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Dearborn looking for input on branding for the future
November 17th, 20180 DEARBORN — City leaders held a “Branding Dearborn” event kick-off earlier this month to get people interested in filling out a survey all about how the city should move forward. The announcement came at an event held at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center and featured remarks from Mayor Jack O’Reilly. The event...
Volunteer of the Year recipients urge support for Meals on Wheels
November 17th, 20180 DEARBORN – Barbara and Bob Hayes have volunteered four days a week for the past four years delivering and packaging meals for Wayne County’s Meals on Wheels program. Barbara Hayes was a nursing school student when she got her first close-up look at the Meals on Wheels program and the positive impact it has on homebound...
HFC and EMU create innovative nursing degree collaboration
November 17th, 20180 YPSILANTI — An innovative agreement between Henry Ford College (HFC) and Eastern Michigan University (EMU) in Ypsilanti will enable nursing students to enroll in a bachelor’s degree program in nursing while still working toward their Registered Nurse (RN) certification. Some nursing students will be able to complete a bachelor’s...
Flint airport stabber convicted in terror case
November 16th, 20180 FLINT — Amor Ftouhi, a Tunisian national charged with terrorism and stabbing a police officer during a terror attack last year at Bishop International Airport in Flint, was convicted of all charges Tuesday. Ftouhi, 51, faces up to life in prison for the June 2017 attack and will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Leitman...
Coyote seen in residential area of Dearborn
November 16th, 20180 DEARBORN — There have been several confirmed coyote sightings across Dearborn in recent months, some in highly-populated residential areas. A more recent sighting was near Grindley Park. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources offered several suggestions and best practices on how to avoid conflicts with coyotes. The...
U.S. senators seek clampdown on Saudis over Yemen, journalist’s murder
November 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation on Thursday seeking to strike back at Saudi Arabia over the death of a Saudi journalist at a consulate in Turkey and for its role in Yemen’s devastating civil war. If it were to become law, the bill would suspend weapon sales to Saudi Arabia and prohibit...
Yemeni father mourns baby girl who died of starvation
November 16th, 20180 SANAA, Yemen — Saleh al-Faqeh held the wasted arm of his baby daughter as she took her last breath on Thursday at the malnutrition ward of the main hospital in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. Four-month-old Hajar al-Faqeh reached the al-Sabeen hospital last week from Saada province, one of thousands of Yemeni children suffering from...
Police officers find weapons, ammo cache during check of licensed dealer
November 16th, 20180 DEARBORN — Police officers found a large cache of weapons and ammo Nov. 7 after a postal carrier-initiated wellness check of a legally licensed Dearborn arms dealer, who died of natural causes. Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad said at a Nov. 12 press conference that the community was on edge when rumors started to spread after...
Private investigator hired to follow Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan
November 16th, 20180 DETROIT — Mayor Mike Duggan released a statement after allegations emerged that he is having an affair and cheating on his wife of 32-years, Lori Maher. The allegations were made after Detroit businessman Robert Carmack hired a private investigator to follow Duggan over the last few months. Carmack said the video puts Duggan’s...
Trump nominates retired general John Abizaid as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia
November 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON — President Trump announced his intention to nominate retired general John Abizaid as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, after two years of the position being vacant. The nomination of Abizaid, a decorated military commander who fought in six wars and served as the head of Central Command before retiring in 2007, was...
U.S. imposes sanctions on Saudi officials for Khashoggi killing
November 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON — The United States imposed economic sanctions on 17 Saudi officials on Thursday for their role in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor sought the death penalty for five suspects in the murder. The U.S. Treasury Department sanctions were the first concrete response by the...
‘Everything is a target’: Gaza residents decry indiscriminate Israeli strikes
November 16th, 20180 GAZA — Ahmed Abu Saif struggles to maintain a straight face as he looks at the amorphous pile of rubble of what used to be a five-story building he owned. The structure is one of the several civilian sites that have been flattened over the past 24 hours in Gaza as Israeli jets pounded the besieged and densely-populated coastal...
Detroit man arrested for child sexually abusive material
November 16th, 20181 DETROIT— The Michigan State Police Computer Crimes Unit and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested Nicholas Thaier Mukhtar, 29, for child sexually abusive material following a multi-county investigation. The MSP CCU/ICAC Task Force, Grand Rapids Office began communicating online with a subject later identified as...
