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By early afternoon, it was still unclear how many vehicles had been affected. Multiple calls from victims have been received since morning, police said, and they expect more calls.
"We don't have a total count yet," Thomas said.
Schick added: "We think we're still going to have more victims."
Anyone who believes they were impacted by the crime spree should contact Pittsfield Police at (734) 822-4911, he said.
Investigators also still were determining more information on the suspects, Thomas said. It was unclear whether they had previous criminal records.
It's also unclear how they targeted Arbor Meadows for the thefts.
"The only thing we were told is they were just heading out this way," Thomas said.
Thu, Jun 7, 2012 : 11:17 p.m.
That's the way to do it!! Citizen alertness and participation is vital to crime control! The cops are only as good as the citizens who support them.
Tue, Mar 13, 2012 : 7:26 p.m.
I do have additional info on the hometowns: Two are from Brownstown Township, one is from Taylor and one is from Dearborn Heights.
Tue, Mar 13, 2012 : 7:04 p.m.
Tue, Mar 13, 2012 : 6:23 p.m.
Another job well done by the Pittsfield PD! The best police department in the county.
Claressa Shields works out in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Thursday.
“I’d tell people I won the gold medal and they’d say: ‘Yeah, right,’” she said with a laugh.
So what is an unrecognized champ to do? Shields would just challenge people to Google her if they doubted that she really was one of the top boxer’s on the planet.
When that dare got old, Shields simply started carrying the gold medal with her and flashed it to her skeptics.
Four years later, when Shields won boxing gold again in Rio, she hid the London medal in her warmup jacket pocket. She pulled it out after winning the championship bout and slipped two golds around her neck atop the medal stand — best in her class, best in the world. Twice.
All that is left for Shields, who overcame a childhood of poverty and abuse, is to reach best of all time.
The 24-year-old is on the fast track toward that claim, as she was to headline one of the more tantalizing bouts in women’s boxing history yesterday night.
Shields (8-0, 2 KOs) was to fight Christina Hammer (24-0, 11 KOs) in a middleweight unification bout at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
There have been more accomplished female fighters, but no bout has quite matched this one in anticipation or potential historic significance.
Shields could continue to lead the evolution of women’s boxing the way Ronda Rousey did for mixed martial arts and bring the fight game into the mainstream.
Shields is charismatic, making fans and friends out of A-listers such as actress Halle Berry.
She is not afraid to give Beyonce a shout-out to attend her fight. She is dominant, not losing a fight since her amateur career, and has won championships in multiple weight classes as a pro.
She takes a stand, putting blue streaks in her hair to raise awareness to the clean water fight that has gone on for years in her hometown of Flint, Michigan.
If her life sounds like something out of a movie, it soon might be: If Beale Street Could Talk director Barry Jenkins is writing the screenplay for a Shields biopic.
Shields and Hammer are the first female boxers featured on Showtime’s All Access YouTube sports channel. The distinction did not come because of 28-year-old Hammer, who has racked up wins for a decade in the 160-pound division without fanfare. It is the spark and the success that Shields creates whenever she fights.
The fighters were supposed to meet on Nov. 17 last year, but Hammer postponed it because of a stomach illness.
Shields, whose father spent years in prison during her childhood, spent a day this week visiting kids from the New Jersey Give A Kid A Dream organization and the Girls in Gloves boxing program at the Atlantic City PAL gym.
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NORTHPORT | With a 3-2 vote, the Northport City Council turned down an ordinance tonight to grant pay raises to a future council and mayor.
Council President Steve Webb and Councilman Lorenzo Freeman cast the two affirmative votes. Councilmen John Myers, William Tunnell and Scott Collins voted against it.
If approved, the raises would have meant an expense increase of $20,000 to the city's annual budget and would have taken affect in November. That's when the mayor and council members elected in the upcoming August election will be sworn in.
The mayor's annual salary would have increase from $15,000 to $20,500. The council president's pay would have increased from $4,000 to $14,500 and the salaries of council members would have gone from $8,500 to $12,000.
The Northport City Council has not voted itself a raise in eight years. The option to do so will not occur again until 2012.
Wilbert Cabagbag Lozano, 36, of Honolulu, a warehouse manager, died in the Queen's Medical Center. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by father Willie Sr., mother Elvie C., brother Willie Jr. and sister Mary Ann. Visitation: 2 p.m. Saturday at Moanalua Mortuary. Services: 4 p.m. Aloha or casual attire. Flowers wel...
