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 post commander of the Traverse City post of the State Police is defending the actions of an officer who shot a seventeen year-old girl with a Taser gun last Friday, the Traverse City Record Eagle reports. Officers say the girl tried to run away as they conducted a sobriety test on the driver of [...]
An unarmed sixteen-year-old Detroit boy died Friday, officials say, after he fled during a traffic stop and was shocked by a police Taser gun in an abandoned house. Warren Deputy Police Commissioner Jere Green is defending the use of force against the boy as “within policies and guidelines” and “appropriate” the Detroit News reports. Police [...]
Fifteen year-old Brett Elder of Bay City died last month after being shocked by taser wielding police. Now the Bay City Times is calling for a review on the local police department’s taser policy which it says “appears overly vague”. “Just when should police use Tasers to electrically shock a suspect into submission?” the editorial [...]
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