panhandling

Battle Creek mom Lori Truex didn't have the money to pay her daughter's Michigan State University tuition.But she didn't let that stop her. Truex decided…

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) - Battle Creek city commissioners are scheduled to cast final votes Tuesday on ordinances aimed to regulating panhandling and…

Michigan legislators will soon discuss a bill that would outlaw aggressive solicitation in the state and create a fine for violators.The bill moved from…

Some residents and business owners in Kalamazoo want tighter restrictions on where people can panhandle. The city says the proposed changes come in…

Last September, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a law that made panhandling a criminal misdemeanor, saying it trampled on the rights…

Grand Rapids police used to use a state law outlawing panhandling to arrest hundreds of people over the years. But a federal judge struck down that law as…

Dozens of Michigan communities are getting letters from the American Civil Liberties Union warning them that their anti-panhandling laws may be…

Two men who successfully fought the state's panhandling law after being arrested in Grand Rapids in 2011 for panhandling will each get more than $6,000 as…

State Senate delays road legislationLeaders in the state Senate say that plans to fix Michigan roads aren't likely to appear on the November ballot.…

Under a decades-old Michigan law, "a person found begging in a public place" is considered a "disorderly person" and can be arrested and prosecuted as…