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Selling cars from home a growing illegal trend among Arab Americans
May 23rd, 20140 DEARBORN/DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The Secretary of State deems it illegal for residents to sell vehicles out of their home, but that hasn't been stopping local Arab Americans in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights from doing so, anyway.A recent growing trend in the community has seen many local residents continuously purchase vehicles from an...
ADC Michigan Director Fatina Abdrabboh pledges systematic change
May 23rd, 20140 DEARBORN — Fatina Abdrabboh, the Michigan director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), said she is looking to implement "good" and "lasting" change in the organization.Abdrabboh said she commends State Rep. Rashida Tlaib and former ADC Michigan deputy director Rana Abbas for their "strength" to speak out...
City officials encourage Arab residents to participate in neighborhood associations
May 23rd, 20140 DEARBORN — As we shift into the summer season where lawns are groomed and gardens are blossoming, city officials have been encouraging residents to join their local neighborhood association to preserve the city's property values and community involvement. City Council President Susan Dabaja and Residential Services Assistant...
Michigan Stars soccer team scheduled to play first historic game May 25
May 23rd, 20140 Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. at Star International Academy Athletic Field located at 6163 Fenton, in Dearborn Heights. This is the Michigan Stars inaugural season competing in the National Premier Soccer League. The community will have the opportunity to get a first look at the Michigan Stars who are comprised of...Dearborn Police Department alerts community on distracted driving epidemic
DEARBORN — At this time of year, teens and young adults enjoy festivities including proms and graduation parties.It’s also the time of year when automobile accidents from distracted driving increase among this age group.The Dearborn Police Department held a "Safe Driving Initiative" event outside of the police station on Thursday,...Yemeni cuisine highlights diversity of Arab culture
Fawaz Algazali displaying arayes, harisa and coffee.HAMTRAMCK — Arabic food is as diverse as Arab people. While Levantine dishes like shawarma and hummus have become familiar names in American culture, a lesser known cuisine from the Arabian Peninsula has been flourishing in Metro Detroit. Yemeni restaurants are a growing option for...
Dearborn’s Memorial Day funeral events honor five ‘forgotten’ vets
May 23rd, 20140 DEARBORN—Five veterans who died without resources and whose cremains have been in Michigan funeral homes for three decades will be honored during Dearborn’s Memorial Day observances on May 26.This is the fourth time in the last five years that the Dearborn Allied War Veterans Council (DAWVC) searched for veterans in need of...OCC Board of Trustees vote on rollback tuition for international and DACA students
BLOOMFIELD HILLS — In 2013 the Oakland Community College (OCC) Board of Trustees voted to hike tuition for international students by almost 43 percent, which discourages international student enrollment.The tuition hike also affected students that held Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status. This spring, a very large...Gov. Snyder: Unemployment rate drops to 7.4 percent
LANSING — Gov. Rick Snyder issued a statement after the announcement that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April fell to 7.4 percent, the lowest unemployment rate in Michigan since April 2008.In the statement Snyder said, “Michigan continues to move forward. April was the eighth consecutive monthly decline in...
National Arab Orchestra collaborating with Detroit Woodward Academy
May 23rd, 20140 DETROIT—Woodward Academy’s MIRROR After School Program, located in downtown Detroit, is collaborating with the National Arab Orchestra’s (N.A.O) Building Bridges Through Music. The fourth through eighth grade students will be performing with the N.A.O at its third annual gala concert May 31 at 8 p.m. The event will take place...23-year-old Dearborn man charged with criminal sexual conduct
TAYLOR — Hassan Kamel Mougnieh., a 23-year-old Dearborn man, was arraigned Friday, May 16 in Taylor's 23rd District Court on five charges of criminal sexual conduct. Mougnieh is accused of having sex in a minivan with a 14-year-old girl. He was charged with two counts of fourth degree criminal sexual conduct, and three...Search for Middle Eastern suspects posing as FBI agents continues
WEST BLOOMFIELD — The search for three suspects described as Middle Eastern, who posed as FBI agents while attempting to rob residents in Sterling Heights and here is still underway.Last week, West Bloomfield Police responded to a call from a resident, who said two men and a woman knocked on the back door of her house demanding to be...Police recover missing 27-year-old UM-D student’s body
DEARBORN— On Tuesday at about 11 a.m., Dearborn Police, assisted by the Michigan State Police and the Downriver Mutual Aid Dive Team, recovered what is believed to be the body of a 27 year-old University of Michigan-Dearborn student who’d been missing since going into the Rouge River on May 13. The man’s body was located in...Tips for healthy and safe swimming
LANSING — Every year, thousands of Americans get sick with recreational water illnesses. To protect Michigan residents during the holiday when swimming is common, the week before Memorial Day is recognized as Recreational Water Illness and Injury (RWII) Prevention Week.Have your eyes ever started to sting and turn red while you...
