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 Detroit Free Press reports that the Wayne County medical examiner’s office is expected to release the results of the autopsy performed on Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah by Monday. Abdullah was gunned down during a raid by the FBI and the Dearborn Police Department in October.
The autopsy has been completed for several weeks but the county has refused to release it in response to FOIA requests by the Michigan Messenger and other outlets because the Dearborn Police asked them to keep it secret until their investigation was complete. Interest in the autopsy is fueled by speculation that Abdullah arrived at the coroner’s office in handcuffs despite being dead at the scene of the raid.
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