DETROIT – Another busy week came and went in Metro Detroit. Here's a look at some of the week's top headlines from ClickOnDetroit.com.
Baby's grave mysteriously dug up
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Mario Al-Asadi was born prematurely, died Jan. 15, 2013
What started as an emotional send-off for a baby who suffocated when he was left alone in an Allen Park motel has turned into a crime scene after someone dug up the grave.
Mario Al-Asadi was born prematurely and was 6 months old when he died Jan. 15, 2013. His parents, Terri Othwaite-Julite and Saad Al-Asadi, were charged after prosecutors said they left him without adult supervision in a crib that had medical equipment and blankets in it.
Charges against Saad Al-Sadi were dropped, but Othwaite-Julite pleaed guilty to involuntary manslaughter and child abuse.
Mario's body went unclaimed in the morgue for three years until community members came together to give him a funeral. Mortuary students buried Mario on March 23 at the Our Lady of Hope Cemetery in Brownstown Township.
You can read more about the story here.
Father, son accused of keeping teen shackled by ankle in basement
An Ohio man and his 27-year-old son kept a teenage girl shackled in a basement for as long as a year, according to court documents.
Timothy Ciboro, 53, and Esten Ciboro, 27, were taken into custody early Thursday at their home on Noble Street in Toledo. Esten is charged with kidnapping to terrorize or to inflict serious physical harm. Timothy is charged with endangering children, torture and cruelly abusing a child. Both are being held on $500,000 bond.
Court documents say the 13-year-old girl told investigators the men are her stepfather and stepbrother, and that she was shackled by the ankle to a support beam in the darkened basement. She also had to go to the bathroom in a bucket that contained ammonia, according to court documents.
Police said the men fed her spoiled and old scraps of food.
You can see more pictures and read the full complaint here.
Michigan's Bath School disaster remains deadliest of its kind in US history
May 18, 1927, is a date etched into the fabric of a small Michigan town.
Bath Township, known for being home to the worst mass murder at a school in U.S. history, is about 100 miles northwest of Detroit.
In 1927, the town of about 300 people was home to a gruesome attack at its school. The attack was executed by a former school board member, Andrew Kehoe, who was seeking revenge for losing an election.
His rampage killed 45 and injured 58.
Read ClickOnDetroit's full coverage of the disaster here.
New rule expands overtime pay to millions of workers
Change to go into effect Dec. 1
Starting later this year, millions of formerly ineligible workers will become eligible for overtime pay.
Under a new rule announced by the White House Tuesday, anybody making a salary of less than $47,476 ($913 a week) will automatically qualify for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week.
That's roughly double the $23,660 threshold (or $455 a week) that's currently in place.
The change -- which has been criticized as too drastic by many employers -- will go into effect on Dec. 1, 2016. It is intended to expand access to overtime pay for otherwise low-salaried workers who log long hours but have been treated as exempt from overtime because they perform some managerial duties.
Vice President Joe Biden characterized the changes as "restoring and expanding access to the middle class."
The percent of salaried workers automatically eligible for overtime has fallen to 7 percent from 62 percent in 1975. Under the new threshold, 35 percent of salaried workers will become automatically eligible, according to Labor Secretary Thomas Perez.
The new threshold will be updated every three years to make sure it stays at the 40th percentile of full-time salaries in the lowest income region of the country. Based on wage growth projections, that means it could rise to $51,000 by 2020.
Read full details about the new rule here.
More than 30,000 gallons of sewage spill into Ann Arbor park
Residents were warned Monday after more than 30,000 gallons of sewage spilled into Bird Hills Park in Ann Arbor.
One couple said they could smell the stench of sewage the moment they stepped out of their home. They said they first called the city Friday night to complain.
City officials said they couldn't find the cause of the smell until Monday. A public works crew found a sanitary sewer manhole flowing into the woods. Roots had grown through the sewer pipe, blocking the flow.
Crews removed the roots from the pipe Monday.
You can see more pictures and watch Priya Mann's report on the spill here.
Usher roams around Detroit and Snapchats
Music superstar Usher visited Detroit Tuesday and documented it all on his Snapchat Story.
The pop singer took a trip to Detroit's Eastern Market, showing off some of the popular murals.
He then stopped by the Motown Museum, where he took time to honor some of his favorite Motown artists, including Marvin Gaye.
Usher was in town to appear at the Ford Freedom Award ceremony on Tuesday night.
You can see several of his pictures in Detroit here.
12 kilos of cocaine discovered during traffic stop
A driver is in custody after police found 12 kilograms of suspected cocaine in his vehicle Sunday morning during a traffic stop in Canton Township, according to police.
A PT Cruiser was pulled over for defective equipment. Michigan State Police brought a narcotics detection dog, which indicated to officers the odor of narcotics was coming from the vehicle.
Upon searching the vehicle, officers seized 12 kilograms of suspected cocaine.
The 32-year-old driver was arrested and is being held at the Canton Police Department.
Does video of 1995 Mike Tyson fight show time traveler using smartphone?
There's something fishy about the footage from this 1995 Mike Tyson fight — a man sitting ringside appears to be filming the bout with a smartphone.
A sea of smartphones recording an event may be common today, but back in 1995, it would have been a unique — and impossible — sight.
The internet went going wild with theories and headlines like: "Video captures time travel" and "Did time traveler film Tyson fight?"
But the mystery has now been solved. The device the spectator was holding was a Dycam Logitech camcorder – a primitive personal video recorder that was actually around in 1995.
Strange images of modern technology seeming to appear in vintage footage have appeared on the internet before, sparking additional time travel theories.
The 1928 Charlie Chaplin film, "The Circus," It showed a woman walking with what appeared to be a cellphone pressed against her head.
Read more about this story here.
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