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 Michigan House Speaker Craig DeRoche is in trouble with the law again. In April the former Republican lawmaker pleaded guilty to impaired driving after an incident in which police found him stumbling around in the snow after getting out of his car and was sentenced to probation.
Now he may have violated that probation after being arrested and charged with possessing a gun while intoxicated. The Detroit Free Press reports:
According to Novi Police Department reports, DeRoche’s wife told police that she was out of town and concerned for her three children because DeRoche was caring for them but sounded intoxicated on the phone when she called. She also said that one of her children told her he kept falling off his bike when they went for a bike ride.
She called a friend and asked him to get DeRoche out of the house and then her mother to look after the children.
The friend told police that DeRoche did come over to his house, but got upset and left. While the friend rode a bike alongside DeRoche as he walked home trying to convince him to stay at his house, the friend also called police. When DeRoche saw police lights approaching, he ran into a wooded area and police couldn’t immediately find him, the report said.
Shortly later, the mother-in-law told police that DeRoche broke into his locked home, retrieve a loaded, 40-caliber handgun from a safe in the home’s master bedroom and walked into one of his children’s bedrooms.
He left the bedroom and his mother-in-law convinced him to turn the gun over to her, the report said. He removed the magazine from the gun, handed it over and the mother-in-law, who hid it in the laundry room.
When police arrived shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday, DeRoche was holding one of his children and told police he had done nothing wrong. They were able to convince him to put down the child before arresting him.
DeRoche had a blood alcohol reading of .13, nearly twice the legal limit to be considered intoxicated.
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