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Legions of metro Detroit Catholics knew Father Solanus Casey as a miracle worker. And onSaturday, the Catholic Church recognized the Capuchin friar as one, too, declaringhim in a ceremony at Ford Field. The rare cere- mony put Casey, who co-founded the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, one step and one miracle away from being declared a Catholic saint. ceremony was the third time a mass has occurred in the U.S. The event brought a worldwide spotlight to Detroit and the legendary priest, whose prayers and presence gave comfort to visitors from illness and trauma when he was the doorkeeper of St.

Bonaventure Monastery on the east side in 1924-45. Casey died in 1957. THE BEATIFICATION OF FATHER SOLANUS CASEY A STEP TOWARD SAINTHOOD SPECIAL Cardinal Angelo Amato from Rome, a Prefect of the Vatican and repre- sentative of Pope Francis, blesses a portrait of Father Solanus Casey on Saturday. MANDI Detroit Capuchin declared in rare Catholic event Patricia Montemurri, Niraj Warikoo, Ann Zaniewski, Hasan Dudar Detroit Free Press USA TODAY NETWORK See CASEY, Page 12A More inside next after 12A Metro Detroiters share tales of healing power. 13A Prices and items are effective at your local Kroger store thru Thursday, November 23, 2017.

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Past trips brought some degree of anxiety. It had been nearly three decades since 21- year-old James Warren was fatally shot in the neck, blocks away from their childhood home on west side. And, for years, War- ren-Gibbs struggled to come to terms with her murder. There was grief in losing James. This genu- ine, charming, easygoing big brother was gone forever.

There was also, however, a discomfort with what followed. While family members, including her mother, had been adamant about everyone responsible for death serving the maximum prison time, Warren-Gibbs felt When 15-year-old Bobby Hines, the youngest defendant in her case, was convicted as an adult of mur- der and sentenced to life without parole, War- ren-Gibbs says she felt her stomach drop. remember crying, I lost him, she re- calls, thinking back to that summer of 1989. just took his life away, and it bring my brother Not only was Hines young a chunky eighth-grader at the time but he reminded Warren-Gibbs of James. Both had been short, Juvenile justice war wages on in Mich.

Some inmates gain release but state, families want life sentences to stay Allie Gross Detroit Free Press USA TODAY NETWORK See JUVENILES, Page 8A Valencia Warren-Gibbs has spent a lot of her life dealing with her brother James killing in 1989 by a trio of teens. Of the one who got a life sentence, she says: forgave him a long time ROMAIN CLINTON TOWNSHIP When a customer brought a Keno ticket to Party Stop in Clinton Township, retailer Don Kallo ran the ticket through his lottery terminal, declared it a loser and tore it in half. Kallo, the spouse of store operator Linda Kallo, then took the torn ticket a $2,517 win- ner to the Michigan Lottery Bureau to re- deem it. Suspicious lottery investigated and learned Kallo purchased the ticket, as he claimed, records show. was determined the ticket had been pur- chased by a customer who had been told by Mr.

Kallo the ticket was not a winner and ripped the according to lottery records Lottery cracks down on retailers who break rules Paul Egan Detroit Free Press USA TODAY NETWORK See LOTTERY, Page 22A One-on-one with Stan Van Gundy Mitch Albom interviews the Detroit Pistons coach who is going to keep speaking out on controversial topics SPORTS, 1C.