The Fifth Annual Champions for the Kids VIP Dinner/Auction attracted 287 to the Townsend Hotel. During the cocktail hour, Simone Vitale made music in the tent adjacent to the ballroom lobby where silent auction items were displayed and garnered some $35,000 in bids. Looking very dapper in an outfit made

Detroit has been shaken by claims of lurid conduct and a cover-up at city hall He is an ordinary 15-year-old boy who wants to know what happened to his murdered mother. Yet Jonathan Bond’s painful and protracted quest for justice has plunged him into the heart of an explosive political

A federal judge said today he will not change his mind and reconsider letting the Free Press have access to sealed testimony that state Attorney General Mike Cox gave in a deposition. Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen repeated his reluctance to unseal any portions in the lawsuit filed by

Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen said Thursday that he will not change his mind and let the Free Press have access to sealed testimony that state Attorney General Mike Cox gave in a deposition. Rosen repeated his reluctance to unseal any portions in the lawsuit filed by the children

Dapper attorney Norman Yatooma’s Foundation for the Kids hosted its fifth Champions for the Kids dinner at Birmingham’s Townsend Hotel Sunday. Hearing the stories about children who’ve lost a parent left guests (including us) sad and teary-eyed. But we got a good chuckle when the evening’s emcee, WJR morning host

A new radio ad criticizes Attorney General Mike Cox for his role in the investigation of a long-rumored, never proved party at the Manoogian Mansion, allegedly hosted by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and visited by a stripper who later was killed. SPONSOR: Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America,

Yatooma’s Foundation for The Kids presents, “Champions For The Kids,” at The Townsend Hotel on June 8. (Photos — Upper left: David Gorcyca, Norman Yatooma and James P. Hoffa. Lower left: Tom Izzo, Pamela Ayers and Simone Vitale. Right: Advanced Strategy Group.) http://www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detroit/June-2008/Champions-For-The-Kids/index.php?cp=1&si=0

Norman Yatooma’s Foundation For the Kids held its’ fifth annual Champions for the Kids VIP Dinner and Auction at the Townsend Hotel on June 6th. http://www.dbusiness.com/DBusiness/May-June-2010/Champions-for-the-Kids-VIP-Dinner-at-Townsend-Hotel/

A former paramedic who came forward with information related to the Tamara Greene stripper death case will seek $4.5 million in damages after a judge today upheld his whistle-blower lawsuit default judgment against the city of Detroit, his attorney said. City of Detroit Corporation Counsel Krystal A. Crittendon said the

Artist Thomas Kinkade’s dreamlike landscape paintings (see pics) have earned him this prestigious title. His personal landscape, however, is reportedly undergoing change. Kinkade’s recent arrest came less than two weeks after this announcement. Just last year, his company was ordered to pay a huge fraud judgment to former Thomas Kinkade

“Bringing Tenderness to Tragedy for the Families of Kids Who Have Lost a Parent” March 11, 1992, Norman Yatooma, a 20 year old junior at Taylor University in Indiana, received a phone call at school with devastating news; his father had been killed trying to stop a carjacking. As he

Lansing — Attorney General Mike Cox’s investigation of the fabled Manoogian Mansion party has come back to haunt his gubernatorial bid in a second attack ad launched on Michigan radio stations. The commercial has stirred speculation over whether a rival gubernatorial candidate could be behind the ad — or even

A federal appeals court has some dark news for the self-described “Painter of Light,” Thomas Kinkade – it has restored an arbitration panel’s $2.1 million award to two former gallery owners who say Kinkade’s company duped them into investing their life’s savings in a doomed enterprise. A federal judge in

This past week, Thomas Kinkade, famed “Painter of Light,” found himself behind bars after an arrest based on suspicion of drunken driving (mugshot shown). That sad episode came on the heels of Kinkade’s company recently declaring bankruptcy to elude paying millions of dollars to parties defrauded by Kinkade’s company years

Mike Maceroni interviews with WWJ’s Bill Stevens with Making a Difference in Southeast Michigan about Yatooma’s Foundation for the Kids.

In hopes of moving his case to trial, lawyer Norman Yatooma said he has dismissed several defendants in his civil lawsuit regarding the 2003 death of exotic dancer Tamara Greene. The remaining defendants are former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and the City of Detroit. Defendants such as former police chief Ella

Birmingham — The lawyer for the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara “Strawberry” Greene says he is dismissing all but two defendants in the family’s federal lawsuit related to her murder investigation. Norman Yatooma said at a news conference today he is dismissing all defendants except the city of Detroit

A federal judge on Wednesday granted a lawyer in the Tamara Greene case three more hours to continue deposing a former Detroit police homicide sergeant. Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen agreed to extend the deposition of retired Sgt. Odell Godbold. He had already answered questions for seven hours.