Bob Pyles News Today

Daniel Pyles passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the The Independent on 2023-10-01.

Three Orchard Lake St. Marys students and their families claim a Catholic school rule that bars boarding school students from Detroit or Lansing.

A former longtime teacher claims Orchard Lake St. Marys Preparatory High School fired him after he relayed a students account of being sexually assaulted by older classmates.   Donald Ambrose taught literature at the Catholic school for more than 20 years until May 2019. He claims in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday that he was fired after pressing school officials to investigate the assault, which occurred on a weekend religious retreat. The school, which had enrolled only boys until 2020,�...

On Stateside, host April Baer talks to reporter Kate Wells about this story. But when Krol’s abuse was repeatedly reported to Orchard Lake’s board of trustees, which includes the Most Rev. Allen H. Vigneron, Archbishop of the Detroit Archdiocese, these men say they were either forced to resign or were abruptly fired. Krol is currently on leave, according to a statement from Steve Gross, Chairman of the Board of Regents:  “In our judgment, these former employees of the Orchard Lake Scho...