Report: State faces rising child poverty
LANSING (AP) — The annual Kids Count survey says Michigan is facing rising child poverty.
The report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation on child well-being says support for families must be addressed by state and federal policies.
Michigan League for Public Policy says the state needs poverty-fighting tax credits, health care for low-income adults, more education and job training for low-skilled workers and an increase in the minimum wage.
The report lists Michigan 31st in overall child well-being nationally.
Court: No rights broken in talk with parole agent
JACKSON (AP) — A Jackson robbery suspect’s confession to a parole officer can be used against him, even if he wasn’t told he could remain silent.
The Michigan Supreme Court recently overturned a decision by the state appeals court and reinstated the conviction of Samuel Elliott. The decision was 5-2.
Elliott was in jail on a parole violation in 2010 when parole officer Cheryl Evans asked him about a gas station robbery. She didn’t inform him of his Miranda right, but she also had no role in the robbery investigation.
The Supreme Court says the parole officer wasn’t conducting a custodial interrogation of Elliott. But in a dissent, Justice Bridget McCormack notes that Elliott already had declined to talk to Jackson police without a lawyer.
San Fran paper sues rival over low ad rates
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Examiner has filed a lawsuit alleging that the city’s dominant daily newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, slashed advertising prices to stifle competition.
The suit claims Chronicle owner The Hearst Corp. and officials at the paper took advantage of its greater corporate resources to “selectively and secretly” target Examiner advertisers with “below-cost and discriminatory offers designed to injure the Examiner.”
The two newspapers shared business operations and revenues from 1965 until 2000, when then-Examiner-owner Hearst acquired the Chronicle and sold the Examiner to a local family.
The suit alleges the Chronicle charged significantly higher rates for ad space as expected after selling the Examiner, but reversed course when the new Examiner owners, San Francisco Newspaper Company LLC, took over in 2011.
State sued over foster abuse in home
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Lawyers for 11 young children who reportedly suffered sexual abuse at a Salem, Ore., foster home have filed nearly $23 million in lawsuits against the state’s Department of Human Services.
The lawsuits represent one of the most sweeping cases brought against the state child-welfare agency over abuse by one foster parent, The Oregonian newspaper reported.
The newspaper says 50 babies and toddlers lived in the foster home from 2007 to 2011.
James Earl Mooney was sentenced last year to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of first-degree sodomy. His wife wasn’t charged with any wrongdoing. The couple has divorced.
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