http://www.statenews.com Our most recent top stories. en-us Foundry4 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:44:07 -0400 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:18:05 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/weeding_out_the_issue When Josh Sattler gets the munchies, he views it as a medicinal property of smoking marijuana, not a fattening side effect of getting high. The hospitality business junior has Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory ailment of the digestive system that causes ulcers in the bowels and can lead to drastic weight loss. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:10:32 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/weeding_out_the_issue webmaster@statenews.com (Kelly House) http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/dow_drops_800_points_closes_370_points_down Wall Street joined in a worldwide cascade of despair Monday over the financial crisis, driving the Dow Jones industrials to their biggest loss ever during a trading day. Even a big afternoon rally failed to keep the Dow from its first close below 10,000 since 2004. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:10:32 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/dow_drops_800_points_closes_370_points_down webmaster@statenews.com (From staff and wire reports) http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/ex-msu_student_breaks_100k_fraud_probation An ex-MSU student could face prison time for a probation violation in a 10-month-old fraud case, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings said. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:10:32 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/ex-msu_student_breaks_100k_fraud_probation webmaster@statenews.com (Abby Lubbers) http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/woman_threatened_with_knife_on_campus A 19-year-old MSU student on Monday reported being assaulted, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. MSU police issued a crime alert to students at about 2 p.m. Monday about a late-night assault on campus. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:52:52 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/woman_threatened_with_knife_on_campus webmaster@statenews.com (Abby Lubbers) http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/spartans_triumph_in_final_period_of_exhibition_game When the Spartans scored three unanswered goals in the first period, it seemed to be time for the Western Ontario Mustangs to start warming the bus. The Mustangs weren’t ready to call it a game yet though, as they exploded in the second period and scored three unanswered goals to tie the game. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:18:05 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/spartans_triumph_in_final_period_of_exhibition_game webmaster@statenews.com (Alex DiFilippo) http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/police_brief_100708 A 19-year-old student’s purse was missing after she rode Capital Area Transportation Authority Bus 25 on Thursday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:10:32 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/police_brief_100708 webmaster@statenews.com (Abby Lubbers)