A symphony plays in the background as Lisa Panetta-Sawaya serves a muffin to one of the first customers at Mona Lisa's Coffee House, her newest café. Panetta-Sawaya opened the first Mona Lisa's café in Haslett in 2004, and after its success, she decided to open another café when Ooh la la Crepes, 1133 E.
Brenda Young didn't know why she was called into her Lansing Community College office on a Sunday morning last year.
On Super Bowl Sunday, the Detroit People Mover was a public transportation adventure. Patrons were greeted at stations by bomb-sniffing dogs. Riders were liable to break out into choruses of "Let's go Steelers" without warning.
The man charged with the murder and rape of a Lansing Community College professor last year had slept in campus buildings on more than one occasion, testimony in his trial showed Thursday. Carolyn Kronenberg, 60, was found beaten, strangled and raped before her class was scheduled to begin the morning of Jan.
By Andrea Byl For The State News America's number one killer of women took Christin Faccio's mother and she wants it to stop. Her mother, Marilyn Faccio, 48, died of a heart attack in 2002; the unidentified heart disease symptoms echoed a common chorus.
With more than 100,000 visitors expected in Detroit, traffic conditions will likely be congested. On-street parking and parking garages will be limited and alternative modes of transportation are recommended. • Park and Ride a carpooling program offered in Detroit, should be the easiest way to travel around Detroit during Super Bowl weekend.
About 100 law-enforcement agencies are combining their resources to keep Detroit safe during this Super Bowl weekend — they've sent divers into the Detroit River checking for explosives, prepared a special response team in case of biological hazards and plan to shut down the surrounding roads. "This is the largest event of its kind that has ever occurred in this area," said Wayne County Sheriff Sgt.
Lansing and East Lansing officials are taking steps to attract high-tech jobs to the region, a collaboration that's been slow in the making. On Tuesday, area leaders announced a formal agreement creating a Lansing Regional SmartZone, a designation allowing city and state tax dollars to be funneled into technology developments, three years after applying to be a part of the statewide program in 2002.
Excess money from the construction of the new Department of Public Works building will be used to pay off bonds on the money used during construction. When the department moved into the brand new building in April 2005, the project cost $500,000 less than budgeted. "We gave a presentation to the (East Lansing) City Council, and there were several items with unsure costs.
Morgan Haeger reached his Lansing Community College class about 20 minutes early on Jan. 23, 2005.
Lansing Community College celebrated the first semester the entire east location is open for use on Tuesday. The location, 2827 Eyde Parkway, is good for students who are dual-enrolled at MSU and LCC because it is close to MSU's campus, said Brian Jackson, LCC East coordinator.
The MSU chapter of Athletes in Action, a Christian fellowship for college athletes, will watch the Super Bowl and, at halftime, try to break the record for the most hot dogs eaten in one sitting. About 40 partygoers can watch the game at the home of Phil Gillespie, MSU's Athletes in Action campus director, whose theater system boasts an 8-foot-wide screen. During halftime, those up for the challenge can participate in a hot dog eating contest, which is held just for fun among group members, said Max Lossen, president of MSU's chapter of Athletes in Action. Competitors will attempt to break the record of 19 hot dogs.
Detroit — I was born and raised in Detroit, and downtown has always been my favorite thing about my hometown.
The Great Lakes are reaching a tipping point and without more federal government help, they could be damaged beyond repair, environmentalists say. "The federal government has really been dragging their feet on this issue," National Wildlife Federation regional spokesperson Jordan Lubetkin said.
While trudging through the puddles around Ford Field on Sunday, I thought hard — went deep, if you will — about my Super Bowl XL predictions: So Detroit might not be the best choice for this year's Super Bowl, but it's probably the city that needs the money the most. And like any good host, Detroit has cleaned up to best of its ability.
By Amy Oprean For The State News Michigan police agencies reported a total of 1,323 arrests for drunken driving and another 825 alcohol-related arrests during the 2005 holiday season, nearly 300 more than the same period in 2004.
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero will give his first State of the City address at 7 p.m. in the Dart Auditorium at Lansing Community College in Lansing. Bernero is expected to outline his plans to address the city's budget deficit.
Hotels in and around downtown Detroit are filling up as Super Bowl fans travel to the area for the weekend celebration.
East Lansing and university officials are thinking about throwing their own Final Four after-party, with hopes it could prevent celebrations from getting out of control should the MSU men's basketball team make a run in the NCAA tournament this April. But the key questions remain unanswered — including what to do, where to do it and whether the city and university even want to do it. "I don't think anybody is dead set for or against this," said East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton. The independent commission that reviewed last April's disturbances — which followed the basketball team's Final Four loss — recommended the city and university consider holding an approved event. But the biggest question for any event, officials say, is finding out if students will come. MSU researchers hope to answer that question through an online survey which could be e-mailed to a random sample of about 1,800 undergraduates as early as today. The survey will ask students what kind of an event they'd be interested in attending, and where they would want such an event to be located. A special celebratory events committee, with representatives from both MSU and the city, will discuss and possibly plan an event, eventually recommending a course of action to the East Lansing City Council.
Fifteen-year-old Brittany Bergquist and her younger brother Robbie, 14, have collected more than 200,000 cell phones since 2004. With an effort that started with a car wash in their hometown in Massachusetts, "Cell Phones for Soldiers" has grown to become a nationwide effort. Cell phones are collected at different businesses and recycled for their parts, or sometimes resold.