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Al-Ajami West embodies the transformation of West Dearborn
March 20th, 20150 DEARBORN — After years of struggles with the recession and poor planning, West Dearborn is starting to attract new businesses, but one new establishment is already a familiar name to residents. Al-Ajami West will open this weekend, bringing more than 13 years of experience in upscale Middle Eastern cuisine to the west side of...
Century 21 honors broker Sam Baydoun
March 20th, 20150 Sam Baydoun displaying the award with his family.DETROIT — Real estate associate broker, Sam Baydoun received the Grand Centurion Award, which is the highest recognition within the Century 21 system. During his career of 25 years with Century 21, Baydoun has sold over 300 million in residential and commercial sales. Baydoun...
Whiston offered state superintendent position
March 20th, 20150 DEARBORN — The State Board of Education conducted its final interviews for State Superintendent on Wednesday afternoon and selected Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Brian Whiston as the one to take the job. The State Board and Whiston need to work out the details of a contract before he officially accepts the...Judge sentences Bassel Abdul-Amir Saad to 8-15 years in prison
DETROIT — On Friday, March 13, a judge sentenced Bassel Abdul-Amir Saad to 8-15 years in prison for a punch that killed 44-year-old John Bieniewicz. "It's murder in my eyes," Bieniewicz’s widow, Kris, said Friday. "It will always be murder in my eyes." Saad was also ordered to pay more than $9,200 for Bieniewicz's funeral...
Students center of attention at Dallo Martial Arts
March 20th, 20150 Dallo training one of his students.SOUTHFIELD — Jalal Dallo's students call him “Sifu.” The traditional Chinese term is used to refer to a highly respected martial arts instructor. A sifu is not only your teacher, but also your father. “Si” means teacher and “fu” means father. Dallo, an attorney, is the owner of the...
Court denies Judge Somers’ request for a rehearing
March 20th, 20150 Somers.CINCINNATI — On Friday, March 13, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals denied 19th District Court Judge Mark Somers’ request for a rehearing in the $1.2 million judgment against him in the case of former deputy court administrator Julie Pucci. The court unanimously affirmed the judgment on Feb. 13 and Somers filed a motion for...
Florida parents dissatisfied with five-day suspension teacher received for calling student “Taliban”
March 20th, 20150 14-year-old Deyab Houssein Wardani, a freshman at Cypress Bay High School in Weston.WESTON, Fla. — A Muslim family is demanding that a local public school properly discipline a teacher for humiliating their son during class when she called him a "rag head Taliban." Youssef Wardani, the Lebanese father of 14-year-old Deyab...United flight diverted after man rushes toward cockpit
WASHINGTON — A United Airlines flight to Denver returned to a Washington airport late on Monday when a passenger shouting about jihad rushed toward the cockpit before other passengers grabbed him, ABC News said. United Flight 1074, carrying 33 passengers and six crew members, returned to Washington Dulles International Airport when...
Business owners applaud eliminating paid parking in west Dearborn
March 20th, 20150 A no-longer-enforced parking meter in west Dearborn.DEARBORN — The parking meters in downtown west Dearborn covered with plastic bags are not out of order; they were rendered useless by the decommissioning of paid parking— at both meters and structures— that started on March 15. Downtown business owners are hoping that just...
