Michael Gruskin, a veteran Wayne County assistant prosecutor, was suspended Thursday after reporting this week that a prostitute robbed him of a Rolex watch and $500 in his room at a Nevada hotel.
Gruskin, who has prosecuted criminal cases for 20 years in Wayne County, was attending a domestic-violence conference in Sparks, a [...]
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Construction is about to get under way on the first of two housing projects for the low-income and homeless people of the Cass Corridor, one of the most run-down and impoverished neighborhoods in Detroit.
The Michigan Capital Fund for Housing, a nonprofit agency, is helping to finance the construction of 35 apartments for [...]
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Minutes after carjacking and abducting an elderly woman Tuesday from a Super Kmart parking lot in Lincoln Park, the 16-year-old suspect may have stuffed her in the trunk along with her wheelchair, Lincoln Park police said Friday.
Police haven’t determined all of the details involved in the kidnapping of Sylvia Holley, 75, but [...]
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Brett Favre is a quarterback for the NFL’s Green Bay Packers.
Brandi Favre, the 23-year-old sister of Green Bay Packers’ quarterback Brett Favre, has been charged with felony shoplifting after her arrest at an Edgewater Mall department store.
Police arrested Favre and an unidentified 17-year-old female Monday at Dillard’s. Favre is free [...]
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Pitcher Ken Clay played for baseball’s New York Yankees in the 1978 World Series. Former Yankees pitcher Ken Clay was arrested for allegedly stealing a woman’s identification and then leasing a truck and obtaining credit cards in her name.
Clay, 45, who appeared for New York in the 1978 World Series, was [...]
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In his heyday, Vanilla Ice recorded the first rap single to hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, “Ice, Ice Baby.”
A federal grand jury is investigating whether a popular accountant who committed suicide in July swindled millions from clients including rapper Vanilla Ice and professional athletes, The Miami Herald reported [...]
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Mental illness and personal demons haunted the South Park voice actress who committed suicide earlier this month, according to her husband. Mary Kay Bergman, 38, of Venice, the voice of most of the female characters on Comedy Central’s profane and popular cartoon show, committed suicide Nov. 11.
She gave no warning of [...]
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R&B singer Tevin Campbell gained fame at age 13 with his debut album T.E.V.I.N.
Singer Tevin Campbell was ordered to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings and an AIDS awareness class after pleading no contest to soliciting a lewd act from an undercover policeman.
Campbell, 22, also was fined $1,080 Monday for the misdemeanor conviction [...]
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Joe DiMaggio, “The Yankee Clipper,” was perhaps the most popular baseball player who ever lived. He had a 56-consecutive-game hitting streak. The previous record, 44 straight games, had stood for 40 years. DiMaggio was also the husband of screen beauty Marilyn Monroe for a time.
Joe DiMaggio, perhaps the most popular [...]
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Law enforcement officials are bracing for cyber attacks from any number of groups hoping to sow electronic chaos under the guise of the year 2000 computer glitch.
Federal and Canadian officials gathered here for the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference expressed that concern and detailed the steps government [...]
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