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 federal government has asked the federal court in Detroit to drop one charge against a member of a Christian militia arrested in March of 2010.
Federal agents are trying to figure out who is responsible for leaving a device that damaged a women’s clinic that provides abortions in Detroit.
The ACLU of Michigan has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation seeking documents related to their information gathering techniques regarding racial and ethnic groups in the state.
Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel Jr. has referred a top attorney from Orlans Associates, one of Michigan’s largest mortgage foreclosure law firms, to law enforcement for a criminal investigation of allegations of robo-signing.
Kent, Muskegon, Ottawa and Kalamazoo counties posted increases in foreclosure court filings for the month of May, but are still trailing actions from a year ago.
Curtis Hertel Jr., Register of Deeds for Ingham County, says that a discovery he made involving alleged fraudulent mortgage documents is now being investigated by both the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI.
Despite multiple investigations finding no wrongdoing in the killing of Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah during an FBI raid on a Dearborn warehouse last October, the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Michigan is filing a lawsuit against the federal government demanding access to unreleased documents and media from the raid. The Detroit News reports:
Though violent crime is down overall by 24 percent according to the most recent FBI Unified Crime Report, Saginaw, Michigan — for the seventh year in a row — has been ranked the most violent city with a population over 50,000. There were 2.3 violent crimes per 100 people during 2009. Flint, Detroit and Pontiac [...]
A 48-year-old man from Brighton is sitting in the Ingham County jail after police found a loaded handgun in his car. The man, Richard Scott McLeod, was pulled over near Webberville, allegedly for speeding. Ingham County Sheriff Gene Wrigglesworth says he was shaking and sweating profusely so the officer asked him to step out of [...]
Rep. John Conyers announced on Wednesday that the FBI and the Department of Justice will both investigate the shooting of 7-year old Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a botched raid by the Detroit Police Department on May 16. The Detroit Free Press reports:
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