Lansing's first Sonic drive-in restaurant is expected to open next spring.

Potter Park Zoo may be getting $1 million to $25 million in improvements including a new Great Lakes education center and a new animal health care facility where patrons could view minor surgeries.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm vetoed more than 70 items Friday while signing the final six bills for a 2009-10 budget, but did not find enough funding to restore cuts to college scholarships, local government and Medicaid.

EAST LANSING - A judge is expected to decide next month whether a 35-year-old Michigan State University veterinarian - who had sex with a 13-year-old girl he told police he thought was 18 - should still face a kidnapping charge.

Michigan State University’s administration is proposing to eliminate the Department of Geological Science and the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. It also wants to end more than two dozen degree programs, among them classics, veterinary technology, retailing and American

Historically, Sandra Thompson will be remembered as the first black woman to become a Michigan State Police trooper.

Ovid-Elsie football coach Jerry Goosen forbids players from wearing single-digit jersey numbers like some modern showboats starring at the college and professional levels.

CORUNNA - Williamston harriers dominated at the third and final Capital Area Activities Conference White Division Jamboree with the boys and girls taking league titles at the muddy course at Corunna Oct. 25. The boys' team has won the league

CHARLOTTE -- Charlotte scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to end their 2009 football season on a high note, a 28-18 win over Tecumseh on Oct. 23. Christ Tate ran for two touchdowns and Brandon Hunter had receptions of

SAGINAW - The St. Johns boys soccer team came up short in its bid for a first-ever regional title, losing 2-0 to defending Division 2 state champion Petoskey on Thursday.

GRAND LEDGE For a period of 20 years, George smoked 146,000 cigarettes and spent $51,100 on his habit. He died at age 43 from lung cancer.That’s one of several fictional stories a group of 50 Hayes Middle School eighth-graders wrote

HOLT - The Holt Public School system didn't have to close any schools last week as influenza caused havoc in the Lansing area.

Faced with the prospect of $2 million in midyear budget cuts for the East Lansing school district, Elizabeth Vanis has been busy this week.

Hailee Butler is a freshman at Holt High School this year and has been a mamber of the Holt Dazzlers Baton and Pom Team for the last six years. She has won the WTA State Championship for three years running.

MASON - No local schools have had to close because of an H1N1 virus outbreak, but that doesn't mean cases don't exist.

With the current Metro Detroit economy and real estate market we deal with a lot of REO listing agents (for those of you that don't know what that means it means agents who handle Michigan bank foreclosure listings). There are