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WESTERLY — Michael “Spike” Lobdell, founder, president and CEO of New England Science & Sailing in Stonington, has joined a distinguished group of local residents. Lobdell, widely applauded for creating one of the most successful community sailing programs in the country, is this year’s Citizen of the Year, an award bestowed by the Ocean Community Chamber of Commerce and considered by many to be the highest honor for business leaders in the two-state region. Established in 1957, the award recognizes the “outstanding leadership” and the “exceptional ...

DETROIT - A judge on Thursday ordered the release of a man who had spent more than 15 years in prison for the firebombing deaths of two children in a De...

A judge has ordered the release of a man who has spent more than 15 years in prison for the firebombing deaths of two children in a Detroit home

WMU-Cooley Law School Innocence Project Gains Another Release Published: February 18, 2021 Kenneth Nixon hugs his mother after being released from prison after 16 years. (Photo: WMU-Cooley Law School. Used by permission) When Wayne County Judge Bruce Morrow set aside the conviction of Kenneth Nixon today, it was another legal victory for the Western Michigan University Innocence Project. Morrow's ruling confirmed Nixon was wrongfully convicted of murder, attempted murder and arson in 2005. Some background on the case: On May 19, 2005, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a home on Charleston st...

Detroit Free Press After serving 16 years behind bars, Kenneth Nixon walked out of prison as a free man and was reunited with his family after felony murder charges were dismissed Thursday by a Wayne County Circuit Court judge. Nixon was granted relief by Judge Bruce Morrow after an investigation found that he failed to receive a fair trial. He was immediately released from Michigan Reformatory in Ionia. Nixon, 34, was sentenced to two life terms in connection to a Detroit house bombing that killed a 10-year-old boy and an infant in 2005. He was 18 at the time. Nixon and his girlfriend ...