Highland Park News

Distraught mourners packed an eastside Detroit funeral home Sunday afternoon to say good-bye to Jamar Pinkney Jr., 15, whose father has been charged with shooting him to death and now is in jail.

According to bossip.com; A father in Michigan shot his son in the head for allegedly admitting to him that he had touched his 3-year-old sister sexually: The family of slain 15-year-old Jamar Pinkney, Jr.

When a Highland Park, Michigan, mother was told by her 15-year old son he had inappropriately laid on top of his 3 year old sister, she was concerned.

Detroit --A huge poster of a smiling, cheeky Jamar Pinkney Jr. wearing a blue and white polo-style shirt greeted people who showed up at Bert's Marketplace nightclub Friday for a fundraiser to help pay for his funeral.

A fiery rage seems to be the prime ingredient for murder when a Michigan dad kills his teenage son execution style on Monday night, November 16, 2009.

A 37-year-old father irate over hearing his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said.

The Wayne County Prosecutors office has charged a Highland Park father with killing his son.

Highland Park -- The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday received an arrest warrant request for a 37-year-old man jailed on suspicion of fatally shooting his son as the teen pleaded for his life.

Police said a father fatally shot his 15-year-old son in the back of the head Monday in Highland Park after they got into an argument.

HIGHLAND PARK--A 37-year-old father is being held in connection with the murder of his 15-year-old son, police said Monday.

Author Veda Jairrels plans to meet with parents to discuss methods for improving test scores.

The Highland Park Board of Education president must repay $3,700 she received as reimbursement for expenses as part of an agreement to settle a lawsuit brought by another board member who alleged the money was approved at an illegal meeting.

I count myself extremely fortunate to have been writing about television, and working in Los Angeles for long stretches, during the late '80s. I got wind that comedian Arsenio Hall was grooming his own syndicated late-night series, and since no other folks of color were hosting anything close to that back then, I wangled a one-on-one interview with ...

Mayor George Heartwell today launched what is sure to be a months-long discussion about whether his city can meet basic service needs without more revenue.

A bill by state Sen. Martha Scott, D-Highland Park, that would ban insurance companies from using territorial ratings to help set rates was soundly defeated last week in the Republican-controlled Senate.

A Michigan minister who was stabbed in the neck, arms and chest by a burglar returned to the pulpit after weeks of recovery.

A judge Monday denied a travel request from Detroit businessman Art Blackwell. Blackwell, 56, of Detroit, is facing embezzlement charges in a case where he is accused of taking an illegal salary while working as a financial manager for the city of Highland Park.

Art Blackwell II does not have a safe deposit box in Canada and does not have large gambling losses given his prior income, his attorney argued today in an appeal of a court ruling this week that prohibits Blackwell from visiting his condominiums in Windsor.

The monthly unemployment statistics compiled by the U.S. and state governments reveal only a corner of the jobless picture in Michigan.

Every day the red and white trucks wend their way through the streets. And every day, thousands of hungry people watch and wait for them.