A Missing or Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) Task Force has been formed to address high rates of violence against Indigenous people in Michigan.

The Michigan Attorney General’s office issued a scam alert about a circulating call that appears to impersonate Wayne County officials.

LANSING, Mich. – A top aide to embattled Republican Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey is leaving to take a job in Democratic state Attorney General Dana Nessel's office. AdMcCann also served as spokeswoman for the two previous GOP Senate majority leaders. He also told Hillsdale County Republican leaders that GOP lawmakers had “spanked” Democratic Gov. Shirkey had already faced criticism for having met with militia leaders last year, weeks after armed protesters had entered the Capitol. At least one major company, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, said it was “deeply disappointed” over Shirkey’s remarks.

GLENNIE, Mich. - A Macomb County man has been sentenced to up to 36 years in prison after pleading no contest to charges that he sexually assaulted a girl and secretly videotaped girls while they were in a bathroom in his northern Michigan cabin. Related: Macomb County man sentenced for drugging 3 girls, raping one after taking them to cabin up northThe Detroit Free Press reports that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessell announced last week that 54-year-old Michael Patrick Wolka pleaded no contest to criminal sexual conduct and other charges in Alcona County Circuit Court in June and was sentenced in late August. Copyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.