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 — The number of murders dropped in the city’s third quarter crime report for 2009, Police Chief Warren Evans said at a press conference on Monday.
Over the past three months, homicides fell by 23 percent from the previous quarter, a change Evans calls “significant.” Between May and July there were 125 murders reported but over the past three months 96 people were killed in city limits, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Evans said part of his strategy is to target high crime areas and assign 20 more officers to the Gang Enforcement Unit.
Also according to Evans, the police have been closing twice as many murder cases this quarter than in the first two with the closure rate up to 60 percent from 27 percent in the first six months of 2009.
While the fact that 96 people died due to violent crime in Detroit over the past three months isn’t exactly good news, it’s 29 fewer murders than in the last three months. Evans acknowledged at the press conference that the numbers are “short term news.”
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