Since the moment he arrived on MSU’s campus, a fire has been burning within Draymond Green. A meticulous broil, the burn fueled the ascent of a chubby, brace-faced kid from Saginaw into the NABC Division I National Player of the Year in four short, but memorable years.
Green, a former MSU basketball player and 2012’s Big Ten Player of the Year, was selected 35th overall by the Golden State Warriors in the second round of the 2012 NBA Draft Thursday night.
Today, the MSU athletics department unveiled the new hockey jerseys for the 2012-13 season that head coach Tom Anastos announced a few months ago. The home white jerseys feature the Spartan head logo on the chest with another logo and numbers on the shoulders.
Okemos, Mich., resident Andrew Leute, 17, currently is missing and has not been seen for approximately two weeks as of Thursday, according to Meridian Township Police. Authorities believe the teen is avoiding family and police with help from friends he is staying with locally. Individuals with any information are asked to contact Detective Greg Harris at (517) 853-4800.
When Beth Rohl walked into MSU track & field throwing coach John Newell’s office four years ago, he immediately had a feeling she could be a special athlete. After just one season of discus throwing at New Buffalo High, Rohl was in Newell’s office asking to walk-on to the track program. Four years later, the girl with the long arms, broad shoulders and untapped reservoir of potential has developed into one of the elite throwers in the nation. Last weekend, Rohl broke her own school record for the third consecutive meet at the U.S.
A politically partisan battle begun two years ago came to an apparent end Thursday morning when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as constitutional, dividing many politicians along party lines over the ruling. The court ruled 5-4 that the law is constitutional, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the majority when it was found that the individual mandate requiring Americans to have insurance could serve as a tax, according to Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog.com.
Richard Patterson is staying in the dorms for the first time, but his experience is unlike many others’ because he is with his grandchildren and wife. Back when Patterson was a student at MSU in 1962, he lived off campus, but this week, he got a taste of what life is like for new MSU students.
Suffering fake bullet wounds in the back of her left shoulder, which penetrated through her arm and into her chest cavity right near her heart, MSU alumna Alyssa Dickey screamed for help at the scene of the emergency simulation at Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education, 4301 Farm Lane.
Suffering fake bullet wounds in the back of her left shoulder, which penetrated through her arm and into her chest cavity right near her heart, MSU alumna Alyssa Dickey screamed for help at the scene of the emergency simulation at Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education, 4301 Farm Lane.
When Lansing resident Alice Brinkman founded REACH Studio Art Center in 2003, the artist not only wanted to have a space to make textile pieces, but also envisioned a place that would give the community access to art.
It only took more than a century and the cries of countless disgruntled fans, coaches and members of the media — but it finally happened.
MSU Law Professor Wenona Singel was sworn in June 12 to the advisory board of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation after being nominated by President Barack Obama. Singel traveled to Washington, D.C., and was sworn in by United States Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood.
According to a hot weather warning issued at 3:44 p.m. Wednesday by the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids to Ingham County, as well as neighboring counties Mason, Clinton, Eaton and Jackson, a temperature of 99 degrees is expected today. With a 20 percent chance of rain, thunderstorms are possible during the afternoon and evening in the humid air mass.
With a unanimous vote Tuesday night, East Lansing City Council delivered the final nail in the coffin of Strathmore Development Co.’s involvement in the City Center II development project. Upon reviewing the final due-diligence report, the council came to the decision that the nearly decade-old, $105 million mixed-use development project was financially infeasible, and passed this information on to Strathmore President Scott Chappelle, who then asked to withdraw from the project.
About 19,300 people in Michigan presently are living with HIV, but about 4,500 of those individuals are uninformed of their condition, according to Michigan data from April. Wednesday was National HIV Testing Day and gave people across the country who may be uninformed about their status the opportunity to learn if they have or are at risk for HIV or an STD and receive information on prevention and treatment.
BackStage Pass, a local TV series, provides viewers with a behind-the-scenes look at music created in Michigan by hosting live performances and interviews with musicians.
There’s only one day left to vote for the 2012 football student section T-shirt before the polling period closes on Friday.
When Rep. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, took the Michigan House floor a couple of weeks ago to make a passionate speech debating a contentious abortion bill, her words resonated across the United States, gaining national attention after saying “Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but no means no.”
After 11 years of a proposed construction project being discussed at East Lansing City Council meetings, the City Center II project was effectively killed Tuesday night when the council voted unanimously not to enter into a development agreement with Strathmore Development Co.
After MSU Police investigated the death of journalism freshman Olivia Pryor in March, Marquez Dominique Cannon was arraigned today in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court on three charges: criminal sexual conduct injury to an incapacitated victim, selling or furnishing to a minor causing death and criminal sexual conduct force or coercion.