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5 days ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Cyber criminals are faceless offenders, taking advantage of their victims from behind a keyboard. For DeWitt resident Christina Klan, it was a remote job opportunity turned nightmare. “The people I was talking to may or may not have been real,” she told News 10. Those “people” are alleged cyber criminals, pretending to be a legitimate company, offering remote work for high pay.
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1 week ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) -A student at Michigan State University is speaking out as the federal government announces plans to revoke the visas of Chinese students. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will “aggressively” revoke visas from Chinese students who came to the U.S. to get their education. Students like Wali Khan. “It’s tough to focus on class when you’re trying to find out by listening to the news, whether or not you have the right to be where you are,” he told News 10.
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1 week ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - A legal battle left the city of East Lansing struggling to balance its books. Now, its Parks and Recreation Department face an uncertain future. Karin Polischuk lives in East Lansing. She’s a frequent visitor of the Hannah Community Center. “There’s a full gym. There’s a trainer that I see on a weekly basis,” she told News 10.
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1 week ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Tough, but necessary; that’s the attitude among some parents with students at the Dwight Rich School of the Arts in Lansing. For the first time, students had to go through a metal detector to get into school. The addition to public safety measures at the K-8 school comes after a disassembled pistol was found on its campus last week. “It’s scary, but it’s also protecting them,” said parent Megan Finnerty.
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1 week ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Lansing Schools Superintendent Ben Shuldiner is addressing safety and security concerns at Dwight Rich School for the Arts, following the discovery of a disassembled and unloaded gun last week. In a letter sent to families on Monday, Shuldiner offered an explanation and his support for the addition of metal detectors and handheld wands at all Dwight Rich entrances.
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1 week ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
JACKSON, Mich. (WILX) - More than 80 bikers joined together in Jackson Sunday to make a memorial ride in honor of fallen Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Davis. The memorial ride began on E. Michigan Ave. in Jackson and ended in Waterloo Township, at the site of the motorcycle crash that took Davis’s life last year. A cross was placed at the corner of Seymour and Mount Hope roads in his memory.
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1 week ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Dwight Rich School for the Arts will now be utilizing metal detectors and handheld wands at all student entrances, according to a letter sent to families on Sunday afternoon. The detection tools will be put to use starting May 27 as students return from the holiday weekend, the message from Dwight Rich Principal Shannon Harris said. Harris added that staff members will be at the entrances to greet students and ensure they enter the building quickly with minimal disruption.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - The sound of taps and American flags waving in the wind set the mood for a solemn Saturday afternoon in the city of Lansing. Veterans and their loved ones gathered for the city’s annual Memorial Day service at Evergreen Cemetery, paying their respects to fallen service members who lost their lives defending their country. “Today we stand here to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving this nation,” said Lansing Mayor Andy Schor during his ceremony remarks.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
OKEMOS, Mich. (WILX) - It’s the mystery that’s followed Michele Renkoski-Hollis for 35 years: what happened to her sister, Paige? “I mean somebody got Paige, at 30 years old, to pull over on the side of the interstate in the middle of the afternoon,” Michele said, still bewildered by the details of her sister’s disappearance. “Like, how does that happen?”On May 24, 1990, Paige, a substitute teacher from Okemos, vanished from the side of I-96 near Fowlerville.
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2 weeks ago | 
wilx.com | Riley Connell
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - State-approved funding for the home field of the Lansing Lugnuts is being called into question by a nonprofit research group. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy filed a lawsuit this week against the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity. Officials with the nonpartisan think tank said its reason for taking the issue to the Michigan Court of Claims is not about the money itself, but how it made its way into the state budget.
