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Third U of M fraternity member arraigned in resort vandalism
GAYLORD — A third member of the University of Michigan fraternity that caused thousands of dollars in damage to the Treetops Resort in January has been arraigned on a felony count of malicious destruction of a building greater than $1,000 and less than $20,000 Matthew Vlasic, an undergraduate economics major, was arraigned April 20...Worthy brings charges against former Inkster cop
DETROIT — Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has brought charges of misconduct in office and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, five and 10-year felonies, respectively, against William Melendez, 46, the fired Inkster police officer accused of repeatedly beating 57-year-old Floyd Dent during a Jan. 28 traffic...
Dearborn Police announce department promotions
April 24th, 20150 Police Chief Ronald Haddad (front row, from left), Lt. Richard Conrad, Capt. Issa Shahin, Lt. Andreas Barnett, O’Reilly. (Second row, from left): Cpl. Christopher Brayman, Sgt. Andrea Danak and Sgt. Tim Stacy. (Third row, from left): Sgt. Madou Bazzi, Sgt. Donald Kozlowski, Sgt. Jonathan DeKiere and Sgt. Steven Faith. (Top row, from...
Arab Americans to participate in VisionWalk for the blind
April 24th, 20150 MILFORD — Khodar Farhat, a blind Lebanese American, is participating in the VisionWalk Michigan team’s One Spirit One Dream on Saturday, May 9 and encouraging others to join the effort. “The goal of this walk is to collect money that will be used to fund the research on the blind and hospitals who treat people who...
Community commemorates Qana at ICA
April 24th, 20150 DEARBORN — Nineteen years ago, the Israeli army shelled a United Nations compound that was sheltering civilians in Qana, south Lebanon, killing 106 people, including two children from Michigan. Almost two decades later, the memory of the victims has not faded; community members gathered at the Islamic Center of America on...
Stout Middle School production aims to revive creative arts programs district-wide
April 24th, 20150 Stout Middle School students.DEARBORN — Stout Middle School hosted its first musical production in 15 years on Tuesday, April 21, triggering a much needed musical program comeback in the Dearborn Public Schools. "School House Rock, Live! Jr.", led by stage director Rashid Baydoun and musical director Jim Walters, included a cast and...Dearborn resident sentenced in Medicare fraud conspiracy
DEARBORN — A Dearborn resident and two Brownstown Township residents were sentenced to prison on Tuesday, April 21 for their involvement in a $29 million Medicare fraud scheme. Felicar Williams, 51, of Dearborn, was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $2,431,018 in restitution, representing the amount paid by...
Information on voting in the May 5 special election
April 24th, 20150 DEARBORN – Residents are urged to partake in the special election being held on Tuesday, May 5. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.. The election will determine the outcome of Proposal 1, regarding funding for state roads, as well as revenue for schools and municipalities. In Dearborn, registered voters who qualify for an absentee...
Diversity in American media critical as cultural shift grows
April 24th, 20150 Panelists included (L-R) FOX News investigative reporter, M.L. Elrick; Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News; Chuck Stokes, editorial/public affairs director for WXYZ TV 7; Jackie Headapohi, managing editor, Detroit Jewish Newsand Bankole Thompson, editor of the Michigan...South Carolina teen ‘seduced’ by ISIS sentenced on gun charge
SOUTH CAROLINA — A South Carolina teen, who a prosecutor said was "seduced" by the "Islamic State" group and planned to shoot U.S. soldiers, was sentenced on Tuesday, April 21 to five years in juvenile prison on a gun possession charge, the local Herald newspaper reported. The 16-year-old, who was not named due to his age, had...San Francisco man stuck in Yemen sues State Department for seizing U.S. passport
San Francisco — A San Francisco man filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.S. Department of State in federal court this week after the U.S. Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen revoked his passport. He was left stranded in Yemen, seperated from his home and family for 14 months at a time when the State Department...
Muslim father confronts hate protester with message of love
April 22nd, 20150 Dr. Houwari next to the anti-Muslim protester, Ann Arbor, April, 17 ANN ARBOR — Maybe the demonstrator who held an anti-Muslim sign in front of the Islamic Center of Ann Arbor was trying to provoke a negative response to reaffirm her misconceptions about Islam. Instead, she received nothing but love. "I serve a RISEN savior...
