Though the polls open at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, volunteers working the precincts will begin to arrive as early as 5 a.m., East Lansing city clerk Marie Wicks said.
MSU fifth-year senior tight end Josiah Price was slated as a semifinalist for the 2016 Wuerffel Trophy which is awarded to the “Football Bowl Subdivision player who best combines exemplary community service with athletic and academic achievement.”
On a Thursday afternoon in College Park, Md, the MSU field hockey team fell to the Michigan Wolverines 2-1 in double overtime in the first round of the Big Ten tournament.
MSU students and other Michigan voters will have the opportunity to choose who makes decisions that can greatly impact the MSU community, decisions such as raising tuition or implementing a smoking ban on campus.
Five candidates are running to represent Michigan’s 8th District in the United States Congress.
State News football beat writer Nathaniel Bott breaks down MSU’s game plan and what to expect from Illinois this Saturday, as well as lists injury updates and gives his prediction for the contest.
Gov. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the Republican vice presidential candidate, held a rally Friday at AVFlight Lansing. Doors opened at 7:30 a.m. and the event will officially begin at 10 a.m., according to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign website. Follow along with The State News for updates.
The MSU football depth chart has been full of surprises all season long with changes being made at nearly every position. The one constant on head coach Mark Dantonio’s depth chart has been the running back position, where three co-starters have remained since week one –– sophomores L.J. Scott and Madre London as well as junior Gerald Holmes.
After defeating Saginaw Valley State University 87-77, the MSU men's basketball team is still 0-0.
Indiana Governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence will hold a rally Friday at AVFlight Lansing. Doors will open at 7:30 a.m. and the event will begin at 10 a.m.
It’s less than a week away from what pundits call, like they do every four years, one of the most important elections in U.S. history. From policy differences to possibly making history, see how Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stack up against each other
Third term incumbent Sam Singh is proven and ready to continue taking on the issues that matter to students in the Michigan House of Representatives.
The Nov. 8 election carries more importance than just the decision of who will be the next president of the United States. Closer to home, students and East Lansing residents will also have the opportunity to vote for a representative in the 8th Congressional District, which includes Ingham, Livingston and Clinton counties.
Starting out her career in the Ingham County prosecutor’s office in 1975, Billie Jo O’Berry just kept working. O’Berry still works prosecuting cases in Lansing.
If you're a student at MSU, your vote for the MSU Board of Trustees might be the most important vote you will cast this election.
Research by the Wesleyan Media Project at Wesleyan University claims negativity in campaign ads has been trending upward for years, and that this September political ads were comparatively more negative than the same month in the 2012 presidential election. Kjerstin Thorson,rm an assistant professor in the MSU Department of Advertising and Public Relations, said negative advertising as a whole is an effective tactic. “We don’t like it, it makes people kind of cynical about elections, but it does mobilize people to turn out because it sends a signal that we should be worried about the election, or that it might be close,” Thorson said.
While Americans dress up in costumes and trick-or-treat for candy, international students don't celebrate the spooky holiday. Nursing senior Yixi Dong, is from Mianyang, China, and she said celebrating Halloween or similar holidays, her hometown doesn’t do much. When she came to the United States, it was one of her first chances to experience the holiday of Halloween.
As she set up her ofrenda, at the second annual MSU Día de los Muertos, Michigan Indígena/Chicanx Community Alliance, or MICCA, community liaison and University of Michigan graduate student Angelica De Jesus said she was thinking about two friends. These two friends were Amanda Harris and Maximillian Miguel Monroy-Miller, both of whom passed away this past year. The reason she was thinking about them was because of the nature of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, she said.
The ban was lifted prior to this month’s election, but the U.S. Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati recently overturned the decision.
Deciding when to call who has won an election can be a complex process for news organizations.