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(03/27/23 1:00pm)
Students pack into classrooms for in-person instruction. Signs on CATA buses that read “mask up” are relatively ignored. Sporting events, bars and gyms that were once closed indefinitely are now bustling with life.
(03/16/23 5:00pm)
The rental market in East Lansing can be daunting at times, which is why it’s important to be prepared when looking for a house or apartment that best suits your needs.
(03/03/23 2:30pm)
Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, CEO Bradley Funkhouser apologized for the experiences of some students on the night of Feb. 13, when they were displaced after a shelter-in-place order was put out during a shooting on campus.
(03/02/23 5:42pm)
The East Lansing Independent Police Oversight Commission convened Wednesday, March 2 to discuss the April 25 shooting, in which two East Lansing Police Department officers shot at DeAnthony VanAtten, a 21-year-old Black male in a Meijer parking lot.
(03/03/23 1:30pm)
A bill introduced in the state legislature criminalizes improperly storing a firearm where it may be accessed by a minor.
(03/01/23 6:51pm)
Strange Matter Coffee, a queer-women-owned coffee shop, announced on March 1 that their two locations in Eastside and downtown Lansing, would be closed until March 3 on an Instagram post.
(03/04/23 2:30pm)
Following the shooting on MSU’s campus in the backyard of Michigan’s capitol, Michigan legislators lead by Sen. Rosemary Bayer, D-Keego Harbor, have put forward several bills dealing with “common sense” firearm safety laws. One of the bills in the package is the Red Flag Protection Law.
(02/28/23 3:23pm)
In the wake of a mass shooting on MSU’s campus, HopCat in East Lansing held a fundraiser for the ‘Spartan Strong’ fund. The fundraiser would match beer and alcoholic cider sales from Friday, Feb. 24 to Thursday, March 2 and donate them to the fund.
(02/23/23 5:15pm)
March 22 update
(02/22/23 5:24pm)
Environmental biology and zoology junior Nate Statly has been identified as a one of the three hospitalized students from the Feb. 13 shooting on Michigan State University's campus.
(02/22/23 4:24pm)
One student who was critically injured after last week’s mass shooting at Michigan State University was upgraded to ‘serious but stable’ condition this morning, Sparrow Hospital media relations Director John Foren confirmed.
(02/22/23 7:30pm)
State Rep. Penelope Tsernoglou, of the 75th Congressional District, hosted a listening session to hear from people affected by the mass shooting on MSU's campus. The meeting followed a week of protests and demands for gun control legislation across the state and at the capitol.
(02/22/23 5:29pm)
On Feb. 13, a mass shooting on Michigan State University's campus took away many students' idea of safety.
(02/21/23 1:16am)
Psychology junior Maya Manuel took a step up to a podium outside of the Capitol building on a cold February day.
(02/20/23 4:58pm)
Of the five students originally in critical condition in Sparrow Hospital after the shooting on Michigan State University's campus on Monday, Feb. 13 three students' conditions have improved and two remain in critical condition.
(02/19/23 4:36pm)
Michigan State University will be covering hospital bills for the five students injured in Sparrow Hospital, Deputy Spokesperson Dan Olsen confirmed.
(02/19/23 5:10pm)
For many, even those who live hundreds of miles away, East Lansing will always be considered home.
(02/19/23 2:31pm)
On Saturday, less than five miles away from Michigan State University's campus where a mass shooting took place only five days earlier, delegates from counties throughout Michigan gathered to decide who would lead the state Republican Party as chair and co-chair.
(02/18/23 2:13am)
Comparative cultures and politics junior Amaya Aten brought the same protest sign she used in 2018 at a March for Our Lives rally for Parkland to the Capitol today for the End Gun Violence protest to speak for her own community five years later.
(02/17/23 7:22pm)
As Spartans have had time to reflect after Monday's shooting on campus, many are organizing their own protests and vigils to express grief, anger or demands for change.