The first two days of February have been a winter heat wave, but last month was the coldest January in recent history. William Marino, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service station in Grand Rapids, said last month was the coldest January in 15 years and snowiest since 2005.
The nationwide outbreak of salmonella has reached Ingham County, local health officials said Friday. Laboratory tests confirmed that one of two salmonella cases reported in the county Jan. 21 is tied to a nationwide outbreak caused by tainted peanut butter products.
Flushing them or dumping them in the trash heap can lead to health hazards, but pharmaceutical disposal for students and residents has been made easier and cleaner with a new program from the Ingham County Health Department.
Students are typically the ones doling out the dollars to the university, but a class at Western Michigan University now has $500,000 of the school’s money to gamble — on the stock market, that is.
The colorful signs bearing Greek letters that line the sidewalk near Bessey Hall say it all. Spring sorority and fraternity rush week is in full swing, and plenty of MSU students are joining in the action.
Artists wishing to participate in the 2009 East Lansing Art Festival have until January 31 to apply for an exhibit.
East Lansing is among the cities across the nation that are eagerly submitting their proposals to get their cut of the funding from President Barack Obama’s proposed $825 billion stimulus project.
The Lansing Board of Water & Light will restart the process of approving a 2.5 percent rate increase after a paperwork mistake, the utility’s board of commissioners decided Tuesday. The board of commissioners held a public hearing to discuss the proposed rate hike Monday, but confusion over whether the company filed necessary paperwork 45 days before the session led to the scheduling of another public hearing on March 18.
After Libby Woodbury signed the lease in April to a new building for her business, Lite-R-Side Catering, 1331 E. Grand River Ave., everything went smoothly for about a month. Then, in May, it seemed like the world fell on the shoulders of the already emotionally strained Woodbury.
State Sen. Tom George, R-Kalamazoo, officially established his campaign to run for governor Monday. George, who represents Michigan’s 20th district, was elected to the state Senate in 2002 after serving a term with the state House of Representatives.
Incidents of whooping cough in Michigan more than doubled during the second half of 2008. There were 210 reported cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, from July through December, up from 92 cases in the first half of the year.
Monster.com is alerting job hunters of a hack-in that involved the theft of personal information, the Web site announced Friday — raising concerns for widespread identity fraud.
Prenursing sophomore Jen Ung was surprised by the suspicious man who knocked on her door Wednesday afternoon in Abbot Hall asking for donations to his church. “He had one tooth and just looked really sketchy,” Ung said. “He gave this whole speech about his church that he was raising money for. … It kind of sounded like a scam.”
The trial for the man charged with the assault of a female student last fall begins today at the Veterans Memorial Courthouse, 313 W. Kalamazoo St., in Lansing.
Star-crossed sea lampreys might soon have a serious case of heartbreak. Researchers Weiming Li and Nicholas Johnson and their team have found a way to synthesize the pheromone, or chemical, that attracts female lampreys to male lampreys. They hope to use it to lure the females into traps to help control the lamprey population, Johnson said.
Abortion rights community members gathered Wednesday to celebrate and educate others about Roe v. Wade, which legalized first-trimester abortions in 1973. Today is the 36th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision.
The East Lansing Film Society Film Series will show the film “Frozen River” from 4-7:30 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, and at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Feb. 6-8 at Wells Hall. Admission is $7 for the public and $3 for students.
The need to bring more business to East Lansing was the theme of Tuesday’s City Council meeting, as members examined several ordinances aimed at future development.
A pickpocket walked away with a 38-year-old man’s Blackberry Curve outside of Biggby Coffee in the Union Sunday afternoon, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Not many people would open a campus-related clothing store in the same location where a national chain couldn’t survive. But most people aren’t Daniel Switzer. Switzer and his business partners own Campus Street Sportswear and picked up the lease of the Steve & Barry’s former building at 515 E. Grand River Ave.