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.
Daniel Allen, the HIV-positive Clinton Township man at the center of controversial bioterrorism case, has been sentenced to 11 months probation. Allen plead no contest to an assault charge last month, and Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni accepted the plea and issued the probation sentence Wednesday.
Allen, who has maintained he was the victim of a brutal anti-gay attack, was charged in November of 2009 with one count of possession of use of a harmful device — a part of the state’s bioterrorism law — as well as one count each of assault with intent to maim and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder. He pleaded no contest to one count of intent to maim. He could have faced up to 10 years in prison.
The bioterrorism charge brought condemnation from state law makers and HIV advocates. Ultimately, Maceroni threw out the case in June.
Allen’s defense attorney James Galen told Fox 2 News that Allen maintains his innocence and only pleaded guilty because of his health and because a witness failed to show up last month for the trial.
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