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Wayne-Westland Community Schools has a policy that states that homeschooled students who want to attend a dance such as Homecoming would have to come from an “accredited” homeschool. That would effectively ban homeschoolers from attending dances held by the district since homeschoolers have no reason to be accredited and the state doesn’t require it. Karen Braun, a nationally recognized homeschooling activist in Michigan, said the school district is putting an unfair and unnecessary burden upon homeschoolers. Braun said parents contacted her and said their daughter, a homeschooling student, was invited to the upcoming Homecoming dance within the Wayne-Westland district. The...

The owner of a Westland tobacco shop was arrested for trading cigarettes for sex with teenagers. Police set up a cyber sting and the man took the bait. A tipster told police Jonathan Nunoo, the owner of All Stars Mini Mart in Westland, was making deals for sex with underage girls.

A plan to rebuild on a former school site, which was closed for more than 10 years due to toxins, is causing concern in Westland. The Cooper School site, located on Ann Arbor Trail east of Middlebelt, was a former landfill, but was capped and considered safe, Local 4 reported. The school was closed after mercury and cancer-causing toxins were discovered, according to the report.

A number of key capability shortfalls must be addressed if the UK's Apache AH Mk 1 attack helicopter is to achieve its planned initial operating capability (IOC) in August 2004, according to a report published by the UK's National Audit Office (NAO). Failure to remedy these issues will cause further delays to the £4.1 billion ($6.3 billion) project, and result in a "significant capability gap" during the development of an air manoeuvre force, the document warns. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) awarded Westland Helicopters - now part of AgustaWestland - a £2 billion prime contract in April 1996 to...