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 U.S. Marshals have ended a program credited with rounding up 34,000 fugitives in the past five years because the program is not affordable.
The Associated Press reports that Project Safe Surrender was started in Ohio in 2005 after a law enforcement officer was shot in the head during a traffic stop. The fugitive who shot the officer was wanted for a parole violation. The project partnered law enforcement with the U.S. Marshals program and local churches to provide a safe, non-confrontational place for fugitives to surrender. The AP reports the Marshals say the program costs $250,000 per year to run.
Officials who have studied the program say it has been beneficial.
“It’s extremely beneficial. People have continued to show up to put their lives back together, to live without looking over their shoulders,” said Daniel Flannery, the former director of the Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence at Kent State University and author of a coming book on the program.
The program set a new record in September when a Cleveland operation netted 7,400 surrenders in four days. That topped a 2008 record set in Detroit where 6,600 fugitives surrendered. Safe Surrender has run operations in Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington, D.C., the AP reports.
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