ACC welcomes partners in Seven Mile Project
May 23rd, 20140 DETROIT — On Tuesday, the Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) held a Seven Mile Task Force meeting at its Youth Recreation and Leadership Center.The ACC’s Seven Mile Taskforce Committee includes more than 40 members. Many are representatives from committee organizations that have joined the group to participate in its efforts......
Texting improves link between sick teens and doctors
NEW YORK — Adolescents with chronic diseases who were allowed to text their doctors were better equipped to manage their own healthcare and more likely to request help at the first sign of problems, a new study found.“Give them a voice, and they will talk,” said lead author Dr. Jeannie Huang. “And that’s really what we want...
Russia, China veto resolution to refer Syria to the ICC
May 23rd, 20140 A picture taken on Feb. 6, shows the Aleppo central prison during clashes.NEW YORK — On Thursday, May 22, Russia and China vetoed a resolution to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the country's three-year civil......
Lebanon PM warns of power vaccum in presidency
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam said Thursday, May 22, that the presidential void will not be a long one and urged various political groups to elect a new head of state as soon as possible.Speaking at the beginning of a cabinet session at the Grand Serail, hours after parliament failed to hold a session to elect a...
Now you can text 911 your emergency
May 23rd, 20140 WASHINGTON — The four major U.S. wireless phone companies are providing emergency texting 911 service as of this month to any local government that wants it and has the capability to use it, a big step toward moving the nation’s emergency dispatch system out of the voice-only technology that dates to the 1960s.Local governments in...NSA data-gathering may run into roadblocks in California
SACRAMENTO — The federal government would need a warrant from a judge if it wants the cooperation of California officials in searching residents' cell phone and computer records, under a bill making its way through the state legislature.The bill, which passed the state Senate with just one opposing vote on Monday, was introduced in the...
Imam to get 35-50 years in prison for sexually abusing nieces in Detroit
May 23rd, 20140 DETROIT — Describing the case as one of the "most horrible" sexual abuse trials he has witnessed, a circuit court judge sentenced Mohammad Masroor, a Muslim imam who was convicted last month of sexually abusing his nieces, to 10 concurrent terms of 35 to 50 years in prison and five concurrent terms of 10 to 15 years.The defendant has......
Climate change and corporate welfare
It’s been a pretty bad couple of weeks on the climate front. Two separate teams of climate scientists warn that the collapse of the western Antarctic ice sheet has already begun and is now too late to stop. The six glaciers already in retreat are enough, by themselves, to add four feet to global sea levels. Although total collapse...NSA may be putting Israeli security interests above U.S., new document reveals
A document suggesting that the U.S. National Security Agency may put the interests of Israel above those of the United States was released Wednesday by journalist Glenn Greenwald.The document is one of the many slides leaked by NSA defector Edward Snowden, currently a fugitive from American law in Moscow.Greenwald,......
Wayne County Clerk: Longtime congressman Conyers ineligible for primary ballot
May 16th, 20140 Conyers.DETROIT — Longtime Michigan Democratic Congressman John Conyers's bid for reelection in November took a major hit on Tuesday when a local elections clerk declared him ineligible for the August primary ballot because he did not have enough valid signatures on a required petition.Wayne County Clerk Cathy M. Garrett found that...Egypt’s Sisi calls for U.S. help to fight “terrorism”
al-Sisi.CAIRO — Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who ousted an elected Islamist president and is set to become Egypt's next head of state, called on the United States to help fight jihadi terrorism to avoid the creation of new Afghanistans in the Middle East.In his first interview with an international news organization in the run-up......