A full, two-week road closure of Abbott Road between Saginaw Street and Whitehills Drive will begin Monday, July 20, for construction of an ongoing major street project, according to a city statement.
Brandi Eileen Moody, the former MSU employee who had previously been convicted of embezzling as much as $143,000 from MSU, was sentenced tofive years of probation and to pay a restitution of $43,000 to MSU. She has already paid back $100,000 of the money.
MSU alumnus Meng Long Li was sentenced to one year in the Ingham County Jail for his assault on fellow international student Yan Li during the 2014 Chinese New Year.
Velvet, a candy store and ice cream parlor on 507 E Grand River Ave., next to Bruegger’s Bagels, is set to open Saturday with limited offerings.
Although not a single MSU sporting event took place Friday night, people in Cedar Village evidently found some reason to burn a couch.
Though organized religion may be declining among millennials, for students and community members who still want to sit in a pew during their holy day to worship God or engage in community life with like-minded individuals, the East Lansing area boasts a number of different houses of worship for those of many different faiths.
Construction begun for a new nexus of innovation on June 18, 2015, with the groundbreaking of the new MSU Grand Rapids Research Center.
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At 10:45 this morning, a small explosions occurred in Giltner Hall, according to a statement from MSU police. It took place in an empty lab room and remained isolated there.
In a recent CBS Best in College Sports rankings, MSU was ranked No.
Only a week after the Supreme Court's historic approval of same sex marriage the Episcopal Church, America's largest branch of the Anglican Communion, gave their approval for same-sex couples to marry in religious ceremonies sanctioned by the church.
This Thursday, July 9, 2015, marks the start of East Lansing's Moonlight Film Series. According to cityofeastlansing.com films are free and are shown in Valley Court Park, located at 280 Valley Court.
More than two years after MSU student Andrew Singler was stabbed to death at his apartment by Okemos resident Connor McCowan, for which McCowan was sentenced to 20 to 60 years, the family plans to remember Singler’s life at the second annual Andrew Singler Memorial Cup in Ann Arbor.
Jermaine Ruffin has officially announced and begun hiscampaignfor East Lansing City Council. Ruffin is a 2007 graduate of James Madison College at MSU and has lived in East Lansing for 15 years. He graduated with a degree in social relations and policy after transferring to MSU from Lansing Community College.
At their July 7 meeting, the East Lansing City Council approved site plans and special-use permits for a six-story mixed-use building on the corner of Grand River and Spartan avenues and a Lake Trust Credit Union on West Lake Lansing Road, near Meijer.
MSU is celebrating its fight song's 100th anniversary in 2015 by inviting those in the MSU community to send videos of themselves singing the song to create the first-ever Spartan Virtual Choir. A video published on July 1 asked viewers to record a video of themselves singing along to the song and upload the recording to www.msu.edu/fightsong. MSU's fight song was composed by cheerleader and civil engineering major Francis Irving Lankey at Michigan Agricultural College in 1915 and most of the words were written by Lankey's friend and fellow MAC student Arthur L.
MSU junior guard Eron Harris has been suspended indefinitely from the MSU basketball team following a drunk driving arrest early July 1, according to the Lansing State Journal.
The Common Ground Music Festival 2015 is set to kickoff today, after a last minute hiccup in the lineup.
Meghan Trainor, scheduled as the opening headliner for Common Ground Music Festival on Tuesday July 7, will not perform due to continued treatment of hemorrhaging on her vocal chords. Joshua Davis (The Voice finalist and MSU alumnus) has been added to the lineup, which also includes Misterwives, Be a Miller, Skizzy Mars, Life of Dillion, and more.
East Lansing City Council will likely take action on a major construction project at its July 7 meeting at city hall, which begins at 7 p.m.