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1 week ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
HOWELL, Mich. (WILX) - A simple, white t-shirt; the kind of clothing item that’s lightweight and breathable. But a collection of t-shirts hanging up on Cleary University’s campus carries the unimaginable weight of a survivor’s journey. “It just reinforces that I’m believed,” said Jennifer Young.
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1 week ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Michigan State University is making moves to try and protect student and faculty research, as the government continues to cut funding fat. Students, faculty and trustees alike touched on the importance of funding university research during an MSU Board of Trustees meeting on April 11.
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1 week ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) -Universities across the country are still grappling with the sudden visa removal and deportation of some of their international students. It’s an issue the Michigan State University President said is being monitored closely, and it became the center of discussion during an MSU Board of Trustees meeting Friday.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Hakim Crampton was behind bars, before he even learned how to drive. “I was prosecuted as an 11-year-old child and I was incarcerated,” he told News 10. Crampton said he was throwing rocks at recess and hit his teacher; it was not the last time he’d end up in the courtroom. “By the time I was 18, I was convicted for a wrongful murder conviction in the state of Wisconsin,” he said. “I was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - International students, enjoying their life on campus one day, and deported back to their home country the next: it’s happening at universities across the state of Michigan. Michigan State University, Central Michigan University, University of Michigan are just a few institutions among many that are just finding out some of their international students have lost their visas.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - An 18-year-old woman charged with making false threats of violence against Michigan State University will stand trial, according to the Ingham County Prosecutor’s office. Hope Duncan of Eastpointe was arrested in February and is now facing felony charges, including one count of false threat or threat of terrorism and one count of using a computer to commit a crime.
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2 weeks ago | 
mysuncoast.com | Riley Connell |Wells Foster
(WILX/Gray News) - After spending a month behind bars in a Mexican prison over a timeshare dispute, a Michigan couple has been released and have returned to the U.S.Paul and Christy Akeo boarded a plane Thursday evening and arrived at Lansing Capitol Region International Airport at around 11:30 p.m.Their release comes one day after Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett visited the Jackson County couple and urged Mexican officials for their release.
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2 weeks ago | 
azfamily.com | Riley Connell |Wells Foster
(WILX/Gray News) - After spending a month behind bars in a Mexican prison over a timeshare dispute, a Michigan couple has been released and have returned to the U.S.Paul and Christy Akeo boarded a plane Thursday evening and arrived at Lansing Capitol Region International Airport at around 11:30 p.m.Their release comes one day after Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett visited the Jackson County couple and urged Mexican officials for their release.
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2 weeks ago | 
kktv.com | Riley Connell |Wells Foster
(WILX/Gray News) - After spending a month behind bars in a Mexican prison over a timeshare dispute, a Michigan couple has been released and have returned to the U.S.Paul and Christy Akeo boarded a plane Thursday evening and arrived at Lansing Capitol Region International Airport at around 11:30 p.m.A Michigan couple has been released after nearly a month in a Mexican prison over a payment dispute with their timeshare company. Their release comes one day after Republican U.S. Rep.
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3 weeks ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell |Wells Foster
After spending a month behind bars in a Mexican prison over a timeshare dispute, a mid-Michigan couple has been released and are on their way back home. Paul and Christy Akeo boarded a plane Thursday evening and are expected to arrive at Lansing Capitol Region International Airport around 11:30 p.m.Video posted by The Daily Mail shows the Akeos and U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte) on a plane back to Michigan. They thanked President Trump for helping secure their release.
