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4A WWW.FREEP.COM TUESDAY, METRO Region PORT HURON TOWNSHIP Milk spill pours out along I-94 The smell of milk begging to be mopped up lingered Monday on westbound I-94 after a milk tanker rolled over, spilling some of its 11,000 gallons. The interstate was temporarily closed after the crash at 9:30 a.m., which began when aDearborn Heights man ran out of gas and parked his Nissan SUV in the right lane of the highway. The milk tanker swerved, but clipped the SUV, and broke apart. The tanker rolled, while the cab went in the ditch. No one was injured, but a sour odor soon rose in the warm sun as milk continued to steadily spill from the tank and fill a ditch.

A contractor is expected to complete the cleanup. DETROIT Man accused of using laser pointer at trooper ARoseville man is facing charges after allegedly shining a laser pointer into the eyes of a Michigan State Police trooper traveling on I-94. Michigan State Police Lt. Mike Shaw said Jonathan Rayner, 32, was arraigned Sunday at the Detroit Detention Center on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and assaulting, resisting, or obstructing a police officer. Shaw said a passenger in an approaching vehicle shone the laser into the eyes of the trooper Friday night.

He said other troopers located the vehicle, retrieved the laser and arrested Rayner. Michigan MUSKEGON 8-year-old suspected in death An 8-year-old is suspected in the death of a 1-year-old boy who was left unsupervised in a home day care center. The mother, Bryanna Reasonover, said that when she arrived to pick up the toddler and two other kids Friday, her son, Korey Brown, was in a playpen, unresponsive. Early investigations reveal there were adults in the home, but the children were left unsupervised for an unknown period of time, Muskegon Police Chief Jeffrey Lewis told WZZM-TV (Grand Rapids). believed Korey was crying when the other child stepped in to help.

The prime witness is 5, Lewis said. Reasonover described her son as a joyful baby who just started walking a few weeks ago. LANSING Legislation expected to repair Capitol Lawmakers have been down in the guts of the Capitol on rainy days to see the leaks, a statehouse official said. why John Truscott, vice chairman of the Michigan State Capitol Commission, said confident legislators will find a way to pay for the estimated $62.5 million in repairs and renovations needed in the mechanical guts of the 138-year-old building. He said true even as Republicans trim the budget to make room for a potential cut to the state income tax.

The building needs upgrades to its heating and cooling systems, pipes and other innards. The aging systems are putting the National Historic Landmark at risk; high humidity damages decorative paint, for example. The repairs, Truscott said, would either be funded through the capital outlay process, a formal mechanism for paying for state building upkeep, or through a general appropriation from the Legislature. STATEWIDE Police warn of suspect in Facebook killing Cleveland police warned residents of Michigan and three other states Monday to be on alert for a man they say posted a video on Facebook of a fatal shooting. Police tweeted that an aggravated murder warranthad been issued for Steve Stephens, 37, who said Sunday on Facebook that he had committed an day Police say the man claimed to have committed multiple other homicides.

Stephens was reported to be driving a white, late-model Ford Fusion with temporary Ohio tags. Police alerted residents of Pennsylvania, New York and Indiana, too. Detectives contacted suspect Stephens on his cell phone Sunday shortly after Robert Godwin, 74, was shot, Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said, but failed to convince him to turn himself in. Compiled from reports by Elissa Robinson, WZZM, Lansing State Journal, Port Huron Times Herald and the Associated Press NICOLE HERALD Firefighters investigate the overturned tanker. NICOLE HERALD Milk fills the ditch between lanes of I-94 after a semi came apart and the tanker turned over.

CLEVELAND POLICE Steve Stephens is suspected of a homicide on Facebook. note: A much shorter version of this obituary ran in paper. Songwriter and producer Sylvia Moy, who helped spark Stevie career while breaking barriers for women at Motown Records, died Saturday night at Beaumont (Oakwood) Hospital in Dearborn. She was 78. Moy, a Detroit native, gave Wonder his second Top 10 hit with The success won over Motown chief Berry Gordy Jr.

and earned Moy a trusted spot on the creative team. Often in tandem with collaborator Hank Cosby, she went on to co-write other key Wonder hits including Was Made to Love (1967) and Cherie (1969) with the Isley Old Heart of and the Marvin Gaye-Kim Weston duet Takes Moy died of apparent complications from pneumonia, following a stay in Harper University Hospital in Detroit, said her sister Anita Moy. broke that glass ceiling for women in the music said her brother Melvin Moy. the women encouraged to play instruments, let alone be Moy was one of nine children in a Detroit family with in our bloodlines on both as she told the Free Press last year, chuckling as she recalled the barbs from Motown staff that make it as a A2006 inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Moy spent her later years mentoring Detroit music students and operating Masterpiece Studios, the west-side Detroit recording facility that has drawn artists such as Kem. Schooled in music at Northern High School, she was encouraged by teachers to trek to New York for singing auditions, which failed to pan out.

But back at Caucus Club in 1963, Moy was spotted by Marvin Gaye and Mickey Stevenson, and was in- vited to head down to the West Grand Boulevard complex. came forth with a recording contract for me, a management contract and a contract which shocked she told the Free Press in 2016. I was told, get to you as a singer. But in the meantime, got all these artists and they have no material. going to have to I said OK.

Because I was kind of shy anyway. And so what I started doing. I got into it, and the hits started Despite early admonishments that as she recounted, Moy found herself increasingly welcomed to competitive production meetings, holding her own among a heavy-hitter crew that included Smokey Robinson, Holland- Dozier-Holland and others. The big break came via which Moy co- wrote with Cosby after hearing Wonder fiddling around on piano. voice had changed, and he just selling for a she said of the stretch following 1963 breakthrough hit, I just believed in him.

