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.
The 46-year-old Clinton Township man at the center of the HIV-as-terrorism trial has reached a plea deal on two remaining felony charges, reports the Macomb Daily.
Daniel Allen was originally charged with one count of bioterrorism, one count of assault with intent to maim and one count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder. Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni rejected the bioterrorism charges in June, leaving Allen facing the two, ten-year felonies.
The charges stem from an October 2009 altercation between Allen and his neighbor Winfred Fernandis, Jr. Fernandis alleges that Allen attacked him without provocation, while Allen says the incident was part of a long running series of anti-gay harassment by Fernandis and his family. Fernandis says Allen bit his lip during the fight.
Under the plea deal, Allen has agreed to plead no contest to assault with intent to maim. Under the deal, if Allen successfully concludes a probation period, the charge will be changed to a misdemeanor of aggravated assault and the second charge, assault with intent to maim would be dismissed.
But Fernadis, the victim, told the Daily that he might back out of the agreement. He specifically told the newspaper he would be OK with the deal if Allen moved from the home he owns in Clinton Township.
Allen faces a sentencing hearing in front of Maceroni Dec. 8.
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