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 Ferndale Police Department is investigating an incident in which a gay couple’s vehicle were scrawled with anti-gay epithets, and a home splattered with paint.
The trial of an upper peninsula man accused of intimidating a black family is underway in Marquette.
Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III has announced that the unnamed individual responsible for burning a Quran at an East Lansing Islamic center will not face state charges, reports the Lansing State Journal. Dunnings tells the paper that after a review of the matter he determined there was no basis for his office to file [...]
East Lansing Police say they have identified the man responsible for the desecration of a Quran at an East Lansing mosque. When ELPD offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of a suspect, the man turned himself into authorities, reports the Lansing State Journal. The man lives in the Lansing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[COMMENTARY] In the same week that a 14-year-old “gay rights advocate” in Wayland Union High School on the west side of the state was assaulted for her advocacy, there was another story coming out of Macomb County in the state’s east side. The east-side story told a tale of a group of 20-30 African-American males [...]
Two girls, both 14, have been charged with aggravated assault in connection with videotaped beating that occurred on June 10 in Wayland Union High School. The two girls reportedly beat the 14-year-old victim because she was a “gay rights advocate,” according to media reports. Police had wanted to charge the girls with hate crimes, but [...]
LANSING — As word has spread about anti-gay slurs spray painted in Lansing’s trendy Old Town district, many are asking, “Why was Dustin Corey Green not charged with a hate crime in connection with this vandalism?” Green, 18, was arrested early Wednesday morning and charged with three misdemeanors: minor in possession of alcohol, malicious destruction [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT– About 200 people from Detroit, Benton Harbor, Grand Rapids and Mount Pleasant rallied outside the Isabella County Building Friday, hoping to pressure County Prosecutor Larry Burdick to file felony ethnic intimidation charges against a Central Michigan University student who has admitted making and hanging four nooses in a campus classroom in early November. [...]
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