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Income-qualified Dearborn residents can receive free help preparing tax forms
DEARBORN — Dearborn residents with low to moderate incomes can receive free help from volunteers in preparing tax forms beginning on Feb. 4. Special attention is given to those ages 60 and older. This service is offered by the City of Dearborn’s Senior Services Division.Assistance is available in completing the following 2013 tax...Salina Elementary principal honored at annual conference
DEARBORN — Susan Stanley, the principal at Salina Elementary, was named the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principal Association (MEMSPA) Region One Principal of the Year.The state of Michigan includes fourteen regions with Region One including all of Wayne County. The honor was bestowed upon Stanley at the...Chilean club creates controversy for featuring historic map of Palestine
A Chilean football team founded by Palestinian immigrants in 1920 refused to apologize for featuring a pre-1948 map of Palestine on their official jersey, an act that has angered the country’s Jewish community.The Jewish community in Chile called on the Palestinian club, known as "Deprotico Palestino" to remove the map.Last week,...Two new local soccer teams established, one for women
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Dearborn Stars Enterprise has established two new soccer teams, the Michigan Stars Football Club (MSFC) for men and the Motor City Football Club (MCFC) for young women.The announcement was made during a press conference on Wednesday, Jan. 8 at the HYPE Recreation Center in Dearborn Heights. Community leaders and...Congress must not cede its war power to Israel
The American people should know that pending right now in Congress is a bipartisan bill that would virtually commit the United States to go to war against Iran if Israel attacks the Islamic Republic. “The bill outsources any decision about resort to military action to the government of Israel,” Columbia University Iran expert Gary...How Saudi-Israeli tandem goads Obama
One of the most influential Saudi Arabian princes, Turki al-Faisal — the former Saudi intelligence chief who clearly reflects the Saudi royal government’s view — recently criticized President Barack Obama for weakness in the Middle East. The Israeli government is similarly disenchanted with Obama’s regional performance.Prince...Major Dutch pension firm divests from Israeli banks over settlements
AMSTERDAM- A major pension fund manager based in the Netherlands said on Wednesday, Jan. 9, that it will divest from five Israeli banks over their dealings with Jewish settlements on occupied land.The decision by PGGM reflects tension between Israel and the European Union over doing business with Israeli institutions involved in...Hundreds voice anger over torching of decades-old library in Lebanon
TRIPOLI — Hundreds of Lebanese took to the streets of the northern city of Tripoli on Saturday, Jan. 4, to protest the torching of a decades-old library owned by a Greek Orthodox priest.The demonstrators held up banners that read "Tripoli, peaceful town" and "This is contrary to the values of the Prophet Mohammad."Assailants set alight...
How people in Muslim countries prefer women to dress in public
January 10th, 20140 An important issue in the Muslim world is how women should dress in public. A recent survey from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research conducted in seven Muslim-majority countries (Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey), finds that most people prefer that a woman completely cover her...Saudi plane makes emergency landing, 29 injured
MEDINA- Twenty nine people were injured when a Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) Boeing 767-300ER made an emergency landing at Medina airport in the west of the country early on Sunday, the General Authority of Civil Aviation said.It said 18 of the injured were treated at the airport while 11 were taken to hospital. A spokesman for Saudi...Saudi sentenced to jail, lashes for Twitter defamation
RIYADH - A Saudi court has sentenced a man convicted of defaming a Kuwaiti singer by accusing her on Twitter of adultery to three months in jail and 80 lashes, a news website reported, on Jan. 2.The Saudi national, apparently a fan of a rival pop star, was sentenced for "accusing (Kuwaiti singer) Shams of adultery without providing...Tribes attack Yemen oil pipeline twice
SANAA- Tribesmen in the eastern Yemen province of Hadramawt have blown up an oil pipeline for the second time in two days, disrupting an important source of revenue for the impoverished state.The attacks targeted a pipeline with a capacity of 120,000 barrels a day carrying crude from the Masila field, the most important in Yemen, local...Egyptian courts hand prison sentences to 113 Brotherhood supporters
CAIRO- Egyptian courts convicted 113 Muslim Brotherhood supporters on Thursday, Jan. 9, on charges including attacking police, rioting and weapons possession in three separate cases brought after protests against the army-backed government.The authorities have been cracking down hard on the Brotherhood since the military deposed Islamist...Suicide bomber kills 23 Iraqi army recruits
BAGHDAD- A suicide bomber killed 23 Iraqi army recruits and wounded 36 in Baghdad on Thursday, Jan. 9, officials said, in an attack on men volunteering to join the government's struggle to crush al-Qaeda-linked militants in Anbar province.The bomber had blown himself up among the recruits at the small Muthanna airfield, used by the army...Record freeze hits the U.S., at least nine dead
A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States this week, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people.At least nine deaths have been reported across the country connected with the polar air mass that swept......
Gov. Chris Christie ’embarrassed and humiliated’ by traffic scandal
NEW YORK — A contrite New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie apologized Thursday, January 9, saying he was "embarrassed and humiliated" by the actions of his staff that closed busy access lanes of the George Washington Bridge in September, snarling traffic in a town whose mayor did not support the governor's reelection bid."I come out...80 retired New York cops, firefighters charged in 9/11 disability fraud
New York City — Eighty retired New York police officers and firefighters were charged on Tuesday, January 7, in a suspected disability scam in which authorities said dozens of people falsely claimed to have been traumatized by the September 11 attacks.In all, 106 suspects were charged in a scheme that goes back to the late 1980s,...Snowden has more U.S.-Israel secrets to expose
Washington, D.C. — Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has more secrets to reveal that relate to Israel, the journalist who first brought his leaks to the world's attention said on Monday.Among allegations aired by Snowden last year were that the U.S. National Security Agency and its British counterpart GCHQ had in 2009...U.S. woman known as “Jihad Jane” sentenced to 10 years in plot
Philadelphia — A U.S. judge on Monday sentenced an American woman who called herself Jihad Jane to 10 years in prison, at least a decade less than prosecutors had sought for her role in a failed plot to kill a Swedish artist who had depicted the head of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad on a dog.Colleen R. LaRose, 50, who converted to......
Mayor, city council sworn in at inauguration ceremony
January 10th, 20140 DEARBORN — A snow emergency did not stop hundreds of locals from turning out to the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center on the evening of Thursday, January 2 to witness the inauguration ceremony of Dearborn's elected officials.The ceremony comes two months after a historic city election landed first-time city council candidate...
Dearborn Police issue 2,841 parking citations during snow emergencies so far this season
January 10th, 20140 DEARBORN — In the last month, the city officially declared a snow emergency on four separate days, ordering residents to move all parked vehicles off of neighborhood streets in order for plow trucks to undertake their work.However, over 2,800 citations have been given out by the Dearborn Police Department since the city declared its......
An in depth look at Dearborn’s plowing operations
According to the Department of Public Works, up to 27 full time employees could be out plowing snow during an emergency, covering 267.56 centerline miles of roads. Mary Laundroche, the Director of Public Information, says the city's goal is to get the plowing completed in a 12 hour period, but sometimes the severity of the snow...Activist and philanthropist Suheila Ajluni dies at age 79
BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Arab American activist and philanthropist Suheila Ajluni passed away at age 79, on Sunday, Dec. 29.Aljuni, who was born in the Palestinian town of Ramallah on May 20, 1934, immigrated to the United States in 1957, where she dedicated her time and efforts to community service and raising funds for projects that......