It’s time to reconsider “Shop ‘til you drop.” On Black Friday — the day retailers often see their bottom lines climb out from the negative — shoppers often congregate outside their bastions of retail religion for hours upon hours in the late-fall cold. They leave their Thanksgiving dinners early or skip them altogether.
It seems like an eon ago that President-elect Barack Obama, that mighty vanquisher of the “same old Washington,” was merely an upstart junior senator, taking on the Clinton political juggernaut. The choice back then was clear — a vote for Obama was a vote for the future, whereas support for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., was a vote for the past.
In response to Dan Faas’ column, Love drives same-sex marriage fight (SN 11/24), I would like to lend my enthusiastic support to him. He is a model of Christian charity, as well as orthodoxy: a rare combination these days.
Raymar Morgan scored a season-high 29 points off the bench and three other Spartans scored in double figures, as the No. 5 MSU men’s basketball team defeated Oklahoma State 94-79 Friday at the Old Spice Classic at the Milk House in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
With a six-game losing streak looming over the MSU hockey team’s head, the Spartans are heading into what might be the toughest four-game stretch on the schedule.
First came the turkey. Then came the stuffing. The Maryland men’s basketball team feasted on MSU like a three-course Thanksgiving meal Thursday, upsetting the No. 5 Spartans 80-62 at The Milk House in Orlando, Fla.
In its first big test of the season, the No. 24 MSU women’s basketball team looked impressive in its 74-48 victory over No. 23 Old Dominion.
With the lack of offensive production this season for the MSU hockey team, head coach Rick Comley said it’s going to be vital to bring players to MSU who bring offensive power and physical strength to the table.
Mandy Moran is going home. When the marketing senior graduates in a week and a half, she won’t be heading off to Chicago or San Francisco to begin her career. Rather, she’ll head home to Rochester Hills in hopes of getting a seasonal job until the summer, when she said she hopes to get hired by a company.
It came down to one last shot. After 32 years, 320 wins and countless goals scored, the coaching career of men’s soccer coach Joe Baum came down to a penalty kick.
East Lansing residents who might have been eyeing Albert Place Condominiums could get the chance to rent one out, as the owners talked with the East Lansing City Council about getting a rental license at the council’s work session Tuesday.
The addition of a new male lion at Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing, will give zoo patrons a rare look into the rebuilding of the African lion population through breeding in American zoos.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and his perspective of his new frontier.
You wouldn’t want to mess with mechanical engineering senior Ashley Kulczycki. As a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, she is well-schooled in the arena of medieval martial arts.
Outside, deer and wild turkeys roam free, inside, Kay Trosko creates desserts that would put Entenmann’s and Hostess to shame. She works in a cathedral of a kitchen, which was added onto the Trosko’s Okemos home in 1989.
Thanksgiving dinner will be quieter for Krista R. Lueth’s family this year. The 34-year-old MSU student has been missing since Nov. 11 and investigators are still approaching the investigation as a missing person case, State Police Sgt. Kevin Mark said.
Lydia Hawthorne would have to pay at least $750 for a round-trip plane ticket back to her hometown of Rochester, Minn., for Thanksgiving.
A month after ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” unveiled a newly built home to the Nickless family in Holt, the episode is set to air at 8 p.m. Sunday on ABC.
Students who plan to take the bus on campus Thanksgiving Day will have to find other transportation.
The first probable cause hearing was held Tuesday afternoon for the man accused of four counts of homicide, including the death of MSU student Katherine A. Brown.