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.
Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, was met by about 200 protesters Tuesday night when he arrived at the campus of Central Michigan University to speak about traditional marriage. Glenn spoke to the Conservative Students organization, which was formerly the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at CMU. He was there to [...]
[COMMENTARY] Over the last few months, Central Michigan University has seen a minor disagreement between a student and a professor turn into a national news story and now a potential lawsuit. The situation began when Dennis Lennox, a CMU junior, began questioning why Prof. Gary Peters, who teaches American government at CMU, was allowed to [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT– About 200 people from Detroit, Benton Harbor, Grand Rapids and Mount Pleasant rallied outside the Isabella County Building Friday, hoping to pressure County Prosecutor Larry Burdick to file felony ethnic intimidation charges against a Central Michigan University student who has admitted making and hanging four nooses in a campus classroom in early November. [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT — A protest to pressure the Isabella County prosecutor to file felony ethnic intimidation charges against a Central Michigan University student who hung four nooses in a campus classroom featured the leader of the New Black Panther Party, Minister Malik Shabazz. The party has been termed a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT — The Rally for Justice demonstration at Central Michigan University has begun, without many of the buses carrying members of the National Council for Community Empowerment and Council of Baptist Pastors from across the state. CMU students are marching down main street towards Isabella County building at the time of this report. Weather [...]
Isabella County Prosecutor Larry Burdick said Thursday he had received the investigation report from Central Michigan University police about four nooses found on the campus, but he declined to say what if any action he was preparing to take in the case. “I don’t want to go into what all goes into this (decision),” Burdick [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT — The discovery of four nooses in a classroom at Central Michigan University last week has shocked the campus but is only the most recent example of a disturbing increase in reported hate crimes in the state and across the country. According to a new report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there [...]
A male Central Michigan University student has admitted to police that he created and hung four nooses found in a campus classroom on Monday. CMU police would not identify the student. They said their investigation is nearing completion and they expect to turn it over to the Isabella County Prosecutor early this week. The nooses, [...]
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