A single swab from the mouth of a convicted felon could mean jail time. Starting Oct. 1, all convicted felons in Michigan could have to rub the inside of their cheeks with a sponge to add their DNA code to a database.
Students aren’t the only ones worried about increased tuition costs.With three college-age daughters, Lt.
SOUTH FOX ISLAND - The words “I love Cat” are still visibly carved into the tower of the first lighthouse built on this Lake Michigan island. The words could have come from a lonely lighthouse keeper, an islander’s love-struck teenager or a woeful camper anytime since 1867, when the earliest island lighthouse was built. With more than 120 lighthouses dotting Michigan’s shores, the two lighthouses on South Fox Island are hidden from the mainland’s sight and could be easily left to ruin. Cat and her love have probably faded from history and memories. And while the South Fox Light Station may be three hours from the Lower Peninsula’s shores, it hasn’t been forgotten. “Private citizens are concerned about it,” said Steve Belko, manager of the Michigan Lighthouse Project.
EATON RAPIDS - Fax, an ex-racehorse, nuzzled up to Eaton Rapids resident Michelle Poe on Monday as she changed his dressings from a knee injury that ended his career.“He’s nosy and needs to be where the action is,” said Poe, a volunteer with the Communication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses.
The good news is the Kyoto treaty has been signed by 178 countries, a big step for the world’s environment.
Gov. John Engler announced last week fatalities and accidents involving drunken drivers have dropped to the lowest point in eight years.The recent drop in numbers was attributed to Michigan’s repeat offender laws.Under state law, a repeat offender has two or more alcohol-related convictions within seven years, three or more convictions for driving while suspended or revoked in seven years, or three or more alcohol-related convictions within 10 years.Motorists who are repeat offenders face tougher sentencing, license sanctions and are required to attend substance abuse counseling.The numbers dropped from 541 deaths in 1999 to 515 in 2000.
The state will soon be able to use DNA not only to convict criminals, but to help track them. This step in the use of DNA evidence is a positive tool for law enforcement.Convicted felons in Michigan will be required to submit DNA samples for police records as part of a bill Gov.
The audience sat on red and yellow painted wooden box chairs or shag carpeting as Cathy Illman sang bittersweet songs on her guitar.The psychology junior was just one of the acts in the first Bailey Music Festival on Saturday at the Bailey Center, 300 Bailey St.The concert, which included 10 performances, was sponsored by East Lansing Recreation & Arts.Studio art junior Josh Kermiet, who helped coordinate the event, said the idea for the daylong music festival was his.“The idea was to throw together local talent that doesn’t get much exposure,” he said.The Bailey Center, he said, had at one time been a place for people to come and enjoy live bands.
The Lansing-area chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union still hasn’t found what it’s looking for. After filing two Freedom Of Information Act requests with MSU and receiving no new information on the 2000 undercover police investigation of a campus group, the ACLU is looking at legal options. The second FOIA was filed June 25 and the information was returned June 27. Henry Silverman, president of the ACLU Lansing-area chapter and an MSU history professor, said the information was no different from that returned in May with the group’s last FOIA request - previously released official statements and no new data. “It was essentially the same,” Silverman said. He said the information was simply rearranged and points were made next to the answers to specific questions raised by the ACLU. Now, ACLU lawyers are discussing which possible legal actions they could take. “We have decided not to pursue a suit on the First Amendment,” Silverman said. “But we might do a suit on the FOIA.” The public outcry surrounding the infiltration began in April, when The State News first reported an MSU police officer posed as a student to join United Students Against Sweatshops - now Students for Economic Justice - for months, beginning in February 2000, to gather data about the organization. University officials have cited five different reasons for the infiltration, most recently that MSU was focusing a “specific unidentified subject” of the investigation of the 1999 Agriculture Hall arson. The New Year’s Eve fire ripped through the fourth-floor office of a genetically engineered crop program, causing about $400,000 damage.
Last Wednesday, I read your story “‘U’ examines graduation ‘race gap’” (SN 7/18) with a bit of disgust.
In February of this year, the venerable actor and NRA President Charlton Heston spoke at the Harvard Law School Forum.
After losing Saginaw’s Anthony Roberson to Florida, MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo had to look elsewhere for a guard to invite into his 2002 recruiting class.
This is an open letter to those who feel once you’re a student at MSU, you’re just a number. This may be true at first, but you must take some action so you don’t feel this way.
Joel Luther, an assistant general manager at Rick’s American Cafe, welcomes students turning 21 with free passes for their next visit - and advice.“I’ll say ‘hi’ and welcome them and then instruct them to be safe,” Luther said.
SOUTH FOX ISLAND, Mich. - The melodic mating call of the piping plover has been missing from the beaches of this Lake Michigan island since 1939. But even as the endangered bird’s population increases on Great Lakes shorelines, some are still worried the plover’s song could disappear forever from the island’s sandy beaches and dunes - which many say makes for a perfect plover habitat. “Plover don’t tolerate a lot of disturbance,” said Greg LaCross, a Northwestern Michigan College ecology and field biology professor.
The East Lansing City Council will discuss a voluntary automated solid waste system program at its Tuesday work session. The program would give residents the opportunity to put out a 65-gallon container, instead of bags, that would be picked up by an automatic waste truck. Jean Golden, East Lansing deputy city manager, said the system would save time and prevent injuries, such as back injuries, to employees lifting heavy bags and waste cans. “Right now we have two-person trucks and people have to get out, pick up the trash bags and throw them back in the truck,” she said.
I come from St. Paul, Minn. There are no fewer railroads running through St. Paul than through East Lansing, no fewer trains passing through and no fewer trains sitting idly, waiting until they can move along.
There’s a point in every relationship when one party is dragged by the other to a movie they don’t want to see.
An East Lansing apartment building suffered heavy damages and 12 occupants were left homeless after an early Saturday morning fire.East Lansing firefighters arrived at Stonehedge Apartments, 1502 South Shore Drive, at 4 a.m.