It was a sunny day in Lebanon in 1999 when Raed Mokaled and his wife took their two sons to the park to celebrate 5-year-old Ahmad’s birthday. While Ahmad was playing, an explosion tore through the air. Ahmad died hours later in the hospital. He is one of thousands of people, many of them children, killed or maimed by leftover cluster munitions.
Best-selling author Rebecca Walker will give a speech at 7 p.m. today in the Kellogg Center Auditorium entitled “What Barack Obama and Sarah Palin have to Teach Us about Race, Class and Gender in America.”
The ordinance to conditionally rezone 0.55 acres of the West Village project was approved 4-1 by the East Lansing City Council on Tuesday after months of discussion.
Police released a composite sketch of the suspect in a Monday assault near Beaumont Tower and West Circle Drive.
Voters will have the chance to resolve an ethical issue that has been debated in the Michigan Legislature for years when they cast their ballots this November. Proposal 2 seeks to amend the state’s constitution to loosen restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research in Michigan. Embryonic research is allowed in Michigan, but researchers must get their cells from outside the state. Taking them from sources within the state is a felony.
The economy was on the minds of 80 undecided voters and Internet users during a more aggressive town hall presidential debate Tuesday at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.
An MSU student’s death last week was part of a quadruple homicide, Ottawa County sheriff’s Lt. Mark Bennett said Tuesday. Katherine A. Brown, who was an agribusiness management sophomore, was beaten to death, police said.
The MSU College of Engineering is set to receive a $75,000 from the Motorola Foundation to help support a program to expose middle- and high-school students and faculty to new engineering concepts.
A group of the state’s top research universities, health care systems and health departments will use more than $50 million in funding to assess children for more than 20 years.
MSU’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom filed a complaint against the university Oct. 1 for an reported campaign finance violation. The formal complaint was sent to the Secretary of State, and an e-mail was sent to Attorney General Mike Cox’s office.
MSU’s student radio station, WDBM (89-FM), the Impact, is being considered for the first-ever mtvU Woodie for Best Campus Radio Station.
More than 150 schools that offer graduate programs will be at the Graduation & Professional School Recruitment Fair on campus next week.
Students and East Lansing residents are encouraged to help the environment by participating in the Red Cedar River Cleanup.
As a part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month this October, the Capital Area Domestic and Sexual Violence Coordinating Council, or CADSVCC, hosted a town hall meeting Tuesday evening with the candidates running for Ingham County prosecuting attorney.
Wall Street joined in a worldwide cascade of despair Monday over the financial crisis, driving the Dow Jones industrials to their biggest loss ever during a trading day. Even a big afternoon rally failed to keep the Dow from its first close below 10,000 since 2004.
An ex-MSU student could face prison time for a probation violation in a 10-month-old fraud case, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings said.
When Josh Sattler gets the munchies, he views it as a medicinal property of smoking marijuana, not a fattening side effect of getting high. The hospitality business junior has Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory ailment of the digestive system that causes ulcers in the bowels and can lead to drastic weight loss.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly Finance Committee unanimously passed a previously controversial bill — giving $2,000 more than requested to fund a documentary and concert on campus.
YouVote and the University Activities Board, or UAB, gave students one final chance to register to vote Monday at the rock on Farm Lane. For Michigan residents who wanted to vote in the Nov. 4 election, Monday was the last opportunity. YouVote is a nonpartisan organization on campus.
The East Lansing City Council will hear a presentation on the city’s Community Development Block Grant and make a decision on part of the West Village project during its meeting tonight.