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  1. Ex-city official is held for trialRead the original story

    Yesterday | Detroit Free Press

    ... pay while he was Highland Park's emergency financial manager. Judge Roger LaRose of 32A District Court in Harper Woods called it a case of "no good deed goes unpunished" that Blackwell agreed to work for a $1 a year and then continued the job ...

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    Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Highland Park, MI, Wayne County, MI

  2. Ex-Highland Park financial manager Arthur Blackwell to stand trial for embezzlementRead the original story w/Photo

    Yesterday | MLive.com

    ... Arthur Blackwell has been bound over on multiple counts of embezzlement following a preliminary examination in Harper Woods District Court. Arraignment has been set for Jan. 12 in Wayne County Circuit Court. The state took over Highland Park's ...

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    Related Topix: Highland Park, MI, Detroit, MI, Wayne County, MI

  3. Ex-city official is held for trialRead the original story

    Yesterday | Detroit Free Press

    ... pay while he was Highland Park's emergency financial manager. Judge Roger LaRose of 32A District Court in Harper Woods called it a case of "no good deed goes unpunished" that Blackwell agreed to work for a $1 a year and then continued the job ...

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    Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Highland Park, MI, Wayne County, MI, Macomb County, MI

  4. Blackwell accused of embezzling $264K in Highland Park postRead the original story w/Photo

    Yesterday | The Detroit News

    Harper Woods --Gov. Jennifer Granholm's hand-picked emergency financial manager to Highland Park was ordered Friday to stand trial on claims he embezzled from the city.Arthur Blackwell II, a former Wayne County commissioner, agreed to work for $1 a year when he took the job, but prosecutors say he took $264,000 while acting as manager of the ...

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    Related Topix: Highland Park, MI, Jennifer Granholm, US Governors, Wayne County, MI, Macomb County, MI

  5. Blackwell Will be Tried on Embezzlement ChargesRead the original story

    Yesterday | WDWB-TV Southfield

    A Harper Woods judge ruled Friday that therea s enough evidence for Highland Parks former emergency financial manager Arthur Blackwell to go to trial on embezzlement charges.

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  6. Grosse Pointe Woods church bookkeeper pleads guilty to embezzlementRead the original story

    Yesterday | Detroit News

    ... Vicariate, a group of 26 parishes that collaborate on Catholic programs and services in the Grosse Pointes, Harper Woods and Detroit. Discrepancies in operating accounts from 2007 and 2008 were reported to the Catholic Archdiocese in the spring by ...

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    Related Topix: Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, Wayne County, MI, Detroit, MI

  7. Breastfeeding in public? Mother ousted from Target store for nursingRead the original story

    Friday | Boston Globe

    ... the local police who came to the scene, just to be sure. "I asked one of them if it was indeed illegal maybe in Harper Woods to breast-feed. He said, 'No.' And that was it. We got our stuff together and we left," he told Fox News. "Forcing me out of ...

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  8. Blackwell to face trialRead the original story

    Friday | Detroit Free Press

    ... manager that prosecutors say he wasn't authorized to receive. Judge Roger LaRose of 32A District Court in Harper Woods ruled there was enough evidence to send Blackwell to trial in Wayne County Circuit Court. La Rose called it a case of 'no good ...

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    Related Topix: Highland Park, MI, Wayne County, MI

  9. State treasurer testifies in Blackwell caseRead the original story

    Friday | Detroit News

    ... $264,000 while serving in Highland Park from 2005 to 2009. Prosecutors today began to make their case to Harper Woods 32nd District Court Judge Roger La Rose that enough evidence exists to order Blackwell to face trial in Wayne County Circuit Court. ...

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    Related Topix: Jennifer Granholm, US Governors, Highland Park, MI, Wayne County, MI, Ecorse, MI

  10. Blackwell in court on embezzlement claimsRead the original story

    Friday | Detroit News

    A preliminary examination of embezzlement charges against Highland Park's former state-appointed emergency financial manager is under way in Harper Woods District Court.

