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.
Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers has filed an appeal of the 37 month sentence she received earlier this week after pleading guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for her vote on a sludge hauling contract. But the Detroit News reports that the sentence could have been even worse, as the judge had initially wanted [...]
Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for votes in the Synagro sludge hauling scandal. She could have faced a maximum of five years, so the sentence of just over three years could actually be seen as a [...]
Federal Judge Avern Cohn has set the retrial date for bribery and corruption charges against Detroit political consultant Sam Riddle for July 12. Cohn also allowed Riddle’s attorneys, at whom Riddle was quite critical during the original trial that ended with a hung jury, to withdraw from the case. But that’s where things start to [...]
Since Sam Riddle proved himself incapable of taking a strong hint from the judge in his criminal trial to stop talking about the trial on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, Judge Avern Cohn got serious on Monday and issued a gag order — but even the gag order has a gag order. The [...]
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