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Dearborn Heights police chief retiring after 38 years in law enforcement
November 3rd, 20180 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Police Chief Lee Gavin will retire on November 7, after more than a decade as the city’s top cop and 38 years total service to the city. Gavin will be replaced by Deputy Chief Dan Voltattorni, who has been in law enforcement since 1987. Gavin started with the department as a patrolman and worked his way up,...
It’s a new era, but China’s balancing act will fail in the Middle East
November 3rd, 20180 Although ties between Washington and Tel Aviv are stronger than ever, Israeli leaders are aware of a vastly changing political landscape. The U.S.' own political turmoil and the global power realignment — which is on full display in the Middle East — indicate that a new era is, indeed, in the making. Unsurprisingly, this new era...
Go to the polls on Nov. 6 and cast your vote
November 2nd, 20180 On Tuesday, November 6, the Arab American community must rise to the challenge and exercise their right and duty to vote. Now more than ever Arab American voters are needed at the polls to share history in the making. Rashida Tlaib won a historic race and was on her way to capitol Hill to be the first Arab American and Muslim woman to...Yemeni teacher turns his home into school for 700 students
TAIZ, Yemen — Outside the home of Yemeni teacher Adel al-Shorbagy the queue of children lining up for education keeps getting longer. Almost 700 come daily to his house that he converted into a school in the government-held city of Taiz, which has been at the center of a three-and-a-half-year civil war that has left millions on the...
Sentencing delayed for Iraqi American woman charged in baby’s drowning
November 2nd, 20180 WARREN — The sentencing of an Iraqi American woman on a child abuse charge for the 2017 drowning of her infant son was delayed Wednesday so her defense attorney could submit written arguments. Julian Levant, defense attorney for Sara Al-Mestony, gained an adjournment of her sentencing on Wednesday by Judge Kathryn Viviano of the...
Mysterious deaths of Saudi sisters found bound with duct tape in Hudson River
November 2nd, 20180 NEW YORK — New York City investigators believe that the two sisters from Saudi Arabia whose bodies were found bound together with duct tape floating along the Hudson River last week were alive when they entered the water, two police sources told ABC News. Detectives are checking to see if any surveillance cameras captured the moment...
Research: New vehicle technologies double repair bills for minor collisions
November 2nd, 20180 DEARBORN — According to new research from AAA, vehicles equipped with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) such as automatic emergency braking, blind spot monitoring, lane departure warning and others, can cost twice as much to repair following a collision due to expensive sensors and their calibration requirements. Even minor...
Troy deacon charged with sex assaults on teen boy
November 2nd, 20181 Troy — A longtime member and a deacon at a Chaldean Catholic church in Troy faces felony charges related to allegations of "multiple" sexual encounters with a teen boy at the church for more than a year. Hurmiz Ishak, 63, is in the Oakland County Jail on a $300,000 cash-or-surety bond on three counts of criminal sexual...
Religious leaders rally in Dearborn Heights to honor synagogue victims
November 2nd, 20180 DEARBORN HEIGHTS - Leaders of various faiths gathered in Dearborn Heights on Thursday, Nov. 1 to pray for peace and stand with the victims of the mass shooting carried out at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27. Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, Rev. Robert Schoenhals and Rabbi Nate DeGroot led this call for tolerance at the...
Tree of Life synagogue: Resisting the temptation to close the tent
November 2nd, 20180 Saturday was to be a day of celebration at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill Neighborhood. According to the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, a baby boy was to be welcomed into the covenant of Abraham. Tradition holds that the night before a baby boy’s ritual circumcision, members of the community study and...
ISIS claims responsibility for attack on Shi’a pilgrims in Iraq
October 30th, 20180 BAGHDAD - ISIS has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on Shi’a Muslim pilgrims in Iraq on Tuesday, the Islamist militant group’s news agency Amaq reported. The roadside bomb killed three pilgrims as they walked to a holy site near the northeastern Iraqi city of Khanaqin.
Woman blows herself up in central Tunis; nine wounded
October 29th, 20180 A 30-year old woman blew herself up in the center of the Tunisian capital Tunis on Monday, wounding nine people including eight police in what the Interior Ministry called a “terrorist explosion”. Witnesses described a blast on the central Habib Bourguiba avenue where hundreds of police later cordoned off an area near the...
