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MICHIGAN

Dominos considers adding delivery charge

Students and other Domino’s Pizza customers might have to pay more for their pies when their doorbells ring. The Ann Arbor-based pizza chain has been testing a $1 delivery fee at 350 locations and will decide whether to expand the charge to all 4,800 U.S.

SPORTS

Foreign tours begin with 108-52 victory

The Big Ten Men’s Basketball Foreign Tour Team easily won its opening game against Germany’s Tus Treis-Karden on Saturday, 108-52. MSU sophomore guard Chris Hill scored 10 points and was one of six Big Ten players scoring in double digits.

NEWS

Couple goes Nuts over baseball

Elsie - Doris Hyland only gave birth to two children, but 28 call her mom. Doris, her husband, Jim Hyland, and their dog, Huey, are as much a part of the Lansing Lugnuts as the 26 athletes on the team’s roster. The six-year season-ticket-holders make a 40-mile trip from their home in Elsie each game to provide the Lansing squad with a source of positive influence and an ever-optimistic fan base. The Hylands have assumed the role of surrogate parents to a group of men that are sometimes farther away from home than they’ve ever been.

MICHIGAN

Voters approve sale of building, option remains for new facility

East Lansing’s Department of Public Works and Environmental Services received good news after voters granted it permission to sell the Public Works Building on Tuesday night.But voters might not have realized there is a possibility of a bond issue to raise money for a new building.The city needs $4 million for the new facility and Councilmember Beverly Baten said raising the money could be difficult.“I don’t think citizens realize there’s going to be a bond issue,” Baten said.

NEWS

Schwarz to head coalition

Students from across the state are joining forces in a coalition to fight the ballot initiative that would direct Michigan’s tobacco settlement money toward health care.And thanks to the outcome of the Republican gubernatorial primary, they’ve found a leader in state Sen.

MSU

Eight-day restoration of Sparty completed

After eight days of extensive work, Sparty is as good as new. For more than a week the statue has been power-washed, sand-blasted, appoxied and filled-in to return it to its natural luster.

NEWS

Fire house might be extinguished

Uniformed in blue, five East Lansing firefighters sat facing each other in a circle of cushy leather recliners discussing respirator techniques. The group congregated at the city’s campus station on Shaw Lane as it began its 24-hour shift Wednesday afternoon.

COMMENTARY

Planning ahead

The consequences of Gov. John Engler’s vetoes of more than $850 million in state payments to local governments is started to be driven home. East Lansing city officials began looking hard at the numbers this week, and started talking about how they can make up for $4.6 million in lost state-aid.

MICHIGAN

Smokers to have separate break-rooms

Certain county businesses will have to set up separate break-rooms for smokers or tell them to take their butts outside. Starting next week, lighting up will no longer be permitted in break rooms used by smokers and nonsmokers alike. “We actually enforce businesses’ smoke free policies,” Amy Moore, coordinator for tobacco prevention programs at Ingham County Health Department. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found that second-hand smoke increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease to people who are exposed in the workplace. “The statewide group did a survey and about 85 percent of workers already work in smoke-free places,” Moore said.