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 Dearborn Police Department has asked Wayne County not to divulge the autopsy report of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, according to Wayne County Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel Marianne Talon.
Explaining the delay on the part of the Wayne County Medical examiner’s office to decide that it would withhold the complete autopsy report, Talon said that the county was waiting for an official request from the Dearborn Police Department to block disclosure.
“We were waiting for something from Dearborn,” she said. “Dearborn didn’t want us to release it because they’re doing their investigation.”
Talon added that the Dearborn Police Department, which is conducting a homicide investigation into the Oct. 28 death of Abdullah, has expressed the view that releasing the autopsy report would “interfere with their investigation.”
The FBI is conducting a separate shooting investigation into the Oct. 28 FBI raids.
A message left Wednesday morning seeking comment from the Dearborn Police Department has yet to be returned.
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