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DETROIT
An early morning fire Sunday claimed the lives of an elderly Detroit couple who may have tried to escape, but appeared to have been overcome by smoke, fire officials said.
The couple's 46-year-old daughter managed to get out unharmed. Officials said that neighbors tried to get to the couple.
Detroit fire officials found the husband and wife in separate parts of the home on the 20000 block of Rutherford; one of them was in a hallway, the other in a bathroom, officials said. Their names were not released pending notification of relatives.
The couple were in their 70s, according to Detroit fire Lt. Mark Wheeler.
Fire officials unsuccessfully tried to revive the couple, who were pronounced dead at Sinai Grace Hospital, Wheeler said.
The fire broke out about 4:30 a.m. and was under control in about an hour and a half. The home was engulfed in flames, but the fire did not spread to other homes in the neighborhood, near 8 Mile and the Lodge Freeway.
Wheeler said the fire appeared to have started in a sun porch in the back of the home.
DEARBORN
Museum's founding director stepping down
The founding director of the Arab American National Museum is stepping down, but not going too far away.
The museum in Dearborn says Anan Ameri will retire in mid-May. The 67-year-old plans to take a vacation and return as a project consultant.
The museum says it will conduct a national search, and day-to-day operations are being handled by Deputy Director Devon Akmon.
The museum opened in 2005 and is part of ACCESS, formerly known as the Arab Community Center for Economic Social Services. ACCESS Executive Director Hassan Jaber said Ameri played a crucial role in creating and developing the museum.
Ameri joined ACCESS in 1997.
Dearborn has one of the nation's largest Arab communities.
MUELLER TOWNSHIP
Macomb County man dies after off-road crash
State Police said a 57-year-old Macomb County man died of injuries from in an off-road vehicle crash in the Upper Peninsula.
Brian R. Reiss of Clinton Township died Friday at Marquette General Hospital, two days after being injured.
A news release from the State Police post at St. Ignace said the crash occurred about 7 p.m. Wednesday in Schoolcraft County's Mueller Township. The site is about 10 miles east of Manistique.
Investigators said they think alcohol and speed were factors in the crash.
TRAVERSE CITY
Church bans Muslim prayer at concert
Leaders of a northern Michigan church are defending their decision to ban a Muslim call to worship that was part of the planned program for a Veterans Day concert by public high school and community college vocal groups.
The Rev. David Walls of Traverse City's First Congregational Church said leaders feared it might offend military personnel or their families to hear a prayer in Arabic, addressed to Allah.
The ban led Northwestern Michigan College to withdraw sponsorship of the Nov. 11 performance, part of the church's annual Mel Larimer Concert Series.
Sixteen-year-old Alya Nadji is Muslim and a member of the Traverse City West High School Chorale. She told the Traverse City Record-Eagle she ran from the room crying when she learned the call to prayer was being cut.
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