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.
An investigation into the controversial shooting of Detroit area Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah by the Dearborn Police Department has been completed and forwarded to Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox. Abdullah was shot 20 times by federal agents during a raid on a Dearborn warehouse on October 28, 2009. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Dearborn officials say the investigation was thorough:
“The investigators assigned to this incident conducted an exhaustive investigation, they reviewed statements from and interviewed all available witnesses (totaling over 80 individuals), collected and analyzed several items of evidence, and reviewed all related statements, reports and documents, which included the autopsy report, necropsy report, and the ballistics report,” Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad said in a news release today.
This would be the first of several ongoing investigations to conclude on the matter. The FBI has maintained that its agents followed protocol to the letter, but Muslim community leaders have questioned several things about the raid. It is not known what conclusions were reached in this report.
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