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 Detroit Free Press reports: Detroit mayoral candidate David Bing pledged today that if elected to office he would not collect a salary. Instead, Bing said he would reallocate the $176,176 annual mayoral salary to hire more officers within the Detroit Police Department. Wait a minute. That means Detroiters could have a volunteer for Mayor? [...]
Detroit interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. and the new Chief of Police James Barren, along with local community and business leaders held a gathering in the Mack Alter Square shopping center on the far east side at Mack and Outer Drive near Grosse Pointe Tuesday to celebrate the Detroit Police Department’s opening of four police [...]
The Detroit Police Department (DPD) wants to hire 500 new officers but is having trouble meeting recruitment goals, according to 2nd Deputy Chief James Tate, head of the police department’s public information office. The recruitment effort, which was put into effect in June last year, has been stunted by the meager advertising budget and a [...]
DETROIT — The murder of a transgender woman discovered this week has been mishandled by the Detroit Police Department, says Mara Keisling,executive director of the National Center for Trangender Equality. “Understand that this kind of crime, besides being a tragedy for the victim and her loved ones, makes a lot of people nervous,” Keisling said. [...]
DETROIT — The Detroit Police Department has identified a murdered man found in women’s clothing in an empty lot. However, they are refusing to release the name to the public. “We have identified the victim, but we are not releasing the name,” Detroit Police Officer Leon Rahmaan said. “We are not releasing the name at [...]
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