Apolonia Rosas remembers the calls her son would make asking about his 2-month-old daughter, a baby he hadn't met. "'Tell me more about my baby, Mom,'" Apolonia Rosas said Pfc.
March 17, 2003 President Bush tells Iraqi President Saddam Hussein he has 48 hours to leave Iraq or face war. March 19-20, 2003 President Bush declares war on Iraq.
During the past couple weeks, people have been talking about the Christian preachers near Wells Hall. They stand in the courtyard with signs and Bibles, yelling out religious scripture and sometimes yelling directly at students and people who pass by. The discussion about the preachers has centered around different aspects of their presence.
Dear Dr. D., I have recently been experiencing symptoms such as a cough, sore throat and sneezing.
Michigan residents, environmentalists and lawmakers said they're tired of waiting for the federal government to stop international trash invasion. "Michigan cannot sit back and wait on Congress," Gov.
Aerosmith\'s St. Patrick\'s day performance on campus has been cancelled - and it doesn't look like it will be rescheduled any time soon, said Scott Breckner, director of Breslin Center. For more details, please see Thursday\'s edition of The State News.
Students planning to watch upcoming MSU men's basketball games in East Lansing bars might have an incentive to stick around after the game — free food. Local bars want to keep students inside and off the streets after NCAA Tournament matchups, and are planning a variety of postgame perks. Those plans are being made through East Lansing's Responsible Hospitality Council, a voluntary organization of local bar owners, as part of the city and university's effort to prevent a repeat of the civil disturbances that followed the basketball team's Final Four loss to North Carolina last April. "It's in my best interest… that we don't have problems in the streets," said Joe Goodsir, owner of Rick's American Café, 224 Abbott Road.
As the producer and one of several co-directors of the first three large-scale "The Vagina Monologues" productions performed at MSU, I would like to express how delighted and proud I am that this show and the V-Day celebrations have continued and grown. In the first three years, we raised nearly $15,000 for local domestic violence shelters, such as MSU's Safe Place.
State Rep. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, defeated Okemos attorney Vince Green on Tuesday in a special Senate election to fill the vacant 23rd District seat. With all precincts reporting, the unofficial election results showed Whitmer with 14,334 votes — or about 80 percent of total votes — to Green's 3,371 votes, according to the Ingham County Clerk's office. The results should become official when the board of canvassers meets at 1 p.m.
Tye Erickson's voice is steady and strong as she flips through pictures of her and her boyfriend, Matt Pietrangelo, together at a party. As Erickson speaks, Pietrangelo, 21, is several weeks into his second deployment with the Marine Corps.
Deborah Irwin reached for not one, but two plastic noisemakers. She listened. She waited. And then, she enthusiastically shook the toys.
Ryan McCormick's perception of the world in his review of "Crash" in "'Crash' doesn't deserve best picture nomination" (SN 3/02) is just as horrible as his view of the movie.
MSU student Brandon Yuille's March 7 court appearance on charges of computer hacking and copyright infringement was adjourned to April 18, according to the U.S.
Scott Hershey can literally teach you a lesson or two about running a restaurant operation. Hershey is the owner of Hershey's Steak & Seafood, 2682 E.
Mark Spragg, author of "An Unfinished Life," will appear at 7 p.m. March 21 at Capital Area District Library's Main Library, 401 S.
Students returning from spring break this week were welcomed back with warm temperatures and muddy, flooded sidewalks.
Yoga mats are not putting greens, polo shirts do not stretch the same way as elastic tank tops and spikes do not equal bare feet.
The United States isn't the same place for Terry Olson as it was three years ago, before the Iraq War. Olson, 39, has been a member of the Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice, or GLNAWI, for less than a year, but has been opposed to the war since its inception in March 2003. "The war in Iraq is the worst policy that I've ever seen our country undertake," he said.
Virg Bernero is the first to admit he's not one to mince words. Speaking to a group of public relations professionals in late February, he called Republicans "nonsensical" and then confessed that running a city has made him more Republican. He drew laughs apologizing for a clash he had with Lansing's City Council, blaming his temper on his Italian heritage. "Do I have a temper?