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Construction in Dearborn displaces rats, concerns residents
September 2nd, 20170 DEARBORN – Construction from commercial development around town is displacing rats and exacerbating a rat issue in Dearborn, Mary Laundroche, Dearborn’s public information director, told The AANews. Laundroche added that the construction is beneficial, overall, to the community. “We just find it can displace rats in the...
Divine Child Church arsonist arraigned
August 31st, 20171 DEARBORN – David Allen Cerne, the arsonist who threw an explosive into a Dearborn church, was arraigned on August 31 by Judge Mark Somers in the 19th District Court, according to police. While prayer was taking place at Divine Child Church on Wednesday morning, Cerne threw a commercial grade firework into the chapel. A Bible was...
Divine Child Church arsonist to be arraigned
August 30th, 20170 Dearborn — Shortly after news spread of a man who threw commercial-grade fireworks into the chapel of a Dearborn Church, a 43-year-old Inkster resident was identified as the suspect. Dearborn Police said in a press release that had been arrested in Inkster on a similar charge and was currently in custody at the Inkster Police...
Wayne County Commission denounces racism, bigotry with post-Charlottesville resolution
August 30th, 20170 DETROIT ― Following the events of the Charlotesville, VA. attacks, the Wayne County Commissioners took a unanimous stand against racism and bigotry and called for investigations of domestic hate groups. On Thursday, the commission denounced all forms of bigotry in a resolution introduced jointly by Commission Vice Chairman Alisha...
UN rights chief: Trump attacks on freedom of press may incite violence against journalists
August 30th, 20170 GENEVA - President Donald Trump’s criticism of journalists amounts to an attack on the freedom of the press and could provoke violence against reporters, the United Nations’ human rights chief said on Wednesday. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said Trump had also made worrying remarks about women, Mexicans and Muslims and went on to...
Confederate battle flag sales boom after Charlottesville clash
August 30th, 20170 Demand for Confederate flags at Chris Ackerman’s Civil War memorabilia shop in Pennsylvania has surged since violence at a white nationalist rally in Virginia this month reignited the United States’ debate over race and the legacy of slavery. The trend has been similar for other sellers of the Confederate battle flag, retailers...
ISIS forced out form Lebanon-Syria border, Nasrallah declares victory
August 29th, 20170 BEIRUT - A convoy of ISIS fighters and their families left the Lebanon-Syria border region on Monday under Syrian military escort, surrendering their enclave and traveling to eastern Syria after a week-long battle. A line of ambulances and buses were shown on Syrian state television driving slowly through the arid countryside, the...
ACLU: ICE plans to start destroying records of immigrant abuse, including sexual assault and deaths in custody
August 29th, 20170 The ALCU reported on Monday, Aug. 28 that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently asked the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), which instructs federal agencies on how to maintain records, to approve its timetable for retaining or destroying records related to its detention operations. This may seem like a...
Iran rejects U.S. demand for inspection of military sites: In your dream
August 29th, 20170 NEW YORK - Iran has dismissed a U.S. demand for U.N. nuclear inspectors to visit its military bases as “merely a dream” as Washington reviews a 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and six world powers, including the United States. President Donald Trump has called the nuclear pact - negotiated under his predecessor Barack Obama -...
Mosques stay open to aid Harvey victims, while Texas’ largest megachurch closes doors
August 29th, 20172 HOUSTON — A megachurch in Houston is facing a firestorm of criticism for closing its doors in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which has caused catastrophic flooding and forced thousands to leave their homes. An announcement on Facebook said Pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church had shut due to the storm and asked people to pray...
Farmington Hills teen accused of murdering mother to be tried as adult
August 28th, 20170 FARMINGTON HILLS ― A 16-year-old boy accused of killing his mother by pushing her out a window of their mansion, will be tried as an adult, police announced Monday. Nada Huranieh, 35, was found dead on the patio outside the family's home at around 6:40 a.m. on Monday. Officers originally believed Huranieh's fall from the...
FBI terror unit detains Ypsilanti man
August 28th, 20170 YPSILANTI ― An Ypsilanti man is facing federal charges after weapons without serial numbers were found in a storage unit in Ann Arbor. He was detained before he was due to fly to the Middle East with his family. Yousef Mohammad Ramadan, 28, is charged with possession of a firearm with an wiped out serial number, which had moved in...
