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PANIC IN DETROIT? Vol. 186, Number 349 2017 Detroit Free Press Printed in the U.S. $1.50 ONGUARDFOR185YEARS Tuesday4.18.2017 www.freep.com 4C 8A 10A 2C 2A 6A 3C 1C 2A 3A 6C 4-5C 1B INDEX WARM AND MOSTLY SUNNY Rain is back on Wednesday FORECAST, 2A 65 53 High Low GREAT LAKES IN DANGER? Report: Trump budget cuts may close EPA office in Chicago METRO, 3A DRAWING BOARD Design a future Dodge car and win a scholarship BUSINESS, 8A TAX DAY Need more time? Just ask the IRS BUSINESS, 9A JULIE The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon on display. BACK MAY NEED REST SPORTS, 3B Miguel Cabrera Francisco Rodriguez LIKE EVERY SEASON, BULLPEN AN OBSTACLE TO SUCCESS SHAWN WINDSOR, 1B A19-year-old man accused of firing a shot that injured two officersSunday night apparently mistook police responding to a burglary call for home intruders. One of the officers was hit by two shotgun pellets in his face and underwent surgery Monday at Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit, and the other has been released from the hospital, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said.

good news is both are going to he told reporters outside the hospital. The shooting happened about 11:45 p.m. in the 20500 block of Lesure Street when police responded to a burglary call. Craig said the teen, for the safety of his fired a single shot from inside the home, which struck the officers in front of the house on west side, near 8Mile and Schaefer Highway. facts tend to suggest that the shot In Detroit, just 1 shot injures 2 officers Man who fired thought they were home intruders By Elisha Anderson and Perry A.

Farrell Detroit Free Press See SHOOTING, Page7A For 43 straight years, she worked at a hamburger stand. Seven days per week, 12-14 hours per shift, Duka Milanovic and her husband cooked, cleaned dishes and chatted with customers at the small, white-paneled Diner in Dearborn. got the other said Mila- novic, whose customers knew her as Denise. time off. No vacation.

No nothing. But I mind being that long in working. I love to Milanovic, 68, worked now for about 2 1 2 years. They closed the restaurant after her husband, Vladimir, became ill. He died in June.

Now, retired and hoping to sell the property at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Calhoun Street, where they had worked since 1974. The building opened July 13, 1954, as a White Tower Hamburgers, before the chain sold it. And the Milanovics must have taken good care of it: one of only about 25 still recognizable of the roughly 350 White Tower burger stands that opened during the mid-20th Century, said William Whitaker, curator and collections manager with architectural archives of the University of Pennsylvania Closed Dearborn grill rare link to White Tower chain ROBERT FREE PRESS The original White Tower graphic is visible above the front door of the now-closed Diner in Dearborn. one of about 25 designs still recognizable of the roughly 350 burger stands that opened in the mid-20th Century. FREE PRESS FILE PHOTO AWhite Tower Hamburger restaurant stands on the corner of Griswold and Larned in downtown Detroit.

The little burger stand is long gone. AQUICK BITE OF HISTORY Atumultuous start to Macomb County of Deeds Karen first year in office hit another bump last week when she ducked into a restroom to avoid a TV news reporter and then had an employee call 911 to report she and wanted to stop asking her about problems in her office. Spranger who less than four months into her tenure is facing a federal whistle- blower lawsuitand possible litigation on another matter had Deputy Register of Deeds Jacqueline Ryan call 911 to report the media was harassing Spranger, after she left ameeting at the county administration building last Tuesday, according to 911 tapes and police reports obtained by the Free Press through the Freedom of Information Act. Ryan told the dispatcher that Spranger Macomb clerk has aide call 911: Reporters harassing me By Christina Hall Detroit Free Press See MACOMB, Page7A The doctor insists it cutting. But the judge convinced and locked her up.

In a historic female genital mutilation case that has planted a on what prosecutors are calling an religious ritual, afederal magistrate on Monday denied bond to an Indian- Muslim doctor accused of mutilating the genitals of two Minnesota girls at a Livonia medical clinic. The decision to lock up Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, 44, of Northville, came after federal prosecutors called her a flight risk and a danger to the community, saying she has hurt numerous girls for years, knowing it was wrong, and even ignored a 2016 directive by her religious community not to engage in female genital mutilation because illegal in the U.S. But it just the words that did the doctor in. Rather, an admission by the own lawyer seemed to weigh heavily with the judge, who in a heated exchange pressed the defense attorney to explain what exactly her client did to two 7-year-old girls on a February night in the undisclosed suburban clinic.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Mona Majzoub questioned why the two girls were at the clinic after hours, and, why the doctor kept no records of the visits and never billed for them. With her hand trembling as she clutched some documents in the standing-room-only courtroom, defense attorney Shannon Smith disclosed that Nagarwala did perform a procedure on the genitals, but stressed that it cutting. Rather, she said, the doctor removed a membrane from the genitals, using a wrapped it in gauze Judge: Doctor a danger to the public JERRY TO THE DETROIT FREE PRESS Acourtroom sketch shows U.S. Magistrate Judge Mona Majzoub, center, and Dr.

Jumana Nagarwala, right, on Monday in Detroit. Bond denied in alleged mutilation case involving young girls By Tresa Baldas Detroit Free Press See DOCTOR, Page5A PROTESTERS OBJECT TO PRACTICE OF MALE CIRCUMCISION 7A By Robert Allen Detroit Free Press See WHITE TOWER, Page5A.

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