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 written opinion dismissing a charge of bio-terrorism against a 45-year-old HIV-positive man, Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni ruled that the mere fact a person is HIV-positive is not enough to accuse him or her of unlawfully possessing a harmful biological substance.
MT. CLEMENS — Daniel Allen, the 44-year-old Clinton Township man facing unprecedented bio-terrorism charges, will have to wait a while longer before he finds out if that charge will be rejected by the courts.
Daniel Allen, the 44-year-old Clinton Township man charged with bio-terrorism stemming from an Oct. 18 fight with a neighbor, has asked the FBI to investigate the fight as a hate crime, says Allen’s attorney James Galen, Jr. “My client and I went to the Clinton Township FBI Field Office for two hours yesterday,” Galen said [...]
HIV activists from the group Michigan Positive Action Coalition have issued a press statement encouraging people with infectious diseases, including H1N1, HIV or the common cold, to call the Macomb County prosecutor and “voluntarily turn themselves in” to be charged with terrorism. In the statement issued by Mark Peterson, a director for the group, activists [...]
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