ACC to hold opioid and heroin town hall meeting
March 23rd, 20180 SOUTHFIELD — The Arab American and Chaldean Council will address the community's opioid and heroin crisis on Wednesday May 9 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Regency Manor in Southfield. The substance abuse event, called "A Community in Crisis: ACC's Opioid and Heroin Town Hall Meeting", will focus primarily on the Arab and Chaldean children...
Detroit Police Chief James Craig: School threats are going to stop
March 23rd, 20180 DETROIT — On Thursday, Police Chief James Craig held a news conference regarding the recent string of threats made against schools in the city. Schools across the country have been plagued by a rash of threats since the Feb. 14 massacre that killed 17 high school students and faculty in Parkland, Florida. Since the shooting in...
League of Women Voters visits Dearborn high schools, encourages students’ participation
March 23rd, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News DEARBORN — As part of its high school voter registration project, the League of Women Voters of Dearborn/ Dearborn Heights visited Dearborn and Fordson High Schools the week of March 19-22. The nonpartisan political organization aims to bring awareness of the importance of informed and...
Lebanese American Medical Society educates community about Autism
March 23rd, 20180 DEARBORN — A capacity crowd turned out at Sarai Palace on March 17 to attend a presentation on autism, held by the Lebanese American Medical Society. Pediatrician and LAMS Chairman Dr. Alex El-Sabbagh and psychiatrist Dr. Lamis Jabri made presentations in an effort to increase awareness about autism. El-Sabbagh practices in...
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 near Ikea at Haggerty and Ford Road, sent one man to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the cheek. Police told Fox 2 Detroit it was more than a graze, but wouldn't...
Proposed hotel near Dearborn mosque sparks debate and division
March 23rd, 20180 DEARBORN – Tensions are high among community members over the proposed opening of a Holiday Inn Express hotel about 500 yards from Dearborn’s largest mosque. The hospitality chain seeks to construct a business-geared hotel in place of a church that has been vacant for three years, on a triangular block that’s home to the Islamic...
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 stemming from the attack, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. Amor Ftouhi, 50, is accused of “committing an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries” by...
Study: The more devout Muslims and Jews are, the more united, except on Jerusalem
March 22nd, 20180 NEW YORK – Muslim-Jewish relations are thought to be in conflict. However a study shows that followers of both faiths are more closely aligned with one another, expect on the issue of Jerusalem. The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) released a study that provides a national benchmark measuring opinions and behaviors of...
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 and the pharmacist license of Mohammad Mehmood Ashraf, according to a press release. “Administrative complaints” were also served against Super Mart Pharmacy and...
Dearborn Public Schools set to change high school boundaries
March 16th, 20180 DEARBORN — A standing-room-only crowd attended the March 12 Dearborn Public School Board meeting at which the board voted unanimously in favor of boundary changes for Dearborn, Fordson and Edsel Ford High Schools. "All new ninth graders who live within the Unis boundaries will attend Fordson High School," according to the meeting's...
Hundreds of Letters to ICE: Save Rranxburgaj Family
March 16th, 20180 DETROIT – An Albanian American family currently in sanctuary in a Detroit church gathered supporters who will hold a press conference on Friday March 16 at the Rosa Parks federal building. The supporters will deliver more than 600 letters to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office on Jefferson. Ded Rranxburgaj, an...
April is arts month in Dearborn
March 16th, 20180 DEARBORN — Galleries, artists and cultural events across the city will be celebrated throughout April, according to a press release from the Dearborn Community Fund. The month will begin with a “Gallery Rally” week April 2-7. Galleries in that event include the Padzieski Gallery (Ford Community & Performing Arts Center);...
Local leaders and community reaffirm support for Dearborn’s Judge Sam Salamey
March 16th, 20180 DEARBORN – On March 15, a large crowd of community members and local elected officials came out to Byblos Banquet Hall in support of 19th District Court Chief Judge Salem Salamey’s bid to be re-elected to the bench. Salamey, a father of four, was elected Dearborn’s first Arab American judge in 2012. He is currently running...
School safety bill passes House, no action on gun control
March 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House of Representatives approved spending more money on metal detectors, locks and other school security measures on Wednesday, but took no steps to tighten gun control laws a month after a Florida high school shooting that killed 17 people. While students marched nationwide for change on one of America’s...
Top U.S. general signals support for Iran nuclear deal
March 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, top U.S. general signaled support for the Iran nuclear deal, saying the agreement, which President Trump has threatened to withdraw from, has played an important role in addressing Iran's nuclear program. "The JCPOA addresses one of the principle threats that we deal with from Iran, so if the JCPOA......
Arab American broker ranks as top real estate performer
March 16th, 20180 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Sherri Saad, a broker/owner of RE/MAX Leading Edge, was honored at the RE/MAX of Southeastern Michigan Awards Gala on March 14. Saad is currently ranked number one in southeast Michigan for individual transactions and commissions, according to a press release. She has held the first place ranking since 2014. The...
Driver responsibility fee law changed
March 16th, 20180 LANSING — Michigan citizens affected by the Driver Responsibility Fee law will be relieved of their outstanding fees, according to the Michigan Department of Treasury. On March 31, citizens who entered into a payment plan on or before Feb. 1 will have their outstanding driver responsibility fees eliminated, according to a press...
New spa opens in Dearborn Heights
March 16th, 20180 Dearborn Heights — Mayor Dan Paletko cut the ribbon at Sianna Muscles in Motion on March 5. Officials from the Dearborn Area of Commerce, employees and friends of the business joined the mayor to celebrate the ceremony. The business is the city’s newest spa/rehabilitation center. The facility is located at 27247 Joy Road. It...
Evans stresses diversity and rebuilding message at State of the County address
March 16th, 20180 By Georgi-Ann Bargamian New Michigan Media Wayne County Executive Warren C. Evans delivered a strong diversity and rebuilding message at his 2018 State of the County address before a packed invitation-only crowd at the Detroit Film Theatre. Co-hosted by the Arab-American Chamber of Commerce, the March 13 address contained......
With #Enough posters, students in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and across the nation protested against gun violence
March 16th, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News DEARBORN – On the one month anniversary of the deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., students in various high schools across the country walked out for 17 minutes to protest gun violence with placards and T-shirts that read #Enough. The cold...
Nursing home sued for mistreating elderly Arab has history of poor care
March 16th, 20180 LIVONIA — Hussein Younes, 89, grew up in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States in the 1990s. He was a patient at Autumnwood of Livonia in 2015 until his son placed a hidden camera in his room, discovered proof of abuse and pulled him out of the facility immediately. Salim Younes placed the camera by his father’s bedside......
Trump fires State Sec. Tillerson after clashes, taps CIA Director Pompeo
March 13th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. ― President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday after a series of public rifts over policy on North Korea, Russia and Iran, replacing his chief diplomat with loyalist CIA Director Mike Pompeo. The biggest shakeup of Trump’s Cabinet since he took office in January 2017 was announced by the...
Florida lawmakers pass gun-school safety bill three weeks after massacre
March 9th, 20180 TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers, spurred by last month's deadly high school shooting, gave final passage on Wednesday to a bill to raise the legal age for buying rifles, impose a three-day waiting period on all gun sales and allow the arming of some school employees. Swift action in the Republican-controlled State House, where the......
