Wayne State lauds Arab American alumni and students
November 25th, 20150 Members of the Arab American Pharmacist Association at Wayne State University. DETROIT - Arab American alumni and community leaders gathered at Wayne State University on Wednesday, November 18, to honor the empowerment of its diverse student body. Wayne State's president, M. Roy Wilson; Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab...
Improving city services in Detroit
November 25th, 20150 Korean Business owners in Detroit visited Deputy Mayor Isaiah McKinnon to discuss how to improve city service.DETROIT - Most citizens of metro Detroit realize that the basic infrastructure of the city needs tremendous improvement. While downtown Detroit is bubbling with new businesses and upcoming artists, city services are lacking. It...
Hamtramck students rally for peace amid media scrutiny
November 25th, 20150 Senior Agron Berishaj speaks to classmates from Hamtramck High School at a peace rally in the city's Pope Park Photo: Merinda ValleyHAMTRAMCK — The entire world in two square miles — that’s how some Hamtramck High School students describe their city. They hope the small community can serve as an example of coexistence...Obama tells Americans homeland is safe as millions set off on Thanksgiving travel
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans they are safe as millions of people traveled on Wednesday for the Thanksgiving holiday, with security heightened at airports, New York City's parade festivities and other venues after the Paris attacks."Right now, we know of no specific and credible intelligence...Boy donates money from his piggy bank to vandalized Mosque
PFLUGERVILLE, Texas -- A 7-year-old boy donated $20 from his piggy bank to a Texas mosque that was vandalized on Monday.The Islamic Center of Pflugerville was vandalized by someone who tore up a Quran and covered it in feces. Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime, possibly...Ahmed ‘the clockboy’ demands $15 million in damages
TEXAS - Fifteen million dollars and apologies from the mayor and police chief.That's what an attorney says the family of Ahmed Mohamed is demanding from city and school officials in Irving, Texas, or they say they'll file a civil suit.In September, 14-year-old Ahmed made international headlines when he brought a handmade clock to...
ISIS suicide bomber kills 12 in Tunisia
November 25th, 20150 Tunisian forensics police inspect the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Tunis, Nov. 25TUNIS — Tunisian authorities said on Wednesday a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with plastic explosive blew up a presidential guard bus a day earlier, killing at least 12 troops in an attack claimed by ISIS.Tuesday's explosion on a main...Henry Ford College to offer first bachelor’s degree program
DEARBORN — Henry Ford College has launched its first four-year degree program. Students in the program can earn a Bachelor of Science degree in culinary arts. Classes will begin in the winter 2016 semester. “The multidisciplinary approach to hospitality education with the Bachelor of Science in culinary arts builds on the...Michigan safest state to have prostate biopsy
The Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MUSIC) and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan released findings that show Michigan is the safest state to have a prostate biopsy. Using the unique Collaborative Quality Initiative (CQI) model, they reduced the post-biopsy infection rate in Michigan to 0.6%. The national average...Yemen’s Socotra burns two tons of qat after island bans drug
YEMEN — Authorities on Yemen's Socotra island burned two tons of the mild narcotic drug qat on Saturday, a shipment seized from smugglers trying to defy last week's ban by the archipelago's governor, local officials said. Yemenis have chewed qat for centuries and although widespread, its use is seen as a social ill by some, sapping...Saudi court sentences Palestinian poet to death for apostasy
Ashraf Fayadh has been sentenced to death by a court in Saudi Arabia.RIYADH — A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a Palestinian poet to death for apostasy, abandoning his Muslim faith, according to trial documents seen by Human Rights Watch, its Middle East researcher Adam Coogle said on Friday. Ashraf Fayadh was detained by the...Turkey downs Russian warplane near Syria border, Putin warns of ‘serious consequences’
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu speaks at a press conference about Turkey's right to respond to airspace violationsTurkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday, saying the jet had violated its airspace. It is one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half...Police arrest two in shooting of Minnesota Black Lives Matter protesters
Black Lives Matter protesters at the north Minneapolis police precinct Photo: ReutersMINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police said on Tuesday they have arrested a 23-year-old white man and a 32-year-old Hispanic male in relation to the shooting of five people near a city police station where demonstrators have gathered for more than a week......
