After leaving his mother in a house fire a 43-year-old Ypsilanti Township man was shot and killed during a confrontation with the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office.

At approximately 12:10 a.m. Sunday a witness reported a home in the 1200 block of Pageant, Ypsilanti Twp was on fire and that one male suspect was seen leaving the premises with a gun. The caller also stated that they believed that the suspect's mother was still in the home.

The Ypsilanti District Library has extended its application deadline for a position on the Board of Trustees.

Residents of the City of Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti Township, or the portion of Superior Township legally served by YDL, who are interested in filling a vacancy on the Ypsilanti District Library Board of Trustees should submit an application to the Library Director (Ypsilanti District Library, 5577 Whittaker Road, Ypsilanti, MI 48197) by July 15, 2009.

An environmentally conscious person might change a couple of habits to do their part for the environment. Recycle, instead of throwing paper in the trash or bike instead of driving.

Well, how about installing solar panels to a, house or better yet, a historic building in the city? Think that’s going a little above and beyond? Tell that to Ypsilanti resident Dave Strenski.
The applications analyst at Cray Inc. makes high performance computers at his day job, and then leaves to install solar panels on historic buildings in Ypsilanti.

NIZHNY PANJ, Tajikistan — In August 2007, the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan walked side by side with the U.S. commerce secretary across a new $37 million concrete bridge that the Army Corps of Engineers designed to link two of Central Asia’s poorest countries.

Dressed in a gray suit with an American flag pin in his lapel, then-Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said the modest two-lane span that U.S. taxpayers paid for would be “a critical transit route for trade and commerce” between Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The head of Congress was sworn in as president of Honduras on Sunday, while ousted democratically elected leader Manuel Zelaya — clad in an undershirt — declared from Costa Rica that his expulsion was the product of an illegal coup by power-hungry elitists.

The Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents passed a tuition increase Tuesday afternoon, as well as an operating budget for the 2009-2010 academic year.

The tuition and fee increase of 3.82 percent means that a full-time undergraduate student taking 30 credit hours per year can expect an average increase of $308 on their yearly tuition bill. A full time master’s student can expect an increase of $404 dollars for tuition.