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Slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect linked to triple killings
BOSTON - Slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev took part in a 2011 triple homicide in a nearby town, according to a Chechen immigrant who was himself killed when approached by investigators for questioning , federal prosecutors said on Monday in newly filed court papers.Ibragim Todashev, 27, who has been identified as...Teacher found dead outside U.S. high school; student in custody
BOSTON -Police in Danvers, Massachusetts, began an investigation late on Tuesday, Oct. 23, after receiving calls that a student at the school had not returned home, and that a teacher had also not gone home and was not responding to her cell phone, Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett told reporters on Wednesday. After a...Bahraini court temporarily releases opposition leader
MANAMA - A senior Bahraini opposition politician was temporarily freed on Thursday, Oct. 24, by the court, which tried him on charges that include inciting terrorism, in a surprise conciliatory ruling in the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state.Khalil al-Marzouq, a former parliament member, was detained in September by police investigating his...Syrian man in limbo for 16 days at Dubai airport
DUBAI - A Syrian man has been stranded at Dubai airport for 16 days in a case with echoes of the Tom Hanks film "The Terminal."Wasfi Tayseer Jarad has been stuck at the airport's Terminal 2, since being freed from prison after serving time for a drug conviction and being issued a deportation order, the English-language Gulf News reported...
Q & A with Dearborn City Council candidates
October 25th, 20130 DEARBORN — The Tuesday, Nov. 5 General Election is drawing near. In an effort to get the community to learn more about the Dearborn City Council candidates and their stances on important issues facing residents, The Arab American News (TAAN) asked each candidate three questions to help voters decide who they’ll support at the polls....Detroit mayoral candidates square-off in heated debates
DETROIT — This week, mayoral candidates Benny Napoleon and Mike Duggan squared off in public debates to discuss which of their campaign platforms would best be suited to turn around Detroit's fragile government, neighborhoods and economy.Words got heated between the two at the first debate, which took place on Sunday, October 22. While...
Candidates, organizations make strides to promote voter turnout on Election Day
October 25th, 20130 DEARBORN — In recent weeks, local candidates and community leaders have joined forces to convey the importance of public awareness and voter turnout on Election Day, proving that there is plenty at stake for the local Arab American community on the upcoming November 5 ballot.In Dearborn, two crucial proposals involving Dearborn Public...Dearborn Police Department continues to ignore flashing traffic signal
DEARBORN — On early Friday morning, Oct. 11, another major car accident occurred on the intersection of Chase Rd. and Warren. Ave., at a traffic light that functions as a flashing yellow and flashing red after 10 p.m. each night.The Arab American News (TAAN) has previously written about the accident-prone intersection, and local...Rights groups urge DoJ to investigate NYPD practices
NEW YORK — On Thursday, Oct. 24, a coalition of 125 civil rights, religious and community groups wrote a letter to the Department of Justice, calling for a federal investigation into the NYPD's surveillance program against Muslims.The coalition, which includes the ACLU and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), urged...The sectarian war at hand: Redrawing the Middle East again
The warm waters of the Gulf look quiet from where I am sitting, but such tranquility hardly reflects the conflicts this region continues to generate. The euphoria of the so-called Arab Spring is long gone, but what remains is a region that is rich with resources and burdened with easily manipulated history that is in a state of reckless...National security journalist discusses NYPD surveillance of Muslims
DEARBORN — Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Adam Goldman discussed, at the University of Michigan-Dearborn (UMD), on Tuesday, Oct. 22, the New York Police Department’s secret surveillance program of the Muslim community.After Sept. 11, 2001, the intelligence division of the NYPD scrutinized the Muslim community in New York and...“I really, really like Detroit:” Nicholas Mukhtar, catalyst for change
For the last several years, Detroit has been the focal point of the Great Recession. Events, such as the government bailout of GM and Chrysler, the abandoned buildings, the tourism industry and the City’s declaration of bankruptcy have all received media attention. Despite this fact, bright hopefuls still aim to make...AMECC offers free services at health fair
OAK PARK — On Oct. 20, the American Middle East Christian Congress (AMECC), in collaboration with the Middle East Council of Churches and organizations, hosted a successful health fair, including physicians, pharmacists, attorneys, organizations and representatives from government and U.S. Congressional offices, who offered free...Youth gather for Arab Student Night
DEARBORN — More than 100 young Arab Americans gathered at the Lebanese American Heritage Club (LAHC) on Friday, Oct. 11 to celebrate unity, promote teamwork and build new friendships. The event included students from the Arab Student Union, Lebanese Student Association and LAHC Youth Leadership Committee (YLC). The groups have...Gov. Rick Snyder’s controversial NERD Fund to close
MICHIGAN — Gov. Rick Snyder announced Monday that he plans to shut down the controversial NERD Fund that has drawn sharp criticism for not disclosing the names of its donors.Snyder said the New Energy to Reinvent and Diversify Fund complied with all laws, but has become a distraction.Snyder says he wants to move forward with a fund......
