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.
Pilots working at Selfridge Air National Guard post in Harrison Township have twice experienced a laser light shot into their cockpits, reports the Macomb Daily.
The FBI is investigating the incidents and believe the laser lights came from readily available laser pointers. The Macomb Daily reports on the aircraft thus far effected:
The lasers were aimed for the cockpit of aircraft housed at the base in Harrison Township. The first target was an AS350 Eurocopter hovering over Madison Heights, while the most recent was a C-12 King Air fixed-wing craft on final approach into Selfridge.
Federal authorities tell the Daily that while those lasers from the local business store could seem harmless, they aren’t.
Both incidences occurred during night maneuvers, meaning the pilots were equipped with and wearing night vision goggles.
“What it (the goggles) does is it amplifies the light,” [Chris] Grogan [public affairs officer for U.S. Customs and Border Protection] said. “And if the laser was to actually hit the pilot in the eye, our reports say that it’ll only take a quarter of a second to burn through a retina and blind the pilot for good.”
The Daily reports that one person has been identified and interviewed from the first incident, but authorities have no suspects in the second incident. The authorities have not released any information about the person of interest in the first incident.
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