U.S. drone lost in Syria, government claims to have downed it
March 20th, 20150 The United States lost one of its Predator drone aircraft over northwest Syria on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, as Syrian state media reported its air defenses brought down the spy plane in the government-controlled Latakia province.If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces took down the U.S. aircraft - something U.S. officials said...Ten arguments for raising minimum wage
Darlene Handy of Baltimore holds up a sign during a rally to support raising the minimum wage in Maryland.One: Seven Nobel laureates in economics endorse the higher minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016, saying it does not lead to fewer jobs. Two: Job losses from raising the minimum wage are negligible. Minimum wage has already been raised 23...Clean up Dearborn
Bottles and plastic bags on a lawn in east Dearborn, March 18.As an Arabic saying puts it, "tomorrow the snow will melt and the field will be revealed." That quote demonstrates the truth's ability to eventually manifest itself through barriers of falsehood. In east Dearborn the snow melted last week, but the truth that the fields...Abbas: Two-state solution not possible with Netanyahu
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.RAMALLAH — A two-state solution to the Middle East conflict will be impossible with an Israeli government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday. "Netanyahu's statements against a two-state solution and against a Palestinian state ... are...Egypt announces plans to build new capital city
A scale model of a planned new capital for Cairo is displayed at an investment conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Sunday.CAIRO — Over the weekend, Egypt unveiled plans to build a wholly new capital. The new city would lie somewhere to Cairo's east, closer to the Red Sea. It would sprawl across some 150...Libyan government forces bomb Tripoli airport
TRIPOLI — Warplanes from Libya's internationally recognized government on Thursday bombed the only functioning commercial airport in the city, delaying the arrival of a delegation from a rival parliament for U.N. peace talks, officials said. The attack on Matiga airport, a military base used for commercial flights after the main......
Study: Syria bloodiest conflict of 2014
DAMASCUS — The death toll in the world's most brutal conflicts climbed by more than 28 percent last year from 2013 with bloodshed in Syria worse than all others for the second year running, according to a study released on Wednesday. The Project for the Study of the 21st Century think tank analyzed data from sources including the...Yemeni president evacuated after air raid targets his palace
Abedrabbo Mansour HadiADEN — Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi was evacuated to safety Thursday after a warplane targeted a palace in Aden where he was staying after fleeing political turmoil in the capital, an aide said. "President Hadi has been evacuated to a safe place, but he has not left the country," the source said as......
“Islamic State” claims responsibility for deadly terror attack in Tunisia
A policeman stands past blood stains, inside the compound of the national Bardo museum in Tunis, March 19.TUNIS — Tunisia said it would deploy the army to major cities and arrested nine people on Thursday, after 20 foreign tourists were shot dead in an attack on a museum, which "Islamic State" militants called "the first drop of...No request for Coalition assistance as Tikrit battle pauses
Smoke rises from an explosives-laden military vehicle driven by an "Islamic State" suicide bomber.BAGHDAD — Iraq has not requested air support from the U.S.-led coalition for its campaign to retake Tikrit from "Islamic State" insurgents, a senior military official in the coalition said on Thursday, as the assault on the city remained...Anti-Israel ad can be barred from Seattle buses, appeals court rules
San Fransico — County officials in Seattle can prohibit an advertisement criticizing Israeli policies toward Palestinians from appearing on local buses without violating constitutional protections on free speech, a U.S. appeals court said on Wednesday. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco found that...Kuwait arrests activist over anti-Saudi tweets
KUWAIT — Kuwait arrested an opposition activist on suspicion of insulting Saudi Arabia on his Twitter account, the state news agency KUNA reported, extending a crackdown on social media. Tariq al-Mutairi, head of the liberal Civil Democratic Movement (CDM), was detained on his way home early on Wednesday by men in plainclothes......
Pledge of allegiance read in Arabic causes uproar at New York high school
March 19th, 20150 PINE BUSH, New York — Administrators at an upstate New York high school are apologizing after the Pledge of Allegiance was recited in Arabic on Wednesday morning, offending some students and their families.In an online letter, officials at Pine Bush High School explained that students were supposed to give the pledge in different...FHS students participate in 64th annual Michigan District of Key Club Service Leadership Conference
TRAVERSE CITY—Members of Fordson High School’s Key Club participated in the 64th annual Michigan District of Key Club Service Leadership Conference in Traverse City March 13-15. This year’s theme was service around the world. Key Club members from all over the state came together to celebrate the year......
Netanyahu’s victory demonstrates Israel’s racism
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 18.Last week, all opinion polls foretold that the centrist Zionist Union would grab the most seats in the Israeli elections. But the right wing Likud Party and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, scored a dramatic comeback and emerged...SMART to pay more than $500,000 in damages to Iraqi former bus mechanic
DETROIT— Years after the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) began appealing a Michigan Civil Rights Commission ruling in favor of an Iraqi former bus mechanic who’d endured discrimination, SMART has decided to forego any further appeals. SMART now must pay Mazyn Barash, 57, of......
