April 21st, 20220DETROIT — The newly formed Detroit Refugee Network (DRN) is looking to increase resources for refugee clients of three major resettlement agencies that provide support services to refugees from Afghanistan and other nations as they resettle in Detroit.
Samaritas, the Detroit-based statewide health and human services organization...
April 15th, 20220A federal grand jury in Flint returned an indictment on Wednesday, charging Michael Angelo (Angelo), Hassan Kamal Fayad, Mirna Kamal Fayad, Cory Justin Mann, Thomas Reed Quartz and Rosina Angelo with conspiring to defraud the IRS and other crimes.
According to the indictment, from approximately 2011 to 2022, Angelo owned and operated...
April 14th, 20220A man suspected of threatening mosques in Metro Detroit has been arrested, officials said.
The FBI is investigating threats made by a 60-year-old man who allegedly made statements about blowing up mosques in the Metro area, Dearborn police said in a statement Wednesday.
They said state police received information about the threats at...
March 31st, 20221DETROIT — On Thursday, Governor Whitmer announced the appointment of Susan Dabaja to the Third Circuit Court of Wayne County for a partial term in order to fill out a vacancy.
Whitmer also announced the appointment of Christopher Blount to that court for a partial term.
A former City Council president in Dearborn, and a former...
March 29th, 20220DEARBORN — Dearborn businessman Mahmoud Saad was caught on camera illegally dumping trash in Detroit for an eighth time.
The vehicles caught all eight times on camera were owned by Saad, who owns Cost Friendly Tree Service based in Dearborn.
In the latest incident, the vehicle was caught dumping landscaping debris from the...
March 25th, 20220SOUTHFIELD — After decades as a household fixture in local news media, FOX 2 Detroit anchor Huel Perkins, along with his longtime co-host, Monica Gayle, will be retiring from the station this Friday.
News of the retirement came from the anchors themselves last month, in an emotional and heartfelt announcement that provoked local...
March 19th, 20220DEARBORN — Sam Hussein, owner of Metrotech Automotive Group on Michigan Avenue in east Dearborn, has been busy during the state’s painful pothole season.
It’s no wonder he is. Managing the 35,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility and a full crew of technicians is no small matter. But what really makes the shop unique is...
March 15th, 20220DETROIT — Comerica Bank and Hatch Detroit have announced the return of the Comerica Hatch Detroit Contest and $100,000 donation from Comerica Bank to this year’s winner.
The contest, which is returning for the first time since 2019, aims to promote small business economic development in Detroit.
Entrepreneurs with a retail...
March 11th, 20220DETROIT — Nashwan Ali, 36, of Detroit, wanted for shooting and killing his sister on Tuesday, was arrested in Tennessee a day later following a police chase.
Ali is believed to have gotten into an argument with his sister, after which he allegedly killed her at a home on Bloom Street just north of Hamtramck.
He fled and was...
February 25th, 20220DEARBORN — The local community is urged to participate in electing a new state representative for the 15th House District, after the seat was vacated by Mayor Abdullah Hammoud following his victory last November.
To fill the vacancy, Governor Whitmer called for a special primary election on Tuesday, March 1 and a general election...
February 22nd, 20220DETROIT — A U.S.-based, Arab female-owned dating app has seen a massive increase in users around the world and growing popularity in international app markets.
Baklava, an "Arab relationship app for dating, marriage and friendships", announced last week that it is now at 160,000 plus downloads and growing.
The app is now seeing...
February 21st, 20220WAYNE COUNTY — County residents should see increased road repair work from a new annual program that aims to address the potholes emerging from freezing weather.
The Wayne County Department of Public Services' new program begins the week of Feb. 21 and will see Wayne County expanding staff schedules to 10 hours per day/six days a...
February 14th, 20220WINDSOR — The busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing was open Monday after protesters demonstrating against COVID-19 measures blocked it for nearly a week, but a larger protest in the capital, Ottawa, persisted as city residents seethed over authorities’ inability to reclaim the streets.
Demonstrations against virus restrictions and...
February 11th, 20220DEARBORN — Mariam E. Charara has begun work as the Arab American Civil Rights League’s (ACRL) new executive director.
