State Attorney General Mike Cox issued an opinion last May saying counties have to bear the cost of treating mental illness among jail inmates.
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A Michigan State Police Sergeant from Benzie County is dead. His wife has been arraigned on a charge of open murder.
53-year-old Melvin Holbrook...
Mental health advocates say there are simply far too many people sitting in a cell who really need treatment, not incarceration. In a time in Michigan when no program...
Two brothers from the Eastern Upper Peninsula have pleaded guilty in federal court to charges stemming from illegal dumping of fish guts into Lake...
The number of divorces in the Grand Traverse region shot up by roughly 40 percent last year.
Nearly 1,000 couples filed for divorce in the 13th...
A Manistee man may give up his parental rights, after a two-year court battle for his daughter.
In April, Darryl Rood won his case with the state...
A Benzie County Circuit Judge has dismissed a suit against the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Former Grand Traverse County Sheriff Scott Fewins charged the paper defamed him in an April 2007 editorial.
Editor Mike Tyree wrote that...
The state court of appeals has muddied the water at beaches where public roads end or run closely along the shore. The court told some home owners on Lake Charlevoix they don't own the beach across the street. It also...
Two years ago, in a contentious split vote, the Manistee-Benzie Community Mental Health Board fired its executive director during a public meeting. Michael Moran worked for the mental health agency for more than thirty years. He filed a civil...
