Michigan knocks judge over driver’s license decision
FLINT (AP) — The state of Michigan says a judge issued a confusing, vague order that blocks officials from suspending driver’s licenses of people who can't afford traffic fines.
In a court filing this week, the secretary of state asked federal Judge Linda Parker to freeze her injunction while the agency appeals. The state says it is a “deep, unwarranted intrusion”" into Michigan’s police powers.
The judge earlier said there’s a strong likelihood that the due process rights of poor people are being violated. A civil rights group, Equal Justice Under Law, says Michigan doesn’t distinguish between people who intentionally skip paying fines and others who can’t pay.
The state says it will “take months” to alter computer systems at local courts to follow the injunction.
Police test stun guns for use by officers
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Police Department is testing out stun guns and working to determine how officers will use them.
The Detroit Board of Police Commissioners in May gave the OK to a proposal by police Chief James Craig to use stun guns. Craig has argued that they're a tool for officers that can help save lives, since they offer an alternative to an officer using a gun.
MLive.com reports the trial period started in November, with camera-equipped stun guns being issued to 30 officers. Police say the stun guns begin recording video as soon as they are removed from their holsters.
Detroit police haven't said when they expect stun guns to be fully implemented.
Man gives $6,000 in gold to Salvation Army
GENOA TOWNSHIP (AP) — The Salvation Army says an anonymous donor has dropped more than $6,000 in gold into a red kettle in suburban Detroit.
Salvation Army of Livingston County commanding officer Maj. Prezza Morrison says a cadet was ringing her bell for donations Dec. 8 outside a Walmart in Genoa Township when a man dropped four gold pesos valued at $1,212 each and a gold bar valued at $1,249 into a kettle.
Morrison tells the Livingston Daily Press & Argus the cadet "sensed it was something different the way it fell" and when she brought the kettle in, "she told me there might be something in there."
Every resident in tiny US town becoming Scottish landowner
SCOTLAND, Conn. (AP) — Residents of the Connecticut town of Scotland are becoming Lords and Ladies in Scotland.
Highland Titles recently announced it's gifting all 1,694 residents one square foot of land on its nature reserve in Glencoe Wood, Scotland. They'll also get a courtesy title of Lord or Lady of Glencoe, along with instructions on how to visit their plot and other documents.
The Scottish land preservation company sells forest land ranging from a square foot to 1,000 square feet so they can't be developed.
Scotland First Selectman Dan Syme says the town was settled by a Scotsman named Isaac Magoon in 1700 and continues to celebrate that heritage by hosting a Highland Festival each year.
Highland Titles says residents have to call Town Hall to claim their free plot.
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