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MICHIGAN

City Council to discuss land options tonight

New development proposals line the East Lansing City Council’s business agenda as council members will discuss issues involving the future of three key city land areas. The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Union.

MICHIGAN

Learning center to aid research

The Archives of Michigan will unveil the David and Betty Morris Learning Center at a 4 p.m. ceremony on Thursday in the Archives Reading Room at The Archives of Michigan, 702 W. Kalamazoo St., in Lansing. The ceremony will be hosted by the Michigan Historical Center Foundation, according to a news release.

NEWS

Washington bound

When the Rev. Michael Murphy travels to Washington, D.C., for the inauguration, he won’t just be celebrating. He will be preparing for a new job.

MSU

Leader speaks on campus

Thursday at the Kellogg Center, Bobby Seale, co-founder and former member of the Black Panther Party, lectured on race relations in the 21st century.

NEWS

Police Brief 01/15/09

A female student was cited for possession of marijuana after she admitted to having the drug in her purse during a traffic stop at about 11:30 Monday night, MSU police officer Anthony Willis said.

NEWS

Pushing the limits

When MSU Cyclotron director Konrad Gelbke was told the university had been selected to be the home of the federally funded Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, he was speechless.

MSU

Black Panthers co-founder to speak at Kellogg Center today

Bobby Seale, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, will lecture on race relations in America at 5 p.m. today in the Kellogg Center. Jennifer White, chairwoman of the Bobby Seale planning committee, worked to get Seale to speak at MSU because of his role in the civil rights movement.

MICHIGAN

New store set for downtown E.L.

A new East Lansing-based company, Campus Street Sportswear, has purchased two former Steve & Barry’s locations — one of them in East Lansing — and plans to open retail businesses in the near future.

MSU

Children's choir teams with orchestra

The MSU Children’s Choir will perform with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, or DSO, this weekend for the first time since 2006. Being selected to perform with the DSO is an honor and a challenge in itself, but the Children’s Choir also will have to learn a new language to perform.

NEWS

E.L. gets grant for bigger fire ladder truck

If the top floors of some residence halls were to go ablaze, the East Lansing Fire Department doesn’t have a ladder truck able to reach them. That will soon change, as the department learned earlier this month it had been awarded a $531,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. The department will use the money to buy a 100-foot aerial ladder truck.

NEWS

City Council sets date for development district hearing

East Lansing City Council members took a first step in bringing industrial growth to the city by setting a Jan. 20 hearing date for the creation of an Industrial Development District at Tuesday’s council meeting. The district would designate facilities at unspecified locations for future tax incentives in an effort to lure industries to the city.

NEWS

MSU professor debunks couple’s Holocaust hoax

Theirs was a love story that could rival Romeo and Juliet. He was a boy trapped in a Holocaust concentration camp. She was a young Jewish girl in hiding who threw him apples over a fence. Years after the boy was liberated and the war ended, a chance blind date in New York City brought them together. They would marry months later.