Lansing - Joseph Kurta said he could peel enough potatoes in 20 minutes for 130 men during World War II at the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. He did this as men were dying around him, tanks crushed bodies and the snow made fighting difficult and dangerous. Now 84 years old, the Lansing resident was honored with several medals for his work as a cook during the war.
"Maybe a couple nicer restaurants. You could go out and have a nice dinner." Bryon Botorowicz, psychology and sociology senior "Different types of cultural restaurants.
An unidentified man was assaulted and wounded early Sunday morning outside Sparty's Night Club, 410 S.
Drivers who speed along portions of Grand River Avenue and Saginaw Highway will face a $40 increase in speeding ticket fines as of midnight on Thursday. Originally $135, tickets were raised to keep vehicles from traveling faster than a 10 mph speed hike made by the Michigan Department of Transportation, or MDOT, last week.
About 10 MSU students joined a group of 13 Michigan colleges to meet with state government officials on Tuesday to express their concerns and learn about the legislative process. The Michigan Campus Compact hosted the second annual "Day at the State Capitol," along with Sen.
Two firefighters were injured in a Lansing house fire at 710 Clark St. on Monday, when the floor beneath them collapsed.
East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbott Road, will hold a "Community Cultures: Africa" program from 2 p.m.
Americans need to test their homes for radon, which is a significant health risk at elevated levels, said U.S.
Management guru Stephen M.R. Covey will give a presentation during the Great Lakes Broadcasting Conference & Expo at 8 a.m.
Children younger than 17 could be banned from buying violent video games with the label of Mature or Adults Only if state Sen.
Although Lansing and East Lansing populations dropped between the 1990 and 2000 censuses, both cities are now estimating a slight increase in their populations. A study recently released by the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments reported the population of Detroit has fallen below 900,000 people for the first time since 1920. Delores Muller, a senior planning analyst for the council, said people might be moving out of the city to find a better quality of life, but it is hard to pinpoint one direct cause. Jim van Ravensway, East Lansing's planning and community development director, said the city's population dropped from about 50,700 people in 1990 to 46,500 in 2000. "Since then, we have climbed back up to 47,300," he said. Lansing's Senior Planner John Hodges said he doesn't have exact estimates for Lansing, but has observed several new housing units that led him to believe the city population has slightly increased. However, numbers have not reached the levels they were at in 1990, and Lansing and East Lansing officials say this is affecting polices being put in place.
The amount of weight a woman gains after age 18 is a strong indicator of whether she will develop breast cancer, according to American Cancer Society research. Some local health officials, however, question the findings. Women who gain between 20 and 30 pounds after age 18 are 40 percent more likely to get breast cancer after menopause than women who keep the weight off, said lead researcher of the study Heather Spencer Feigelson. Women who gained more than 70 pounds were twice as likely to get cancer than women who gained less than 20 pounds, the research showed. "It is a well-descripted finding in the scientific world, but it's not very well-known among women that weight gain is a high risk factor," Feigelson said. Feigelson said the best explanation is that estrogen stimulates breast cancer cells to grow and multiply and, throughout her life, a woman's estrogen is stored in fat tissue.
When East Lansing Police Chief Louis Muhn was a child, he was in a minor car accident and was given a ride home by a police officer, who let him turn on the siren in the cruiser. That experience stayed with Muhn and inspired him to become a police officer. After 32 years with the East Lansing Police Department, Muhn will retire April 30. "I want to retire when the department is in good shape and things are running smoothly," he said. Muhn's career in law enforcement started at the Michigan State Police, where he applied the first day he could, on his 21st birthday. When he wasn't accepted for a job, he went directly to the East Lansing Police Department. He was hired the same day as a dispatcher coordinating responses to emergency calls.
Some Michigan senators want people who order wine at restaurants to be allowed to take the unfinished bottles home with them.
After a year of conducting traffic studies, the Michigan Department of Transportation approved raising the speed limits along parts of Grand River Avenue and Saginaw Highway. Because of the studies' findings, which concluded traffic was moving too slowly along parts of each area, speed limits were raised by 10 mph.
A vehicle traveling east on Hamilton Road in Okemos lost control and crashed into a telephone pole at 1:45 p.m.
About three years ago, U.S. Forest Service researcher Leah Bauer was studying the Chinese long-horned beetle in China, when she heard an Asian beetle called the emerald ash borer had established itself in Michigan. Since then, the ash borer has spread to 28 U.S.
Nine people will decide the fate of seven Lansing schools and their hundreds of students and staff tonight at the Lansing Board of Education meeting. Due to declining enrollment and $32 million in budget deficits from the past three years, the district is considering closing five elementary schools and one middle school.
The East Lansing Circuit City store, 2655 E. Grand River Ave., is scheduled to close by the end of the month, the electronic consumer's Web site said.
Modeling a pastel, tulle dress for the workers at the Class Clothing Sale, Laura Galgan said she knew she had found the perfect Halloween costume. Earlier in the day, the sociology junior bought a vintage hat, and she came back that afternoon for a long winter coat.