Updated: 6:26 PM Thirty-seven-year-old Steven Gilbert has admitted in court that he choked a 12-year-old Lansing girl to death earlier this year.

Updated: 6:25 PM The value of a house atop a dune adjacent to Lake Michigan must be determined.

Updated: 6:22 PM A Detroit man is the latest Michigan casualty in the war.

Updated: 6:20 PM EMU becomes the latest state university to raise tuition costs.

Updated: 1:39 PM Optical scan machines are used in the election.

Updated: 9:01 PM Regionalized fire and emergency services are a money saving trend taking place across the country and maybe, in the future, right here in Mid-Michigan, too.

Updated: 8:55 PM After Tuesday night, the four-person race for Lansing mayor will be down to two. On the last day before the primary, the candidates are out, pushing for every vote to make the cut.

Updated: 3:44 PM The mayor's race may get the attention, but Lansing voters have two other decisions to make on Tuesday, August 2 in the primary election.

Updated: 3:47 PM A university administrator just back from a London rocked by terror says the threats are ongoing to the underground, but not the buses.

Updated: 3:48 PM The Lansing Lugnuts commit to Oldsmobile Park until 2020.

Updated: 7:07 PM It’s a big bust for the Ingham County Sheriff's Office as $100,000 worth of stolen property is recovered.

Updated: 2:58 PM The final televised Lansing mayoral debate before the August 2 primary fails to include the incumbent, Mayor Tony Benavides.

Updated: 7:21 PM A Lansing family watches in horror as their home, 304 W. Thomas St., burns with two young boys trapped inside.

Updated: 6:12 PM Congress has approved a bill to create a confidential national reporting system for medical errors.

Updated: 5:29 PM Lansing employment levels stay the same in June, but mixed in other parts of the state.

Updated: 7:24 PM The state's Board of Education is exploring tougher graduation standards, more testing and smaller schools.

Updated: 2:11 PM Some schools are opting to take out loans to bridge the early funding gap.

Updated: 6:15 PM UP tourism businesses say July has been slow.

Updated: 5:59 PM Retailers are being asked to stop selling "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," and its maker is being asked to recall the game.

Updated: 4:50 PM The city of Lansing is filing a lawsuit in hopes of stopping the planned gasoline pipeline through the city.

Updated: 7:01 PM The man convicted of stabbing 13-year-old Amber Dietz to death in July 2004 is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Updated: 1:14 PM The Employee Discount Plan gave sales a huge boost, but it's about to end.

Updated: 11:08 AM ICE is actually an acronym meaning In Case of Emergency, and if you haven't yet heard about it odds are it's on its way to your e-mail.

Updated: 4:23 PM The split between the AFL-CIO and Teamsters Union could have some effects locally. It's the Largest organized labor split in almost 70 years.

Updated: 8:25 PM It's been more than one month since two bags of decomposed human remains were found bagged and dumped in the Red Cedar River near Webberville Rd. in Leroy Township. Tuesday, the Ingham County Sheriff's Office said the remains are that of 28-year-old Leon Ward Lockwood from Charlotte.