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    Related Topix: Highland Park, MI, Wayne County, MI, Detroit, MI

  11. Ruggiero makes fourth Olympic hockey teamRead the original story

    Thursday Dec 17 | Freep.com - RSS - Sports

    Nearly 12 years after competing in her first Winter Games, Harper Woods native Angela Ruggiero would like nothing more than to end her career the way it began: with a gold medal.

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    Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Winter Games, Ice Hockey, Winter Sports

  12. Coach finding right comboRead the original story

    Thursday Dec 17 | Grosse Pointe News Online

    ... Norsemen opened the season with a 67-43 loss to Warren DeLaSalle and turned around the following night to beat Harper Woods 65-54. Sophomore Adam Andrzejczak drives in for two points in Grosse Pointe North's win over Harper Woods. photo by Bob Bruce ...

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    Related Topix: Sports, Sports Etc.

  13. Penguins hang on, ice ReginaRead the original story

    Thursday Dec 17 | Hometown Life

    ... Jordyn Moore scored two highlight-reel goals, and the Penguins were up 4-1 early in the third period against Harper Woods Regina at Canton Arctic Edge Arena. But a funny thing happened on the way to a blowout. The pesky Saddlelites scored two ugly ...

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    Related Topix: Ice Hockey, Winter Sports, Ice Skating

  14. Blackwell denied delayed court hearingRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 16 | The Detroit News

    ... funds from the city. Callahan also rejected Blackwell's application for permission to appeal an order by Harper Woods 32nd District Court Judge Roger La Rose that barred his request to force Gov. Jennifer Granholm to testify at his hearing. ...

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    Related Topix: Wayne County, MI, Detroit, MI, Highland Park, MI

  15. Arthur Blackwell denied delayed court hearingRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 16 | Detnews.com - Wayne County

    A judge today has denied former state-appointed Highland Park emergency financial manager Arthur Blackwell's request to delay a court hearing set for Friday where evidence is to be presented that he embezzled funds from the city.

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  16. Drop off warm, gently-used coats to help the needyRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 16 | The Detroit News

    ... a charitable organization in its local market,' says a BCF spokesperson. For instance, coats donated to the Harper Woods store at 18000 Vernier Road, where the national Warm Coats & Warm Heart campaign was launched locally, will be donated to the ...

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    Related Topix: Apparel, Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse, Retail

  17. Bill will protect mothers' rights to nurse babies in public

    Tuesday Dec 15 | Ann Arbor.com

    ... been kicked out of public parks, pools, schools, stores even while being discreet. We've heard about the Harper Woods woman who was feeding her 4-week-old baby in a Target store recently and the police were called and she had to leave. Well, she's ...

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    Related Topix: Warren, MI, Opinion

  18. "Cops called on breastfeeding mom in Target"Read the original story

    Tuesday Dec 15 | Baby Center

    Jose and Mary Martinez visited a Target store in Harper Woods, Michigan last month, where the mother says she started breast-feeding her child, security said it was illegal, they disagreed, and then the cops were called.She's a mother of three.

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    Related Topix: Target, Retail

  19. MACOMB: Macomb County news briefsRead the original story

    Sunday Dec 13 | Detroit Free Press

    ... arts or contact Carrie Wozniak at cwoziak@misd.net . AUCTION: A police auction of vehicles for Eastpointe and Harper Woods is to be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Woods Towing, 22755 Lexington, Eastpointe. More than a dozen vehicles are to be sold as ...

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    Related Topix: Macomb County, MI, Macomb, MI, Mount Clemens, MI, Eastpointe, MI, St. Clair Shores, MI

  20. Marie L. LawrenceRead the original story

    Monday Dec 14 | HomeTownLife.com

    Age 95, Dec. 1, 2009. Funeral held Dec. 5. Donation in Marie's memory can be made to Wixom Friends of the Library or Harper Woods Friends of the Library.

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