iip mmmmm *^^w ^*ww w^*^^^m ]• ii m m m i Seniors, Kroger have winning partnership, A3 •Honu5Ib\vn « <HI*H NUA1 fM'St* Nl-~1 VlOllK^ Putting you In touch Sunday with your world September 12,1999 Serving the Westland Community for 35 years VOLUME 35 NUMBER 29 WESTLAND. MICHIGAN • 64 PAGES • http://observer-eccentric.eom SEVENTV-RVE CENTS . O 1899 IlomeTowji Communication! Network/Inc. So young Child death nets man 13-20 years Hassan Clark of Westland has pleaded no con der involving first-degree child abuse. cuit Judge Patricia Fresard also will test to second-degree murder in the death of 2- He would have faced life in prison incorporate his punishment for a sepa yeaivold Michael Towne. Clark was accused of without parole if convicted, Bullock rate Westland death in February 1998, said. when he drove across a center line and beating the child to death while baby-sitting Clark, 30, was accused of beating hit another car head-on. him Jan. 14. Michael Towne to death while baby-sit Clark faced trial for negligent homi ting him Jan. 14 at The Orchards of cide and a possible two-year sentence STAJF PHOTO BY BRYAN MITCHELL BY DARRELL CLEM Thursday to second-degree murder for STAFF WRITER the death of toddler Michael Towne. Newburgli, where Clark shared an for the death of Jessie Dwayne Ridner,
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