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.
Muslim activists are raising concerns about the death of a muslim man in the Macomb County Jail.
Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel says the man, Mohammed Abdul-Fazal Chowdhury, died from a suicide. Hackel said Chowdhury sliced his own throat with a razor.
But activists, including Dawud Walid from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told the Detroit News he was unsure he bought the suicide claim.
“Two individuals, who performed the ritual washing and shrouding of Chowdhury’s body, witnessed a laceration across his neck, mutilation of his genitalia and a bruise on the back of his right shoulder,” Walid’s letter states.
“The nature of the wounds reportedly caused by a low-grade commissary shaver has raised question as to whether these wounds were self-inflicted.”
Activists met with Hackel Thursday, but there is no word yet on what came of the meeting.
News 4 in Detroit is reporting that Chowdhury’s genitals were not found, raising a greater concern for activists.
The 22-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant was being held on charges he murdered his wife on Sept. 28.
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