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 city of Detroit paid out $349,000 to silence a man who accused two Detroit Police Officers of beating him and conducting an illegal body cavity search.
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that the Detroit Law Department made the pay out to Byron Ogletree, 43, of River Rouge in March of 2007. He alleges the incident occurred on May 31, 2006. Ogletree was charged in drug related offenses from the incident, but those charges were dismissed by a judge because the video from the police car dash cam had not been kept.
The city authorizes the Law Department to make payouts on complaints not issued as lawsuits, as was the case with Ogletree.
The two officers accused in the incident, Michael Parish and Michael Osman, have been accused by at least 11 other men of unlawful body searches. They have sued, and received settlements of up to $25,000.
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