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.
In a follow up from yesterday’s story about Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy’s call for jailing parents who fail to participate in parent teacher conferences, Michigan Messenger asked the gubernatorial candidates to weigh in. Only Democrat Andy Dillon and Republican Pete Hoekstra responded to our inquiries.
Businessman Rayford Jackson, who was convicted this year of bribing city councilwoman Monica Conyers in 2007, will serve five years in prison, the Detroit Free Press reported late Friday afternoon. Five years was the maximum sentence that came with his guilty plea. U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn sentenced Jackson, and is set to sentence Conyers [...]
Christine Beatty, ex-chief of staff to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, accepted a plea deal in court this morning that will have her plead guilty to two felonies, serve 120 days in jail, pay $100,000 in restitution fines, and spend five years on probation.
Wednesday, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick checked into the jail and was inserted into the cell where he will spend his next 120 days.
If eight felony charges and an accusation of assault weren’t enough, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is going to jail today because he violated his travel bond in July with an unannounced trip to Canada. He was required by law to notify the court if he left the state or the country. In the midst of [...]
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