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—An attorney representing a man who says he was a victim of an illegal cavity search wants the city’s law department to release all documents related the $700,000 in payouts made to two other men who said cops conducted cavity searches during separate traffic stops in 2006.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Marvin Barnett, the lawyer representing Terence Allen Hopkins who is suing the city for the illegal search, wants the payouts details added to evidence in the upcoming trial.
Marjjo Clyburn, 34, and Byron Ogletree, 43, who filed claims with the city’s law department, were each paid $349,000 in an out of court settlement with the law department.
City lawyers maintain the police officers Michael Parish and Michael Osman accused of conducting the illegal searches did nothing wrong. Parish and Osman still work as Detroit police officers.
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