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.
DETROIT — Diane Bukowski, a reporter for the African-American owned Michigan Citizen newspaper, faces sentencing today after being convicted of felony police obstruction last month in a situation where she was arrested at the scene of a high-speed police chase crash in northeast Detroit last November.
Bukowski and others have labeled the prosecution as retribution for her previous reporting on police brutality and justice issues in Detroit, especially since one state trooper involved in her arrest admitted to destroying evidence from the scene. Despite these lingering questions, a jury — made up primary of white suburbanites — convicted her.
Today, Bukowski will be sentenced for charges of police obstruction. Bukowski has said in a statement that state troopers comitted perjury when they testified against her during the trial.
The sentencing will start at 9 a.m. in front of Judge Michael Hathaway, Room 501, Wayne County Circuit Court, 1441 St. Antoine in Detroit.
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