WXYZ and WDIV are both reporting that an Inkster police officer was injured this morning. His condition is unknown.Early reports said the officer was shot, however WXYZ is now reporting he fell while chasing suspect and was impaled by a tree branch.Investigators are looking for two to four suspects.WXYZ is streaming live coverage, you can watch it here.We will bring you more developments as they come in.
This week, the Attorney General joins President Obama in announcing the launch of the 2011 SAVE Award. Unveiled in 2009, the SAVE Award (Securing Americans Value and Efficiency) collects ideas from thousands of federal employees about how the federal government can save money and perform better.
In an email to employees, Attorney General Eric Holder encouraged Justice Department employees to participate in the annual contest:
DOJ employees have shown me time and again their tremendous commitment to making government work better and more efficiently for the American people.
I hope you will participate and put YOUR ideas forward. Le
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad says he think it’s very likely that Texas Gov. Rick Perry will jump into the Republican presidential race and reshape the campaign for Iowa’s leadoff presidential caucuses.
“I get the definite impression he’s very likely to run,” Branstad told The Associated Press on Saturday, basing his opinion on a conversation the two Republican governors had Friday.
Branstad said Perry told him his family wants him to run. Branstad also said he expects Perry to visit Iowa in the next month or so.
Perry would alter the race in Iowa, were he to get in, Branstad said.
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has shot to the top of state polls since entering the race last month, with early support from tea party supporters and evangelical conservatives. F Find more info…
To mark the one-year anniversary of the release of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, the Justice Department has launched a new section of its Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) website,
Persons with HIV and persons with AIDS are covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which gives federal civil rights protections to persons with disabilities in public accommodations, employment, and state and local government services. The new web page provides important information and resources related to combating discrimination on the basis of HIV/AIDS.
Users can visit the site to file an HIV/AIDS discrimination complaint, to obtain ADA technical assistance materials related to HIV/AIDS, and to get the latest updates about the Department’s efforts to stop HIV/AIDS discrimination. T
WASHINGTON – Racing the debt clock, Congress is working on dual tracks while President Barack Obama appeals to the public in hopes of influencing a deal that talks have failed to produce so far.
“We have to ask everyone to play their part because we are all part of the same country,” Obama said Saturday, pushing a combination of spending cuts and tax increases that has met stiff resistance from Republicans. “We are all in this together.”
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama said the wealthiest must “pay their fair share.” He invoked budget deals negotiated by GOP President Ronald Reagan and Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill — which included a payroll tax increase — and Democratic President Bill Clinton and Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich.
“You sent us to Washington to do the tough things, the right things,” he said. “Not Find more info…