Dana Nessel announces her transition team, including two Arab Americans
November 13th, 20180 LANSING - Michigan Attorney General-elect Dana Nessel recruited a team of experts to assist with the transition as she prepares to take office as Michigan’s 55th attorney general on Jan. 1. Nessel chose former Attorney General Frank Kelley, who served as Michigan’s AG for 37 years, as chair of her team. He was the longest-serving...
Dearborn Public Schools leader named 2019 Michigan Superintendent of the Year
November 12th, 20180 LANSING, MIchigan– The Michigan Association of Superintendents & Administrators (MASA) today announced that Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Glenn Maleyko has earned the award of 2019 Michigan Superintendent of the Year. “Dr. Glenn Maleyko has proven himself to be an outstanding leader for Dearborn Public......
Michiganders had highest turnout in five decades for midterm elections
November 12th, 20180 DEARBORN - Around 4.3 million Michiganders cast their ballots on Tuesday — more than 1 million more than the last gubernatorial election in 2014 — a surge that pushed voter turnout beyond levels seen in five decades. In 2014, 3,188,956 ballots were cast. Statewide turnout among registered voters was 57.5 percent — much higher...
Women win both Michigan Supreme Court seats
November 12th, 20180 LANSING— Elizabeth T. Clement, who was snubbed by her own Republican party, and Megan Cavanagh, a Democratic nominee for the state's highest court, rode the pink wave in winning the two seats on the Michigan Supreme Court, which will now have three women and four men deciding cases that affect millions of Michiganders. Cavanagh, a......
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg breaks three ribs due to fall
November 12th, 20180 Washington DC — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs in a fall in her Supreme Court office Wednesday night according to a statement by the Supreme Court. According to the statement, the 85-year-old Ginsburg experienced discomfort at home following the fall and was admitted to George Washington University hospital...
Muslim rights group sues Troy for rejecting plans to build mosque
November 11th, 20180 TROY — The city of Troy discriminated against a Muslim community group by rejecting plans to build an Islamic center, according to a federal court lawsuit filed Thursday. The nonprofit Adam Community Center sued the City Council, Planning Commission and members of Troy's Zoning Board of Appeals. The group has tried unsuccessfully to...
Stabenow defeats James, retains her seat in the U.S. Senate
November 11th, 20180 LANSING— Democratic U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow defeated her Republican challenger, John James, a 37-year-old Farmington Hills businessman, by the smallest margin since she was first elected back in 2000. Stabenow won a fourth term in a contest in which President Trump backed James. Stabenow, 68, of Lansing, won 52 percent of the...
Republicans keep majorities in Michigan’s House and Senate, despite Democrats’ gain
November 11th, 20180 LANSING — Michigan Republicans will retain majorities in the Michigan House and Senate despite losing seats to Democrats in Tuesday's election, stopping a blue wave that swept the state's highest offices and setting the stage for a divided government that will be led by Democratic Governor-elect Gretchen Whitmer. The Republicans......
Tlaib asks Jones if she plans to step down from City Council post to serve in Congress
November 10th, 20180 DETROIT — Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib wants to know if Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones plans to step down from her city post to serve in Congress. Tlaib was elected to replace former Rep. John Conyers Jr. in Congress beginning in January, but Jones won a special election designating her as interim representative...
Rashida Tlaib wins U.S. House seat in landslide, defeats Jones’ write-in campaign
November 10th, 20180 DETROIT — Rashida Tlaib will be one of two Arab American and Muslim women ever to be elected to Congress after winning the seat of former U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. and defeating Brenda Jones' last minute write-in campaign, on Tuesday. The Palestinian American and vocal critic of President Trump was announced the winner of the 13th......
Donna Shalala second Lebanese American woman to enter Congress
November 9th, 20181 FLORIDA – Democratic candidate Donna Shalala won the seat vacated by retiring Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, with 51.7 percent of the votes, defeating her Republican opponent, Maria Elvira Salazar, who received 45 percent of the votes, to flip a House seat that has long been targeted by...
Trump fires Jeff Sessions, replaces him with Matthew Whitaker
November 9th, 20180 WASHINGTON D.C. — President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions Wednesday and replaced him with Matthew G. Whitaker, who has complained about the special counsel investigation into Russia’s election interference. Sessions submitted his letter of resignation at Trump's request. Whitaker, a former United States attorney in......
