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Sierra Clubfiles lawsuitagainstDTE EnergyBy Alan BurdziakThe News-Herald

RIVER ROUGE TheSierra Clubs Michiganchapter announced the fil-ing of a lawsuit yesterday inU.S. District Court againstDTE Energy, alleging therehave been a combined 1,499violations of the federalClean Air Act at four areapower plants betweenJanuary 2007 and June 30,2012.

Public data on opacity measurements at the four plants Belle River and St. Clair power plants in St. Clair Countyand the Trenton Channel and River Rouge power plantsDownriver form the crux of the Sierra Clubs allega-tions.

DTE Energy is required by law to submit the data to theMichigan Department of Environmental Quality.

Opacity is the measurement of the transparency of emis-sions from smokestacks at the plants. The more opaque theemissions, the more pollutants they have.

The Sierra Club says opacity rates, which are man-dated to be a six-minute average of 20 percent except forone six-minute average of up to 27 percent, are too highon a regular basis. Because of these violations, the com-plaint alleges, an unlawful amount of particulate matter,sulfur and nitrogen oxide, mercury and other pollutantsis expelled into the atmosphere, contributing to health

By Jim KasubaThe News-Herald

WYANDOTTE Themother of two young chil-dren who suffered scaldedfeet after standing insteaming hot water Nov. 7has been acquitted of twocounts of second-degreechild abuse.

During a March 1 benchtrial, Wayne County CircuitJudge Richard Skutt foundErica Anne Bohn, 25, notguilty of the charges.

We decline to commenton the verdict in the Bohn

case, said MariaMiller, directorof communica-tions for theWayne CountyProsecutorsOffice.

Bohn andBrandon EdwardSoules, 29, arethe parents ofa 4-year-old daughter and2-year-old son. The chargesstem from an incident at aresidence in the 300 blockof Kings Highway that wasshared by the couple andthe childrens maternal

grandparents.Fire

Departmentparamedics, whoarrived first, saidthe childrensfeet had beenburned by hotbath water. Theyadded that theparents appeared

to be under the influenceof narcotics. Police arrivedshortly thereafter and con-curred.

The grandfather toldauthorities he found thechildren screaming and cry-

ing as they huddled togetherin the bathtub, with Soulessitting on the toilet unre-sponsive and not doinganything to help them. Hesaid he didnt know whereBohn was.

Bohn told police she wasgetting the children clothesout of a closet when sheheard them screaming.When an officer asked whyshe didnt check on the chil-dren after hearing this, shereportedly said she thoughther 2-year-old son mighthave bumped his head onsomething.

The children were takento Childrens Hospital ofMichigan in Detroit, wherethey were treated andreleased.

Soules was arrested Dec.

4 and Bohn was arrestedDec. 5 after the prosecutorsoffice issued warrants onthe child abuse charges.

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Sixth-grader brings $20,000 to schoolBy David KomerThe News-Herald

TAYLOR A student came to school with $20,000 inher backpack Monday morning.

The sixth-grade girl, who attends the Sixth GradeAcademy, 13500 Pine, showed up with the large sum ofcash, Police Chief Mary Sclabassi said.

The school called police after discovering the money.Officers were sent to the school and brought the cashback to the police station.

Investigators are talking with the parents to find outmore, Sclabassi said.

It is certainly very unusual, she said. (Theschool) and our officers are looking into it.

Contact Staff Writer David Komer at 1-734-246-0866or dkomer@heritage.com.

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Lincoln Parkgraduateslife ended bydrunken driverin Texas

Fathergrievesloss ofMarine

son

By Jackie Harrison-MartinThe News-Herald

SAN ANGELO, TEXAS When

representatives of the U.S. MarineCorps knocked on Don Di Pietrosdoor in Wyandotte early Sundaymorning, he relived a nightmare.

The first time that happened, hewas told his brother, Robert, a 24-year-old Army specialist, had beenkilled in Vietnam.

This time, he was told that hisson, who had been rising throughthe ranks as a Marine stationed inTexas, had been killed.

Donald Di Pietro, 28, a LincolnPark High School graduate, died atabout 7:30 p.m. Saturday after themotorcycle he was driving collided

with a pickup truck.The driver of the pickup, Malcolm

McBurnett, was charged withintoxication manslaughter with avehicle, according to reports pub-lished in the Standard Times in SanAngelo.

Fighting through tears, his fathersaid he knew his son was gone assoon as he opened his door.

It was like deja vu from this, hesaid, pointing to a newspaper articleabout his brother, Another GI diesin Vietnam, sitting on a table infront of him.

Di Pietro, in disbelief that he istalking about his son in the pasttense, is devastated by the fact thathis son had been in the MarineCorps going on nine years and hadeverything to live for when his lifewas cut short, and it involved a manwho was awaiting trial on a chargeof driving while intoxicated three ormore times.

Military personnel told Di Pietrothat his son had been promoted tostaff sergeant, but he died before theannouncement was made.

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Staff Sgt. Donald Di Pietro, a Lincoln Park High School graduate, waskilled Saturday in San Angelo, Texas, while riding his motorcycle. Hewas stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base.

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