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 — Sam Riddle, a political consultant and former aide to embattled Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, said he won’t make a plea deal with the FBI unless the agency agrees to leave his friend, congressional candidate Mary Waters, out of the investigation.
Riddle insists that Waters has done nothing wrong and is only being investigated because their friendship.
Riddle told the Detroit Free Press that his lawyer told him the feds want Waters to drop her 2010 congressional bid as part of any plea deal with him.
“She can’t be collateral damage just because she knows me,” Riddle said of Waters, according to the Free Press.
Waters, who last year ran unsuccessfully to unseat U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of the 13th Congressional District, resigned from her post at the Wayne County prosecutor’s office this spring.
It is not clear whether her resignation is linked to the FBI probe surrounding Riddle.
Riddle has not been offered a plea deal yet according to his lawyer, David Steingold.
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