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 Innocence Project, a non-profit legal group dedicated to using DNA testing to overturn verdicts for those wrongly convicted of serious crimes, says they have the evidence to prove that Karl Vinson, a Michigan man convicted of rape who has spent the last 23 years in prison, is innocent. The Detroit Free Press reports:
AP reports that Gov. Granholm signed several bills passed during the lame duck session of the state legislature over the holidays, including a bill that requires felons to turn over a DNA sample to the state and stricter penalties for those who defraud the state by bringing in bottles and cans from out of state [...]
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