Advertising junior Brandon Carmack likely will be headed to trial within the coming months, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said.
Packed udder to udder in the MSU Dairy Teaching and Research Center’s milking parlor stood some of MSU’s finest — 14 Holstein cows — in place and ready to be milked.
On Wednesday, the Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing, officially welcomed in its newest animals — Seba’s short-tailed bats. Seba’s short-tailed bats are small, fruit-eating bats native to South and Central America, said Melissa Lincoln, one of the two primary caregivers for the bats.
From the knit German flag pillow lying on Kate Freiberger’s sofa to her excited talk of trips to Mexico, Costa Rica and Germany, Freiberger’s craving for diversity is shown in every aspect of her life.
Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, announced the discounted MSU vs. University of Michigan hockey game at Joe Louis arena deal sold out earlier this week. The package included transportation and ticket to the Feb. 2 rivalry game for $7. At the meeting, COGS also announced it will be a co-sponsor for the next Taste of East Lansing at its monthly full-council meeting Wednesday.
The MSU women’s basketball team hopes to welcome back redshirt freshman forward Akyah Taylor to the rotation for tonight’s home game against Iowa at 6 p.m. Normally, the Spartans (14-2 overall, 2-1 Big Ten ) would not make a big deal out of the return of a player who has averaged 9.3 minutes of play in four game appearances.
For the first time since 1999, the MSU football team will have multiple underclassmen leaving school early to enter the NFL Draft, with running back Le’Veon Bell, tight end Dion Sims and defensive end William Gholston each announcing about two weeks ago that they’re ready to take the plunge.
Whether the MSU gymnastics team is in East Lansing or Lincoln, Neb., as they will be this Saturday, the bars will be set at the same height, and the beam will still be four inches wide.
On Sunday, the Golden Globe Awards kicked off awards season, and the selection of movies that won might imply that the old model of what makes an award-winning movie might be changing.
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the MSU College of Music will host two free concerts this weekend to celebrate his life and work.
Second semester is starting to take off. Professors are beginning to assign homework and projects, and the last thing anybody wants now is to get sick—especially with the flu.
In each of our lives, we have certain questions that never seem to get answered. Whether these unknowns become doubts we spend years trying to make peace with, or barriers from the past we might always feel trapped behind, they stand out to us and miraculously seem to find their way back in our minds when we least expect.
The MSU men’s basketball team is set to take on Penn State on the road Wednesday night. Follow along with our live chat here, and leave your questions, comments and analysis for State News men’s basketball reporter Josh Mansour.
Two MSU basketball players were involved in what police believe to be an altercation this morning at a Penn State campus hotel.
Warm weather might have been a factor in the high number of assaults and underage drinking arrests last weekend. East Lansing police arrested six minors for carrying alcohol, wrote nine minor in possession citations, and answered calls for three assaults, seven fights, nine thefts and one stolen vehicle, according to the weekend report. “For a winter month, coming back after break … it is a little higher than normal,” East Lansing police Capt.
For MSU Union Operations Supervisor Jeff Gooch, the Union has been a comforting home away from home for the past 32 years.
In 2011, almost 30 percent of the cigarettes smoked in Michigan were smuggled from other states, according to research from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which factored information from 47 of 48 states. Michael LaFaive, director of Morey Fiscal Policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said the high smuggling rate is partly because Michigan currently has the 10th highest tax rate at $2 per pack, according to statistics from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Mean Joe Greene giving his jersey away. Computer generated lizards dancing to “Thriller.” Babies talking about the stock market.
Well into Tuesday night, the East Lansing City Council discussed before a crowd of residents the future of the formerly proposed City Center II property, an ordinance that would allow those looking to sell their homes to rent them for a short period of time and approved the contract of East Lansing and Lansing Fire Department Chief Randy Talifarro. The council decided to send the proposition back to the planning commission for review and recomendations for the future of the site as well as attempt to solve the parking issue.
The scream echoed throughout a Breslin Center stunned into silence. As he writhed on the floor in pain Sunday night, one phrase kept repeating itself in Branden Dawson’s mind. “Please, please don’t let this happen to me again.” For a moment, the sophomore guard thought his worst fear had become a terrifying reality. Dawson defied the odds at the beginning of the season in returning from a torn anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, in his left knee three months ahead of schedule and with nearly identical, jaw-dropping athleticism and leaping ability. But as he laid underneath Nebraska’s basket, clutching his knee after being fouled on a fast break layup, many wondered if the seven months spent in rehab went for naught. Tom Izzo was “crushed,” Adreian Payne was “nervous,” and Derrick Nix was “just praying that he was alright.”