Updated: 5:29 PM Michigan State student has been hospitalized with a deadly bacterial infection.

Updated: 12:32 PM After drawn-out debate and a nearly unprecedented reshuffling of the federal bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security became the government's 15th Cabinet department Friday.

Updated: 11:00 AM Sometimes treatments for back pain work, sometimes they don't. But doctors say sometimes back pain is really just a pain in the butt.

Updated: 4:18 PM 3-D medical scans have moved beyond the novelty stage and are now being used to save lives helping heart surgeons in the operating room.

Updated: 5:50 PM United Way organizations around the country will soon be abiding by new national standards.

Updated: 5:25 PM Here's how to protect yourself from a cold-related injury.

Updated: 12:32 PM Water levels on the Great Lakes are dropping again.

Updated: 4:18 PM Do you feel like you're tired all the time? Eating more than you should? Are you a little testy?

Updated: 11:27 AM Doctors use Botox to get rid of wrinkles, but can the same case be made for people with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

Updated: 4:00 PM Five hundred Lansing public school students received the H.O.P.E. Scholarship. It’s a way for some students to attend college at LCC for two years free of tuition.

Updated: 5:29 PM The woman accused of stealing nearly $2,000 from the Shiawassee United Way has turned herself into the police.

Updated: 4:14 PM Michigan Right to Life wants to work with the new pro-choice governor.

Updated: 2:42 PM Marchers will mark the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Updated: 4:18 PM Most do well after total knee replacement surgery, but some continue with problem. Computer technology may make that less likely.

Updated: 10:31 AM Have you ever had a hard time filling prescriptions?

Updated: 10:53 AM Capital Area United Way officials say Jacquelyn Allen-MacGregor is now responsible for the embezzlement of $1.8 million dollars. But a plan of restitution is emerging.

Updated: 10:51 AM The Capital Area United Way has discovered it is now missing nearly $2 million after officials say a former employee allegedly embezzled it.

Updated: 10:49 AM A Jackson mother could lose her son. The child was taken from her when his weight rose to 120 lbs. at three-years-old

Updated: 5:56 PM Lansing Mayor David Hollister was confirmed Tuesday as Director of a new state department.

Updated: 5:47 PM Before he left office earlier this month, Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the death row sentences of more than 160 inmates to life in prison.

Updated: 5:46 PM A Lansing woman was found dead in her home about mid-day on Tuesday. Police suspect she was murdered.

Updated: 1:42 PM The Army is sending its most modern combat division to the Persian Gulf region and the Navy is dispatching two aircraft carriers to join two others already within striking distance of Iraq, officials said Tuesday.

Updated: 10:50 AM Researchers have made great progress in the treatment and prevention in diabetes.

Updated: 4:18 PM The number of young children with allergies is going up at an alarming rate, but a new drug may help even the tiniest of suffers.

Updated: 4:00 PM Stockbridge Middle School is among a handful of public schools that didn't shut down to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.