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.
While attention in Calhoun county has been focused on the massive oil spill in Marshall, on the same day as the leak, July 25, a 45-year-old Battle Creek man was brutally stabbed in Leila Arboretum. Now Battle Creek police say the attack was likely a hate crime, reports the Battle Creek Enquirer. Investigators have informed [...]
Clinton Township resident Daniel Allen, 45, says that while he is relieved that bio-terrorism charges leveled against him because of an October 2009 fight have been dismissed, the stress has taken a toll on him. He says the stress has disrupted his sleep patterns and taken a toll on his memory. That, in turn, has [...]
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and three Michigan groups who represent or work with HIV-positive individuals have filed an amicus brief in the case of Daniel Allen. Allen, 44, was charged last year with bio-terrorism for allegedly biting a neighbor during a fight. Prosecutors charged him because Allen is HIV-positive. They argue that spit [...]
The Council on American Islamic Relations in Detroit has released autopsy photographs taken of a Detroit Imam shot to death by federal authorities late last year. Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah was shot 20 times by federal authorities during an attempt to arrest him. Police say he fired first.
Gov. Jennifer Granhom is among 30 governors who has received a letter from an extreme anti-government group demanding she resign in three days or be removed. The Associated Press reports the letters came from an extremist group calling itself Defenders of the Free Republics. Her spokesperson, Liz Boyd, told the AP Granholm received the letter [...]
In a new twist in the Hutaree Militia story, the internet has yielded a surprising find. Kris Sickles, a 27-year-old from Huron, Ohio, wrote, directed and acted in a feature length film entitled “Dement Incarnate.” The film, available on a MySpace account created to promote the film, runs nearly one and half hours. It is [...]
Federal and state authorities say members of the Hutaree Christian Militia saw police officers as enemy soldiers and part of the “New World Order.” Federal and state law enforcement officials arrested nine members of the Hutaree over the weekend. They have been charged with multiple counts including sedition.
The Associated Press is reporting that eight members of the Hutaree Militia, based in Adrian, were arrested by federal agents this weekend because they planned to kill police officers. A ninth suspect is still at large. According to documents unsealed this morning, the militia members planned to kill police officers. Once those officers were being [...]
Several Michigan news outlets are reporting that the FBI, Homeland Security, the Joint Terrorism Task Force and local law enforcement authorities have executed numerous search warrants related to a conservative Christian militia group located in Adrian. Reports indicate five people had been arrested. The raids occurred Saturday night in the Lenawee county town of Adrian [...]
Daniel Allen, the 44-year-old Clinton Township man charged with bio-terrorism stemming from an Oct. 18 fight with a neighbor, has asked the FBI to investigate the fight as a hate crime, says Allen’s attorney James Galen, Jr. “My client and I went to the Clinton Township FBI Field Office for two hours yesterday,” Galen said [...]
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