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A Michigan family which had dreams of camping during the summer in the great outdoors was horrified when state officials seized their six children simply because they were temporarily living in tents, Off The Grid News has learned. The nightmare ...

Gray wolves are killing cattle and family pets in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, and all residents can do is stand by and watch thanks to a federal judge’s ruling. In December, US District Judge Beryl Howell overturned the Obama administration’s ...

Simply questioning civil forfeiture apparently can get you arrested and jailed in Michigan. On Feb. 23, cancer patient Thomas Williams, 72, was featured in a Detroit Free Press article about a drug taskforce’s seizure of his television, cell phone, shotgun, ...

A 27-year-old complaint that led to no criminal charges apparently is enough to keep you from getting a concealed weapon license in Michigan. Matthew Askins, who has no criminal record, had his application for a concealed carry permit turned down ...

Police around the country are wanting to turn home and business private security cameras into surveillance devices to monitor activity on streets and other public places. New technology can give cops instant access to video from homes and businesses. The ...

Michigan Child Protective Services (CPS) sent a police SWAT team with an armored vehicle to take a girl from her home because the mother refused to give the teenager the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal. The police raid occurred even though the ...

Businesswoman and co-op owner Jenny Samuelson is a firm believer in raw milk, and for good reason. She says it cured her of severe allergies and migraines, and to this day she treats it like a medicine. So when the ...

A material currently classified as hazardous waste would be added to roads and driveways in Michigan if some state legislators get their way. The lower chamber of Michigan’s state legislature has passed a bill that would allow the use of ...

Parental rights are under attack in Michigan, as a doctor’s office required that children of certain ages be separated from their mothers and fathers at the office. Michigan citizen Christy Duffy wrote a blog post entitled, “I Am The Mom” to share ...

Many Michigan residents will lose their right to keep livestock on their own property due to a new ruling from the state’s Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. The Commission ruled April 28 that local governments have the right to ...