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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: Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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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, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Michigan, Justice System
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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: Detroit, Netherlands, Prosecution, Abusive Behavior, Animal Attacks
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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: File Sharing, Crimes, Judges, Crime Victims, 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, Crimes, Theft, Murder, Prosecution
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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, Prisons, Injuries and Wounds, Politics, Freedom of the Press
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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: Detroit, Nursing, Medical Specialization, Politics, Long Term Care
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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: Nursing, Punishment, Crimes, Medical Specialization, Social Issues
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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: Crimes, Judges, Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Detroit officer dies week after wrong-way driver hits him
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say an officer has died from injuries he sustained when a wrong-way driver struck him while he patrolled on foot in the Greektown entertainment district. Sgt. Eren Stephens tells The Detroit News that Officer Charles...Tags: Detroit, Crimes, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Injuries and Wounds, Weaponry
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Man rescues burning trucker in Mich. 2-semi crash
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A driver on a suburban Detroit expressway has rescued a burning truck-driver from Canada involved in a collision of two semi-trucks. Michael Widlak tells The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press that he witnessed...Tags: Detroit, Disasters and Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents, Politics, Freedom of the Press
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Convicted Mich. stalker sues woman he victimized
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit man convicted of stalking a woman has sued her and suburban authorities, saying they defamed him. The Detroit Free Press says Kevin A. Gary is acting as his own lawyer in the suit filed against Harvette Williams,...Tags: Detroit, Punishment, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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