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Michigan breathalyzer technician sentenced to 9 months in jail for falsifying documents

Two Michigan men created fictitious documents to falsely suggest they tested and repaired breathalyzers to ensure they were accurate

By Steve Neavling
Jun 24, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan State Police, breathalyzer, Andrew Clark, Dana Nessel, Michigan attorney general, court, sentencing
Metro Detroit

Former Macomb County priest convicted of sexually abusing child in 1980s

Michigan Attorney General charged him as part of her office’s ongoing investigation of sexual assault in the Catholic Church

By Steve Neavling
Jun 13, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Dana Nessel, Macomb County, Catholic Church, Sexual abuse, criminal sexual conduct, Neil Kalina, St. Kiernan Catholic Church, Shelby Township, court
Politics & Elections

GOP-led Legislature seeks to intervene in lawsuit opposing 1931 abortion ban in Michigan

Republicans want to make abortion illegal in the state if ‘Roe v. Wade’ is overturned

By Steve Neavling
Jun 7, 2022

Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Abortion Rights, Roe v. Wade, abortion, Republicans, state House, State Senate, Michigan, Gov. Whitmer, Court of Claims, Dana Nessel, Planned Parenthood
Pride Issue

U.S. Supreme Court’s draft ruling on abortion poses grave risks to LGBTQ rights in Michigan and beyond

Back to bigotry?

By Steve Neavling
Jun 1, 2022

Tags: Pride Issue, LGBTQ, Dana Nessel, LGBTQ, Michigan, Cover Story
Michigan

Michigan AG joins coalition fighting to protect school admissions policy that promotes diversity

The case could make it more difficult for Michigan schools to increase diversity

By Steve Neavling
May 31, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, News, Dana Nessel, Michigan, Attorney general, court, admissions policy, education, diversity, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Politics & Elections

New poll spells trouble for Michigan Republicans peddling conspiracy theories and opposing abortion rights

Most voters said they dislike Trump and oppose a ban on abortions

By Steve Neavling
May 25, 2022

Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Abortion Rights, Survey, poll, election, politics, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Abortion, Roe v. Wade, Gov. Whitmer, Matt DePerno, Kristina Karamo, Jocelyn Benson, Dana Nessel, attorney general, secretary of state
Michigan

White supremacists are convicted of training for a civil war in Michigan

The Base is a pro-Hitler movement that advocates a race war against non-white people

By Steve Neavling
May 17, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, News, The Base, Dana Nessel, Michigan Attorney General, Michigan, Court, white supremacists, racism, Justen Watkins, Thomas Denton, Tristan Webb
Michigan

Michigan has responsibility to provide oversight of animal experiments, AG Nessel says

Inhumane animals labs could now be held accountable

By Steve Neavling
May 11, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, News, Dana Nessel, Michigan, Department of Health and Human Services, animal research, dogs, Wayne State University, Matt Koleszar, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Michigan

Michigan AG joins coalition urging Biden to cancel federal student debt

The total federal student loan debt has reached more than $1.7 trillion as inflation continues to climb

By Steve Neavling
May 5, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan, Attorney General, Dana Nessel, School loans, President Biden
Michigan

Michigan campaign to protect right to abortion at the ballot sees explosion in volunteers

There’s a huge jump in interest in Reproductive Freedom for All after leak of SCOTUS draft to overturn ‘Roe v. Wade’

By Randiah Camille Green
May 4, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Health Care, Abortion Rights, Abortion, Reproductive Freedom for All, Dana Nessel, Michigan, Roe v. Wade, U.S. Supreme Court
Michigan

AG Nessel won’t prosecute women or doctors who violate Michigan’s abortion ban

Michigan attorney general believes women will die under the state’s 1931 law, which would go back into effect if ‘Roe’ is overturned

By Steve Neavling
May 3, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Health Care, Abortion Rights, Abortion, Dana Nessel, Michigan, Roe v. Wade, U.S. Supreme Court, prosecutors
Michigan

Michigan is among the top states for exonerating people for wrongful convictions

Eleven people were released from Michigan prisons for crimes they didn't commit in 2021

By Steve Neavling
Apr 12, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Exoneration, Michigan, Michigan Attorney General, Innocence Project, prison, crimes, Kym Worthy, Dana Nessel
Metro Detroit

Judge vacates murder, rape convictions of Oakland County brothers who spent 25 years in prison

By Steve Neavling
Mar 22, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Melvin DeJesus, George DeJesus, Michigan Attorney General, Dana Nessel, Conviction Integrity Unit, Oakland County, rape, murder, wrongful conviction, Cooley Law School Innocence Project, University of Michigan Innocence Clinic
Politics & Elections

Transparency bills flounder in Michigan state Senate during Sunshine Week

By Steve Neavling
Mar 16, 2022

Tags: Politics & Elections, Freedom of Information Act, Michigan, Lansing, politics, Lonnie Scott, Progress Michigan, Dana Nessel, Mark Tisdel, state Senate, state House, legislation, Sunshine Week, transparency
Michigan

State AG investigation of Boy Scouts leads to sexual abuse charges

By Steve Neavling
Mar 9, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Boy Scouts of America, Michigan State police, sexual abuse, criminal sexual conduct, Dana Nessel, Michigan, Michigan Attorney General, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Michigan

Nessel asks state Supreme Court to expand protections for LGBTQ

By Allison Donahue, Michigan Advance
Mar 4, 2022

Tags: Michigan, Michigan Advance, Dana Nessel, Attorney General, LGBTQ
Michigan

Michigan AG joins nationwide investigation into TikTok’s impact on mental health of young people

By Lee DeVito
Mar 3, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Facebook, Meta, TikTok, Dana Nessel, Michigan, mental health, social media
Politics & Elections

Macomb County nursing home employee sentenced to jail for forging absentee ballot applications

By Steve Neavling
Feb 25, 2022

Tags: Politics & Elections, Dana Nessel, Michigan Attorney General, voter fraud, elections, Macomb County
Michigan

Macomb County man accused of selling COVID-19 vaccination cards using fake Facebook identity

By Lee DeVito
Feb 16, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, COVID-19, coronavirus, Michigan, Dana Nessel, pandemic, Macomb County
Michigan

U.S. businesses, workers suffer as trucker protests continue unabated at Canada border

By Steve Neavling
Feb 10, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Anti-vaxxers, Canada, Ambassador Bridge, Michigan, Gov. Whitmer, auto industry, Dana Nessel, COVID-19

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