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.
State Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) was announced as a speaker at a Lansing rally Wednesday organized by Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who made headlines when he threatened to burn a Koran on his church property earlier this year, but his office denies the accuracy of that announcement.
In an absolutely stunning conclusion, a seven-member jury decided tonight that Pastor Terry Jones cannot hold a protest at the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn.
The Detroit Free Press is live blogging the Terry Jones court hearing on whether he can protest outside the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn tonight. No decision thus far.
In a highly unusual case, a jury will decide — for the time being, at least — whether anti-Muslim Florida Pastor Terry Jones will be allowed to hold a protest outside the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn on Friday evening.
The city of Dearborn has denied a permit to a Quran-burning Florida pastor to hold a protest on Good Friday outside of a famous Islamic Center of America mosque in that city.
A California man was arrested this weekend in the parking lot of the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn with a car full of explosives and the intent, authorities say, of blowing up the building.
Tea Party darling Sharron Angle of Nevada has made the Michigan city of Dearborn part of the political fodder in her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Associated Press reports Angle told a crowd of supporters in Mesquite, NV, that Dearborn has been taken over by militant Islamic law.
A lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center, created by Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan, on behalf of a Christian ministry against a Dearborn Muslim festival is over. A federal district court judge in Detroit handed down a ruling for summary judgment in favor of the city and festival organizers, ruling that the restrictions on [...]
DETROIT — As activists call for an independent investigation into the killing of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the imam at the center of the FBI’s Oct. 28 raids in Detroit, Michigan Messenger has learned that the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office will not divulge the imam’s autopsy report.
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Michigan denied a request for a temporary restraining order filed by an Arab Christian group that sought the right to pass out literature at a major gathering of Muslims in Dearborn. Pastor George Saieg, founder of the Arabic Christian Perspective, has attended the Dearborn Arab International Festival [...]
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