Dearborn woman in need of kidney donor
April 22nd, 20150 DEARBORN — resident Zeinab Atwi is in need of a kidney donor. She has been on dialysis for more than 10 years. Atwi has type B blood. A suitable donor may have type B or O blood. She is a student at Dorsey School in Dearborn and plans on pursing a career in the medical field. “She wants to work at...
Former Egyptian President Morsi jailed for 20 years
April 21st, 20150 Morsi in the courtroom CAIRO — Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole on Tuesday on charges arising from the killing of protesters, nearly three years after he became Egypt's first freely elected president.Morsi stood in a cage in court as judge Ahmed Sabry Youssef read out the...Ex-Blackwater guards sentenced to prison in Baghdad killings
WASHINGTON — A former Blackwater security guard was sentenced to life in prison and three others got 30-year terms on Monday, April 13, in the massacre of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians at a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007, closing a case that had outraged Iraqis and inflamed anti-U.S. sentiment around the world. The Sept. 16 incident......
Russia pushes for Syria peace talks to defeat ISIS
DAMASCUS — Latest U.N. efforts to resolve the Syria crisis could succeed this time and lead to a united front against "Islamic State" followed by a political transition, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said. Earlier this week, the United Nations said its Syria envoy would launch fresh consultations with Syrian...Naming and shaming in Yarmouk
Residents of Yarmouk, queuing to receive food supplies, Jan. 14.The population of Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camp, Yarmouk — whose population once exceeded 250,000, dwindling throughout the Syrian civil war to 18,000 — are a microcosm of the story of a whole nation, whose perpetual pain shames us all, none......
Naming and shaming in Yarmouk
Residents of Yarmouk, queuing to receive food supplies, Jan. 14.The population of Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camp, Yarmouk — whose population once exceeded 250,000, dwindling throughout the Syrian civil war to 18,000 — are a microcosm of the story of a whole nation, whose perpetual pain shames us all, none...New Yemeni VP says he hopes to avoid Saudi invasion
ADEN — Yemen's newly-appointed Vice President Khaled Bahah, a widely respected figure named this week to shore up the legitimacy of the exiled Saudi-backed government, said on Thursday he hoped to avert a Saudi-led invasion to restore unity to the country. Arab military exercises planned for Saudi Arabia have raised speculation that...Nusra hails slain Lebanese militant as hero
Osama Mansour.BEIRUT — On Thursday, Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate the Nusra Front mourned Thursday Lebanese militant Osama Mansour, who was killed during a shootout with police in Tripoli last week. In a video tribute posted to the Twitter account of the group's Qalamoun branch, Nusra called the notorious jihadi militant a...Palestinian rams car into bus stop, killing Israeli
Israeli border guards stand near a car that plowed into pedestrians in Jerusalem injuring several people, March 6.JERUSALEM — Police said Thursday a Palestinian whose car struck people at a Jerusalem bus stop, killing an Israeli, appeared to have driven into them deliberately. Police had said earlier it was unclear whether the......
Saudi Arabia executes two Indonesian women
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia executed an Indonesian domestic worker Thursday just days after beheading another woman from that country, prompting the Indonesian foreign ministry to summon the kingdom's ambassador, Jakarta said. Karni binti Medi Tarsim, 37, was convicted of murdering a 4-year-old girl in 2012, according to a statement from...“Islamic State” clashes with security forces in Iraq’s largest refinery
Iraq’s largest oil refinery near the northern city of Baiji.BAGHDAD — "Islamic State" militants clashed with security forces inside Iraq's largest refinery on Thursday and held on to recent gains in the west of the country, as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the extremist group remained "very, very dangerous".The insurgents......
America’s moral failure: Abandoning U.S. citizens in Yemen
A C-17 aircraft evacuating Indians stranded in Yemen.Thousands of Americans are trapped in war-torn Yemen. But the U.S. government, which is legally mandated to protect and evacuate its citizens from dangerous situations anywhere in the world, is doing nothing to help them. Instead, the Obama administration is delivering weapons to...Rosa Parks should be the face of the $20 bill
An organization committed to gender equality is demanding that President Obama put a woman on the $20 bill, which currently features Andrew Jackson. Wilma Mankiller, the first elected female chief of the Cherokee nation; civil rights leader Rosa Parks; former first lady and human rights activist Eleanor Roosevelt and African American......
