Suzanne Rock’s fascination with people began when she was just a young girl. Trips to the dime store with her mother, she said, were a welcome opportunity; a chance to look up at the intricacies and emotions painted across the faces of strangers. Today, she paints those faces to capture a ‘little glimpse of the […]
An Orion Township woman charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct was bound over for trial after preliminary exam Monday in 52-3 District Court. Norma Elisa Lira, 32, was arrested Jan. 26, and remains lodged at Oakland County Jail on $50,000 bond. According to information released by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, investigators started to build […]
Slamming sounds A man who called police Feb. 1 told responding deputies he was in the bathroom about 9:30 p.m. when he heard a ‘slamming sound? coming from the front of his apartment in the 3000 block of Sunrise Circle. The man said he went into the living room to investigate and shouted ‘Who’s there?? […]
The age-old exchange of Valentines took center stage as Carpenter Elementary kids’along with visiting parents and grandparents’enjoyed games, crafts and sweet treats during early Valentine’s Day parties last week. Carpenter students headed into intercession Monday, with most participating in a week of enrichment activities.
First they robbed a man in Auburn Hills. Then, as a 40-year-old Orion Township man was returning from work Friday, the masked teenagers’brandishing a fully-loaded assault rifle’walked out of the early morning darkness and demanded his wallet, cell phone and car keys. That’s the word from police, who said Joey Steven Vang, 17, and brothers […]
It could happen to anyone. That was the message from Mindie Wolvin, who stood before a crowd of about 200 to speak publicly for the first time about the life’and death’of her son Jake. A slideshow played on two large screens above. ‘When your son or your daughter is this age and they look this […]
Come to hear a sugarcoated version of reality? Forget about it. Hoping for a little fluff, at least? Not a chance. ‘This is going to be a very direct, very blunt, very real, very accurate conversation,? said 52-3 District Court Judge Lisa Asadoorian as she began a presentation for some 180 parents, students and others […]
At St. Joseph School, kids are keyboarding with the TI84 Plus, pumping up physical education with heart rate monitors, sharpening scientific investigation skills with the Elmo and learning on laptops, handhelds and more. And, on Sunday January 31, they’ll put it all on display from 1 p.m.-3 p.m during the school’s Open House &Technology Showcase. […]
A man suffering a restless night sleep after too much Mountain Dew may have saved his neighbor’s life Jan. 24. ‘He’d gone to bed but he was still be-bopping around up there,? said Darcy Karras, who was sleeping downstairs with a full-leg cast. Suddenly, she said, her husband Pete Karras started yelling for her to […]
Did you know Oakland County’s crawling with illegal immigrants? Or that fake social security cards, identification, driver’s licenses and other documents are easy and cheap to come by, making jobs’jobs rightfully belonging to American citizens’easy to come by as well? Know a fast food joint or other restaurant where many employees seem to struggle with […]