It’s pretty obvious that oftentimes the media and the Democratic Party work in concert to marginalize opposition of a common goal. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos working with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was just one example. The question is, how far will the media and Democrats take it?
According to Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., if the passage of ObamaCare is evidence, they’re willing to take it to achieve Draconian financial regulation and ultimate censorship of the Internet. On his April 19 Fox News Channel program, host Sean Hannity asked Bachmann if there were a double standard, or a coordinated...
However, according to the Minnesota congresswoman, it’s the motivations behind this tactic the American people need to be concerned about.
Hannity contended the opposition to the policies of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats has won the argument and therefore liberals are resorting to tactics intended to vilify that opposition, which Bachmann explained was their method of last resort. And part of that she said was to ultimately censor c...
And if recent events in the media are evidence, she explained the administration has a target on its opposition.
“So, they are very specifically and pointedly going after voices that they see are effectively telling the truth about what the Obama administration is trying to do and the American people don't like it very much,” Bachmann said.
GHOST hunters and paranormal enthusiasts take note — something spooky is happening in Carlow.
Due to a series of “unexplained phenomena” at Duckett’s Grove, local authorities have closed the castle to night-time visitors — but not to protect them from eerie encounters.
Instead, plans are under way to prepare the gothic building for night-time tourists who are hoping for an appearance by one of the properties’ ghostly residents.
This comes after an episode of American paranormal television series Destination Truth, which broadcast live from Duckett’s Grove on St Patrick’s Day, reported sightings of strange figures and noises from one of the castle towers while on a quest to find a banshee.
Further investigations by the Killarney Paranormal Society prompted closure of the building between 8am and 8pm to allow for health and safety updates to the “haunted” castle.
During the live show, the Destination Truth team set upon the castle — said to the largest hotbed of banshee activity in the area— as part of a four-hour broadcast on Syfy.com.
Unknown human figures, unexplained lights and heavy, hollow sounds were among the peculiar occurrences reported by the team of paranormal investigators, while hundreds of viewers joined in the ghost hunt by pressing a “Banshee Button” on the live feed website when they saw anything out of the ordinary.
However, the banshee is not the only apparition said to be haunting Duckett Grove. Some witnesses claim members of the Duckett family have also been seen and heard throughout the property, which has not been inhabited since 1916.
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Amret Microfinance Institution and life insurance firm AIA (Cambodia) signed a partnership agreement on Monday for life insurance service distribution.
The agreement will allow more than 400,000 Amret customers to access life insurance services from AIA, said representatives of both companies.
The official announcement comes after the partners obtained approval from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the Ministry of Economy and Finance in April. Up to now, Amret has sold insurance products to nearly 1,000 customers.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Amret CEO Chea Phalarin said the partnership with AIA will help Cambodians meet their long-term financial goals.
“Our partnership with AIA will bring more benefits and better peace of mind to our customers,” he said, adding that Amret is now offering two insurances services to clients – life insurance and loan insurance.
While a majority of Amret customers are rural residents taking out micro-loans, Phalarin said they hope to design affordable insurance products for a range of customers.
AIA Cambodia CEO Richard Bates said Amret has a large customer base which will help it reach more people in the Kingdom.
“Through this partnership, we can now reach out to all corners of the Kingdom. Together, we are committed to protecting and improving the well-being of Cambodians,” he said.
At the end of May, Amret consisted of 156 branches nationwide with total assets of $865 million. It had a total of $745 million in outstanding loans and $368 million deposited in savings accounts.
Gov. Doug Ducey late Thursday signed legislation to make all public school students in Arizona eligible to get state money to attend private and parochial schools.
But the plan, approved by the House and Senate hours earlier with no Democrat support and several Republicans in opposition, will not mean every child would be able to get one of these vouchers. The bill has a limit, though that could be removed by lawmakers in the future.
On paper the legislation does make every one of the 1.1 million students in Arizona public schools eligible for vouchers. They would be worth about $4,400 a year for most students.
But to get the votes, supporters had to agree to a cap of about 30,000 vouchers by 2021, a cap that will remain in place unless and until lawmakers decide otherwise.
That is a far cry from the original bill introduced by Sen. Debbie Lesko, R-Peoria, the author of the current limited voucher program. She wanted to make universal vouchers available as soon as 2019.
That idea faltered as not just Democrats but some Republicans objected to questions ranging from philosophical issues of state aid to private schools to the fact that her legislation actually would have increased the cost to the state by $25 million a year by 2021.
