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 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 Michigan Supreme Court ruled in favor of rapper Dr. Dre in a case involving a very important legal principle — whether the police have a right to privacy while performing their duties. The state high court said no.
The Michigan Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a lawsuit filed by former police officer and current Detroit City Councilman Gary Brown against rap star Dr. Dre that involves a very important legal issue — whether citizens can record police officers on duty.
A former paid police informant told a state court judge that two Detroit police officers and a Wayne County prosecutor told him to lie on the witness stand in a 2005 case — and that the judge in the case approved that perjury. The Detroit Free Press reports on this corruption trial for the accused:
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the convictions of three Mt. Clemens police officers for perjury and obstruction of justice after an incident in which several officers held down and beat a man during a traffic stop and then conspired to cover up the truth about the incident. See full ruling here.
Two police officers from Inkster, a former drug prosecutor from Wayne County and a former Wayne County Circuit Judge were arraigned in state court on Tuesday, charged with a range of felony misconduct relating to the prosecution of two alleged drug dealers in 2005:
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