Author: Jeff Karoub
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President and stars join in epic farewell to Queen of Soul
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DETROIT • Former presidents and preachers joined a parade of singers Friday in a hip-swaying, piano-pounding farewell to Aretha Franklin, remembering the Queen of Soul as a powerful force for musical and political change and a steadfast friend and family member. “Aretha’s singing challenged the dangling discords of hate and lies and racism and injustice,”…
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Catholics conside holding donations amid scandals
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NEW YORK • For decades, Michael Drweiga has opened his wallet whenever the donation basket comes around at church, but the latest revelations of priests sexually abusing children brought him to the conclusion that he can no longer justify giving. Brice Sokolowski helps small Catholic nonprofits and churches raise money, but he too supports the…
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Baby whose mother chose giving birth over chemo has died
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DETROIT — The baby born of a Michigan woman who chose to forgo chemotherapy to give birth to the child has died, a relative said Thursday. Sonya Nelson said her niece, Life Lynn DeKlyen, died Wednesday evening at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. Life’s mother, Carrie DeKlyen, died Sept. 9, three days…
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Navy IDs dead, missing sailors from the USS John McCain
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Leo Sermiento, left, and Emilio Gutierrez, right, fill sandbags in preparation of a tropical system on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, on South Padre Island, Texas. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the State Operations Center to elevate its readiness level and is making state resources available for preparation and possible rescue and recovery actions amid…
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Detroit’s ’67 riots halted music, helped recalibrate sound
DETROIT — It wasn’t sweet music that brought Martha Reeves to the microphone at the Fox Theatre that day in July 1967; it was brutal reality. Detroit was burning. Headlining a string of shows for a hometown crowd, the singer of “Heatwave,” ”Dancing in the Street” and other hits announced that rioting had spread through…
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FBI: No ‘wider plot’ suspected in Michigan airport stabbing
FLINT, Mich. — A Canadian man from Tunisia shouted in Arabic before stabbing a police officer in the neck at a Michigan airport, and referenced people being killed overseas during the attack that’s now being investigated as an act of terrorism, federal and court officials said. Amor Ftouhi, 49, of Montreal, was immediately taken into…
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Canadian man charged in stabbing of airport officer in Flint
FLINT, Mich. — A police officer was stabbed in the neck at the Flint airport by a man with a knife Wednesday in what authorities are investigating as an act of terrorism. The suspect was immediately taken into custody, and federal prosecutors announced hours later that the Canadian man was charged with committing violence at…
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Presbyterians to divest as protest against Israel
DETROIT (AP) — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on Friday became the most prominent religious group in the United States to endorse divestment as a protest against Israeli policies toward Palestinians, voting to sell church stock in three companies whose products Israel uses in the occupied territories. The General Assembly voted by a razor-thin margin —…
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Auto show gives boost to Motor City
DETROIT – It’s a 21st century paradox: Detroit enters 2014 in bankruptcy, the largest public case in U.S. history and facing $18 billion or more in debt. Yet the Motor City’s resurgent auto industry is strong enough to host a show that by one estimate will generate nearly $400 million for the area’s economy. The…
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U.S., Canadian officials sign law enforcement pact
DETROIT – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Canada’s minister of public safety have signed an agreement to allow the two nations to help enforce each others’ laws across the border. Napolitano and Peter Van Loan signed the agreement Tuesday at the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. The pact will allow…