It was Sen. Bob Worsley, R-Mesa, who crafted the final plan that got not just his vote but the bare minimum 16 senators and 31 representatives needed for final approval.
Part of that is that his plan actually will reduce the tax burden by $3.4 million by 2021 depending on how many students actually leave public schools. But the cap also was a selling point.
That provided little comfort to Sen. Steve Farley, D-Tucson. He pointed out it would take only a simple majority of a future legislature to remove that cap and create universal vouchers, potentially drawing off hundreds of thousands of children from public schools. Worsley conceded the point.
“I think it’s the best deal we can get,” he said. But Worsley also said the potential for doing away with the cap is not necessarily a bad thing, saying the next six years will be an “experiment” which will show whether vouchers actually result in better education.
Vouchers were first approved in 2011 to help parents whose children with special needs could not get the services they need in public schools.
Foes sued, charging they violate a state constitutional provision barring public dollars from being used for religious worship or instruction.
But the state Court of Appeals said the money goes to the parents who decide how to spend the funds, making who ultimately gets the dollars irrelevant. And the judges said the vouchers do not result in the state encouraging the preference of one religion over another, or religion over atheism.
Since that time, proponents have repeatedly added to the list of who is eligible. It now includes everything from children of people in the military on active duty and foster children to all children in failing schools and those living on Indian reservations.
And supporters have made it clear from the beginning the ultimate goal always has been universal vouchers, which was precisely where Lesko was headed.
Worsley insisted he’s neither a supporter or foes of vouchers, formally called “empowerment scholarship accounts,” describing himself has a “pragmatic arbitrator” between supporters and foes.
Farley sniffed at that contention, saying his proffered “compromise” does not acknowledge there are many lawmakers who believe public dollars should not be used to send any children at all to private and parochial schools.
Senate Minority Leader Katie Hobbs said it was no compromise at all.
“This is lipstick on a pig,” Hobbs said.
Worsley had another sales point for his amendment beyond the at least temporary cap: Cash.
The current basic voucher is for about $5,600 a year. His new formula reduces that for most students who switch from public schools to just $4,400.
What that means, he said, is that what would have cost the state $25 million in 2021 under the old formula now will save $3.4 million. Worsley said that’s nothing to be sneezed at, pointing out that $28.4 million swing is twice as much as Ducey, who lobbied in support of this plan, put into this year’s budget for teach...
But much of the fight was over who benefits.
There is some evidence that many of the 3,800 students who now get vouchers have moved from public schools in affluent neighborhoods. That leads to charges that vouchers help don’t help the poor but defray what parents pay to have their youngsters attend private schools where tuition can top $15,000 a year.
“They’re just having the taxpayers of Arizona subsidize that tuition,” said Sen. Sean Bowie, D-Phoenix.
Worsley did not dispute that.
But he said the cost to taxpayers under his plan would be no more than if the student stayed in public schools. And Worsley said there’s something else.
“There are some on the ESA side that feel that, regardless of your income, you pay taxes, and getting an equivalent amount of those taxes to apply to your choice for education is not immoral,” he said.
That reduction in the amount of the voucher was enough to gain the support of Sen. Karen Fann, R-Prescott. Fann said while she believes in parental choice, she could not support the higher cost of vouchers to the state under Lesko’s original measure.
“I did not feel it was appropriate to ding the public schools,” she said. The new version, she said, is essentially revenue neutral.
Sen. Steve Smith, R-Maricopa, said it’s wrong to see vouchers as a loss to public schools. He said if a child moves to a private school that’s one less child for the public school to educate, meaning its costs should decrease.
But Rep. Michelle Udall, R-Mesa, said she cannot support vouchers at this point.
“We need to properly fund our public schools before we pull money away from them into other programs,” she said.
Rep. Todd Clodfelter, R-Tucson, said his “no” vote is even more basic. He said residents of his district do not support the bill.
The measure has a loophole of sorts: That requirement to switch from a public school does not apply to kindergartners even if parents always intended to put that child into a parochial or private school. That child then would have his or her entire 13-year private education paid for with public dollars.
Lesko said she sees the issue in simpler terms.
“That’s one of the good things about parental choice: not forcing students to stay in failing schools,” she said.
Sen. David Bradley, D-Tucson, said that ignores the fact that private schools, unlike their public counterparts, can pick and choose who to take — and who to reject. But the Republican majority rejected his amendment to require private schools that want to be paid with voucher dollars to accept all students.