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.
An appellate court in Florida has ruled that the state’s HIV disclosure law can only be used to charge heterosexuals, saying that the law does not apply in the case of a woman accused of having sex with another woman but failing to disclose her HIV-positive status.
Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr. is alleging that two Florida companies may be engaged in scams involving Michigan residents facing foreclosure.
The Republican plan to privatize food service in the state prisons will increase the odds of dangerous and costly violence, corrections workers warn.
Social networking giant MySpace.com knew about hundreds of registered sex offenders but failed to remove their profiles from the system, alleges the company’s former top contractor tasked with identifying offenders for the company.
Betsie Gallardo, the HIV-positive woman convicted of spitting at a Florida police officer who was at the center of a controversy recently over her treatment by a Florida prison, has passed away.
Betsie Gallardo, the HIV-positive woman serving five years in a Florida prison, has been transferred from the prison infirmary to Kendall Medical Center, reports her mother Jessica Bussert. The transfer was made so Gallardo could begin receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN) IV treatment.
An Indiana woman is fighting with the state of Florida to get her dying, HIV-positive daughter released from the Broward Correctional Facility. However, Jessica Bussert says the state is refusing to release her 27-year-old daughter Betsie Gallardo and also is withholding intravenous nutritional support.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday sent a tersely worded letter to Republican Attorney General Mike Cox demanding that he intervene in a federal lawsuit over recently enacted health care reform legislation in favor of the new law. Cox signed onto a lawsuit opposing the legislation on state’s rights issues on Tuesday. But Granholm says he [...]
GOP officials in Ohio, Florida and Indiana –- in addition to Michigan, where the Obama campaign sued -– have acknowledged plans to challenge voters on Election Day based on foreclosure lists.
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