Daniel Ortega-Pacheco was sitting outside a Beaner’s Coffee shop in East Lansing two years ago when voices from a passing car yelled “Beaner! Beaner!”
To Carmen Turner, the sight of hungry children is more expected than surprising.
The Michigan Senate passed two bills Monday evening to implement a continuation budget that would extend current spending plans into the next fiscal year, despite opposition from Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s office.
MSU students have the chance to begin a new four-year, intensive Arabic language program that promises fluency in a language highly sought by employers in national security fields.
Four rooms were torched at the Super 8 Motel, 2736 E. Grand River Ave., today, resulting in no injuries and the shutdown of part of Grand River Avenue between about 2:15 and 3:30 p.m.
A group of 18 Nigerian delegates are visiting MSU this week in cooperation with the exchange program Responsible Governance, which offers training to Nigerian government officials, community leaders and university scholars.
MSU is taking its nationally recognized workers’ compensation program east, hoping to aid Rutgers University in providing the same services for New Jersey residents.
Students making trips to Ann Arbor no longer need their own wheels. Michigan Flyer Inc., a shuttle bus company which takes passengers from its East Lansing base to Detroit Metro Airport, announced it will add an Ann Arbor stop to its daily route beginning Oct. 1.
For many in the 1960s, Phil Frank’s cartoons were something to look forward to when students opened The State News. Phil Frank, a political cartoonist and 1965 MSU graduate, died Wednesday from a brain tumor. He was 64.
Organizations like End Violent Encounter Inc., or EVE Inc., will have more help in combating domestic violence thanks to a more than $384,000 grant from the Department of Justice to Ingham County.
Negotiating the responsibilities of home is something Jennifer Sowa has been working on with her husband lately. With one child, Sowa said the division of housework and child care is constantly being discussed. That’s why the lecture “How do professional couples in corporate America negotiate household and child care duties” caught her eye.
With pounding tribal rhythms blasting, Bryant Rogers and Mercio Goenha stepped to the center of the crowd. As the intensity of the music rose, Goenha and Rogers came alive, engaging each other with flying cartwheel kicks and soaring punches. They moved with such fluidity the match came to resemble a rhythmic dance.
Bailey Park usually is used for soccer practices or baseball training, but once a year, it becomes the place for bocce ball.
Michigan Flyer, a shuttle bus company based in East Lansing, 333 Albert Ave., announced its bus routes to Detroit will now include a stop in Ann Arbor.
A bell-ringing ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Monday at Beaumont Tower to commemorate the 220th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution.
Forty MSU freshmen raced pop cans down a track Thursday for MSU’s new engineering course geared toward hands-on learning.
MSU just can’t keep those pesky Truman Scholarship Foundation trustees away. With 15 students accepted in the 30-year history of the prestigious award, the university has finally received its due.
In an effort to avoid a state government shutdown, Michigan’s House of Representatives could raise the state’s income tax by as much as .07 percent to improve Michigan’s budget woes.
The investigation into the 2005 murder of a Lansing Community College professor was reopened by the Ingham County prosecutor’s office Tuesday.
Forget sexy. Mike Busley is bringing pie back. “If it weren’t for grandmas, I don’t know that we would know what real pie tastes like,” said Busley, founder of Grand Traverse Pie Company. “Unless grandma makes you one, the pie you’re buying at Meijer or Kroger was probably mass-produced in California and shipped to you on a freezer truck.”