I knew it was possible (the label) might let him go. I was begging: give him to when I was finally told, if you can come up with a hit on him, keep Unable to transcribe her lyrics into braille for the blind teen singer, Moy guided him during the recording session by singing into his headphones as he went. stayed one line ahead of Stevie on she said. how we got that The track, cut with Cosby, Stevenson and Clarence Paul, soared to No.1 on chart and No.3 on the pop side. More prime-time credits followed for Moy: Was Made to Love Old Heart of Takes Cherie and Had a Dream Come a Wonder cut later covered by the Jackson 5.

Wonder paid tribute to Moy in 2006 at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony, showing up as a surprise guest to play gets an awful lot of credit, but as far as concerned, she was the beginning of so many of those said Pat Cosby, widow of Hank Cosby. the three of them, Sylvia with her imaginative mind was just (groundbreaking). If she were a man instead of a woman, there would have been a lot more have heard from her. But once her work became known, the resistance waned away, and the producers started looking at her differently and could see the value of what she was trying to Moy eventually launched a Detroit nonprofit group called Center for Creative Communications, working with underprivileged Detroit children to encourage them to live a good life, to do, because how our parents she told the Free Press last year. Arrangements will be handled by Swanson Funeral Home in Detroit.

Details have not been set. Contact Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or Sylvia Moy1938-2017 Motown pioneer a songwriter, producer By Brian McCollum Detroit Free Press Pop Music Critic PAT FREE PRESS Songwriter Sylvia Moy in her Masterpiece Studios in Detroit in 1995. ELK Since the nonprofit Silver Muzzle Cottage was founded a few years ago, donations came a few dollars at a time, raised through bake sales or donation jars on the front counters at local veterinarian offices. But since it was featured in the Free Press on Sunday, readers touched by the story of Kim hospice and rescue for senior dogshave given more than $12,000. Skarritt was stunned by the outpouring of generosity.

just kind of Skarritt said. was just utterly shocked at the response the messages, the donations. I was The money has been sorely needed. Silver Muzzle Cottage takes in old and sick dogs abandoned at animal shelters throughout the state, and the number keeps increasing as word spreads of her nonprofit rescue. Each dog that arrives averages an initial cost of about $325 for vaccinations, spaying and neutering, or medications.

And although Skarritt tries to adopt out as many dogs as she can, a handful remain on the premises for the rest of their short lives, care that comes at afinancial cost. The rescue also needs some infrastructure improvements, including a door directly into Silver Muzzle living- room space, so visitors have to cut through the courtyard full of playing dogs, who tend to mob visitors in their excitement. are grateful and overwhelmed by all of the love and support that we have re- Skarritt said. help is very much To donate to Silver Muzzle Cottage, go to gofundme.com/silvermuzzle. Readers shower dog hospice with donations Detroit Free Press staff RYAN FREE PRESS Volunteers Anita Marsy-Bosley of Elk Rapids and Christine Varner of Williamsburg sit with Kim Skarritt, right, in the living room.

Close to 100 volunteers take turns walking the dogs or cleaning the building. Development Co. was buying aging structures on Michigan Avenue in West Dearborn in the vicinity of the Post Bar, in a $60-million plan to build offices that could house about 600 Ford and Ford-supplier employees. Charara said he grew up in Dearborn and wanted only to invest in the downtown when he bought the Post Bar building. His wife, Jeannette Charara, 35, owns the bar business and has owned four other bars a topless bar in Toledo, Moe Charara said.

had no issues he said. Yet, Jeannette Charara appeared at a hearing of the Michigan Liquor Control Commission in September 2015 and successfully appealed a multiple violation order, agreeing to abide by numerous requirements including one to train bar supervisors not to continue serving patrons who are becoming intoxicated. City Council President Pro Tem Thomas Tafelski labels the Post Bar a public nuisance. Over the weekend, Dearborn police multiple fights, bottles being thrown and gunfire after 2 a.m.,” Tafelski said in an e-mail to the Free Press. chaos required response from all available police units plus additional backup from Dearborn The outdoor brawl was blatant of the agreement with the bar, is why I will be calling for an immediate revocation of the Post liquor Tafelski said Monday.

The agreement he cited was contained in a council resolution passed by unanimous vote last month. Moe and Jeannette Charara appeared on March 29 at a special meeting of the council to answer ongoing complaints. Although the couple agreed the to a resolution requiring them to pay for city police presence outside the bar, they found out what the police protection would cost, they and after the meeting refused to sign the agreement, Dearborn City Attorney Debbie Walling said. my office is trying to set up another meeting for another nuisance abatement to obtain a signed agreement from the Chararas, Walling said Monday. been a series of disruptions to the neighborhood that started she said.

The bar was in the news last April after police said they arrested a 28- year-old Sterling Heights woman for firing a gun twice at 2 a.m. in the parking lot. Police have frequently been called to the bar for complaints ranging from malicious destruction of property to assault, Dearborn City Councilman Robert Abraham said. Abraham said the owners to demonstrate poor judgment and at- tract customers that behave poorly in our In an e-mail he sent from Monday council meeting, Abraham said: have been a disproportionate number of incidents that include gunshots, fights and violations of ordinances. I sit back and wait for a tragic The owners of the Post Bar in Dearborn said they have no connection to bars with the same name that once operated in Auburn Hills, East Lansing, Ferndale, Novi, Detroit and elsewhere, all of which closed in recent years.

The Ferndale bar closed in 2011 after failing to pay $12,303 in city taxes, according to city documents. The original Post Bar opened in Detroit in 1978 and years later the name was licensed to open sports bars in the other locations, according to previous Free Press reports. Contact Bill Laitner: POST BAR: Owner says Dearborn wants his site for Ford development FROM PAGE 3A.