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 former principal, a school accountant and a police officer are being charged with felonies for embezzling more than $150,000 from the Detroit Public Schools, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and DPS emergency manager Robert Bobb announced today. The Detroit Free Press reports that the charges were brought following a DPS investigation that was triggered [...]
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.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is asking county commissioners to consider enacting an ordinance that would punish parents who miss parent-teacher conferences with up to three days in jail. She says that forcing parents to communicate with schools could reduce truancy and dropout rates and prevent violent acts by young people. The Associated Press reports [...]
With the possibility of disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick being diverted to a boot camp that would cut his sentence down to a mere 90 days hanging in the air, Judge David Groner sent back a letter written by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy opposing such a diversion, saying that the DA has no [...]
The Detroit News reports that disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick “has qualified for a boot camp program that could get him out of his 1 1/2 – to 5-year sentence in as little as 90 days.” But in order to get into the program, Judge David Groner — the man who sentenced him to [...]
Rep. Bart Stupak is not alone in getting threats these days. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy says she has received them regularly and the latest one, which came in after former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to prison for violating the terms of his probation, will be investigated by another county prosecutor. The Detroit [...]
In a surprise move, Attorney General Mike Cox has begun a state investigation into the FBI shooting of Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah. Abdullah was gunned down in an FBI raid on a warehouse in Dearborn late last year. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Dwayne Provience was freed late last year after nearly ten years in prison because the Innocence Clinic at U of M Law School worked diligently to document numerous irregularities and inconsistencies in his trial. Despite that, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy demanded a retrial for Provience almost immediately. Now that demand has been dropped due [...]
Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick missed most of his court-ordered restitution payment over the last few days and the judge in his case has ordered his attorneys to appear in court Tuesday morning. The Detroit News reports that on Friday, Kilpatrick paid $14,048 of the more than $79,000 he was ordered to pay, and [...]
The new issue of Essence magazine has an in-depth profile of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy that’s well worth the read. While the fawning headline (“Kym Worthy: The Toughest Woman in Detroit”) could give the impression of a puff-piece profile, that wouldn’t be exactly right. Instead, the article probes the background, family life and professional [...]
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