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.
The Detroit News reports Tuesday that 14 year old Huron High School student Samantha Kelly committed suicide Monday after being taunted by classmates. The taunting arose after Kelly was identified as the victim of an alleged sexual assault by an 18-year-old Joseph Tarnopolski, also a student at Huron High School. Tarnopolski was charged with Third [...]
Things may have gone from bad to worse for disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. In addition to wanting a judge to order Kilpatrick to immediately pay $225,000 in back restitution pay, now the Wayne County Prosecutor wants the judge to declare him in violation of his probation for failing to report tens of thousands [...]
The conviction of Diane Bukowski on felony police obstruction charges last week has prompted warnings about a chilling of press freedom as well as calls for a federal investigation of the Wayne County prosecutor’s office. One state lawmaker said the conviction is a “travesty of justice” and a pay-back from Bukowski’s reporting on police brutality in Detroit.
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