Within the next month, Michigan legislators could override of Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s decision Friday to veto a ban on partial-birth abortion, said Rep. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge.
East Lansing police Officer Tresha Rodriguez, who was named Woman of the Year by the Lansing State Journal’s Greater Lansing Woman magazine in May, will be recognized by the East Lansing City Council on Tuesday.
The Board of Trustees voted to increase tuition for the 2008-09 school year by 6.8 percent for in-state undergraduate students at their meeting Friday.
MSU’s minority enrollment was down slightly in 2007, but the minority graduation rate rose to 61.8 percent, its highest in the last 10 years, according to a report to be presented to the MSU Board of Trustees on Friday.
Eric Winter was a 12-year-old boy who always wanted to go to summer camp — but since he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a baby, he never got the chance before his unexpected death in 2003.
Potter Park Zoo officials hope for a stampede as Lansing-area residents are invited to participate in the zoo’s 18th Annual 5K Rhino Walk on June 14.
East Lansing residents and students may have to cut back on their use of air conditioning this summer, due to an increase in electricity rates.
The Michigan House of Representatives approved funding for the MSU Wednesday, allocating $298.2 million for the 2008-09 fiscal year — a 2.8 percent increase from the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
The severe storms earlier this week could have posed a much more serious risk to residents — carbon monoxide poisoning — from alternate power sources like generators used during outages.
With his hands as his only instrument, Benjamen Warren, a master-level Reiki instructor, is able to soothe the discomforts of his clients through the Japanese practice.
When Lauren Olson approached the MSU Board of Trustees in April 2006 to speak about recycling, she never imagined she would make such an impact.
The Michigan Department of Management and Budget will hold a surplus auction of vehicles and heavy equipment at 10 a.m. Saturday in Lansing.
The East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, opened again to the public Thursday morning after a three-day power outage from the severe storms of last weekend.
Set up the music stand, assemble the instrument, practice for hours and repeat it all the next day; just be sure to not leave items unattended in the practice room.
After being misdiagnosed with brain cancer at age 17, Melissa Cousino was inspired to work on childhood health advocacy issues. Now Cousino, a recent MSU graduate, is one of six finalists for Fourpoints Magazine’s 2008 Make Me a Cover Model Contest.
The Michigan legislature approved about $163 million in federal funding for improvements to Michigan airports Tuesday, including $8.6 million for Lansing’s Capital Region International Airport, said Leslee Fritz, spokeswoman for the Office of the State Budget.
Some MSU campus locations and East Lansing restaurants are pulling tomatoes from the menu after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began warning consumers Saturday to avoid eating certain types of raw tomatoes because of salmonella detection.
The East Lansing Wastewater Treatment Plant was forced to make an emergency bypass of sewage and rainwater into the Red Cedar River on Sunday, after severe weather over the weekend caused it to lose power for almost 24 hours.
A purse was stolen out of a 1998 Chevrolet Venture in the parking lot of the University Club on Saturday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.