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13-year-old girl accused of stabbing 7-year-old sister to death over argument about ‘flushing the toilet’
A 13-year-old girl has been accused of stabbing her seven-year-old sister to death following an argument believed to have started over flushing the toilet.The incident unfolded at a home in Taylor, Michigan, on Saturday when the teen was babysitting her younger sister, Taylor Detective Zachary Digiacomo told FOX2Detroit.Police said that a note had been placed in the bathroom about flushing the toilet and a verbal argument broke out between the siblings.During the argument, the 13-year-old allegedly stabbed her sister in the abdomen, head, and neck with a butcher’s knife and a hunting knife. Police said the teen then called...
Driver saw sparks, smoke before semitrailer fire on I-94
WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – Crews extinguished a semitrailer fire on the freeway after a reported mechanical failure caused the truck to ignite. The Scio Township Fire Department was called around 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27 for a commercial vehicle fire on westbound I-94 near M-14, according to a release from the department on social media and Chief Andrew Houde.
Michigan man accused of attacking Black postal worker with knife over Kamala Harris election mailers
A Michigan man is accused of attacking a Black postal worker with a knife because he was furious about receiving political mail adverts for Kamala Harris.Prosecutors in Farmington Hills, a suburb of Detroit, charged 61-year-old Russell Frank Valleau on Friday with assault and ethnic intimidation, the latter of which carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison.Valleau was reportedly arrested the previous evening after hurling racial abuse at a US Postal Service mail carrier and "lunging" at her with a blade, forcing her to fend him off with her service-issued pepper spray. A statement from Oakland County prosecutor...