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.
More than 1,000 people gathered at Pinecrest Elementary School on Sunday for the last time to celebrate life and community during the 10th Ellen's Race 5K Run and Walk. In addition to raising money for three area organizations, the 3.1-mile run and walk served as a memorial to Ellen Osborn, a fourth grader who passed away on Nov.
Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles profiling Lansing's six candidates for mayor. Vietnam veteran Leon Black says his lack of political experience is exactly what Lansing needs in a mayor. One of four of Lansing's six mayoral candidates with virtually no experience holding any public offices, Black says he is planning to bring honesty and integrity to his home city. "I'm not a career politician," said Black a self-proclaimed "strong conservative." "Though, I think that I'm the one - the long shot that I am," he said. After an unsuccessful run against former Mayor David Hollister two years ago, Black, 59, is once again trying to win the top job in the more than a 120,000-person city. Black will be competing against five other candidates for a spot on the November ballot at the primary election on Aug.
A 19-year-old female MSU student admitted to East Lansing police Friday that she filed a false report of sexual assault.The student had reported that she was assaulted in the morning of July 20 on the 300 block of Division Street.
An MSU professor and a team of researchers from across the country have discovered the DNA sequence they say can help control a fungus that cuts crop yields and produces toxins.New farming practices and climate change have made the fungus, known as Fusarium graminearum, a problem for farmers during the last 10 years.Fungicides have been used to combat the problem, but nothing has been proven effective, researchers say."We've tried to find the weak link in the disease process," said Corby Kistler, a researcher from the University of Minnesota's ARS Cereal Disease Lab.
MSU junior guard Chris Hill is set to go from MSU baller to representative of the United States. Hill was among 12 college players chosen nationwide for the USA Basketball Men's Pan American Games Team.
Lansing - With only five runs to speak of in four previous losses at Oldsmobile Park, the last thing the Lugnuts needed on Monday was to be stymied by South Bend pitcher Sam Smith.They got exactly that.The Lugnuts (15-23) were only able to grind out six singles against Smith and South Bend (23-14) in Monday night's 3-0 loss.
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.
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.
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.
I've just finished reading the July 23 State News article, "Student abducted, sexually assaulted" (SN 7/23). Is it me, or did the second half of this article devolve into a kind of blame-game?
Mr. Terry Link has an interesting view on the new Wal-Mart's opening in town in his letter ("Big business bad for area, environment," SN 7/23). It really is too bad being interesting isn't tantamount to being right. The fact is, area politicians and residents alike are right to be happy Wal-Mart has come to MSU's vicinity.
James Bounds' letter "Athletics not cause for funds decrease" (SN 7/21) points out again that athletics have diverted attention from the real funding issue.
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.