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.
A ruling by the Michigan Court of Appeals last week that declared medical marijuana dispensaries to be illegal is sowing seeds of confusion and, some experts say, could impact patients’ ability to access a safe, consistent supply.
An Isabella County Circuit Court judge has ruled that a medical marijuana dispensary in Mt. Pleasant is legal under the state’s Medical Marijuana Act, reports the Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun.
A 54-year-old woman has pleaded no contest to failing to inform her male sex partner that she was HIV positive. She has been sentenced to 11 months in jail, inpatient drug rehabilitation and five years of probation by an Isabella County Circuit Court Judge. While the woman’s viral load and other factors determining the infectiousness [...]
A man who says he was wrongfully prosecuted for making people sick after a trial is suing authorities in Mt. Pleasant and Isabella County. The facts in this story are some of the strangest you’ll ever hear, as reported by the Bay City Times:
A 54-year-old Isabella county woman has been charged under Michigan’s HIV-disclosure law. Valeria Lynn Johnson, of Rosebush, was charged Wednesday afternoon in Isabella County Circuit Court, reports the Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun. She is accused of failing to tell a 45-year-old Traverse City man that she was HIV-positive before engaging in sex with him. Police [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT — The Rally for Justice demonstration at Central Michigan University has begun, without many of the buses carrying members of the National Council for Community Empowerment and Council of Baptist Pastors from across the state. CMU students are marching down main street towards Isabella County building at the time of this report. Weather [...]
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