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.
Journalist Diane Bukowski, who was convicted in May of two felonies related to police obstruction, got one step closer to getting a her conviction overturned this morning when a judge granted her a new hearing of her case. Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Hathaway at first said he wasn’t sure if he could decide on [...]
DETROIT — Diane Bukowski, a reporter for the African-American owned Michigan Citizen newspaper, was given one year of probation, 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay more than $4,200 in fines Monday morning after being convicted of two felony counts of police obstruction last month.
DETROIT — Diane Bukowski, a reporter for the African-American owned Michigan Citizen newspaper, faces sentencing today after being convicted of felony police obstruction last month in a situation where she was arrested at the scene of a high-speed police chase crash in northeast Detroit last November. Bukowski and others have labeled the prosecution as retribution [...]
Diane Bukowski, a freelance reporter for the Michigan Citizen who has covered police brutality issues in Detroit for a decade, is on trial today in Wayne County Circuit Court on two felony police obstruction charges.
Diane Bukowski, the Michigan Citizen freelance reporter who has covered police brutality issues in Detroit for ten years, is scheduled for trial on April 27 on two felony police obstruction charges. Bukowski was arrested by state police as she documented the aftermath of an Election Day police chase that resulted in the deaths of motorcyclist [...]
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