
Ruta Ulcinaite
Reporter at WXYZ-TV (Southfield, MI)
Formerly at KMTV Omaha - FOX 17 Grand Rapids - Now WXYZ Detroit | Immigrant 🇱🇹 | Product of @msujschool | Just the messenger
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2 days ago |
wxyz.com | Ruta Ulcinaite |Marlon Falconer
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (WXYZ) — At a Hamtramck City Council meeting Tuesday night, members voted to keep two councilmen who are accused of not living in the city. Hamtramck police have launched their own investigation into fraud and perjury and turned their findings over to Michigan State Police to reduce conflict of interest. MSP is now investigating the matter criminally.
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6 days ago |
wxyz.com | Ruta Ulcinaite |Jordan Nagel
EASTPOINTE, Mich. — A former paraprofessional with Forest Park Elementary School in Eastpointe is facing assault and battery charges after allegedly striking a 6-year-old student with autism in the head with his own shoe. The Macomb County prosecutor's office alleges 53-year-old Kimberley Horen took the child's shoe off before hitting the first grader with it last October. Tabatha Woodward is the mother of Ryder Sobieski, who is mostly nonverbal.
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1 week ago |
wxyz.com | Ruta Ulcinaite |Marlon Falconer
WARREN, Mich. (WXYZ) — The first-ever pope from the United States has a personal connection to local Catholic school leader Brother Ken Kalinowski, the principal of De La Salle Collegiate in Warren. Kalinowski knew Pope Leo XIV during their time together at Villanova University near Philadelphia and has even kept a gift from him all these years later that hangs over his desk. "Father Bob was the jovial, friendly, what you saw is what you got. He was just so charismatic," Kalinowski said.
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1 week ago |
fox17online.com | Ruta Ulcinaite |Jordan Nagel
REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) — After a student was shot on board a South Redford School District school bus Wednesday afternoon at Thurston High School, students who were there recount the terrifying moments of confusion and fear.
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1 week ago |
wxyz.com | Ruta Ulcinaite |Jordan Nagel
REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) — After a student was shot on board a South Redford School District school bus Wednesday afternoon at Thurston High School, students who were there recount the terrifying moments of confusion and fear. Redford Township police confirmed that a student was shot Wednesday. School officials sent a letter to parents saying the student was shot in the hand and is expected to be OK after receiving medical treatment.
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