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 new study finds Detroit and Flint both in the top five most dangerous American cities. St. Louis, MO is number one on the list; Camden, NJ is number two; Detroit and Flint are three and four, respectively. Oakland, CA comes in at number five. The study is based on the number of violent crimes [...]
Though violent crime is down overall by 24 percent according to the most recent FBI Unified Crime Report, Saginaw, Michigan — for the seventh year in a row — has been ranked the most violent city with a population over 50,000. There were 2.3 violent crimes per 100 people during 2009. Flint, Detroit and Pontiac [...]
Just as criminologists are baffled about an unexpected decline in violent crime in many of the nation’s biggest cities, Detroit’s new police chief is predicting that the “Wild West” nature of violent crime in the Michigan’s largest city will worsen and the rates of murders and other violent crime will increase. Warren Evans, the former [...]
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