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.
That didn’t take long. A day after the Wayne County Medical Examiner released the autopsy report in the shooting death of Luqman Ameen Abdullah during an FBI raid — and after Rep. John Conyers called for an independent inquiry — the Department of Justice has initiated an investigation of the incident. The Detroit News reports:
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting what it calls a routine investigation into the FBI shooting death of Imam Luqman Ameein in Dearborn, but the development was hailed by those calling for a probe into the October incident.U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, who had called for the investigation along with a coalition of civil rights groups, announced at a news conference today the investigation was under way.
“On the surface, someone being shot 21 times raises quite a few questions in the criminal justice system,” said Conyers, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee.
Alejandro Miyar, a spokesman for the Justice Department in Washington, confirmed the investigation but said it would have been conducted regardless of a request by Conyers or anyone else.
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“The FBI’s inspection division conducted a review,” Miyar said. “The civil rights division has received the FBI’s report and is now conducting an independent review of the shooting.”
No word on how long the investigation will take.
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