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.
Former Flint interim Police Chief David Dicks was sentenced in federal court today to six months of home confinement for obtaining federal money through fraud. In October Dicks admitted that he had accepted nearly $47,000 in pay for a no-show job at a security company with federal contracts that was run by his father.
Detroit Free Press has more:
In exchange for Dicks’ plea, his father, Richard Dicks, 75, who also had been indicted, was placed into a pretrial diversion program, which is similar to probation.
According to court records, David Dicks was employed by City Security Guard Co. between June 2005 and July 2007 and submitted false time sheets, claiming to work 34 hours a week.
City Security had a contract with Career Alliance, a Flint-based organization that received federal money for job training. Records list Dicks’ father as chief executive of the security company, from 1995.
Dicks gained notoriety in 2008 for instructing Flint police to file disorderly conduct charges against those wearing low slung pants.
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