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 Councilwoman Carol Wood, whose mother was allegedly murdered by convicted serial killer Matthew Macon in 2007, says that Macon has now threatened her life as well as that of an Ingham County Prosecutor.
A ruling by the Michigan Court of Appeals last week that declared medical marijuana dispensaries to be illegal is sowing seeds of confusion and, some experts say, could impact patients’ ability to access a safe, consistent supply.
Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope tells Michigan Messenger he has been investigating the allegations that a Lansing medical marijuana clinic, Your Healthy Choice Clinic, is offering inducements for votes — something that would violate state law.
Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) announced Thursday that the Michigan Senate Judiciary would review statute of limitations provisions in Michigan law with an eye towards increasing them.
Four Michigan State University students were arrested Wednesday night when they refused to leave the administration building on campus.
Michigan State University students have created a new student group with an aim to support sexual assault victims and to challenge sexual violence on the campus, reports The State News. The group was formed in response to coverage of an alleged sexual assault at MSU’s Wonders Hall at the end of August. That assault was [...]
Local legal and sexual assault experts are weighing in on all of the publicly available evidence in the alleged sexual assault of a coed by two members of the Michigan State University basketball team, with a majority criticizing the decision not to bring charges or at least investigate the accusations deeper.
Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III has now released the full record that his office has in the alleged sexual assault by two MSU basketball players, including the full transcript of the interview with the victim carried out by the police. It’s all in a PDF file on the county website. The victim interview begins [...]
There have been several new developments in the story of the alleged sexual assault by two MSU basketball players, which we first reported last Wednesday, that shed more light on the situation and raise many important questions that we are attempting to answer with the help of legal experts. On Friday, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart [...]
A group of students, some of whom counsel and work with rape victims regularly, plan to protest outside the offices of Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III over the alleged sexual assault of a coed by two MSU basketball players.
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