DEARBORN HEIGHTS — What began as a simple three-on-three basketball tournament hosted by friends has grown into one of Metro Detroit's biggest community recreation organizations, and now a brand new state-of-the-art 104,000 square foot recreation and education center for area youth and families. 

Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1,500 prisoners engaged in a hunger strike in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story? Such an obsession would, of course, be greatest if such a phenomenon were to occur in an adversary state such as Iran or China, but almost anywhere it would be featured news, that is, anywhere but Palestine. It would be highlighted day after day, and reported on from all angles, including the severe medical risks associated with such a lengthy refusal to take food, with respected doctors and human rights experts sharing their opinions.

Longtime former CIA analyst Ray McGovern worked 27 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, providing daily reports to some the U.S.' top leaders, serving as an analyst from the John F. Kennedy administration through the George H.W. Bush administration. 

When the Defense Department wasn’t blowing billions on failed machinery and weapons of war, the Pentagon was paying a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel to indoctrinate servicemen with the notion that the entire religion of Islam should be eradicated worldwide.

LANSING – An article posted recently on Tampa Bay online suggested that Mitt Romney could pick Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder as his running mate should he receive the presidential nomination for November's election. 

A brewing feud between Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and his Western-backed prime minister, Salam Fayyad, is further confounding the Palestinian situation, already plagued with a host of chronic political and financial problems, in addition to the decades-old Israeli occupation.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been urged to abandon a planned gig in Israel, after it emerged that they performed at a pro-Palestinian gig that raised over $500,000.

DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy has charged Robert Lee-Curtis Perkins a 19-year old Dearborn Heights  Crestwood High School student  from Inkster for allegedly carrying a loaded hand gun in his waist band on school property.  On May 7, 2012, at approximately 10:45 a.m., a fellow Crestwood High School student received information that the defendant had a weapon.

DETROIT – A health expo for the uninsured will be offered at Cobo Center's Riverview Ballroom in Detroit on Wednesday, May 16 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., offering enrollment for various programs, health services and screenings, and a nutrition seminar among other programs. Among the screenings are dental, diabetes, and overall health checkups.