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The Saginaw News
Saginaw mental health center mourns loss of therapist in murder-suicide
AUBURN HILLS, MI — The tragic fallout of domestic violence has hit home for a Saginaw mental health service as their staff grapples with the killing of one of their therapists. Jackie Jo Torrez, 34, was fatally shot inside the Holiday Inn Express at 3990 Baldwin Road the night...
CBS Detroit
Mother accused of abandoning her 3 children charged with welfare fraud
A Pontiac mother accused of child abuse and abandoning her three children for years is now facing additional charges. Kelli Bryant, 34, has been charged with three counts of welfare fraud. Bryant is already facing three counts of first-degree child abuse. The welfare fraud charges stem from a review by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services of Bryant's support payments. MDHHS alleges Bryant obtained an overpayment by fraud of $29,397 from January 2022 through February 2025. "The defendant appears to have effectively abandoned her children while collecting their public assistance," said Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald in...
The Courier Journal
Big Boy CEO: We want to reopen 55 closed Frisch's by June, fighting to use brand name
Big Boy Restaurant Group has big plans for Cincinnati and beyond: it wants to reopen 55 closed Frisch’s restaurants by June 1, CEO Tamer Afr told The Enquirer. On Monday, the Southfield, Michigan-based company reopened the first: in Blue Ash under a “working title” name of Dolly’s Burgers & Shakes , as Big Boy fights with Frisch's over the right to use the "Big Boy" name in Cincinnati. A second Dolly's is slated to open in Anderson Township on Tuesday. The legal battle over the Big Boy name Last week, a federal court issued a temporary order barring the...
Daily Tribune
Woman stabbed multiple times, allegedly because she had worn suspect’s clothes
A 24-year-old Pontiac man is in police custody, accused of stabbing a woman multiple times Monday night allegedly because she had worn his clothing. According to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, deputies spoke to the woman at an area hospital’s emergency department where she had gone for treatment of multiple stab wounds. The woman, a 25-year-old Pontiac resident, reportedly told deputies she had been stabbed during a fight over her wearing the suspect’s clothes.
PennLive.com
4 charged after boy dies in hyperbaric chamber explosion at medical center
Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was killed inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility. Thomas Cooper from Royal Oak, Michigan, was pronounced dead at the scene. His mother was standing next to the chamber and suffered injuries to her arms when it exploded Jan. 31 at the Oxford Center in Troy.