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.
The Michigan State Police are planning a statewide sweep to round up hundreds of people on the sex offender registry who have not complied with regulations requiring them to inform the police when they move from one address to another. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Michigan State Police are investigating the death of Stanley Jackson Jr., a 31 year old father of four from Belleville who died hours after being tasered by Washtenaw County police during a drug bust on Friday. AnnArbor.com reports that Jackson, a former high school running back with no known medical problems, was shot by police [...]
MARSHALL — State officials on Saturday revealed that civilian members of National Guard programs from three states have been deployed to assist the ongoing oil cleanup in Calhoun county. Bonnie Kanicki Wilson of the Michigan State Police told press gathered for the daily briefing that civilian units from Ohio, West Virginia, and Louisiana have been [...]
After the shutdown of the Detroit Crime Lab a couple years ago for a pattern of bad testing results, the work from that lab had to be spread to the 7 Michigan State Police crime labs around the state. A new plan will have the state police running a new lab inside the proposed new [...]
Michigan State Police say they are ready to begin enforcing the state’s ban on texting while driving on July 1, but they admit enforcement could be difficult. Officials tell the Associated Press that the ban will be somewhat cumbersome to enforce because it is difficult to ascertain if a person texting or dialing a cellphone. [...]
The Michigan State Police say that the number of people required to register on the sex offender registry claiming to be homeless has jumped 62 percent since February. This, police say, is the result of a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling in February which said homeless sex offenders were not required to register. The Appeals [...]
The arrest of Adrian Hill, a man who had evaded authorities for the last three years and was one of the Lansing Police Department’s most wanted fugitives, has shed new light on what policy makers and law enforcement say are significant problems with the state’s sex offender registry.
The arrest of a man convicted of sex crimes involving children — a man on the Michigan State Police’s most-wanted fugitives list for failing to register as a sex offender in 2007 — has given rise to questions about how well the state and law enforcement are monitoring and searching for wanted sex offenders.
A 54-year-old Isabella county woman has been charged under Michigan’s HIV-disclosure law. Valeria Lynn Johnson, of Rosebush, was charged Wednesday afternoon in Isabella County Circuit Court, reports the Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun. She is accused of failing to tell a 45-year-old Traverse City man that she was HIV-positive before engaging in sex with him. Police [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox, who is in the midst of a bid for the GOP nomination for governor, says he can’t provide lawyers in a lawsuit with his phone records from 2003 because he can’t remember what service he used. The records were subpoenaed by lawyers representing the family of slain adult entertainer Tamara Greene [...]
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