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Garden City mayor announces bid for state house seat
March 9th, 20180 GARDEN CITY — Garden City Mayor Randy Walker announced he is running for the 11th district seat in the Michigan House of Representatives, which comprises Garden city, Inkster and portions of Westland, Livonia and Dearborn Heights. Walker served four two-year terms as mayor before being elected to a four-year term in...Saudi Royals’ L.A. home listed for $110 Million
March 8th, 20180 A business entity affiliated with the late Saudi Prince Saud al-Faisal owns the Beverly Hills compound, which had previously been shopped around for $145 million. A Los Angeles compound owned by Saudi royalty is coming on the market for $110 million. The Beverly Hills estate, located on about 14 acres, features more than 35,000...Netanyahu warns U.S. lawmakers about Saudi nuclear power deal
March 8th, 20180 WASHINGTON - U.S. and Saudi negotiators have yet to reach a deal to allow American companies to build nuclear power reactors in the kingdom, but the idea is already getting pushback from Israeli Prime Minister and Trump ally Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu, during a closed door meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in...Re-registration for Syrians with temporary protected status is open from March 5 to May 4
March 7th, 20180 WASHINGTON—Current beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under Syria’s designation who want to maintain their status through Sept. 30, 2019, must re-register between March 5 and May 4. Re-registration procedures, including how to renew employment authorization documentation, have been published in the Federal...Dearborn police seek public’s help in search for Corvette thieves
March 7th, 20180 Dearborn — Police are seeking the public's help in identifying suspects involved in the theft of two Corvette cars, one of which was later recovered. On March 7 at approximately 3 a.m., the Dearborn Police responded to the area of Rotunda and Miller on a report of several stolen vehicles. On scene officers spoke to a witness who...Palestinians in Gaza plan tent city protest along Israeli border
March 7th, 20180 GAZA ― Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are planning a six-week-long tent city protest near the Israeli border starting on March 30 to demand Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to their homeland, what is now Israel, organizers said on Wednesday. Such a demonstration, envisaging families camped out in the sensitive border area,...Richard Spencer speaks to small crowd at Michigan State following fights and arrests
March 6th, 20180 LANSING - Three Michigan State University police officers and one state trooper were injured Monday during a raucous protest outside white nationalist Richard Spencer’s speech that resulted in 25 arrests, according to a police spokesman. MSU Police Capt. Doug Monette described the injuries as “minor” but did not elaborate. The...Dearborn welcomes 15 new firefighters, none are Arab Americans
March 6th, 20180 DEARBORN – The city of Dearborn recently welcomed two groups of firefighters during swearing-in ceremonies at the Dearborn Administrative Center. On Feb. 5, Mayor John B. O’Reilly joined Fire Chief Joseph Murray, Deputy Fire Chief Joey Thorington and Assistant Fire Chief D.J. Begeman in recognizing Nolan Arnold, Kevin Lauer,...Russian military plane crash in Syria kills 39
March 6th, 20180 MOSCOW - A Russian military transport plane crashed in Syria on Tuesday, killing all 39 people on board, Russian news agencies quoted the defense ministry as saying, sharply raising the death toll from the Kremlin’s intervention in the Syrian war. The defense ministry was cited as saying that the plane, a Soviet-designed An-26,...Syria: Russia offers rebels safe passage out of eastern Ghouta
March 6th, 20180 MOSCOW/BEIRUT - The Russian military has offered Syrian rebels safe passage out of eastern Ghouta, setting out a proposal to let the opposition surrender its last major stronghold near Damascus to the Syrian government forces, which rebels have so far rejected. The Russian defense ministry said rebels could leave with their families and...Israeli forces kill Palestinian near Gaza border
March 3rd, 20181 GAZA - Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian officials said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that a“suspect had approached a restricted area in the southern Gaza Strip.” Soldiers then“fired warning shots into the air, and when the suspect...Syrian government forces makes new gains in eastern Ghouta
March 3rd, 20180 BEIRUT - Syrian government forces gained more ground in an assault on eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Saturday as they seek to defeat the last major rebel enclave near the capital, a war monitor and a news service run by Lebanon’s Hezbollah said. The Syrian war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people since 2011, has...Man fatally shoots himself in front of White House
March 3rd, 20180 WASHINGTON — A man fatally shot himself in the head Saturday outside the north White House fence line , according to Washington, D.C., police and the Secret Service. The man's name has been withheld by law enforcement until his family is notified. The D.C. police department will lead the investigation into the shooting with help from......
