Redshirt freshman wide receiver Myles White and junior defensive tackle Oren Wilson pleaded not guilty last week to charges stemming from a Nov. 22, 2009 altercation in Rather Hall.
The East Lansing City Council will decide whether to move taxi stands from M.A.C. Avenue back to their original Albert Avenue location during its 7:30 p.m. Tuesday meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
Ten questions could equal big bucks for the city of East Lansing. City officials and a student group are urging the MSU community to fill out the 2010 U.S. Census, which will be 10 questions long instead of the 53 questions from the last census in 2000.
Leo Wales, 20, was sentenced in November 2009 to 80 years in prison for robbing and shooting a man seven times in Mississippi. He was arrested Saturday for urinating in public near Quality Dairy, 1109 E. Grand River Ave.
A water main broke Monday at the Harrison Road and Sever Drive intersection in East Lansing, affecting the water supply at Red Cedar Elementary School, 1110 Narcissus Drive, and the surrounding neighborhood. Harrison Road was marked down to a single southbound lane as road crews fix the main. The road should resume normal operation Monday night.
Neon sunglasses, bright leggings and flower-patterned skirts crowded Demonstration Hall on Saturday as students from across campus skated their way back into the 1980s. The University Activities Board, or UAB, hosted the Rockin’ Retro Rollerpalooza for the second time since 2007.
Sidney Coupet wanted to help Haiti long before this month’s earthquake. Coupet, president and founder of Doctors United for Haiti, traveled to Haiti two days after the earthquake hit and spent 10 days helping patients, performing what he described as “battlefield medicine.” Coupet visited MSU on Friday to talk about his most recent experience in Haiti during two separate speeches — one to MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine and one open to the general public.
A recent poll revealed Detroit businesswoman Denise Ilitch as the Democratic front-runner for November’s gubernatorial election and Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox as the leading Republican candidate. The poll, which was conducted by EPIC-MRA, a public policy polling group in Lansing, showed 23 percent of the respondents like Ilitch in the Democratic primary, with 38 percent undecided or refusing to choose.
A string of home invasions has put Meridian Township on the lookout for suspects. Meridian Township police Sgt.
Sam Corbin and Jen Sygit chatted with the crowd while preparing for their performances Saturday night at (SCENE) Metrospace.Corbin and Sygit were the first to take the stage Saturday night as part of the third annual (SCENE) Metrospace Folk Festival, a two-day concert series spotlighting local folk artists. The event, held Friday and Saturday night, featured artists sponsored by Michigan-based companies Fox on a Hill Productions and Earthwork Music.
Weekend trips to the Windy City might someday be quicker for students traveling from Battle Creek, Dearborn and Troy.
The city of East Lansing will be just as bright when it installs new LED street lights it received from a state grant, and it will help the MSU community go greener, too.
Who let the dogs out in MSU’s veterinary clinic? The cast of “The 101 Dalmatians Musical,” that’s who.
Students filling up their gas tanks might have to empty their wallets as soon as March 1 if measures in the Michigan House to increas gas taxes passes.
Area residents soon will have to pay about $8 more per month for their water and electricity, as the Lansing Board of Water and Light, or LBWL, approved rate increases Tuesday, effective March 1.
The inboxes of university administrators could soon be filled with thousands of e-mails containing one sentence, “Please keep MSU’s Deaf Education Program for our deaf children who use ASL in Michigan.”
Campus Living Services will hold an event from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday for students to learn more about the campus dorm neighborhoods.
Although the number of freshman business majors might be decreasing across the country, the demand for business education at MSU is increasing, school officials said.
A new MSU student group hopes to fuel a university commitment to move away from coal energy.
The founder of Doctors United for Haiti, Sidney Coupet, will speak at noon on Friday at the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Room E4 of Fee Hall.