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.
A dead baby discovered in a backpack this week is at least the fourth abandoned newborn to surface in northern Lower Michigan in recent months.
The Traverse City Record Eagle reports that someone brought a foul smelling backpack to the Boyne City Police Department on Tuesday afternoon and an officer opened it to discover a dead newborn wrapped in plastic bags.
The infant’s body has been sent to Spectrum Hospital in Grand Rapids for an autopsy and police are contacting local hospitals for information on women who have recently given birth.
In Traverse City officials have authorized involuntary manslaughter charges against two women accused of disposing of their newborn babies in and around their homes this spring.
One of the women has not been named because she was 15 when she delivered a full term baby boy at her home and then hid him in a basement closet, police say.
The other Traverse City woman, Lynzee Diana Sanders, 27, was charged today with involuntary manslaughter and concealing the death of an infant child in May, the Record Eagle reports. That infant was dragged from a shed by a dog and discovered by boys doing yard work.
In April, a dead infant was found in a trash container in Montmorency County and authorities charged both parents with crimes. The mother, Krystal Taylor, 18, faces involuntary manslaughter and concealing the death of an infant, while the father, Erick Berney, 25, will be sentenced on Sept. 24 for concealing the death of the infant.
The streak of baby abandonment cases in the region has prompted local social service agencies to publicize Michigan’s safe haven law which allows parents to legally surrender newborn infants to officials at any hospital or emergency service provider.
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