Growing up in Metro Detroit, Brent Darnell spent his winters with his backyard turned into an ice sheet. Like many young hockey players, the sophomore forward said he would wait for the pond to finally freeze so he could lace up his skates and head outside for the rare outdoor hockey play.
When MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant cast her vote on Tuesday morning, she encountered a broken ballot machine — a good representation of the week the Spartans had.
For MSU volleyball’s assistant coach Russ Carney, a day’s work might seem like something it would take an army of people to accomplish. But after 10-12 hours a day filled with coaching and tracking the team’s academics, housing situations and even parking on game days, Carney still can’t get enough of his job.
The last time Jay Chapman took the soccer field against Indiana, he walked away with his first collegiate hat trick and a 3-1 win for MSU men’s soccer (8-9-1 overall, 3-3-0 Big Ten). Chapman looks to have similar success as the Spartans open up the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday in Evanston, Ill., against the No. 22 Hoosiers at 1 p.m., Central time.
CNN projected Michigan will be awarded to President Barack Obama at the end of the night, despite Republican Mitt Romney’s early surge here.
After her relocation to the East Lansing area, Susan W. Woods said she saw few opportunities for East Lansing filmmakers.
When MSU alumnus Casey Sorrow first was asked to submit some samples of his work to a fine arts press in Ireland, he had no idea he would end up creating illustrations for multiple versions of the modern U.S.
Manuel Antonio Alvarado-Espino, a 32-year-old Lansing, Mich. resident, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly sexually assaulting a female employee at Charlie Kang’s Restaurant, 127 E. Grand River Ave., according to a press release from the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD.
Justice of Supreme Court Doug Dern: 3% Connie Marie Kelley: 21% Stephen Markman: 23% Bridget Mary McCormack: 23% Kerry L. Morgan: 4% Colleen O’Brien: 22% Bob Roddis: 3%
In the earliest election results from Google, at 7:30 p.m. Republican Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama in three states where results were available.
It has been a painstaking journey since the election cycle began more than a year ago. Since then, negative attacks have been thrown from both sides in an effort to gain votes, and in doing so, each side slightly tainted the character of its opponent.
Like many people my age, I had been looking forward to election day for a long time. I had been told from nearly every source of authority in my life that voting is the pinnacle of democratic civic engagement in this republic and that I should be thankful to live in a place where voting is an option. As a public policy student, I was more than excited to experience taking part in this pivotal exercise.
He was called the “bronze warrior.” As Richard Nixon’s television adviser, Ted Rogers, described him, John F. Kennedy was the tanned man with a plan before the famous 1960 presidential debate in Chicago.
It was early on Election Day when social relations and policy sophomore Rawley Van Fossen received a couple of unsettling calls.
Police arrested a 43-year-old man from Wixom on unspecified charges connected to a series of shootings along the I-96 and M-52 corridors, according to an article from The Detroit News.
Monday, around 9:20 a.m., police pulled over a vehicle thought to be carrying the I-96 shootings in Kentwood, Mich. Ingham County Sheriff Gene Wrigglesworth said a police transport van taking prisoners to Grand Rapids passed a vehicle that matched the description of the suspect’s car, and police later pulled the car over and took the driver in for questioning. However, Wrigglesworth said it was the wrong man, and he was released a couple hours later. Wrigglesworth said there are no new reports regarding the suspect, who is reported to be involved in more than 20 shootings that have occurred between Oct.
For months, students, city officials, candidates and volunteers have worked to prepare for today’s election — whether it was registering voters, campaigning or canvassing for their favorite candidate.
