A man convicted of trespassing for climbing atop the Washtenaw County administration building on Labor Day to stage a 14-hour protest against joblessness in Michigan must pay $830 in restitution, a judge has ruled. It's much less than the roughly $19,000 county prosecutors were seeking from Bill Riney, primarily to ...
Ann Arbor police officer Sean Lee said he told Bill Riney at least twice on Labor Day that he must get down from the roof of the Washtenaw County Administration Building or be arrested for trespassing. Riney, who claimed to be conducting a peaceful protest to support the unemployed, declined ...
Ypsilanti Township resident Bill Riney is working to recall all of Ypsilanti Township's elected officials. Riney said he and a group of 10 residents calling themselves the “End Rude Behavior Group” have submitted petition language to the Washtenaw County Clerk’s Office. Riney said he's upset the township pays the McLain ...
Bill Riney, an Ypsilanti Township man who climbed onto the Washtenaw County Administration Building in a one-man protest on Labor Day, says he considers himself a "political prisoner." Now criminally charged with three misdemeanors, Riney says he spent four days in jail because police wouldn't give him his wallet, which would have ...
An Ypsilanti Township man who climbed onto the Washtenaw County Administration Building in a one-man protest on Labor Day was criminally charged with three misdemeanors today. Bill Riney was arraigned this morning on charges of attempted resisting and obstructing, punishable by up to one year in jail; trespassing, punishable by up ...
Updated at 2 p.m. with new details.Ypsilanti Township resident Bill Riney, who made an unsuccessful run for the state's 54th District seat in the August primary, climbed onto the Washtenaw County Administration Building Monday to stage a protest that lasted more than 12 hours. Washtenaw County Sheriff's spokesman Derrick Jackson ...
Bill Riney refused to take part in Sunday's state representative candidate debate held at the Ypsilanti Community Center, but that didn't stop him from campaigning in his own unusual way. The man known by many around Ypsilanti simply as "The Free Hot Dog Man" parked his van and trailer — ...
Three Democrats and one independent candidate hoping to become eastern Washtenaw County's next representative in the state Legislature laid out their ideas for turning around Michigan's economy Sunday night during a debate in Ypsilanti. The forum featured a cordial back-and-forth exchange between Lonnie Scott, who highlighted his experience working on ...
The dispute between an Ypsilanti Township man and a power company over the right to cut down large trees on his property has been officailly resolved in court. Bill Riney agreed to let officials with International Transmission Company use an easement that allows them to cut down large white pine ...
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