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.
Several Romulus police officers, including the former police chief and his wife, were charged with using funds seized under the state’s drug asset forfeiture laws to for a wide range of illegal and illicit activities.
Lansing City Councilwoman Carol Wood, whose mother was allegedly murdered by convicted serial killer Matthew Macon in 2007, says that Macon has now threatened her life as well as that of an Ingham County Prosecutor.
It appears that the corruption problems that have long plagued the city of Detroit may have spread to Romulus, where several police officers and the former chief of police are expected to face charges from the county prosecutor.
It’s been almost two years since the privately-run prison in Appleton, Minnesota has held prisoners. But in early 2012, the prison’s owner, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), expects to fill Appleton’s Prairie Correctional Facility and another facility in Colorado with 3,256 inmates from California.
The federal government has asked the federal court in Detroit to drop one charge against a member of a Christian militia arrested in March of 2010.
On the heels of a court ruling that shut down medical marijuana dispensaries in the state of Michigan, a new study by the RAND Corporation finds that crime actually goes up when such facilities are closed down.
In spite of a series of amendments from Democrats, the Michigan Senate Wednesday morning approved a two-bill package banning so-called “partial birth abortions.”
The Michigan Senate is set to vote on a measure to bar partial-birth abortions on Wednesday morning and Gov. Rick Snyder is likely to sign the bill if it passes.
Police in the small town of Williamston — located about 20 miles east of Lansing — are investigating an alleged incident of cyber-bullying against a 13-year-old middle school student.
Immigration advocates and state lawmakers are raising questions about an alleged former terrorist who testified before the House Commerce Committee as well as spoke at a rally Tuesday on the steps of the Capitol.
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