March 22nd, 20240
DETROIT – On Wednesday, March 15, a New Baltimore resident and former Grosse Pointe Park pharmacist was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months in federal prison for filling fake prescriptions, following her convictions for 26 drug-related crimes, including unlawful distribution of controlled substances and conspiracy to unlawfully...
July 28th, 20180DETROIT — On Tuesday, July 24, a Dearborn man was charged in an unsealed indictment with providing material support to ISIS after being captured on an ISIS battlefield.
Ibraheem Musaibli, 28, was taken into custody by coalition-backed forces this month while attempting to escape the Middle Euphrates River Valley in northern Syria,...
February 5th, 20180JERUSALEM — Israel has started handing out notices to 20,000 male African migrants giving them two months to leave the country or risk being thrown in jail.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is offering the migrants, most of whom are from Sudan and Eritrea, $3,500 and a plane ticket to what it says is a safe...
January 31st, 20180LANSING — USA Gymnastics, the sport’s U.S. governing body, said on Wednesday that all its remaining directors have now resigned following revelations that the longtime team doctor had sexually abused numerous athletes under his care.
A USA Gymnastics spokeswoman on Friday had said that the full board intended to resign. The U.S....
January 19th, 20180LANSING — A coach who sent dozens of young girls for treatment to USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, who pleaded guilty to molesting female athletes, told the disgraced physicians on Wednesday to "go to hell" for his crimes.
Thomas Brennan, a youth gymnastics coach, confronted Nassar in a Michigan courtroom on the second day...
January 5th, 20180TEL AVIV — Israel said on Wednesday it would pay thousands of African migrants living illegally in the country to leave, threatening them with jail if they are caught after the end of March.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in public remarks at a cabinet meeting on the payment program, said a barrier Israel completed in 2013 along...
December 28th, 20170OFER PRISON, West Bank — A 16-year-old Palestinian girl who slapped an Israeli officer two weeks ago will face assault charges in an Israeli military court, prosecutors said on Thursday.
The Dec. 15 incident in the occupied West Bank was captured on video and posted on the Internet, drawing attention on both sides of the...
December 22nd, 20172DETROIT — Six months ago, about 30 heavily-armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stormed into the home of Briana Moore and her husband, Ahmed Mohammed, a 52-year-old Iraqi American truck driver who'd served time in prison for allegedly stealing a rental car about a decade ago.
"Are you going to kill my dad?" Moore...
November 25th, 20170DETROIT— According to Crain’s Detroit, an attorney claimed that victims of a Detroit doctor, who placed hundreds of patients through unnecessary cancer treatments, are eligible for a $4.1 million in claims, which includes $2 million in funeral costs.
On Tuesday, Randi Roth, a St. Paul, Minnesota- based attorney, told the judge...
November 17th, 20170Allen Park —Dearborn Heights police officer Larry A. Little, 32, is charged with causing a fatal crash due to reckless driving.
The crash happened on January 2 at the intersection of Van Born and Pelham Roads and resulted in the death of Timothy Lee Turner, 59. Little’s first hearing will take place on November 27.
Little was...
May 19th, 20171WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chelsea Manning walked out of a U.S. military prison on Wednesday, seven years after being arrested for passing secrets to WikiLeaks in the largest breach of classified information in U.S. history.
Manning, 29, was released from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, at about 2 a.m., according...
May 19th, 20171DAMASCUS — The Syrian government on Tuesday denied U.S. accusations that a crematorium had been built at one of its prisons that could be used to dispose of detainees' remains.
A foreign ministry statement published by state news agency SANA said the U.S. administration had come out with "a new Hollywood story detached from reality"...
May 17th, 20170WASHINGTON, D.C.-Chelsea Manning walked out of a U.S. military prison on Wednesday, seven years after being arrested for passing secrets to WikiLeaks in the largest breach of classified information in U.S. history.
Manning, 29, was released from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, at about 2 a.m., according to...
