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Today's riddle: I'm a rock group with 4 members; one member was assassinated. What am I? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• Dearborn STEM Middle School enrolled 3 Asian students in 2024-25 (westernwaynetoday.com) — Dearborn families get a closer look at enrollment trends at Dearborn STEM Middle School, where just three Asian students attended in 2024-25 out of 166 total. The piece highlights how the school's demographics have shifted over the last decade and notes broader state funding levels that shape local classrooms.
• Summer 2026 among warmest on record for Southeast Michigan, NWS says (detroitnews.com) — Dearborn residents are reminded how intense this past summer was, with the National Weather Service ranking 2026 among Southeast Michigan's warmest and noting severe storms that especially battered Dearborn and Dearborn Heights. The season brought hotter-than-normal temperatures, below-average rainfall, and several damaging storms that toppled trees and knocked out power to tens of thousands.
• 19-Year-Old Who Shot Dearborn Mall Shooter After He Killed One Man and Wounded Another Sentenced to Two Years Probation for Carrying Without a Permit (usacarry.com) — A 19-year-old who stopped an active shooter at Dearborn's Fairlane Town Center has been sentenced to two years' probation, not for the shooting itself but for carrying a concealed handgun without a license. The judge accepted that he acted in defense of others, yet Michigan's age and permit rules still brought a weapons charge. The story also contrasts Michigan law with looser gun-carry states.
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