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Rapist can share custody of victim’s child

October 9, 2017 World Justice News 0

The case of a Michigan man awarded joint legal custody of a child whose mother he sexually assaulted when she was 12 has provoked outrage. Many are incredulous that Christopher Mirasolo, 27, could be granted […]

Mother jailed for refusing to vaccinate her son

October 4, 2017 World Justice News 0

A mother in the US state of Michigan has been sentenced to seven days in jail after she refused a judge’s order to have her son vaccinated. Rebecca Bredow would not let her nine-year-old be […]

Grand jury indicts 5 more Sunny Side Gang members in heroin, cocaine ring

April 14, 2017 zoshinuk 0

By Cole Waterman BAY CITY, MI — Five more men connected to Saginaw’s infamous Sunny Side Gang have been federally indicted in an investigation of a widespread heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl distribution network. On Wednesday, […]

Michigan Attorney General Files Lawsuit To Stop Presidential Election Results Recount

December 2, 2016 World Justice News 0

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has announced that he filed a lawsuit on behalf of the people of Michigan to stop a request by Green Party candidate Jill Stein to recount the state’s presidential election […]

Election law fraud – Brandon Hall guilty on 10 counts

December 1, 2016 zoshinuk 0

GRAND HAVEN, MICH. – political activist Brandon Michael Hall has been found guilty on 10 counts of election law fraud. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges. Hall, 27, resident of Grand Haven, is […]

Michigan Man Pleads Guilty to 8 Felonies in Sunday Hearing

October 31, 2016 WJN Administrator 0

In a rare Sunday court hearing, James Franklin Cook pleaded guilty to assault with intent to murder, five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, assaulting an officer causing serious impairment and possessing a firearm […]

Michigan’s ‘Ballot Selfie’ Ban Suspended

October 24, 2016 WJN Administrator 0

Michigan voters should be free to take “ballot selfies” for the first time on Nov. 8, a federal judge ruled Monday, suspending a ban the state is fighting to reinstate with little more than two […]

Baby Kate accused Sean Phillips acquitted of first-degree murder

October 12, 2016 World Justice News 0

A judge has acquitted Sean Phillips of first-degree murder charges in the case of the disappearance of Katherine (“Baby Kate”) Phillips. Judge Peter Wadel issued a directed verdict on the first-degree murder charges midday Tuesday, Oct. […]

Human Rights

Patients in chains rescued from suspected illegal rehab centre in South Africa

October 16, 2026 0

A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after 200 people, some in chains, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern part of the country. The facility, […]

Human Rights

UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy

October 15, 2026 0

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened to ban all Eritreans from entering the UK if the east African country’s government does not accept more returns of small boat migrants and foreign national offenders. From Thursday, […]

Human Rights

Report finds ‘clear human rights failures’ in southern Scotland

October 7, 2026 0

A new report has found “clear human rights failures” across the south of Scotland with basic obligations on food, health and housing not being met. The study was carried out over eight different local authority […]