After months of debate, a contentious Medicaid expansion bill was passed with a 20-18 vote in the Michigan Senate shortly before 8:30 p.m. Nearly two hours before, the bill was voted down in a 19-18 vote, with a move for a reconsideration vote passed before the Senate went into recess.
After weeks of anticipation, MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio has named senior Andrew Maxwell his starting quarterback for Friday’s game against Western Michigan.
The MSU women’s soccer team got off to a hot start offensively with four different players scoring to carry the Spartans over Milwaukee with a 5-2 victory.
The MSU volleyball season kicked off with the Green and White game Saturday, and for the players it was an exercise in teamwork, trash talk and an opportunity to showcase individual talents as excitement for the oncoming season begins.
After months of investigation, East Lansing authorities have arrested and charged a suspect in connection to three reported sexual assaults that occurred in April and May.
President Barack Obama on Thursday announced a plan to potentially lower the cost of college tuition by tying it to a new university ranking system. Working with Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan, the Obama Administration is set to have the program up-and-running by 2015, giving grants to colleges and universities that lower tuition fees, more graduates with less debt and higher post-graduation incomes a larger share of federal financial aid to nudge the sticker price down. “We will help more students afford college; we’ll help more students graduate from college,” Obama said in a speech at the University of Buffalo, in Buffalo, N.Y.
Following the end of preseason camp, MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio has named his three captains for the upcoming season.
After seeing the event page on Facebook, MSU alumnus Seth Brown knew there was no other option: he had to be at Thursday’s HopCat grand opening in East Lansing.
East Lansing might see a registry symbolically recognizing same-sex couples within city limits if privacy concerns with such a list can be addressed.
A 19-year-old Okemos resident accused of stabbing and killing MSU student Andrew Singler will stand trial in September, a judge determined Tuesday. Connor McCowan allegedly drove to Singler’s Rothbury Road apartment on Feb. 23 and fatally stabbed the 23-year-old MSU senior.
The end of summer is approaching and those orange construction cones are almost completely out of sight for the MSU community.
Resident assistants, intercultural aides, community coordinators and residence education staff members gathered at the rock on Farm Lane Monday morning to kick off the second annual MSU Day of Service: Taking it to the Streets.
Not one, not two, not three. Head coach Mark Dantonio said today that four quarterbacks now are vying to take their talents to Spartan Stadium as MSU’s starter this fall — or at least for the Aug.
No eyes from the public or media will be on MSU players tomorrow at their second preseason scrimmage. But what goes down behind closed doors Saturday likely will play a large role in determining who fans lay eyes on during the season at key positions.
?A trial date for MSU alumnus Raulie Casteel, the alleged I-96 shooter, has been scheduled for Jan. 13, 2014.
There were a lot of surprises with the 2012 MSU football team and most them were not exactly positive.
East Lansing might be under new leadership come November with the majority of city council seats up for grabs.
Former East Lansing mayor and city councilmember Vic Loomis will not seek reelection this fall, the second incumbent to give up their seat ahead of this fall’s election.