Yemen: Saudi-led coalition air raid kills at least 12, including six children
August 25th, 20170 SANAA - An air raid by Saudi led Coalition struck a building in Yemen’s capital on Friday, killing at least 12 people, six of them children, when an adjacent apartment block collapsed, residents said. RThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) denounced the loss of life as outrageous and put the death toll in the early...
Police looking for White man who threw explosive in Dearborn church
August 25th, 20170 Dearborn — While prayer was taking place at Divine Child Church on Wednesday morning, an identified man threw into the chapel what an investigation revealed to be a commercial grade firework. A Bible was burnt, but no one was harmed. Witnesses told officers the man was about a 30 to 40 year old White man with short dark hair. The...
Some jobs tied to higher risk of rheumatoid arthritis
August 25th, 20170 Workers exposed to airborne toxins may have an elevated risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, an immune system disorder that causes debilitating swelling and pain in the joints, a Swedish study suggests. Among men, bricklayers, concrete workers and electricians had at least twice the risk of rheumatoid arthritis they would have in......
Using unproven methods to tackle cancer could be deadly
August 25th, 20170 People who decide to tackle their cancer using only unconventional methods are likely to die sooner than patients who opt for conventional treatments, according to a new study. People with various kinds of cancer who turned down treatments like chemotherapy or radiation in favor of alternative medicine were two to six times more...
Garden City Hospital dedicates new ER for seniors
August 25th, 20170 GARDEN CITY — As the times change, so does the health needs of its residents — and the best quality care happen when facilities form partnerships with communities. Tailoring its efforts to a growing aging local population, Garden City Hospital opened a new Senior Emergency Room, a separate department tailored for patients with......
Winning a battle against opioid abuse doesn’t mean the war is over
August 25th, 20170 The community’s collective awareness and complaints that prompted police to investigate and eventually raid a Dearborn Medical Clinic— which turned out to be a white coat dealer’s opioid prescription hub, as many suspected— should not be a reason to let our guard down, but rather to keep up our unified activism against our...Teen accused of pushing mother from window to her death
August 24th, 20170 FARMINGTON HILLS ― A 16-year-old boy is facing murder charges for allegedly pushing his mother out the window of their home. The teen is accused of the first-degree murder of his mother, 35-year-old Nada Houranieh, a personal trainer at Franklin Athletic Club. Prosecutors say the teen threw her out of a third-floor window of...
Six dead in clashes in Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
August 24th, 20170 SIDON, Lebanon ― Two members of the Palestinian group Fatah were killed in clashes with Islamist groups in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon on Wednesday, medical sources said, bringing the number of dead to six in nearly a week of fighting. The two sides later agreed a ceasefire deal, Palestinian officials said, as a security...
Charlottesville shrouds divisive Confederate statues in black cloth
August 23rd, 20170 CHARLOTTESVILLE- To applause from spectators, workers in Charlottesville, Virginia, covered two statues of Confederate generals with black tarpaulins on Wednesday in honor of the woman who was killed during a rally by white nationalists in the liberal-leaning college town. City councilors voted unanimously to cover the monuments......
Police use pepper spray to disperse protesters at Trump’s Phoenix rally
August 23rd, 20170 PHOENIX ― Police fired pepper spray to disperse protesters outside a rally by President Trump in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday after being pelted with rocks and bottles, police said. Police have not given an estimate of the number of protesters, but Arizona media said there were several thousand. Police did not say whether the pepper...
Charlottesville to cover Confederate statues after chaotic meeting
August 22nd, 20170 CHARLOTTESVILLE- City council members in Charlottesville, Virginia, voted unanimously on Tuesday to cover two statues of Confederate war generals in black fabric after ejecting spectators from a chaotic council meeting as residents demanded answers over how a recent white nationalist rally turned deadly. Many activists and local......
Los Angeles seeks to join lawsuit over federal sanctuary policies
August 22nd, 20170 SAN FRANCISCO ― The city of Los Angeles on Tuesday sought to join a lawsuit against the Department of Justice over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so-called sanctuary cities, according to a court filing. The state of California and city of San Francisco earlier this month filed legal challenges that accused the...
You will need a new Michigan driver’s license to fly in 2020
August 22nd, 20170 LANSING ― Michigan residents will need to get a new driver's license or state ID card by 2020 if they want to fly or enter federal buildings. The Secretary of State will begin taking applications next Monday, Aug. 28 for the new driver's licenses. Beginning Oct. 1, 2020, the government will not allow Michigan residents carrying a......