The ACRL is a non-profit organization, founded in 2011 in response to the overwhelming need in the Arab American community for advocacy and protection of civil rights and liberties.
The organization is based...
February 11th, 20220DEARBORN — In honor of Black History Month, The Islamic Center of Detroit (ICD) is proposing to renovate and rename the Belton Mark Twain Park.
The ICD is located in District 7 at the Detroit-Dearborn border and is hoping to be able to renovate and remodel the park, located at Belton Ave. and Mark Twain Street, and rename it...
February 10th, 20220LANSING — Governor Whitmer is urging Canadian authorities to resolve a multi-day Ambassador Bridge closure so manufacturing and agriculture in the Midwest can continue humming along.
Protests over Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates spread from Ottawa to Windsor, which led to protesters blocking traffic from accessing the...
February 9th, 20220By Joseph Richard Preville
On August 4, 1963, The New York Times Magazine published President Kennedy’s majestic essay, “A Nation of Immigrants.” Rejecting geographically narrow and restrictive immigration quotas based on national origin for the U.S., Kennedy urged reform and the adoption of a new immigration policy that would...
February 5th, 20220At a café in the recently completed Wagner Place on Dearborn’s west side, we spoke with entrepreneur Hussein Anani, 32, about a publicly traded company called Sibling Group Holdings (SIBE) he acquired control of this past summer.
Anani is a Dearborn native and graduate of the Mike Ilitch School of Business who went on to study...
February 4th, 20220By Rabih Hamawi
The pervasive deep freeze that has blanketed more than half of the U.S. is causing a lot of problems for property owners. As the water in pipes freezes, as much as 2,000 pounds of pressure is produced, seriously testing the tensile strength of water lines. With a burst pipe’s ability to release hundreds of gallons...
February 3rd, 20220DEARBORN — With new district maps drawn, State Senator Sylvia Santana (D-Detroit) is looking to be re-elected to the newly drawn Second Senate District.
Santana served in the Michigan House of Representatives, serving the Ninth District from 2017 to 2018 when she was elected to represent the Third District, covering the cities of...
January 28th, 20220With the 2021 individual income tax filing season now open, residents affected by last year's severe storms and flooding should know they are eligible to save on taxes.
The IRS says that due to the catastrophic flooding this past June and the ensuing losses, as well as the subsequent presidential declaration of a disaster area,...
January 20th, 20220DETROIT — Former Detroit City Councilman Andre Spivey has been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to bribery.
Spivey had resigned in September after pleading guilty and admitting to accepting more than $35,000 in bribes in exchange for towing contracts.
The court said that it will delay when he has to report...
January 14th, 20220Schools in the U.S. can expect additional COVID-19 tests, being made available by the federal government, in about two weeks.
The additional tests are part of a Biden administration strategy to keep schools open during a nationwide coronavirus surge, accelerated by the highly contagious Omicron variant.
The White House has said the...
January 4th, 20220DEARBORN — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) has officially announced she will be running for the newly drawn 12th Congressional District covering Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and surrounding cities, and Southfield, in this year's election.
This mean the neighboring 13th Congressional District, covering Detroit, Hamtramck and...
December 29th, 20210The state’s citizen-led, bipartisan Redistricting Commission has adopted its final versions of political maps by the expected timeline.
Although experts are now anticipating legal challenges to the maps, residents at least get a good glimpse into how they could be represented in state House and Senate seats as well as the important...
December 24th, 20210MICHIGAN — The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) is expected to vote on the final political district maps starting Dec. 28.
The upcoming finalization of the state’s political boundaries comes after months of debate and deliberation over the drawing of state and federal districts, with the aim to give...
December 16th, 20210DETROIT — The Detroit TCF Center, previously known as Cobo Hall, has gotten yet another name change.
The property is now called Huntington Place after TCF Bank (TCF Financial Corp.) merged with Huntington Bancshares in June.
ASM Global, the company that manages the convention center, says it is the 16th largest in the...
December 16th, 20210DETROIT — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is expanding COVID-19 vaccinations at its neighborhood testing sites to also offer the vaccine to children ages 5- 11-years-old. To date, vaccines have only been offered at these sites to adults and children ages 12 and older.
On Nov. 2, Pfizer's COVID-19...
