Teen, accomplice found guilty in double-murder
PONTIAC (AP) — A teenager and his 23-year-old accomplice have been convicted in the shooting deaths of two women in their Pontiac home.
An Oakland County Circuit Court jury has found 16-year-old Semaj Moran guilty of first-degree murder and Arnold Howard guilty of second-degree murder.
Moran’s sealed verdict was read Tuesday after Howard’s jury returned its verdict.
Authorities have said 52-year-old Loretta Fournier and 57-year-old Luann Robinson were shot to death in February 2012 because Moran was upset that he was given a fake $10 bill in exchange for marijuana.
Fournier was shot three times in her first-floor apartment. Robinson was pushed down the stairs from her second-floor apartment and shot.
Moran was 15 at the time of the slayings. He and Howard will be sentenced March 7.
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AG Bill Schuette files appeals in case against ex-McCotter aides
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is appealing the dismissal of conspiracy charges against two former aides to a Detroit-area congressman accused in an election scandal.
Schuette filed his claim Tuesday with the Michigan Court of Appeals following the Jan. 18 dismissal of the charges against Don Yowchuang and Paul Seewald.
The former aides to former U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter were sentenced that day in Wayne County Circuit Court to probation and community service on other charges.
The conspiracy charge is a felony that carries up to five years in prison.
The men and two others were accused last year in the scandal involving bogus petition signatures.
McCotter didn’t make the ballot and quit Congress last July after nearly 10 years rather than finish his term.
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Panel to discuss displacement in Detroit communities
DEARBORN (AP) — A Dearborn museum will host a panel representing neighborhoods in and around Detroit where residents have been displaced by eminent domain and other land-use decisions.
The program entitled “Place Unmaking: Voices from Detroit Communities” is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Arab American National Museum. The event aims to shed light on the history of community displacement and focus on Dearborn’s South End, Detroit and Hamtramck’s Poletown and Detroit’s Delray and Black Bottom communities.
The panel will be moderated by Detroit demographer Kurt Metzger.
The program also will feature two exhibits on diverse communities that were subject to displacement.
One highlights the former Little Syria neighborhood in New York City and the other is about the effect of race on housing in metropolitan Detroit from 1900 to 1968.
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