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Jury awards $705,000 to fired nursing home manager
DETROIT (AP) — A jury has awarded $705,000 to a nursing home manager who was fired in 2009 after cooperating with a state investigation of patient mistreatment. The Detroit Free Press reports the Wayne County Circuit Court jury on Thursday...Tags: Social Issues, Long Term Care, Lawyers, Freedom of the Press, Politics
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Man sentenced in sexual assault of coma patient
DETROIT (AP) — A 49-year-old man will serve one year in the county jail and three years on probation for having inappropriate sexual contact with a coma patient inside her room at a Detroit nursing home. Cornell Lowman was sentenced Thursday on...Tags: Health, Assault, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Specialization
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Charges filed in case of remains found in suitcase
GIBRALTAR, Mich. (AP) — The Wayne County prosecutor has charged a 52-year-old man with mutilation of a dead body, more than a week after a woman's remains were found in a suitcase floating in a creek. James Bommer of Gibraltar was also charged with...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Charges dismissed against Michigan mother in standoff
DETROIT (AP) — Criminal charges were dismissed against a Detroit mother accused of firing a shot at police and keeping them at bay outside her home for 12 hours when they tried to remove her 13-year-old daughter. Judge Ronald Giles dismissed the...Tags: Detroit, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Michigan
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Boy missing part of thigh after fatal dog mauling
LINCOLN PARK, Mich. (AP) — A medical examiner says a 5-year-old Detroit area boy was missing body parts after he was mauled to death last year by a wolf-dog hybrid. The Detroit News reports (http://bit.ly/om1FRA ) that Wayne County medical examiner...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Detroit, Netherlands, Animal Attacks, Prosecution
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Sentence in illegal immigrant case splits court
DETROIT (AP) — A robbery of illegal immigrants has exposed sharp differences at the Michigan Supreme Court. Chief Justice Robert Young Jr. broke with the court's conservative bloc and joined three liberal justices in letting a minimum five-year...Tags: Labor Legislation, Migration, Judges, Republican Party, Politics
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2nd man charged with killing man before family
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Charges have been filed against a second man in the robbery-shooting of a Dearborn Heights man in his house, where his family was at home. The Wayne County prosecutor's office says Amaar Al-Saady faced arraignment...Tags: Detroit, Justice System, Murder, Lawyers, Prosecution
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Detroit hit man's former lawyer won't testify
DETROIT (AP) — A judge will not allow an attorney to testify about private conversations she had with her former client, a Detroit hit man. The decision is a setback for Davontae Sanford, who is trying to undo his guilty plea to four murders. Hit...Tags: Justice System, Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Lawyers
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Boy, 13, fires into crowd, wounds girls ages 13,14
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say a fight broke out among feuding teenagers on the city's west side, and a 13-year-old boy fired into a crowd, wounding two girls. Police spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens tells the Detroit Free Press (http://j.mp/...Tags: Detroit, Injuries and Wounds, Freedom of the Press, Politics, Prisons
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Court nixes new rape trial in dispute over poem
DETROIT (AP) — A court has overturned a decision granting a new trial to a convicted rapist who claimed his rights were violated when a poem written by the victim was kept out of evidence during trial in Wayne County. The poem expressing regret...Tags: Justice System, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Poetry
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Detroit-area coach fired after child porn charges
PLYMOUTH, Mich. (AP) — Plymouth-Canton Community Schools has fired a 65-year-old girls lacrosse coach accused of possessing and distributing child pornography. The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press say Stephen Nyquist of Canton Township faces 12...Tags: Plymouth, Detroit, Justice System, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice
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Police arrest man in slaying, hair extension theft
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say they have arrested a man in connection with the theft of human hair extensions and the shooting death of a Detroit area beauty shop owner. The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press and WJBK-TV report police...Tags: Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Politics, Freedom of the Press
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