Three days after three people were killed in a home-built airplane crash, advocates of amateur-built aircraft are defending the genre's safety - claiming federal statistics portraying it as comparatively unsafe are invalid. Allen Ward, 52, from Ypsilanti, piloted the kit plane that crashed in Vermontville Township on Monday afternoon.
Lansing - Keeping control of his 2004 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor at 80 mph and whipping around nearly 90 degree turns wasn't the hardest part of Sean Khoo's three week trip to Lansing.
Although gas prices are at an all-time high, and the weather wasn't too inspiring, many local residents opted to stay home instead of traveling north or south, to experience what mid-Michigan had to offer this Memorial Day weekend. In Lansing, there was music, cheering and clapping on Saturday at the city's annual parade.
The idea of sharing and downloading music in 1995 was unheard of. In 2025, however, file sharing, particularly that of Napster, has almost destroyed the record industry, so the band Metallica sends a machine back to 1995 to kill the fictitious creator of Napster, Don O'Conner.
There are thousands of ways to say thank you - cards, flowers, flying a flag 7,000 miles away in the middle of Afghanistan. The latter was the choice of U.S.
The MSU Extension Forage Area of Expertise Team, in cooperation with the Michigan Hay and Grazing Council, will hold a new pasture walk summer series.
People buying milk in May faced record prices and they might not see cheaper prices until next month, according to industry officials.
Road construction on Kalamazoo Street, west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, will begin today. The first phase of a two-phase project will close Kalamazoo Street to through traffic between Martin Luther King Jr.
Education experts from across the nation will gather to discuss the best ways to prepare, recruit and retain mathematics teachers in the nation's schools.
Lansing - More than just a fundraiser for Cristo Rey Church, Fiesta 2004 helped to instill interest in a rapidly growing minority population.
Vermontville - Three people died Monday after a home-built, single-engine airplane crashed in a rural town, about 30 miles west of Lansing. Though a positive identification could not be made, the victims appear to be a father and his two sons traveling from Ypsilanti to Billings, Mont., Eaton County Sheriff Rick Jones said.
Michiganians who like soft drinks may soon have to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for the fizzy beverages. At least that's the way things might be, if State Sen.
In his fourth floor Agriculture Hall office, Joe Levine is surrounded by souvenirs. Some he has collected over the years on various travels, like the puppets and books from Indonesia and the lamp with the clarinet base he made himself after spending a summer as a clarinet student at the Interlochen Arts Camp. Most of them, though, are from former colleagues and students who have traveled abroad and returned with a gift-a testament to the legacy that Levine has left on their lives.
Focused on supporting the well-being of children and families, the Families and Communities Together Coalition (FACT) at MSU is granting $160,000 to four research projects dedicated to preventing overweight children, domestic violence, sexual harassment of high school students and literacy about genetics research. "We believe each project has great potential to create significant impacts," FACT co-Director Janet Bokemeier said. Grant recipients will be examining gendered bullying among rural high schools, genetics literacy and informed consent, young child overweight prevention study, and evaluation of group intervention for women and children experiencing domestic violence.
The nine MSU students who face punishment from the Recording Industry Association of America are not alone. Activist groups, fellow students and artists stand by the file sharers. One such group, the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, is no stranger to the struggle between file sharers and the RIAA.
President Vincente Fox of Mexico might drop by MSU during an upcoming visit to Michigan in June, MSU spokesman Terry Denbow said.
Lansing - What began as a simple fundraiser 27 years ago for Cristo Rey Church, has evolved into the largest Latino festival in mid-Michigan.
MSU students are showing mixed responses to news of student loan interest rates reaching an all-time low, which would begin in July. Student loan lenders on Monday announced the interest rates will reach the lowest in the program's 39-year history.
A recent MSU study found that people in Michigan who have low incomes might be more likely to develop brain cancer.