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.
Dean Agee, a Kent County Commissioner, is facing charges if careless discharge of a weapon following a July 18 shooting event at his Osceola County property.
According to a report in the Grand Rapids Press, Osceola County Sheriff’s officers were dispatched to the property after complaints that a nearby camp ground was taking fire.
Bullets from a .50-caliber machine gun also struck a pickup and a camper at the 4-H fairgrounds, where several hundred people were at the Dulcimer Funfest. Other festival participants reported seeing bursts of dust from bullets striking the ground.
Another couple about a mile south of Agee’s farm reported finding a .50-caliber bullet near a pole barn.
Video and photographs obtained by the Press show participants in the shooting event — dubbed “play” by one of the participants — used a 50-caliber machine gun. In addition, photos show, and police reports indicate, that Agee and his friends had a stash of weapons with them including: a 1927-model Thompson machine gun, an Uzi machine gun with a suppressor, a “Desert Eagle” .50 caliber pistol, a rifle with an attached grenade launcher, several variants of the Russian-made AK-47, an Uzi “Paratrooper” and a World War II-era German machine gun.
Agee, R-Grand Rapids Township, has owned the 110 acre property for 13 years. The property is located in Evart, 80 miles north of Grand Rapids.
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