Former Dearborn mankills two elderly women
DETROIT — Former Dearborn resident, Mike Reda, shot and killed two elderly women with an assault rifle on Sunday, Oct. 20 at a his nursing home, because he believed they persuaded his ex-girlfriend to leave him. Reda.Reda, 65, shot the women with an AK-47 at Detroit’s Pablo Davis Elder Living Center. Earlier that day, he had a...Palestinian woman faces immigration charges for 1969 bombing in Israel
DETROIT — A Palestinian activist from the West Bank was charged Tuesday, Oct. 22, with failing to report her conviction for a terrorist bombing when she became a U.S. citizen.Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 66, was arrested in the Chicago area, according to Barbara McQuade, the U.S. Attorney in Detroit. If she is convicted, she will lose her U.S....Jury finds Dearborn Heights woman not guilty of assault with intent to murder
DETROIT — An incident that shook the local community in April 2012 has resurfaced this month, as Dearborn Heights woman Natalie Hassan completed trial at the Wayne County Circuit Court for an alleged assault with a vehicle that left another Dearborn Heights woman, Hanan Achkar, in critical condition last year.Hassan, 25, has been out...Rihanna asked to leave Abu Dhabi mosque after photoshoot
Abu Dhabi — Officials at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center in Abu Dhabi, on Monday, Oct. 21, asked Rihanna to leave the house of worship after the 25-year-old singer had taken several pictures in the courtyard of the mosque and posted them on Instagram. Though covered up in a black headscarf and full-length black jumpsuit,......
Arab American DJ Refugee: Music is open to all
DEARBORN — To local Arab American DJ Ali Saad, music is not just a source of living; it is a medium of expression that creates a bond between people from different cultures and backgrounds."Music has no color," says Saad, whose stage name is DJ Refugee. Saad was recently announced as a guest DJ, on holiday weekends, for WJLB FM...Tennessee cop fired after shooting, pepper spraying squirrel
MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn.-- Jody Putnam, a police officer in Mountain City, Tenn., was fired last after a violent run-in with an agitated squirrel.Putnam arrived at Mountain City's Dollar General, on Sept. 27, when animal control was unavailable to respond to a call about a squirrel running amok in the store.According to the city's Tomahawk......
Cloning cells may be the answer to hair loss
U.S. researchers say they devised a hair restoration method with the potential to actually grow new follicles using a patient's own cells.Co-study leader Professor Angela M. Christiano and colleagues at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York said other hair restoration methods redistribute hair from one part of the scalp to...Beaumont Hospital to give away Grosse Pointe house
GROSSE POINTE — Beaumont Hospital is giving away a free historic house here and even offering $150,000 to have the house moved to another location. In 2011, the company purchased the farmhouse, located on 16939 E. Jefferson, in addition to properties that neighbor it.But now the company wants to clear the space to build an employee......