Investigators say two police officers who responded to a call about an intoxicated man in a Lansing park acted responsibly in their work, despite learning that the man was found dead in the park the next day. Lansing police were summoned to Geir Park at 3:24 a.m.
With the help of MSU and East Lansing communities, the corner of Grand River Avenue and Hagadorn Road will have a place for people to relax and enjoy Zen-like surroundings.A group of MSU students worked with city officials to design the East Lansing Welcome Park, a $30,000 park that officials hope will welcome motorists into the city.Tom Smith, president of Grass Roots Inc., 16262 Chandler Rd., said his company, which donated labor and equipment to do the site preparation and planting, would like to get started as early as April.The half acre of land was donated to East Lansing in February by the Musselman/Ledebuhr family to be used as a “Welcome to East Lansing” site.“Sure we thought about it for a little while,” said Rolly Ledebuhr, a broker with Musselman Realty Co., 322 Abbott Rd.
Next time MSU students are looking for a place to meet new people while enjoying a variety of music and spoken word entertainment, they don’t have to look any further than Thursday nights at Cafe Latte, 110 Charles St. Singers and spoken word poets may form the basis of Open Mic Night, but graphic design senior Edmund Balde, who coordinates the evening each week, said the cafe is open to many forms of expression. “We’re not limited to music and spoken word, though,” he said.
The MSU women’s basketball team is still looking for one thing - consistency.They couldn’t find it Sunday when Illinois, (9-8 overall, 4-1 Big Ten), spanked the Spartans, (8-8, 2-3) at Breslin Student Events Center, 72-59.
The East Lansing City Council will likely approve relocating the last business on the site of the City Center project at today’s regular meeting.
The United States should follow the lead of the British government and allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill.The morning-after pill, a form of emergency contraception, releases two strong doses of progestogen.
Concern for the poor and economic justice were highlighted in Preston N. Williams’ speech on Sunday, part of the Martin Luther King Jr.
While many people may have listened to Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, some gathered Monday to discuss how that dream lives on in the Lansing area.Panelists from major ethnic minority groups, along with nearly 100 audience members, discussed the effects of King’s dream in Erickson Kiva on Monday morning.
Lightning didn’t strike twice for the MSU wrestling team this weekend. After upsetting the then-third-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys 21-10 at Jenison Field House last year, the 11th-ranked Spartans got pummeled 31-3 in a dual meet against the No.
Sixteen games and 10 starting lineups later, the MSU women’s basketball team is still searching for the five players who can best set the tone for their games.At MSU’s loss to Illinois on Sunday, the 10th lineup - senior guard Christie Pung, senior forward Becky Cummings, senior guard Donita Johnson, junior guard Vnemina Reese and senior center Erin Skelly - gave all four seniors a chance to start.Three of those starters pulled in less than six points each - Cummings had a season-low four, Johnson had her lowest since Nov.
“Braaaad! Braaad in apartment one! Wake uuup!” I’m not Brad, and I don’t live in apartment one, but I woke up anyway.
A 24-year-old Lansing woman testified Monday that she saw Cornelius “Al” Brown shoot at Shemika Rogers’ sport utility vehicle more than a year ago.Rogers was shot several times on Dec.
Drizzling rain and cold temperatures weren’t enough to keep hundreds of students from marching to the Wharton Center on Monday night. A small crowd of nearly 20 started the march, leaving the Union’s Multicultural Center on a path to MSU’s Martin Luther King Jr.
Andre Hutson’s playing status for MSU’s Jan. 21 game against Ohio State is uncertain after the senior forward was hospitalized after Saturday’s win over Wisconsin.
SAULT STE. MARIE - MSU skated on a fine line of disaster for much of its weekend series with Lake Superior State, but three Spartan seniors’ late-game heroics salvaged a sweep.
The country’s best turf management school will strut its stuff on the football field.The administration unanimously agreed Friday to switch the turf on Spartan Stadium to natural grass.“I have felt very passionately about putting natural grass into the stadium,” Trustee David Porteous said.
For 120 years Hudson’s has been a household name throughout Michigan. But Friday Hudson’s announced it will change its name.Department store officials say all 21 Hudson’s will take on the name of Marshall Field’s, a company that the Dayton Hudson Corporation purchased in 1990.
Monday was not only Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday for Kweisi Mfume - it was “Dignity Day.” Mfume, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, addressed a crowd of more than 2,000 Monday night at the Wharton Center’s Great Hall as part of MSU’s Martin Luther King Jr.
Into the Streets, a community service project that helps Lansing-area nonprofit organizations, had a successful volunteer turnout at its third annual Martin Luther King Jr.
I tried to let it go, I tried to be understanding about it. But I just can’t stand it anymore.