Without volunteers from the Lansing and East Lansing community, the 2016 Common Ground Music Festival would not have been possible. Hundreds of locals rushed to sign-up for the unpaid job.
More Michigan drivers and passengers are wearing their seat belts. Michigan’s seat belt use rate has increased to 94.5 percent so far this year, the highest it’s been in five years. MSU led the federally-funded study on behalf of the state of Michigan and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Click It or Ticket campaign.
Aside from various musical performances, activities and food vendors, Common Ground 2016 featured a slew of artists selling everything from paintings, to jewelry, to clothing.
Stepping inside the trailer of a popular hip-hop recording artist, expectations are nothing short of This Is Spinal Tap levels of prodigal booze, drugs, and women.
In 117 days Americans will flock to the polls to vote for the next leader of the nation. Many will vote along party lines — lines determined only months prior.
On July 10, The State News' website turned 20 years old.
Presumptive nominee Donald Trump announced a little over a week ago, via Twitter, that a list of speakers for Republican National Convention would become available on July 6. The day came and passed without any list of speakers and it has still not been made available as of Monday afternoon.
On the last day of the Common Ground Music Festival, July 10, the music festival ended with a bang.
Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors forward and former MSU basketball star, was arrested for assault in downtown East Lansing at 2:28 a.m. Sunday, according to East Lansing's 54B District Court records.
Black Lives Matter Lansing, along with other local organizations, hosted a rally Friday to protest recent police killings against inside Union Missionary Baptist Church, Lansing’s oldest African American church. The rally lasted about three hours.
It was as if Mother Nature herself wanted the fourth day of Common Ground be shut down. But despite the weather, the festival successfully proceeded as scheduled.
A storm affecting the East Lansing area and beyond, which seemed to spring up almost instantly and disappear in 10 minutes, caused mayhem Friday afternoon.
Nearly 11,000 people were in attendance to see headliners Tim McGraw, Cassadee Pope and Maggie Rose one 2016 Common Ground Music Festival volunteer said.
IAMDYNAMITE performs during Common Ground Music Festival on July 6, 2016 at Adado Riverfront Park in Lansing, Mich.
360 degree photo of the 2016 Common Ground Music Festival.
British journalist and conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, currently the editor of Breitbart Tech for Breitbart.com, will be coming to MSU on Dec. 7, according to a schedule released Wednesday.
In the small town of Niles, MI a legacy was born. David Lewis Garner lives and breathes baseball.
With all the talk of a doping scandal and the Zika Virus derailing plans for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, it can be easy to forget some local talent will show in force representing not only their country, but their current school or alma mater.
The first act to take the main stage Tuesday evening was Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers, playing a lightning fast 45 minute set.
MSU has a wide variety of wildlife. Check out some of the unique animals from around campus.