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Dearborn tailor charged with seven criminal sexual conduct cases

May 18th, 20180 LIVONIA — A 57-year-old Dearborn man is facing seven additional charges for allegedly inappropriately touching other men. Majed (Mark) Mohamad Wazni was charged on May...

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Dearborn police seek gun, items stolen from cars

May 18th, 20180 DEARBORN — Dearborn police are asking the public to help find suspects who stole several items, including a handgun, from unlocked vehicles in the city. Officials...

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Dearborn Heights man arraigned in fatal shooting of customer at gas station

May 18th, 20180 DETROIT — A 26-year-old gas station clerk has been arraigned in the fatal shooting of a customer inside the west side Detroit business. According to the Wayne...

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State suspends Detroit party store liquor license for selling to minors

May 11th, 20180 LANSING — During the Michigan Liquor Control Commission (MLCC) May 3 hearing in Southfield, the Commission ordered the suspension of the liquor license and permits...

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Former Port Huron pastor charged in enticing girls to engage in sex acts online

May 11th, 20180 PORT HURON — A former Port Huron pastor is facing federal charges amid allegations he enticed underage girls to engage in sex acts online. FBI agents learned about...

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Decades-long hunt for missing girls leads to Michigan farm

May 9th, 20180 DETROIT — Police searched a former farm outside Detroit on Tuesday for the remains of up to six teenage girls missing for decades, believing they may have been killed...

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Man who hit Muslim woman at Dearborn hospital found not yet competent for trial

April 25th, 20180 DEARBORN – When John Salvatore Deliz, 57, did not show up in 19th District Court on April 24 for assaulting an Arab American woman in an emergency room on Feb. 10,...

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Michigan State student sues, claims school ignored rape by basketball players

April 13th, 20180 DETROIT — A Michigan State University journalism student sued the school on Monday, claiming she was raped by three basketball players and that she was discouraged by...

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Federal agents raid Dearborn clinic

April 13th, 20180 DEARBORN – FBI agents conducted a raid April 12 on Detroit Visiting Physicians, a clinic owned by Dr. Fares Yasin, removing boxes of evidence. Yasin has been...

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Local pharmacists and doctor charged with insurance fraud

April 13th, 20180 DETROIT – Four pharmacists, a doctor and a patient recruiter have been charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office in connection with a scheme to bill insurance companies...

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Tailor charged with criminal sexual misconduct

April 6th, 20181 LIVONIA – A 57-year-old tailor is facing criminal sexual misconduct charges for allegedly inappropriately touching two of his customers. Majed (Mark) Mohamad Wazni,...

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NY attorney general probing Brooklyn police shooting death

April 6th, 20180 NEW YORK — The New York attorney general’s office is investigating the fatal shooting by police of an unarmed Black man who pointed a metal pipe at officers in...

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Dearborn student sues Beaumont for not preventing ER attack

April 6th, 20180 An emergency room nurse and two administrators at Beaumont in Dearborn told The AANews they had not heard about the incident or received any notification from...

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Shooter attacked YouTube for filtering her videos

April 4th, 20180 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — An Iranian-born woman who blogged about surviving in a world filled with “injustice and diseases” opened fire at YouTube’s California...

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Woman wounds three at YouTube HQ before killing herself

April 3rd, 20180 SAN BRUNO, Calif. — A woman opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters near San Francisco on Tuesday, wounding at least three people before taking her own life, as...

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Protests erupt as family buries police shooting victim Stephon Clark

March 30th, 20180 Sacramento, CA — Scores of Black Lives Matter activists protested in Sacramento on Thursday after the funeral of an unarmed black man who was shot dead by police in...

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U.S. gymnastics doctor’s boss at Michigan State charged with sex crime

March 29th, 20180 DETROIT ― A former Michigan State University dean, who supervised the doctor at the center of the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal, was himself charged on Tuesday with...

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Orlando nightclub shooter’s father was FBI informant, widow’s attorney says

March 26th, 20180 ORLANDO, Fla. — A widow on trial for aiding her late husband, the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, should have a mistrial declared, defense...

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Canton gym locker thief gets probation, avoids prison

March 26th, 20180 DETROIT — A local man has who has pleaded guilty to charges of stealing from customer lockers at Lifetime Fitness in Canton and has avoided jail time. Ali Sami...

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Suspect’s family says Canton gas station shooting was self-defense

March 23rd, 20180 CANTON — Police are investigating if a shooting at a gas station in Canton was self defense. The shooting, which happened Tuesday afternoon at a Valero gas station...

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Bitcoin + online chain referral = illegal scheme

March 23rd, 20180 By Amy Hebert Ever get a chain letter in the mail or online? Then you know the drill; you send money to a person at the top of the list, then take their name off and...

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Canadian man faces extra charge in Michigan airport stabbing

March 22nd, 20180 FLINT — A federal grand jury has indicted a Canadian man accused of stabbing a police officer at a Michigan airport last year on an additional terrorism charge...

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Top oxymorphone dispenser in 2017 summarily suspended

March 16th, 20180 DETROIT — The Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) served orders summarily suspending the controlled substance license of Super Mart Pharmacy in Detroit...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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