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Florida lawmakers pass gun-school safety bill three weeks after massacre
March 9th, 20180 TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers, spurred by last month's deadly high school shooting, gave final passage on Wednesday to a bill to raise the legal age for buying rifles, impose a three-day waiting period on all gun sales and allow the arming of some school employees. Swift action in the Republican-controlled State House, where the...
Trump sets steel and aluminum tariffs, exempts Canada and Mexico
March 9th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump pressed ahead on Thursday with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminum, but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies, backtracking from an earlier "no-exceptions" stance. Describing the dumping of steel and aluminum in the U.S....
Justice Department sues California over ‘sanctuary’ policies
March 9th, 20180 WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department sued the state of California over so-called "sanctuary" policies that try to protect illegal immigrants against deportation, ramping up a confrontation over whether local police should enforce federal law. The lawsuit, filed late Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento, the California...
Former Dearborn resident Ali “HaBZ” Habhab releases debut album
March 9th, 20180 DEARBORN — Ali Habhab, a former east Dearborn resident who goes by the name HaBZ, released his first album, PaTHOGENS, in November. Habhab wrote all of the music on the album and got help producing it with his friend and fellow artist, Rajiv Dhall. Habhab, 26, graduated from Crestwood High School in 2009. After graduation, he began...
Canton student charged with terrorism and bomb threats
March 9th, 20180 CANTON — 17-year old Brendan James Sibel was arraigned on Wednesday in 35th District Court on two counts of terrorism threat, a 20-year felony, and two counts of bomb threat, a four-year felony. The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office issued the charges following a police investigation that began early this week, when students at...
CMU student charged with killing parents moved to jail
March 9th, 20180 MOUNT PLEASANT — A 19-year-old student accused of killing his parents at Central Michigan University has been transferred to jail from a hospital. Records show that James Davis Jr. was moved to the Isabella County jail on Wednesday. He heard the murder charges against him while in a hospital bed this week. Authorities say Davis...
Hamtramck free from emergency management
March 9th, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News HAMTRAMCK — The financial emergency in Hamtramck has been resolved, putting the city out of emergency management and under the guidance of a transition board. In the past 14 years, Hamtramck has overcome two financial crises, under the direction of an emergency manager. In June 2013,...
Abdul El-Sayed on a mission to change the face of Michigan politics
March 9th, 20180 DEARBORN — He'd never thought politics would be in the cards for him, but Abdul El-Sayed is the first Democratic candidate to submit required signatures to the state, inching closer, aspiring to become Michigan's first Arab and Muslim American governor. On March 6, El-Sayed, 33, a physician and epidemiologist and former director of...
Gubernatorial candidates meet with residents
March 9th, 20180 DETROIT — Thousands of people attended the sanctuary of Detroit's Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church on March 3 to hear from four of the gubernatorial candidates. According to Miunited.org, Democrats Bill Cobbs, Abdul El-Sayed and Gretchen Whitmer were joined by Republican Patrick Colbeck in discussions about criminal justice reform,...
Michigan legislators debate bills that could allow online voter registration
March 9th, 20180 LANSING — For those in Michigan still not registered to vote, signing up may soon become easier. The elections committees in both the State Senate and House of Representatives debated legislation Thursday to allow people who have driver's licenses or state identification cards to register to vote online. The Senate panel unanimously...
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......
