Updated: 6:42 PM It's the beginning of a six-month battle involving affirmative action and a proposed petition for the November election.

Updated: 5:59 PM Several state senators are asking the Michigan Department of Corrections to work more closely with neighborhoods where prisons are located.

Updated: 4:18 PM It happens all too often. Children get their hand on poisonous products like cleaning solutions or medicines and they swallow it.

Updated: 6:49 PM It may not amount to much, but tax preparers say there have been some changes made that you should be aware of come tax time.

Updated: 6:04 PM Those with hypertension should be warned about using decongestants

Updated: 5:04 PM Michigan's Attorney General has removed himself from the 2006 race for governor against Jennifer Granholm.

Updated: 4:55 PM It's no secret schools are facing tough decisions because of budget cuts to state aid funding. But new numbers recently released have some school officials breathing a sigh of relief.

Updated: 7:58 AM The Ingham County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Task Force will be looking into a number of cold murder cases going back as far as 1968.

Updated: 5:59 PM A Meridian Township man was arrested early Thursday morning on charges of child pornography.

Updated: 11:36 AM The chair of the MSU board of trustees is denying speculation that university president M. Peter McPherson may be leaving.

Updated: 11:33 AM Chamber of Commerce denounces sales tax plan from the state's education lobby.

Updated: 6:35 PM A Lansing man has been arrested for the murder of an alleged robbery accomplice, the city's first slaying of the year.

Updated: 8:10 AM A Lansing mother of three will spend the next 15 to 35 years in prison for the murder of her boyfriend, James Wilkerson.

Updated: 5:58 PM Protecting yourself from the cold-related injuries.

Updated: 8:11 AM While the temperature and the wind chill dip below zero in parts of mid-Michigan, profits may rise for some local business.

Updated: 6:51 PM It was a struggle to stay warm Tuesday as blowing snow, chilling wind and cold temperatures hit mid-Michigan for the first time this winter.

Updated: 6:47 PM The Lansing man who escaped from a state prison is back in custody after being captured in Montana Tuesday following a high-speed chase.

Updated: 8:12 AM The Michigan Department of Community Health says flu season in Michigan hasn't peaked yet.

Updated: 4:31 PM General Motors sales figures are out and they show calendar year car sales took a dip in 2003 compared to the previous year.

Updated: 9:12 AM Monday night the Lansing City Council elected Joan Bauer as its new president. President Bauer replaces Carol Wood at the post and Sandy Allen becomes the new vice president.

Updated: 6:32 PM Gov. Jennifer Granholm says she can not support elimination of the MEAP exam based on what she knows but one group says she’s received one sided information.

Posted: 6:22 PM With temperatures expected to drop into the single digits soon, we're in for a cold stretch of weather. Home heating experts suggest home weatherization as a way to cut back on the chill and an increased heating bill.

Updated: 5:55 PM A former employee of Jackson's AAA has pled guilty to embezzling more than $1 million from the auto club.

Updated: 5:49 PM To fight the epidemic of childhood obesity, the American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for schools to remove soft drink machines.

Updated: 5:40 PM Some activity on the site of General Motors' future Delta Township Assembly Plant may not look like much. But it's good news for Lansing at a time when hundreds of workers are being laid off.