Recent Articles
Men's team hopes for repeat of NCAA berth
Coming off a year that included a Big Ten Tournament Championship and NCAA berth, MSU's men's soccer team expects to match and exceed those accomplishments in the upcoming season. "We have a lot of experience coming back," senior midfielder and co-captain Ryan McMahen said of the team's 12-7-1 record last season.
SN relocates to Grand River
After being hidden in the Student Services Building for nearly half a century, The State News has found a more prominent home on Grand River Avenue. The paper was expected to move into the former Gap building, 435 E.
State grant extends Northern Tier Trail
The city of East Lansing has received a grant to help fund an extension of the Northern Tier Trail. The $92,400 grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources will help the city extend the trail about a mile farther north.
Fire, police forces combat trauma
The image of Greg Tracy's first emergency response as an East Lansing firefighter has been etched in his mind for more than 21 years. It was summer, and a call reported a sighting of a body in the woods. After searching throughout the wooded area, Tracy said he found the body of a teenage boy who had been reported missing for a day hanging from a tree limb. "Calls - even from the first few years - they're vivid memories," the East Lansing Fire Department captain said. Traumatic memories, whether 2 or 20 years old, often remain in the back of emergency responders' minds.
Groups take cell phones for needy
Instead of letting obsolete cell phones sit dormant in a closet or drawer after getting them upgraded, people can donate their phones to charities that give them to people in need. The Charitable Recycling Program, located in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., collects phones for emerging countries with economic needs for cell phones, marketing manager Jonnie Sullivan said. "We clean them all up and make them look nice and put new batteries in them," she said.
