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A mystery man helped syringe bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board Flight 253 - telling check-in staff the fanatic was a Sudanese refugee who did not have a passport.

Reuters reports Dutch military police are investigating claims that an accomplice may have helped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board Northwest Flight 253 in Amsterdam on Christmas day without a passport, a story first told here on MLive.com . Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to blow up the Detroit-bound plane with an explosive chemical he smuggled ...

A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport, and believes at least one other person from the flight was arrested on Friday at Detroit Metro Airport.

Let's think about gifts for guys. A sweater? Nope...been there, done that...at least a gazillion times.

By MARK REITER BLADE STAFF WRITER MONROE - Monroe County officials have agreed to pay $56,000 to settle retaliation and discrimination claims in a lawsuit filed by a Newport, Mich., woman against the county's Central Dispatch Center director.

Christmas is very much centered on tradition... an ornament your child made in first grade, your mother-in-law's recipe for buche de Noel, a tablecloth that belonged to Grandma, a knit stocking you purchased on your honeymoon.

An 83-year-old Toledo woman died in Frenchtown Township over the weekend after her car veered left of center on North Dixie Highway in Frenchtown Township.

An employee at Sterling State Park found what authorities suspect is the body of a rural Newport, Mich., man who went missing in August, authorities said.

MONROE, Mich. - Officials will provide free anti-radiation pills to people who live or work within 10 miles of Michigan's nuclear power plants.

Garden City --Randy Hicks wants to walk again, but he doesn't have enough money.

The remains of a soldier originally from Forest Hills who the military has listed as missing in action for more than 40 years reportedly have been recovered and positively identified.

NEWPORT, Mich. - Authorities say a car heading the wrong way on northbound Interstate 275 in Monroe County has collided with a semi-truck. The sheriff's department tells WWJ-AM there was one minor injury in the crash about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday near Newport.

Nevaeh Buchanan, the 5-year-old Monroe girl who was murdered and discovered by fishermen last month, may have been buried along the River Raisin alive, authorities said Tuesday night.

Sharla Patterson took her children to a spot along the River Raisin - the place where 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan is believed to have been buried - because she was heartsick about the murdered child.

The family of Nevaeh Buchanan likely will have to wait several more days to learn if the decomposed body found last week along the River Raisin is their missing 5-year-old little girl.

Prayers for the safe recovery of 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan changed Sunday to prayers for the recovery of her family and friends from the grief that surrounds the child's disappearance and apparent homicide.

Now that the body of 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan has likely been found, investigators are in the midst of painstakingly combing the banks of the River Raisin for clues, an FBI agent said this morning.

Monroe County Sheriff Tilman Crutchfield said today authorities have 'reasonable suspicion' to believe the body recovered along the River Raisin in Raisinville Township is that of 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan.