Lowering the legal blood-alcohol will help save both lives and funding, protecting our roads from both drunken drivers and poor road conditions. The state Senate passed legislation Thursday to decrease the legal blood-alcohol level from 0.10 to 0.08.
Three brightly colored fish captured the eye of Virginia resident Martha Ruehlmann as she walked through the Kresge Art Museum Wednesday. "Three Fish" is the title of the Jessica Oonark painting which features fish colored in blue, orange and yellow, positioned one on top of the other. "I kind of like the one with the fish because it's not really colored in," Ruehlmann said.
A Lansing man was arraigned Wednesday on charges of attempted breaking and entering, disobeying a police officer and unlawful possession of a weapon on campus. Jeffrey Fidler pleaded guilty before Judge David Jordan in East Lansing's 54-B District Court for carrying a box cutter while fleeing from police after trying to break into a storage shed outside Emmons Hall, a part of the Brody Complex. In court Fidler decided first to plead not guilty, but later changed his decision. "Might as well as get it over with," Fidler said before Jordan. All three charges brought against Fidler are misdemeanors.
The city of East Lansing puts on many free events throughout the summer - grab a lawn chair or a blanket and head downtown for evenings of fun. Play in the Park: 7 p.m.
An empty housing duplex now stands at Lake Lansing and Abbott roads, the outside visibly charred from a fire that broke out during the early morning hours on Wednesday.
Imagine being out on the open seas, only pulling into port so you can save a damsel in distress or right some wrong done against your honor. Hollywood has created the seldom produced but timelessly popular pirate film. From the silent move "The Black Pirate," with Douglas Fairbanks, to "The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl," audiences have been swept away with tales of sword fights, rope swinging and plank walking. "I think stories about the sea and pirates and ships have been popular since history began," said Ken Wlaschin, director of creative affairs for the American Film Institute.
The remarks made by President M. Peter McPherson as quoted by The State News ("McPherson: Cool under pressure," SN 7/3) tell us a great deal about the task the U.S.
Even those of you who hate soccer have heard of the World Cup and David Beckham. But only the truly passionate have heard of the Confederations Cup and Marc-Vivien Foé. The cup is an average-sized international soccer tournament and Foé is an over-sized soccer player, standing at 6 feet 4 inches.
Lansing - Some of the ugliness from the July 1 bench-clearing brawl between the Lugnuts and West Michigan Whitecaps nearly boiled to the surface again Wednesday night in Lansing's 6-2 loss. Lansing starting pitcher Dan Foli (4-4) hit Whitecaps' (10-11) second baseman Rob Watson with a pitch in the fourth inning, which Watson - as well as West Michigan Manager Phil Reagan and a few teammates who ventured out of the dugout - took exception to. Lugnut Manager Julio Garcia insisted that there was nothing behind the pitch. "I talked to Dan and he assured me that it was nothing more than a pitch that got away from him," Garcia said. Suspensions from the original brawl are still pending, but offense from the Lugnuts was nearly nonexistent for the second straight night. When the 'Nuts needed runs in the heart of Wednesday night's loss to the West Michigan Whitecaps, a timely hit was hard to come by. The Lugnuts (9-12) stranded two runners in each of the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.
Democracy is the best way for the people to decide the fate of such a personal issue as affirmative action. The Sacramento, Calif.-based American Civil Rights Coalition is at work to place affirmative action's future on the Michigan ballot.
"The Allman Brothers rock," said East Lansing resident Nate Foster as he waited eagerly to see the band Tuesday night at Common Ground. And despite some rain before the show, Foster remained excited to see the band.
East Lansing housing officials threatened Wednesday to condemn an uninhabited fraternity house after discovering the Theta Delta Chi chapter containing rotten food, empty 40-ounce beer bottles, exposed wires, punctured pipes leaking gas, broken electrical appliances, bags of garbage, clogged toilets, pornography and the stench of urine. Fraternity members say not all of the mess was theirs, fearing trespassers ransacked the home.
Lansing - West Michigan Whitecaps' pitcher Joel Zumaya nearly kept the Lugnuts at bay single-handedly Tuesday night at Oldsmobile Park - even though he's barely old enough to vote.The righthanded, 18-year-old Zumaya struck out 11 Lugnut batters en route to West Michigan's 3-1 win.
Civil liberties need to be protected amidst events such as the war in Iraq and terrorism. The Ann Arbor City Council passed a resolution to protect civil liberties, which also could limit Ann Arbor police enforcement of immigration laws on Monday, The Ann Arbor News reported. Benjamin Franklin said "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Perhaps never in our nation's history has this statement had more prevalence and meaning than now.
Lansing - Four students involved in the March 28-30 disturbances plead guilty in Ingham County's 30th Judicial Circuit Court on Tuesday afternoon.Students Brian Balamucki, Kimberly Martin, Timothy Ricker and Tony Warren were convicted of felonies and misdemeanors before Judge James Giddings.The maximum penalty for a felony is five years in jail and a $10,000 fine.
While health care coverage might not be a pressing issue for Tomeka Carroll during her last two years of schooling at MSU, she says getting coverage after graduation is an important issue that she hasn't looked in to.
I was that girl at my math final. That's right, I arrived a modest 10 minutes early to the single most challenging class session of my college career without my calculator.
By Walter Pincus The Washington Post Washington - The Bush administration acknowledged for the first time Monday that President Bush should not have claimed in his State of the Union address in January that Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Africa to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program.
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is a celebration of the game of baseball and an honor to every player who receives an invite to play in it each July.