East Lansing residents might need to start digging out their shovels and winter coats this week. While most areas reported an inch of snowfall, Okemos received about 2.2 inches. The snowstorms that hit the West Coast last week are not connected to the storm that hit the Lansing area, said Rob Dale, a meteorologist for WLNS Channel 6.
Three washing machines and one dryer were found damaged Wednesday in Spartan Village laundry room one, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
As Michigan’s economy falters toward disaster, policy-makers are working to both stabilize the auto industry and reduce the state’s dependence on it.
McGlobe, an international student organization based in McDonel Hall, will host a talent show tonight to promote interaction between American and International students.
Police followed protocol Wednesday when they pulled a student who reportedly had a gun out of his class in Conrad Hall, MSU police Deputy Chief David Trexler said.
Troy Brake, who was arraigned Wednesday for a Sept. 29 quadruple homicide that killed an MSU sophomore and three others, reportedly lived with some of the victims in the 1990s, Ottawa County sheriff’s Det. Tom Knapp said.
A 20-year-old Grand Rapids man was sentenced Monday to 15 days in the Ingham County Jail for his participation in April’s Cedar Fest riot.
Sore muscles may have greeted them Thursday morning, but that didn’t keep students from attempting dances such as the merengue and the bachata at “Movimiento Saboroso,” hosted by Culturas de las Razas Unidas, or CRU, on Wednesday night.
The Broad China Business Society will host its sixth annual supply chain forum from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. today at Kellogg Center.
A supply chain management junior was sentenced Thursday to 40 days in the Ingham County Jail for his participation in April’s Cedar Fest riot.
The lead suspect in the September quadruple homicide of an MSU student and three others was arraigned Wednesday in Holland’s 58th District Court.
A political science class in Conrad Hall had a scare Wednesday when MSU police pulled a student out of class for reportedly having a gun. Police responded to a tip at about 3:15 p.m. that a student was carrying a gun under his jacket, but the reported gun turned out to be a cell phone in its holster, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm has been a big supporter in the Democratic presidential campaign and transition of President-elect Obama. The former Hillary Clinton supporter stumped for Obama after he won the Democratic Party’s nomination. She stood in for Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to help Vice President-elect Joe Biden prepare for his debate. And most recently, Granholm has counseled Obama as a member of his economic advisory board.
An efficient vehicle cruising in the Michigan sun is what a team of students envision as they work to finish MSU’s first solar car. The car’s frame was formed five years ago and has since been modified several times. MSU’s growing Solar Car Team has the manpower to complete the car by spring, said Lindsay Karn, the team’s public relations manager and an elementary education sophomore.
Issues brought up in Tuesday’s ASMSU Academic Assembly meeting centered upon textbook costs and students struggling to pay for them. Christopher Kulesza, chairperson of the assembly, spoke in his State of the Assembly speech about the need to keep the organization’s commitment to fight for a watchful eye on what books are used in classes to help reduce the amount of books students need to buy.
The MSU chapter of Young Americans for Freedom will be hosting speaker Jennifer Gratz, who will speak on her stance against affirmative action. Gratz will be speaking from 8-9:30 p.m. today in 102 Conrad Hall.
Michigan House Democrats expanded their presence in Lansing to a 67-43 majority — the largest in 30 years — but there is disagreement on whether the political battlefield will be different.
Dick DeVos, the 2006 Republican Party gubernatorial candidate who lost to Gov. Jennifer Granholm, said Wednesday he would not try again for the state’s top spot in 2010.
A 19-year-old student was robbed and threatened Saturday in his Abbot Hall dorm room, according to MSU police. The student fell asleep in his first-floor room after the football game, and woke up at 6 p.m. to find a 6-foot-tall man with a medium build in the room, holding his roommate’s laptop, police said.
One of the most destructive predators in Mid-Michigan can barely be seen from five feet away. The emerald ash borer, a beetle that is only about half an inch long when fully grown, is expected to cause the death of most ash trees in East Lansing within the next three years, said Dave Smitley, a professor of entomology at MSU.