Vermontville - Three people died Monday after a home-built, single-engine airplane crashed in a rural town, about 30 miles west of Lansing. Though a positive identification could not be made, the victims appear to be a father and his two sons traveling from Ypsilanti to Billings, Mont., Eaton County Sheriff Rick Jones said.
Lansing - More than just a fundraiser for Cristo Rey Church, Fiesta 2004 helped to instill interest in a rapidly growing minority population.
Patrick Beeman, as a criminal justice major would you cease to prosecute a repeat offender of grand theft auto if you have already prosecuted him a few times before?
"The Day After Tomorrow" starts off well, with a legitimate concern over global warming and its immediate effects.
Education experts from across the nation will gather to discuss the best ways to prepare, recruit and retain mathematics teachers in the nation's schools.
I'm glad to see how happy The State News is about tobacco tax being voted down ("Holy Smokes," SN 5/24). I hope they will be happy as they continue to watch the smoking rate and illness rate among MSU students rise.
Road construction on Kalamazoo Street, west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, will begin today. The first phase of a two-phase project will close Kalamazoo Street to through traffic between Martin Luther King Jr.
Chicago - Mark Prior will return back to the major league, making his first start with the Chicago Cubs on Friday after spending the first two months of the season on the disabled list. Prior, who has been sidelined with an inflamed right Achilles' tendon and sore right elbow, was impressive in his third rehab start Sunday when he allowed three hits and two runs while striking out 10 in 5 1-3 innings for Triple-A Iowa. Prior pitched the first two games of his rehab tour with the Lansing Lugnuts and defied conservative estimates - pitching an extra inning in his second game to help the 'Nuts turn the tables on the West Michigan Whitecaps to win 7-6. During both games with the 'Nuts, Prior allowed just one hit and one walk, and threw 13 strikeouts in a combined 7 1/3 innings. Now, he's ready to return to the Cubs and will face the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday at Wrigley Field.
People buying milk in May faced record prices and they might not see cheaper prices until next month, according to industry officials.
There are thousands of ways to say thank you - cards, flowers, flying a flag 7,000 miles away in the middle of Afghanistan. The latter was the choice of U.S.
Three reasons to hate Aerosmith (as if we needed more): "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," "Jaded" and "Just Push Play." Anyone who has good taste in music holds quite a grudge against Aerosmith for using their dubious title of "Best Hard Rock Band" in order to make horrid musical compilations that have topped pop charts around the world.
Denita Dorsey was charged with 19 new felonies Friday at East Lansing's 54-B District Court, bringing the total number of charges against her to 27 after police accused her of stealing of more than $100,000, which she used to buy clothes, pay rent and purchase a new $40,000 vehicle. Police say while Dorsey, a May graduate, was a Melrose Apartments employee, she used personal information from tenants' rental applications to open bank accounts, apply for credit cards and take out student loans to obtain the money. Dorsey, 22, faces a maximum punishment of 157 years in prison and $142,000 in fines.
MSU's criminal justice program will launch an online homeland security studies program in the fall as part of the school's effort to train students and community members to react to terrorism events.
Lansing - Keeping control of his 2004 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor at 80 mph and whipping around nearly 90 degree turns wasn't the hardest part of Sean Khoo's three week trip to Lansing.
News of higher terror alerts overwhelms today's media. There is more specificity toward who, what, where and when terrorist attacks might occur.The government, along with the media, might be creating a culture of fear rather than knowledge. Surely, one should be vigilant during the Bush administration's allegations of new terrorism threats and alerts.
Although gas prices are at an all-time high, and the weather wasn't too inspiring, many local residents opted to stay home instead of traveling north or south, to experience what mid-Michigan had to offer this Memorial Day weekend. In Lansing, there was music, cheering and clapping on Saturday at the city's annual parade.
I would like to take this time to voice my utter disappointment and disgust with the recent cartoon by Patrick Walters depicting the Republican National Convention as the next terror threat (SN 5/27). Walters, you have gone too far this time.
Increasing numbers of students are leaving universities without degrees, although retention rates remain the same as the 1970s, according to a report released by a Washington-based nonprofit group. The pool of students is just getting bigger. The report "A Matter of Degrees," released by the Education Trust, showed 63 percent of students are graduating with a degree in six years from four-year universities but that proportion has remained the same for 30 years. "Generally you hear 'Well, we're doing as well as can be expected with the students we have,'" said report author Kevin Carey, adding universities have to put more effort into keeping students enrolled. National Center for Education Statistics data shows MSU graduates 69 percent of students within six years, higher than the national rate of 63 percent. "Sixty-nine percent is quite good nationally," Carey said, "But there are similar institutions that are doing better." Penn State University is close in size and demographics to MSU but graduates 80 percent of students within six years, according to National Center for Education Statistics data.
The idea of sharing and downloading music in 1995 was unheard of. In 2025, however, file sharing, particularly that of Napster, has almost destroyed the record industry, so the band Metallica sends a machine back to 1995 to kill the fictitious creator of Napster, Don O'Conner.