Michigan's Top 5: Our Most Popular Facebook Stories This Week

From a lucky dog named Eastwood to a spider blamed in an area car crash, check out the stories Michigan Patch readers were sharing, reading and commenting on for the week of May 8.

Food Trucks Every Wednesday at DAC

The public is welcome to enjoy portable cuisine each Wednesday from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. when food trucks park for lunch at the Dearborn Administrative Center, 16901 Michigan Avenue, just east of the Southfield Freeway. Prices and menus vary. Patch has the schedule, which extends through October.

Nagarwala, Accused Of Genital Cutting, May Lose Parental Rights

The Detroit area doctor at the center of a sweeping federal and state investigation into female genital cutting could lose custody of her two school-aged children, a boy and a girl. The practice has been condemned worldwide as a barbaric violation of women’s and girls’ human rights, but a religious ceremony in a Shia Muslim sect known as Dawoodi Bohra.

Birmingham Teacher To Appear on Jeopardy!

A Birmingham teacher is competing in this week’s “Jeopardy!” Teachers Tournament. The two-week event started May 8. Susannah Nichols, a high school English teacher at The Roeper School, appeared on the show Friday.

Detroit Pistons Coach Adopts Eastwood, Shelter’s Last, Overlooked Dog

In April, Eastwood, a partially blind Labrador with a bum leg, melted a lot of hearts, including those of Detroit Pistons Coach Stan Van Gundy and his family. Forty-nine dogs and cats were adopted during the Little Traverse Bay Humane Society’s “empty the shelter” event during the week ending April 29, but Eastwood, with his potentially sky-high veterinary bills, was left behind.

Spider Blamed In Michigan Crash: Driver 'Lost His Man Card Bigly'

Social media users were both sympathetic and snarky to a man police said was so distracted by a spider Sunday morning that he veered off a Michigan road, crashing into into a brushy ditch before a stand of trees stopped his SUV. He wasn’t injured, unless you count his pride. And man, did his pride ever take a drubbing from some of those commenting on a Leelanau County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post about the mishap.

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