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.
Wearing a medal one did not earn or a claiming military service one did not serve in a job application could land some one in jail in Michigan if lawmakers pass legislation to create a new crime.
Pilots working at Selfridge Air National Guard post in Harrison Township have twice experienced a laser light shot into their cockpits, reports the Macomb Daily. The FBI is investigating the incidents and believe the laser lights came from readily available laser pointers. The Macomb Daily reports on the aircraft thus far effected:
DETROIT — The number of murders dropped in the city’s third quarter crime report for 2009, Police Chief Warren Evans said at a press conference on Monday. Over the past three months, homicides fell by 23 percent from the previous quarter, a change Evans calls “significant.” Between May and July there were 125 murders reported [...]
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani stirred up controversy Sunday when he joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the campaign trail, warning an audience of orthodox Jewish voters that a vote for Bloomberg’s opponent in the mayoral race, African-American candidate William Thompson, would make the city comparable to modern-day Detroit.
DETROIT — With Election Day less than two months away, candidate forums are becoming very common. But with waning voter interest and low community participation, these gatherings are often predictable and audience members consist mostly of campaign staff and family members of candidates. Maybe that’s why a forum earlier this week that allowed school children [...]
A proposal by Michigan House Republicans to privatize what’s left of the state’s juvenile justice system in order to save money has critics arguing that the plan wouldn’t achieve sizable savings and in some cases leave the state’s most dangerous incarcerated youths with no options for private-sector rehabilitation.
Just as criminologists are baffled about an unexpected decline in violent crime in many of the nation’s biggest cities, Detroit’s new police chief is predicting that the “Wild West” nature of violent crime in the Michigan’s largest city will worsen and the rates of murders and other violent crime will increase. Warren Evans, the former [...]
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, at a Monday morning introduction of the city’s new police chief, sung the praises of Warren Evans, the Wayne County sheriff tapped to replace James Barren, who was dismissed late last week. While Bing said he had high hopes for the new police chief, the mayor noted that high crime rates, [...]
A second 18-year-old Lansing resident is facing charges in connection with a series of anti-gay graffiti that appeared in the city’s trendy Old Town district April 9. Scott Patrick Saren, 18, has been arraigned on one count of felony malicious destruction of property, Lansing police spokesman Noel Garcia said. The charge carries a maximum of [...]
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