Treasury: Hamtramck Released from Receivership
March 3rd, 20180 State Oversight Board Abolished, Full Local Control Re-Established LANSING, Mich. – Michigan Treasurer Nick Khouri today announced the city of Hamtramck has been released from receivership under the Local Financial Stability and Choice Act and dissolved the Hamtramck Receivership Transition Advisory Board (RTAB). The state...2 dead, suspect at large after shooting at Central Michigan University
March 2nd, 20180 MT. PLEASANT, Mich. — Two people have been confirmed dead in a shooting at Central Michigan University. Michigan State Police confirmed that two people have been shot and killed. The victims are not students, according to campus police. There were no other injuries. "We believe this situation was a domestic-type incident," campus......
Street artist in Yemen remembers casualties of war
March 2nd, 20180 SANAA — Yemeni street artist Haifa Subay is painting murals to help ensure that victims of Yemen's grueling three-year civil war are not forgotten. Her latest mural, portraying a one-legged casualty of a landmine, is one of many Subay has done in the capital Sanaa during the war, which has killed thousands, driven many more from...An economy in ruins leaves Gazans with hard choices
March 2nd, 20180 GAZA — The man who makes crisps, chocolate and vanilla snacks for Gaza had just finished explaining how his business was going through the worst economic crisis of his life when the lights went out, shutting down his factory. Again. Wael Al-Wadiya has been running his food manufacturing business since 1985 – in a Gaza Strip that...Dubai tests autonomous pods in drive for smart city
March 2nd, 20180 DUBAI — Dubai has begun testing autonomous pods in a trial run the Gulf's trade and tourism hub hopes will help its transformation into one of the smartest cities in the world. Officials from Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) displayed two cube-shaped vehicles built by U.S.-based Next Future Transportation company in Italy...Iraqi parliament demands timeline for foreign troop withdrawal
March 2nd, 20180 BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament demanded on Thursday that the government set a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops stationed in the country to help fight ISIS insurgents, a ruling coalition lawmaker said. A U.S.-led coalition was formed in 2014 and with thousands of troops and air support helped Iraqi security forces and a......
U.N. urges Russia to expand eastern Ghouta aid plan
March 2nd, 20180 GENEVA — A Russian plan for a five-hour pause in fighting in Syria's eastern Ghouta needs to be expanded to allow aid deliveries to enter and civilians and urgent medical cases to leave, United Nations officials said on Thursday. In one of the fiercest onslaughts of Syria's seven-year civil war, hundreds of people have died in 11...The top frauds of 2017
March 2nd, 20180 The numbers are in, the counts have been made, and today the FTC announced what we heard from you during 2017. Here are some highlights: This year’s top fraud is again Imposter Scams, with nearly 350,000 reports. Nearly 1 in 5 people who reported an imposter scam lost money – a whopping $328 million lost to someone......
Indiana University survey: In polarized political climate, public looks to Congress for compromise
March 2nd, 20180 BLOOMINGTON, IN — Politicians in Washington may say they are doing the public's bidding in Congress, but the people lean towards the view that Congress is more polarized than the citizenry, according to a survey of public attitudes about Congress and public affairs conducted by the Indiana University Center on Representative...Empty seats, missing friends as Florida school reopens after shooting
March 2nd, 20180 PARKLAND, FL — Survivors of the second-deadliest U.S. public school shooting were brought to tears on Wednesday by empty seats and missing friends at roll call as they returned to their Florida high school two weeks after 17 students and educators were massacred there. Upon emerging from a half-day of classes intended to ease their......