Conyers funeral set for Monday; public events on weekend
DETROIT (AP) — The funeral for John Conyers, who served more than 50 years in Congress, will be held Monday at a Detroit church.
Members of the public will get a chance to show their respect for Conyers on Saturday and Sunday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.
Conyers died Sunday at age 90, two years after resigning from the U.S. House.
Monica Conyers tells The Detroit News that her husband’s funeral will be held at Greater Grace Temple.
She anticipates that former President Bill Clinton will attend, along with elected officials.
Second trial over bogus epilepsy diagnosis ends with $2.8M award
DETROIT (AP) — A lawyer says a jury has awarded nearly $2.8 million to a young woman who accused a Detroit-area doctor of misreading tests to come up with an epilepsy diagnosis when she was a child.
The verdict by a Wayne County jury is the second against Dr. Yasser Awaad and Oakwood Healthcare. Lawyers for 18-year-old Claire Linzell say she was one of 250 children who were misdiagnosed.
The verdict was returned Tuesday. The award could be reduced by a judge because it exceeds a cap under Michigan law.
Awaad said he had discovered abnormal brain activity in Linzell during electroencephalograms, or EEGs.
She was treated with an anti-seizure medication, but it turned out that the epilepsy diagnosis was wrong.
Attorney Brian McKeen says Awaad was “grossly incompetent or completely lacking in ethics.”
Awaad’s attorney said there was no intentional wrongdoing. Oakwood, now part of Beaumont Health, will appeal.
Woman drives motorhome into casino after she’s kicked out
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police say a woman who was angered when she was kicked out of a Las Vegas-area casino intentionally drove her motorhome into the building, injuring a custodian.
North Las Vegas Police spokesman Eric Leavitt says the 50-year-old woman was ejected from the Cannery casino one recent morning and drove her Winnebago motorhome into the building.
Leavitt says the woman hit a 66-year-old custodial worker who was outside the building.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the worker was critically injured but is expected to survive.
Leavitt told KVVU-TV that the woman kept hitting the gas and her vehicle was stuck in the building’s entrance. Employees had to remove the woman to get her to stop.
Leavitt says police who were already at the casino arrested the woman. Her identity was not immediately released.
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