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.
Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope says he has sent letters to the Lansing Police, City Attorney and Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III seeking a thorough investigation of a pot for votes scandal that erupted in the city on Wednesday.
A group of local pastors and the Lansing branch of the NAACP held a press conference today inside a Lansing courthouse to raise some serious questions about the fatal shooting of a 17 year-old girl in March by a Lansing police officer.
The release of radio traffic from the March 16 arrest incidents at the Capitol has lawmakers asking questions and raising concerns about the role politics may have played in the decision to withdraw Lansing Police officers during the March 16 Capitol protest.
In 2010, Michigan Messenger uncovered a variety of policy related stories in the area of crime. From sex offender list policy, to allegations of sexual assault at Michigan State University, here are the top five stories of crime and punishment from Michigan Messenger.
An office in Lansing that is home to several progressive activist organizations was broken into sometime late Monday or early Tuesday and several computers were stolen.
LANSING — A Lansing police officer has filed suit against the city of Lansing alleging she was the victim of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, retaliation for her participation in a sexual harassment investigation and of being harassed for being a whistle blower. The suit was filed Wednesday in Ingham County Circuit Court.
Thousands of protesters are expected to flood the Capitol lawn Wednesday evening as Gov. Jennifer Granholm delivers her final State of the State address. And those numbers, the Lansing State Journal reports, have the Michigan State Police and Lansing Police Department beefing up patrols and presence in downtown Lansing.
LANSING — City Attorney Brigham Smith wants a working group being put together to develop new Freedom of Information Act policies for the city in the wake of a series of incidents earlier this year where he was criticized for being careless with private information. But the details of the capital city’s information disclosure guidelines will be hammered out in private.
A 30-year-old man East Grand Rapids Police officials say was arrested for assaulting officers has died in police custody. In order to subdue the man, police say they had to taser him. The Grand Rapids Press reports the tasering incident has not been officially tied to the man’s death.
A long tradition of taser abuse by police departments in Michigan continues with an incident in Lansing where an officer shot a suspect with a taser even though he had already been subdued and handcuffed by two fellow officers. Officer Ryan Smith has been suspended without pay by the Lansing Police Department for two weeks, [...]
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