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.
Parolees enrolled in a residential drug treatment facility in Macomb County say the building, leased by the Michigan Department of Corrections, is overrun with bedbugs.
The Macomb Daily reports the infestation has been verified by former staffers as well as residents in the Self Help Addiction Rehabilitation (SHAR).
Bedbugs, which are known to transmit a variety of diseases, are common at SHAR Macomb, a former residential facility for troubled youth and former psychiatric hospital. Citing sources including parolees and ex-employees of the nonprofit company, The Macomb Daily reported on Thursday that the bedbugs are part of the reason more than 30 parolees assigned to the facility for counseling and housing have fled by climbing over fences, going through windows or simply walking out a door. At least 11 absconders, including offenders convicted of violent crimes, remain at large, according to state records.
One resident says a bite he received led to an infection of staph bacteria which are resistant to most common antibiotics. The parolee was hospitalized recently to allow doctors to cut open the infected location and drain it. Doctors thought the bite may have come from another source — possible the poisonous brown recluse spider — rather than bed bugs. But William Hartley III, the parolee who ended up with the MRSA infection, tells the newspaper he has seen the bedbugs himself.
The bed bug infestation is a not a reality, say officials from the Michigan Department of Corrections.
“There is no bed bug problem at SHAR. Much of that story is fiction,” says Russ Marlan, spokesperson for the department.
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