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.
Howard Wolpe, former U.S. Congressman and Democratic nominee for governor in the state of Michigan, has passed away at the age of 71.
The Rev. Mark Bidwell of Ferndale is coming under fire after police responded to an emergency call to his home on Sept. 21.
Less than three months after announcing he had a rare blood disease, State Rep. Mike Simpson (D-Jackson) has died. Simpson, 47, suffered a heart attack Friday night on his way back from treatments at the Cleveland Clinic. Lawmakers performed the traditional honor for a lawmaker who has died in office. The House draped his desk [...]
The death of Matthew Bolick last month was not the result of multiple blasts from the East Grand Rapids police tasers, a forensic pathologist has ruled. The Grand Rapids Press reports that Dr. David Start has ruled Bolick’s death the result of excited delirium syndrome.
The Michigan Department of Community Health today confirmed the death of a 28-year-old Madison Heights police officer, and Macomb County resident, from inluenza A(H1N1). The officer becomes the state’s second confirmed death from the virus, once called swine flu.
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