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 Ingham County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday evening approved a $60,000 contract to provide legal assistance to homeowners in the county dealing with foreclosures possibly based on false documents, and on Tuesday morning, the Michigan Senate passed a legislation that would make mortgage document falsification a crime in the state.
LANSING — HIV advocates and legal experts say the state’s local health departments and the Michigan Department of Community Health are using documents which exaggerate the risks of HIV transmission and misstate what Michigan law requires.
LANSING — Violent sex offenders and those who perpetrate sex crimes against children but fail to register with the state registry should face felony charges, says Rep. Rick Jones, a Republican from Grand Ledge. And he says he is going to introduce legislation to make that happen.
Journalist Diane Bukowski, who was convicted in May of two felonies related to police obstruction, got one step closer to getting a her conviction overturned this morning when a judge granted her a new hearing of her case. Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Hathaway at first said he wasn’t sure if he could decide on [...]
DETROIT — Following the conviction of a local journalist for felony police obstruction, Congressman John Conyers, the Detroit Democrat who chairs the powerful House Judiciary Committee, said that his office would be taking a very careful look at the case, which has been cited as an example of retaliatory prosecution of a reporter known for her work documenting police brutality and other justice issues in Michigan’s largest city.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, turned down another plea deal earlier this week that would cut down her jail time to 60 days. Now, she’s got everything riding on acquittal on all of the various and sundry charges related to the text message scandal.
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