Poll: Schuette and GOP gaining ground on Whitmer
October 29th, 20180 DETROIT— According to a new poll commissioned by the Detroit Free Press and its media partners, Democratic leads over Republicans in the Michigan races for governor and secretary of state have shrunk to 5 and 4 points respectively, while the attorney general's race is heating up as well. Although in the U.S. Senate race Democratic...
Former Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich to speak at Henry Ford Centennial Library
October 29th, 20180 DEARBORN — Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich and journalist Tom Gage will visit the Henry Ford Centennial Library for an event free to the public on Nov. 1. Authors Lolich and Gage will discuss their recently released book, “Joy in Tigertown: A Determined Team, a Resilient City, and our Magical Run to the 1968 World...
Suspicious packages target Trump critics
October 29th, 20180 WASHINGTON - At least 10 suspicious packages have been sent to eight U.S. Democrats and critics of President Trump. None of the devices exploded, but authorities stepped up their manhunt for the would-be serial bomber with crucial U.S. Congressional elections less than two weeks away in what has become a contentious campaign......
Dearborn schools desperately looking for substitute teachers after company closes
October 29th, 20181 DEARBORN— After discovering late Monday afternoon that the company supplying workers for substitute positions shut down without warning, the Dearborn Public Schools warned its community to expect delays getting substitute teachers to schools on Tuesday. "It just came out of the blue. No warning. Just boom," David Mustonen,...
Iraq’s new prime minister struggles to form a government amid divisions and corruption
October 29th, 20181 Iraq’s new prime minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, has had an early taste of the partisan politics he hopes to rein in, failing so far to win parliament’s approval of a full government to begin to tackle the destruction of years of war and rampant corruption. At a heated session on Wednesday night, parliament members rejected key......
Residential care facility in Sterling Heights ordered to pay back wages
October 29th, 20180 STERLING HEIGHTS — After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Integrated Living Inc. will pay $173,787 in back wages and liquidated damages to 52 current and former employees for violations of overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Investigators determined the...
Dearborn Historical Museum transforms into haunted house
October 29th, 20180 DEARBORN — The Dearborn Historical Museum will become a haunted house for the Halloween season. On Friday Oct. 26, the museum will host children aged 12 and under for a Halloween Party at the McFadden-Ross House on Brady Street. The event will include make-and-take crafts, face painting, games and trick-or-treating in the...
Opponents of Michigan pot legalization proposal speak out
October 28th, 20180 DETROIT — Community leaders and advocacy groups voiced during a news conference Tuesday their opposition to a measure on the Nov. 6 ballot that asks Michigan voters to decide on legalization of recreational marijuana use. Proposal 18-1, “supports the very issues that are harming our neighborhoods and killing our families,” said...
19th District Court awarded Michigan Veterans Treatment Court grant
October 28th, 20180 DEARBORN – The 19th District Court announced that it has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Michigan Supreme Court to fund the day-to-day operations of the court’s Veterans’ Treatment Court (VTC). The 19th District Court is one of 24 Michigan courts awarded a grant for the state’s fiscal year that runs October 1, 2018 through......
Online registration now available for Michigan’s medical marijuana patients
October 28th, 20180 LANSING - The Michigan Medical Marijuana Program (MMMP) now has an online registration and physician certification process In order to increase efficiency, reduce processing times, and improve customer service. Patients without a caregiver can apply for medical marijuana registry identification cards online as well as check the...
Flash flood in Jordan kills several people, mostly children
October 26th, 20180 Thirty-four people were rescued in a major operation involving police helicopters and hundreds of Jordanian army troops following a flash flood, police chief Brigadier General Farid al Sharaa told state run television. Some of the people rescued were in a serious condition. Many of those killed were children under 14. A number of......
Saudi Arabia reverses previous stories, now says Khashoggi killing ‘premeditated’
October 26th, 20180 Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor said on Thursday the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate this month was premeditated, reversing previous official statements that the killing was unintended. The death of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of de facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince...
This is why Arab Americans should vote YES on Proposal 18-3
October 26th, 20180 For too long the Arab American voice on Election Day in Southeast Michigan and in cities like Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramck in particular has been muted. Proposal 3 is a statewide ballot measure that would reduce some of the barriers that prevent us as a community from fully participating in elections and we urge our readers......
