Despite his astonishing commercial success with luminous seascapes and paintings of cottages and street scenes, his life was neither serene nor simple. Thomas Kinkade, the self-styled “Painter of Light” who died Friday at 54, once said he worked to “create images that project a serene simplicity.” But despite his astonishing

Carole Herdegen of Bloomfield Hills, travel editor of Elegant Living magazine, was awarded second place in the competition for her series of articles on India in the “Special India Collector’s Edition” of Elegant Living (www.elegantlivingmagazine.com). The articles featured India as the new player on the world stage, the spas of

Few revelations are detailed in thousands of pages of documents unsealed Monday from the now-dismissed $150 million lawsuit filed by the family of a slain Detroit stripper, but they show how contentious the case became for attorneys, investigators and others embroiled in it. A federal judge made public Monday thousands

Want some light reading? Okay, that’s a bit of a joke. Here you will find the list of unsealed federal court documents in the Tamara Greene case against the city of Detroit. Greene, an exotic dancer, was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2003. It was rumored that she danced

17-year-old Megan D’Arcy has a 4.0 GPA, is taking six AP classes this semester, and is captain of the varsity tennis team. To use her own words, the senior at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester has triumphed over tragedy. “That’s something that I’m also proud of, that I can

The bags were packed, the tickets in hand, and the Abazi family was ready to go to Disney World. It never happened. The trip was planned for March. Redi Abazi, 32, a popular teacher at Derby Middle School, had been diagnosed with gastric cancer a year earlier in 2010. He

Tommy, Sarah and Matthew Abazi will be celebrating their first Christmas without their dad this year. However, thanks to Yatooma’s Foundation for the Kids, this holiday season will be more than memorable for this Birmingham family. On Sunday, Yatooma’s Foundation for the Kids surprised Tommy, 5; Sarah, 3; Matthew, 2;

When 42-year-old Tammy Harriman, a mother of three boys, opened the door of her home in Lake Orion on a bright and chilly day, she was overwhelmed by what she saw: a Santa, a crowd of more than 50 people and two trucks loaded with Christmas gifts. Hers was one

When Orion Township resident Tammy Harriman’s son, Joseph, was 1 month old, her husband, Roger, died of brain cancer. “He was diagnosed in December last year when I was expecting the baby. Jan. 23 is when my baby was born, and the week after I got home from the hospital,

Megan D’Arcy is a senior at Stoney Creek High School; her father died in a plane crash five years ago. When Megan D’Arcy was 13 years old, she was a frog princess who whispered to her mom, the queen, her fear that she might someday forget her dad. Her dad

A Rochester Hills family turned tragedy into triumph after the plane Mike D’Arcy was flying crashed two miles from Romeo airport on New Year’s Eve 2006. The 53-year-old doctor and pilot were killed and his daughter Katie, then 14, was critically injured. Making a full recovery after requiring ambulance transportation

Families of children who have lost a parent will benefit from a recent donation made by Troy’s The Capital Grille to Yatooma’s Foundation for the Kids. John Kelly, managing partner for the Capital Grille, presented a check for $5,400 to Norman Yatooma, the foundation’s president. The funds came from the

Flamboyant barrister Norman Yatooma hosted about 40 people for a private viewing of Montblanc’s new timepiece collection last Thursday in the cushy Bloomfield Hills digs he shares with wife Nicole and their four daughters. Montblanc is known for its ink pens, but on this occasion they were showing off their

DETROIT — A judge ruled Wednesday that the attorney for slain Detroit mother Tamara Greene can bill the city for years of his costs and fees. Greene was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2003. It was rumored that she danced at a never-proven party at the Detroit mayor’s Manoogian

Attorneys for the City of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, and the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara Greene will soon decide whether the highly-publicized lawsuit brought by attorney Norman Yatooma will go to trial. While the facts of the case may be fascinating, legal experts say that may not be enough

DETROIT (WWJ) – Wednesday could mark a pivotal moment in a family’s years-long struggle trying to find out who killed exotic dancer Tamara Greene. Federal Judge Gerald Rosen will decide if enough evidence has been provided by Greene’s family attorney, Norman Yatooma, to show there was a cover up in

DETROIT (WWJ) – U.S. District Court Judge Gerald Rosen has adjourned a hearing into the lawsuit filed by the family of Tamara Greene, without issuing an opinion as to whether the suit will go to trial. Wednesday, oral arguments were heard from attorneys on behalf of Greene’s children, and the