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A Kearns man is facing several criminal charges after police say he tried to kidnap a 13-year-old girl until her mother intervened. Miguel Angel Vega Sedano, 21, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with attempted child kidnapping, a first-degree felony; and two counts of possessing someone else's identification, a class A misdemeanor... Sedano allegedly told investigators he came to the U.S. from Peru illegally in 2021. When he was arrested, police say he was carrying a Social Security card and U.S. Permanent Resident Card that belonged to someone else.

In his latest legal effort to block a state law granting drivers licenses to immigrants living here illegally, Erie County Clerk Michael "Mickey" Kearns will seek an injunction to prevent the state from enacting the Green Light law. **SNIP** The federal lawsuit, which he filed Monday evening, follows steps he took last month to seek federal court clarification on whether county clerks can be legally compelled to offer the licenses, which Kearns said violates federal law. **SNIP** "I have been adamant since Day 1 that my objection to issuing driver’s licenses to those unlawfully present in the United States is...

DETROIT -- Robert Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, has died of cancer, according to family members. He was 77. Kearns died Feb. 9 at his home in suburban Baltimore and was buried in Michigan on a misty Valentine's Day. "It was going just enough to have the wipers going on intermittent. I thought, `How appropriate,'" Kearns' daughter, Maureen Kearns, told the Detroit Free Press for a story published Friday. Kearns was born in Gary, Ind., and grew up in suburban Detroit. He was a member of the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency,...