Robbers shoot Dearborn Coney Island employee in leg
Dearborn Coney IslandDEARBORN― According to police, two men robbing Dearborn Coney Island at dusk on Nov. 24 shot an employee in the leg.The employee was repairing a back door when two masked men forced him inside the diner and ordered him to hand over money from the cash register. One of the suspects shot the employee while he was...Driver attempts to run over Muslim woman in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI – The Cincinnati chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Cincinnati) today called on the FBI and local law enforcement authorities to investigate an alleged attempt to run down a Muslim woman as a hate crime.CAIR-Cincinnati said the woman, a University of Cincinnati pre-med student who wears an Islamic......
Dearborn Heights pedestrian struck in fatal accident
DEARBORN — A 57-year-old Dearborn Heights woman was struck by a vehicle while walking across Michigan Avenue to catch an eastbound bus. The driver of the vehicle, 47, of Woodhaven, was eastbound and crossing through a green light at Outer Drive when she hit the pedestrian. The accident happened at about 6 a.m. Tuesday, Nov....Man charged for leaving fake bomb at Virginia mosque
VIRGINIA - A man left a hoax explosive device at a mosque last week in Falls Church, Virginia, Fairfax County fire investigators say.Chester H. Gore, 27, was charged with using a hoax explosive device on Thursday at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center.Gore, who has no fixed address, caused an estimated $200 damage to a gate at the mosque,...Two men blocked from boarding Southwest plane because of box of baklava
CHICAGO - Two men were temporarily blocked from boarding a Southwest flight in Chicago last week when a passenger became nervous after overhearing them speak in Arabic.Maher Khalil and Anas Ayyad were carrying a small box of Baklava when the passenger at the gate became suspicious. "If that person doesn't feel safe, let...
DTE substation fire in Dearborn leaves thousands with no power
November 23rd, 20150 PHOTO: WDIVDEARBORN - A major fire that broke out Monday morning at a DTE Energy substation in Dearborn hand left over 6,000 people with no power.Fire crews responded to the scene just before 7 a.m. at a location off Warren Avenue just west of Schaefer Road. DTE said about 6,000 customers in the immediate area are without power because......
Refugees, ISIS drive community leaders’ discussion
November 22nd, 20150 Leaders met Saturday, Nov. 21 to discuss issues facing the community after recent terrorist attacksDEARBORN — After ISIS orchestrated attacks across the world last week, national attention shfted focus to both Muslims and refugees. Arab American political activists and religious leaders met with U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell...
Suspect arraigned for holding teenager hostage at knife point
November 20th, 20150 DEARBORN - On Friday November 20, 2015, Anthony Jamal Sharay was arraigned by the Honorable Judge William Hultgren in the 19th District Court. Sharay was charged with Home Invasion 1st Degree, Assault with the Intent to Murder, Great Bodily Harm, Felonious Assault and Unlawful Imprisonment and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon. His......
Wayne County to pay $395,000 to settle Azzam Elder case
November 20th, 20150 DETROIT - Wayne County will pay $395,000 to settle a wrongful discharge case brought by Azzam Elder, who was deputy executive to former Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano.Commissioners approved a settlement today 14-1, with Commissioner Ilona Varga, D-Lincoln Park voting no, in the wrongful...
Son of local Beirut bombing victims to meet Christiano Ronaldo
November 20th, 20150 DEARBORN — The 3-year-old son of a Dearborn couple who were victims of the recent attack in Beirut will meet with his idol, Christiano Ronaldo, a player with the Real Madrid Football Club. Haidar Moustafa’s parents' lives were lost when two suicide bombs ripped through Borj El-Barajne, a suburb in south Lebanon. Goal, a......