A federal judge in Denver sentenced three nuns to prison for at least the next two and a half years Friday for their roles in breaking into a nuclear missile silo in October.
Coloma, Mich. - No one ever thought this would last.Back in the mid-1970s, it was just a bunch of MSU students who decided to play croquet in Akers Hall during their free time.
Head coach Rick Comley finds this year's schedule to be an improvement over last year's. The 2003-04 ice hockey schedule, released Wednesday, offers numerous chances to see the Spartans at Munn Ice Arena. "Last year we only had 17 home games," Comley said.
During a conversation with a colleague the other day, the issue of adulthood was raised. When does the moment of adulthood arrive? Is it a magic moment that bursts upon its recipient with fanfare and wonder?
Armed with hammers and nails, Lysol and scrub brushes, more than 15 members and alumni of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity worked together on Saturday to repair the chapter's house, which was found in disrepair by East Lansing housing inspectors in early July. Between 15 and 40 current and former members have gathered every weekend since then to work on the laundry list of violations reported by inspectors. "We got the word out through e-mail to a lot of brothers.
Many people in the East Lansing community were outraged last week to hear a 19-year-old female MSU student reported she was sexually assaulted while walking to her car.This week people might be just as outraged to find out she lied about the whole incident.The woman has now admitted that she was never assaulted.
Lansing - Professional storyteller Tim Bogar stood underneath the cool shade provided by an Oak tree near the Grand River on Friday as he wrapped duct tape around his khaki pant legs.After spending several minutes doing this, he recreated his camping trip - catching stable flies with the sticky side of the tape.
Lansing- If the Lugnuts had their wish, baseball games would have one less inning. Another bad inning cost the Lugnuts the game, with its 4-1 loss to the South Bend Silver Hawks on Sunday afternoonThe Lugnuts (15-22) have struggled lately to put together an entire game.
Michigan lawmakers are teaming up in an effort to make prescription drugs more affordable - a hard subject to tackle with no clear-cut solution.But as a step in the right direction the U.S.
Undergraduate members and alumni of Theta Delta Chi fraternity came together Saturday to repair the chapter's house, which was found in disrepair by housing inspectors about two weeks ago. The chapter, at 139 Bailey St., was in danger of being condemned July 9 after city housing inspectors found the house vacant and destroyed with doors and windows missing. The Gamma Triton Building Association, an executive board of alumni who own the home, asked members to leave the house in May so repairs could be done during the summer.
Three nuns charged with sabotage and destruction of government property for breaking into a nuclear missile silo received sentences on Friday of at least two and a half years in federal prison by a federal judge in Denver, Colo. The nuns, Carol Gilbert, 55, Ardeth Platte, 67, and Jackie Hudson, 68, were all given different sentences because of their previous records.
Lansing - The Lugnuts used five pitchers in Thursday's 8-4 loss to the Fort Wayne Wizards, but it was just one inning's worth of rocky Lansing pitching that put the game out of reachLansing reliever Wes O'Brien lasted only the first third of the sixth inning, walking two straight, hitting another with an errant pitch and surrendering five earned runs to put Lansing at a deficit it would never erase."A couple of walks here and a base hit there and the flood gates just open," O'Brien said.Fort Wayne (16-18) scored six runs off only two hits in the sixth, taking advantage of the Lugnuts' (15-19) inability to find the strike zone en route to an 8-2 Fort Wayne lead."In games it all comes down to (pitchers)," O'Brien said.
The 19-year-old female MSU student who reported being sexually assaulted at gunpoint Sunday has admitted to East Lansing police the assault did not occur.The student told the East Lansing Police Department that while walking on the 300 block of Division Street on Sunday, she was approached by a white male with a gun, forced into a vehicle and sexually assaulted.The victim said she was released by the suspect after the alleged assault.East Lansing police said it has yet to be determined whether the student will be charged with filing a false police report.For more information on this story, please see Monday's edition of The State News.
It seems as if another president is guilty of lying to the American people - except this time, American lives were involved. In the months leading up to the war with Iraq, President Bush sold the American people on the idea that Iraq posed "an imminent threat to the security of our country" and that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and was ready to use them.
Creating 1,200 jobs, a world-class research facility and even more prestige for MSU's already-praised Nuclear Physics Department seems like something the state government would support.
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles profiling Lansing's six candidates for mayor. Melissa Sue Robinson says after half a decade of being a constituent, she's ready to make her mark on Lansing by running for mayor. "I want to give back to the people that helped me," the 53-year-old said.
With wounds still fresh from a more than $2-million embezzlement scandal, Mike Brown, president of the Capital Area United Way, addressed a crowd of laborers saying the scandal won't shake the 64-year partnership with the labor union. "We have to roll up our sleeves and go back to work," Brown said.
Most children would say they'd rather spend summer days playing outside than learning. But for the more than 250 third and fourth graders who spent two weeks on campus for Kid's College, they say braving the classroom in the summer was worth it. Sitting next to a structure made of wooden dowels pegged into a board with string to hold up action figures, 10-year-old Jessie Marshall-Reeve learned about structures, gravity and architecture.
A ballot initiative was proposed Wednesday that would allow Michigan voters the option to prohibit preferential treatment based on race or gender. With the support of several Republican state representatives by his side, the chairman of the Sacramento-based American Civil Rights Coalition, Ward Connerly, announced the campaign for the ballot initiative at the state Capitol. If passed, the initiative would become a constitutional amendment against the U.S.