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.
In a move that critics say unfairly criminalizes medical marijuana the Holland City Council has banned medical marijuana dispensaries from locating within 1,000 feet of a school.
The U.S. Dept. of Justice is considering whether to charge BP managers with manslaughter for their role in the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion that killed 11 and caused the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
The former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental crimes section said Friday that the oil and gas company Enbridge will likely face criminal charges over its 2010 Michigan pipeline rupture.
The U.S. Food and Drug administration is charging Scenic View Diary of Hamilton, Michigan with selling dairy cows that contain unsafe levels of illegally administered antibiotics. In a Aug. 31 complaint filed in Grand Rapids federal court the U.S. Dept. of Justice charges that despite numerous warnings over the last eight years the dairy has [...]
Lyondell Chemical Co. will pay $103 million to clean up PCB contamination in the Kalamazoo River and at the Allied landfill site in Kalamazoo under a settlement proposal announced by the Department of Justice this week, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports.
In addition to the brilliant selections of Dawn Johnsen and David Barron, Marty Lederman of Georgetown Law School has been nominated to be Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel by President Obama.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has rejected an attempt by the Bush administration to weaken constitutional protections by allowing the government to obtain data from cell phone companies on individual users without a warrant.
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