I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The Livingston County Prosecutor announced yesterday that he will not seek charges against 19 teenagers who were found to possess nude images of a 14-year-old girl.
Prosecutor David Morse told the Lansing State Journal that while possessing and distributing the pictures was a criminal act, he felt the school officials and parents handled the situation well.
“We felt the school took appropriate actions by imposing suspensions,” Morse said. “Most of the parents in this case dealt with it appropriately.
“We didn’t feel it was necessary for us to file any criminal charges. We didn’t have any expectations there would be greater lessons learned by filing criminal charges and hanging sex-related convictions around some 14-year-olds’ necks.”
The pictures were taken this summer by the 14-year-old, and police had said she was “clowning around.” But when students at Pickney returned to school and word got out the pictures existed, the pictures began circulating from cell phone to cell phone.
Morse had indicated he might seek child pornography charges against the students who had the pictures on their cell phones. An investigation by police began when some one printed the pictures off and identified the girl. The investigation determined the pictures were sent to as many as 200 cell phones, but only 19 people were identified.
The incident served to highlight the results of a recent survey that shows many young adults and teenagers are involved in sending sexual images and messages with technology like cell phones and the internet.
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