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MSU food trucks offer award-winning burger
While MSU is constantly making changes to cafeterias and menus, one thing won’t need to be changed, the food truck’s cheeseburgers.
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Roller Derby crashes into local athletics scene
The opposing jammers slam through the pack of eight, break free, race down the oval track, shoot along the curves, then smash and carve their paths back through the gauntlet.
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Mercury, Venus, Jupiter cluster marvels MSU astronomers
That bright trio you saw in the sky this weekend were not stars.
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MSU students create app to improve running
MSU students have been working together to design a much-anticipated app called TempoRun, which improves an individual’s running ability through music.
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Carmack accepts plea bargain, avoids jail time
Brandon Carmack, a Saline, Mich., native, who allegedly assaulted his ex-girlfriend and accused MSU hockey team members of assaulting him, appeared before Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina to accept a plea bargain on Wednesday.
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Local beaches kick-off summer season
Students can bathe in the rays and soak in the waves starting Saturday, May 25 when Lansing-area beaches open for the season.
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Rules are rules
Many students have decided to stay in East Lansing this summer, whether it’s to take classes or to avoid subleasing their apartment. For those sticking around for the summer, The State News has compiled a list of some of the most common summertime mishaps that can land residents in trouble with law enforcement.
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E.L. City Council to decide on two developers to obtain city land
DTN Management Co. and Lurvey White Ventures were recommended to the East Lansing City Council by the Park District Planning Area Review Team to potentially obtain a slot of vacant downtown land including the former City Center II project area to develop projects. A 14-2 vote at Wednesday’s meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, eliminated Urban Cultural and Arts District LLC from contention.
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Rain, flooding to cause largest number of mosquitoes since 1994
Pinched between two low floodplain breeding grounds, MSU is in for a nasty mosquito summer with the largest hatching of floodplain mosquitoes since 1994, entomology professor Ned Walker said. “There are an extraordinarily high number of mosquitoes,” Walker said.
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Updated farm bill passes to senate floor
It’s 9:00 a.m. The sun already is peeking through the pallid gray of last night’s rain as workers start feeding the 190 cows chewing hay and grains with lopsided jaws that swing left to right, right to left.
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Father Time
When time stops, Lansing resident and MSU alumnus Glenn Williams can get it up and running again.
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Volunteers help local homeless US veterans
Homeless veterans were offered a variety of services and connections at Adado Riverfront Park in downtown Lansing on Wednesday for the 10th annual Capital Area Stand Down for Homeless Veterans.
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MSU student creates hit documentary
It started off with three friends. Throughout the spring semester, former Marine Logan Stark and MSU alumnae Lexi Dakin and Rebecca Zantjer worked diligently on their documentary project, editing video into the early morning, eating pizza rolls and enjoying one another’s company.
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MSU prof proves practice doesn't make perfect
Whether tossing a baseball, flipping through multiplication tables on note cards or plucking cords on a guitar, conventional logic dictates that practice makes perfect, however, new research reveals that there is far more to becoming proficient than simple repetition.
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Tips to stay safe incase of mass shooting in E.L.
With nearly 20 injured in a recent New Orleans Mother’s Day parade shooting and the horrifying shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School far from being forgotten, it has become important for people to know what to do in the case of a mass shooting.
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MSU Police help Catch Cyberstalker
Joseph J. Ostrowski of Pennsylvania recently was sentenced to serve 30 years in federal prison after being charged with cyberstalking MSU students and committing numerous child pornography felonies in Pennsylvania, according to a recent press release from the Detroit FBI.
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MSU summer events, operations offset costs
Even though students go home in the summer, operations at MSU continue to run around the clock in an effort to spread out costs more evenly.
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MSU welcomes 150 Brazilian doctors for workshop
The Superior Institute of Medicine, or ISMD, and MSU held a miniworkshop on Wednesday in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building with more than 150 doctors in attendance with hopes of learning about osteopathic medicine and the health care system in the U.S.
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City Council approves new liquor license at meeting Tuesday
Budgets, liquor license and long-distance bus transportation were the hot button issues discussed at Tuesday’s East Lansing City Council meeting.
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Secretary of State advocates for motorcycle safety
Secretary of State Ruth Johnson rode in style on a Harley-Davidson Sportster to a press conference raising awareness for motorcycle safety on Tuesday.