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.
Documents obtained by Michigan Messenger show two high-profile Michigan State University basketball players have been accused of committing sexual assault on campus in August. Despite the allegations, prosecutors have declined to take up the case, and the victim disputes the reasons offered for not bringing charges.
The city of East Lansing will not seek trespassing or littering charges against an unidentified man who left a burnt Quran at the Islamic Center in the city, reports the Lansing State Journal. Assistant City Attorney Tom Yeadon tells the newspaper that there is no evidence the man, who turned himself in after authorities posted [...]
Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III has announced that the unnamed individual responsible for burning a Quran at an East Lansing Islamic center will not face state charges, reports the Lansing State Journal. Dunnings tells the paper that after a review of the matter he determined there was no basis for his office to file [...]
In an interesting story in the Kalamazoo Gazette this morning, state prosecutors are explaining why fewer Michigan residents convicted of felonies are being put in prison.
A traffic stop for speeding led to an arrest of a man for possession of marijuana. Not really news, is it? But now 37-year-old Aaron Katz is challenging the charges under the state’s medical marijuana law. He says he legally had the right to have and use the drug. But Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings [...]
Medical marijuana clubs — from compassion clubs, where people can purchase their medical herb, to places where they can hang out and use it — are making headlines across the state. In Williamstown Township, a sleepy suburb of Lansing, officials from the Tri-County Metro Narcotics Team raided the Green Leaf Smokers Club on Wednesday. The [...]
The Michigan Court of Appeals issued a published opinion (pdf) on Tuesday which says convicted sex offenders who are homeless are not obligated under Michigan’s sex offender registry law to register with local law enforcement. The case the court ruled on comes out of Ingham county. There county Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III filed charges against [...]
Saying that the details revealed in an investigation of an Ingham County teacher’s “drunk shaming” are “shocking to everybody,” State Rep. Mark Meadows, a Democrat from East Lansing, says that some sort of action needs to be taken. The Haslett Public Schools “need to do something about this,” Meadows said in lengthy interview Tuesday morning. “This kind of undermines [the school district's] credibility.”
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — An incident of “drunk shaming” and drug use among teachers from the Haslett Public Schools has drawn the attention of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, a spokesman says. “We were already involved and watching.”
LANSING — New documents obtained by Michigan Messenger show Lansing City Attorney Brigham Smith may have violated city policies and state laws when he released the HIV-positive status of a man arrested in a May 22 sex sting operation in a city nature center. Smith argues he has not broken any laws.
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