Schneider gets Senate approval as U.S. attorney in Detroit
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Senate has approved Matthew Schneider as chief federal prosecutor for eastern Michigan.
Schneider’s nomination as U.S. attorney was approved Wednesday night. He’s already been on the job for a year.
Schneider is a former assistant U.S. attorney. He also worked for Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and the Michigan Supreme Court.
The Frankenmuth native has degrees from Michigan State University and University of Michigan law school.
Public responds after car is stolen with gifts for girls
DETROIT (AP) — The public has responded like Santa Claus to help a woman whose car was stolen with a load of gifts for struggling Detroit-area girls.
Christen Greenwood says she wasn’t concerned about her car, two days before Christmas. But she didn’t know how she would immediately replace books, hygiene products and other gifts purchased for girls at a Detroit nonprofit, Alternatives for Girls. She had collected them from co-workers.
Pleas on social media were swiftly answered. Greenwood tells The Detroit News that she replaced what was lost with even more. People donated cash, toiletries, car seats, toys, coats and baby supplies.
University seeks to revive neglected, worthy words
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit university thinks it knows the cure for anhedonia: rescuing words that have fallen out of linguistic favor.
Wayne State University this week released its annual Word Warriors list. It includes “anhedonia,” which means inability to feel pleasure.
Other “worthy” words it wants to see back in circulation include “fubsy,” which means fat and squat, “salubrious,” meaning healthy, and “anechdoche,” defined as a conversation in which everyone is talking but no one is listening.
The list, in its 10th year, consists of submissions from WSU and the public.
Krispy Kreme delivers doughnuts to officers saddened by pastry loss
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Krispy Kreme has stepped in to comfort Kentucky police officers mourning the loss of a doughnut truck that caught fire.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the company and a police escort delivered dozens of doughnuts to the city police department Wednesday afternoon.
Officer Kyle Mounce says no one was injured when a Krispy Kreme truck caught fire in the city on Monday, but the truck’s doughnuts were ruined.
The fire’s cause was unclear as of Monday.
Lexington police shared posts on social media of the burned truck and officers jokingly mourning the loss.
The posts were widely shared online and police departments across the country offered their condolences.
The chief marketing officer for Krispy Kreme, Dave Skena, says the company wanted to comfort the department in their time of sorrow.
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