Local entrepreneurs soon will have easy access to about 26,000 resources to assist in starting and maintaining a business, following an agreement approved by East Lansing City Council on Tuesday night.
Bicyclists could see a safer roadway if a bill passed Tuesday by the state House of Representatives becomes law. The bill, which passed by a 74-30 margin, would amend the Driver Education Provider and Instructor Act to require more education about laws pertaining to bicycles during the classroom instruction of segment 1 driver’s education.
There usually would be nothing remarkable about David Bulgarelli walking down Grand River Avenue in a T-shirt, except that it’s mid-November.
Students who get politically involved on Facebook also might get more involved in real world, an MSU doctoral student and her research team found. MSU doctoral student Jessica Vitak invited a random sample of 4,000 MSU undergraduate students to participate in a survey, and received 683 usable responses.
Kellogg Center was full of crystal stemware and some of the area’s chefs Monday night, all of them there to support babies.
Green paint covers the walls. A life-size picture of MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo stands near the door.
Jessica Shah always knew she wanted to be a police officer. And in a few months, she’ll finally get her chance. “I went into law enforcement because I want to help people,” Shah said.
The colorful camouflaged cans of Four Loko and other alcoholic energy drinks will vanish from Michigan shelves within the next month, following a ban passed by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission on Wednesday. Manufacturers have 30 days from Thursday to get rid of the products — those containing not only alcohol, but caffeine and occasionally other energy additives like guarana and taurine — from Michigan markets, commission spokeswoman Andrea Miller said.
Voter turnout in East Lansing was slightly less than projected, East Lansing City Clerk Nicole Evans said.
Lansing residents David Marion Jr. and Benjamin French, the two men charged with the alleged homicide of finance freshman Darren Brown, are being tested for legal insanity at the state’s Center for Forensic Psychiatry, halting their trials. Both French and Marion have been charged with two counts of open murder in the March deaths of Brown and 23-year-old St.
The East Lansing City Council received an update on a study about a potential project to increase mass transit facilities along Michigan and Grand River avenues at its meeting Tuesday. Transportation alternatives were evaluated for cost, efficiency and feasibility from the Capitol in Lansing through East Lansing to Marsh Road in Meridian Township, said Lori Mullins, community and economic development administrator for East Lansing, who presented information to the council.
Lyman Briggs freshman Humphrey Petersen-Jones was released from the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, according to hospital officials.
With dozens of election campaign signs and a pig roasting in the front yard of her East Lansing home, interior design senior Brandi Dunkel explained why she spent the day on campus persuading students to look beyond their lives at MSU.
Michigan voters are slated to keep the state constitution untouched, as of press time Tuesday. As of press time, 31 percent of precincts showed 68 percent of voters turned down Proposal 10-1, which would allow a constitutional convention to write the fifth constitution in Michigan’s history.
A state proposal to prohibit certain felons from holding elective office and other public employment positions was projected to pass by a four to one margin as of press time Tuesday night.
The Ingham County proposal to renew a millage to fund Potter Park Zoo and Potter Park was passing with about 22 percent of votes representing Ingham County as of press time Tuesday night.
The East Lansing City Council is expected to continue discussion about a research study looking at plans for transportation routes along Grand River and Michigan avenues at its meeting tonight.
On Monday afternoon, Fran Dean sat in the lobby of her retirement home and listened to Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder speak to the assembled crowd.
Although East Lansing was a safer city this Halloween compared to last year, two accounts of criminal sexual conduct and one armed robbery were reported on MSU’s campus.
The East Lansing City Council meeting normally scheduled on Tuesdays will take place Wednesday to accommodate an increased use of City Hall during Election Day.