DETROIT (AP) — Text messages of Detroit’s former mayor and other city officials have been turned over to a federal court in the case of a $150 million lawsuit that alleges City Hall stifled a police probe into a stripper’s shooting death five years ago. Norman Yatooma, who is representing

Times are tough in Metro Detroit. But, for families who have lost a parent, times are even tougher. That is why Yatooma’s Foundation For The Kids has kicked off its first-ever Annual Giving Campaign, to help more families when they need it most. Between now and the end of 2008,

Buying a backpack to replace last year’s tattered one may be a luxury that some households, suffering from the recent loss of a parent, can no longer afford. Yatooma’s Foundation For The Kids, a nonprofit organization founded in 2003, launched its inaugural Back to School program this fall. Founder Norman

PONTIAC — At the ripe old age of 11, Ashley Cosme had begun to have some misgivings about Santa Claus. But Sunday, there was no doubt in Ashley’s mind when a man in a red suit arrived at her front door bearing giant sacks of presents, bags of groceries and

DETROIT (AP) — A federal magistrate on Monday approved a request to submit text messages from the pagers of 39 city employees as part of a civil lawsuit filed by the family of a slain stripper. U.S. Magistrate Steven Whalen gave pager company Skytel until Nov. 19 to submit the

DETROIT — A lawyer representing the family of a slain exotic dancer says he wants more than a year’s worth of pager text messages sent and received by former First Lady Carlita Kilpatrick because he claims there is evidence suggesting she may have assaulted the dancer, Tamara Greene, at a

Another Detroit Fire Department EMS worker has come forward to say he saw an injured woman brought to Detroit Receiving Hospital by three plainclothes Detroit Police officers in the autumn of 2002. He said he heard the woman say she had been physically attacked by Carlita Kilpatrick, the wife of

DETROIT — A hearing is set for federal court Monday related to the volume of city text messages sought as possible evidence in a lawsuit brought by the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara “Strawberry” Greene. U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Whalen is seeking to reduce the number of text messages

DETROIT — SkyTel has asked a judge for more time to provide the court with certain text messages sought in a federal lawsuit over a Detroit police investigation into an exotic dancer’s shooting death. A U.S. magistrate judge on Monday set a hearing for next week to consider the request

DETROIT — Pager text messages sent and received by city and police employees on the day of the killing of an exotic dancer rumored to have performed at a party at the Manoogian Mansion were delivered to the federal courthouse in Detroit on Friday, SkyTel Corp. said in a court

DETROIT — SkyTel Paging delivered thousands of text messages in the form of CDs to federal judges in Detroit on Friday, Local 4 has learned. The messages come from city-issued pagers on the day exotic dancer Tamara Greene died — April 30, 2003. It was also on the day that

A new name has been added to a whistle-blower lawsuit filed against the City of Detroit. Fawn Colombatto has joined the legal action filed by attorney Norman Yatooma, who is suing the city over its handling of the Tamara Greene murder case. Greene is the dancer who allegedly performed at

A lawyer representing the family of slain stripper Tamara Greene has added another plaintiff in a related whistle-blower lawsuit against the city. The whistle-blower suit claims a Detroit Fire Department EMT was fired improperly. It was brought by Birmingham attorney Norman Yatooma. The EMT, Douglas Bayer of Monroe, says he

[ANCHOR] Even though Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is stepping down… the lawsuit that accuses him of de-railing a homicide investigation is forging ahead. And lawyers could have the chance to get a first hand look at text messages sent between the Mayor and some of his closest relatives. Action News Investigator

A telecommunications company has until Sept. 20 to turn over text messages that City of Detroit officials sent or received during a four-hour period on the morning stripper Tamara Greene was shot and killed. U.S. District Magistrate Judge Steven Whalen on Friday set the deadline by which Mississippi-based SkyTel must

A telecommunications company must turn over by Sept. 20 text messages from city officials sent or received during a four-hour period on the morning stripper Tamara Greene was shot and killed, a federal magistrate ruled today. U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Steven Whalen ordered Mississippi-based SkyTel to turn over the

DETROIT — Federal magistrate judges should soon be scrutinizing all SkyTel pager text messages sent by city employees in the four hours surrounding the 2003 shooting death of exotic dancer Tamara “Strawberry” Greene, a lawyer for the dancer’s family said Thursday. SkyTel is expected to provide the text messages to

DETROIT — Federal magistrate judges should soon be scrutinizing all SkyTel pager text messages sent by city employees in the four hours surrounding the 2003 shooting death of exotic dancer Tamara “Strawberry” Greene, a lawyer for the dancer’s family said Thursday. SkyTel is expected to provide the text messages to