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.
Anti-war activists who threw a pie at Sen. Carl Levin during a Big Rapids event in 2010 have been sentenced to 30 days in federal prison.
In March Ahlam Mohsen, 24, a Michigan State University graduate, and Max Kantar, 23, a Ferris State University graduate, pleaded guilty to assaulting Levin by hitting him in the face with an apple pie during a gathering at the Pepper Cafe and Deli in Big Rapids on Aug. 16, 2010.
The pair, who targeted Levin because of his role as chair of the Armed Services Committee, wanted to criticize U.S. war operations and support for Israel. They faced a possible sentence of up to one year in prison.
The Grand Rapids Press reports that Kantar told U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell that he hoped that the pie would serve as an “exclamation point” to the speech he delivered at Levin’s event.
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