At his first visit to the U.S. Supreme Court, 12-year-old Michael Brian Cavanaugh watched his father argue a defamation case before the nation's top justices.
Four city streets will close this evening for the MSU Homecoming Parade, but alternate routes will be available. Abbott Road will close between Whitehills and Burcham drives at 4 p.m., as will westbound Burcham Drive between Abbott Road and M.A.C.
Local government officials are forming their own rescue team to save their computer systems in the event of a catastrophe. East Lansing City Council voted at its work session Tuesday to approve a formalized relationship between local jurisdictions to share technology resources during disasters. The Mid-Michigan Information Technology Mutual Aid Agreement allows cities to share telephones, hardware, software, employees or facilities if a disaster situation were to harm a municipality's computer system, said Alan McCarrick, East Lansing Information Systems Administrator. "The goal is to help keep everybody up and running," he said. An informal collaboration between Lansing, Meridian Township and Ingham, Clinton and Eaton counties has existed for years, but the formal agreement is intended to inform the public and officials of their continuing discussion. Meridian Township and Ingham County officials also approved the aid agreement, McCarrick said. Although the agreement refers mainly to disaster planning, McCarrick said there are day-to-day situations where the sharing of resources come in to play.
Oldsmobile Park is getting a facelift. A $500,000 scoreboard is currently under construction and a new grass turf grown by MSU's Turf Management program will be added at the end of the 2005 season. The plans to renovate and make additions to the 8-year-old stadium were announced by Lansing Mayor Tony Benavides and Lansing Lugnuts' management in a press conference on Wednesday. "This park brings in over 300,000 fans each year from around the tri-county area," Benavides said.
October was declared National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by the East Lansing City Council in late September.
An 18-year-old female MSU student was hit by a car while crossing Harrison Avenue at 2:45 p.m. Thursday, said East Lansing police Sgt.
For the past eight years, Julie Fedewa and her husband have operated a 40-year-old family gas and service station, but elevated gas prices will force them to sell the store by the end of December. Instability in Nigeria, damage from the hurricanes in Florida and the occupation of Iraq are contributing to rising gas prices, said Fedewa, co-owner of Marathon service station, 1198 S.
To encourage young people to stay away from sex until marriage, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gave the Ingham County Health Department a $277,000 grant for abstinence education. The program will target students ages of 9-17 through the Willow Plaza Services, a section of the department aimed at youths.
Lansing - The building is more than 100 years old, with a historical marker reading "Union Depot" posted in front - a tribute to its days as a station for the Michigan Central railroad. Long past are the days the building served as a train station, though.
The mystery is revealed. Through January 2005, Lansing's Michigan Historical Museum will exhibit artwork by Tommaso Juglaris, the formerly unknown artist who painted eight mystical Greek muses on the state Capitol dome. About 50 paintings, sketches and works by the Italian artist will adorn the walls of the 3,000-square-foot exhibit at 702 W.
In the age of rapidly evolving technologies, old cell phones might be useless devices that outlived the fashion, but some people say they could be tools to save lives. The Washington, D.C.-based Wireless Foundation kicked off this year's Call to Protect campaign to help victims of domestic violence, with a Michigan senator and local businesses participating in the Lansing area.
St. Johns - Rows of orange pumpkins lined the edges of each section of Andy Todosciuk's pumpkin patch, waiting to be boxed up and transported to his farm market. What's missing is the usual third cluster of pumpkins right down the middle of each section.
The East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbott Road, will host a discussion with Detroit author Karen White-Owens advising aspiring authors what to do after they get published. The meeting will take place 7 p.m.
The body of a 22-year-old woman found in an East Village apartment Sunday morning has been identified as Lindsay Burkhead of Colorado, East Lansing police Capt.
Throughout years of fall recruitment, parties and greek living, fraternity and sorority houses have been a part of the East Lansing community, and Richard Wright wants it to remain that way. Wright, a member of the East Lansing Historic District Commission, is trying to gather a study group to determine which greek houses should be included in a historic preservation district.
Because of a poor environmental rating, East Lansing City Council will discuss options to fund new air-quality regulations at their 7 p.m.
The MSU student accused of raping a floormate will stand trial in Ingham County Circuit Court, a judge ruled Friday. Travis Eichten, the marketing freshman accused of assaulting an 18-year-old freshman at Emmons Hall, faced his accuser for the first time at a preliminary examination in East Lansing's 54-B District Court. The 18-year-old student said she met Eichten the first weekend of the semester.
Healthy MSU students are being asked to grin and bear the flu this winter after a manufacturing glitch slashed Michigan's vaccine supply in half. Officials in the United Kingdom suspended the license of Chiron Corp., an influenza vaccine provider in Liverpool, England, for contamination issues still under investigation, the Food and Drug Administration said last week. Chiron was expected to supply 46 to 48 million doses of the 100 million that federal officials ordered following last year's unexpected flu surge.
"Yeah, I definitely think they're as important because they are dealing with the community directly around you.
A series of unrelated crimes occurred on campus last week, MSU police reported. The unusual thefts and arrests began Tuesday evening, when $8 of either bulk paper towels or toilet paper was stolen from the U.S.