Admission ceremony planned for graduates
The Macomb County Bar Association will hold an admission ceremony on Thursday, May 29 for law school graduates who passed the February bar examination.
The event is scheduled at 4 p.m. at the Macomb County Courthouse 4th floor courtroom, 40 N. Main in Mt. Clemens.
Participants are asked to gather in the area outside the courtroom at 3:30 p.m.
Graduates who passed the exam and wish to register for the event should contact Tracy Stabryla at 586.468.2940 ext. 101, by email at tstabryla@macombbar.org or by visiting macombbar.org.
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School chief to help repay money
TRAVERSE CITY (AP) — The superintendent of Traverse City Area Public Schools has agreed to repay more than half of $24,800 in taxpayer money that Michigan Secretary of State officials determined was misspent by administrators during a 2012 bond millage campaign.
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports the state determined that district leaders misspent public funds to print and distribute fliers. Michigan’s Campaign Finance Act prohibits the use of public money to promote or denounce a ballot question.
Superintendent Stephen Cousins plans to repay $14,800 of the total in quarterly installments. He says he’s responsible for the use of the word “support” in the literature, adding “it seems right” that he would take responsibility for the district.
The remaining $10,000 will come in the form of campaign finance requirements training for district officials.
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Charge dropped under Stand Your Ground law
OAKLEY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who was scheduled to go to trial for shooting a former employee has been granted immunity from liability under the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law.
David Collins of Oakley could have faced prison time if found guilty of aggravated battery in the 2013, shooting of David Bowles. The Salina Journal reports Chief Judge Glenn Schiffner’s recent ruling caused the case to be dropped.
Bowles was a former employee of the Collins farm and ranch and had been told to stay off the Collins property. Court documents show Bowles went to the home David Collins’ father, where David Collins confronted him.
Collins says he pulled his gun and it went off during a scuffle. Bowles survived but lost sight in his left eye.
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County commission wants prayer relief
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) —The Forsyth County Commission wants relief from a federal court order on prayer at its meeting.
The commissioners voted unanimously this week to have the county attorney work to get the order overturned, so they can go back to their previous policy on prayer.
The commissioners formerly invited clergy from various faiths to give the opening prayer. That stopped in 2010 when a judge issued an order prohibiting the board from allowing sectarian prayer in meetings.
The commissioners lost an appeal and chose not to ask clergy to deliver prayers with nonspecific references to God.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled recently in a New York case that the town did not violate the Constitution by allowing ministers to deliver Christian prayers at meetings, since the town had an inclusive invitation policy.
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