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.
Five former Blackwater guards have plead not guilty to fourteen counts of voluntary manslaughter and twenty counts of attempted manslaughter. The charges were brought by a federal grand jury over the guards’ involvement in a firefight at a checkpoint in Baghdad that left seventeen Iraqis dead and many more injured in September 2007.
A sixth guard present at the time has plead guilty to the charges and may testify against the others. The guards on trial face up to thirty years to life in prison if convicted. They are accused of opening fire on a crowd of unarmed Iraqi civilians with automatic weapons.
The guards were removed from Iraq, but not charged with anything for nearly fourteen months because rules set by the Coalition Provisional Authority, the American governing body in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, they were not subject to Iraqi laws or courts. The recently signed Status of Forces Agreement changes that, which has led to some speculation that Blackwater may pull out of the country altogether.
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