Central Michigan

It wasn't just the autumn weather sending chills up the spines of students taking part in the annual “Legends of the Dark” haunted campus tour.

About 300 guests got ushered to the spooky spots on CMU's campus Monday and Tuesday nights.

“It's all about ghost stories,” said Patrick Higgins, Richmond sophomore.

Spencer Lewis pleaded no contest Tuesday afternoon to involuntary manslaughter following a pretrial conference.

Lewis faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and a minimum of probation, said Isabella County Prosecutor Larry Burdick.

“It was people like Spencer, who wanted to get a few kicks in, which emboldened the others to join in,” he said.

Central Michigan University has absolved Pam Gates of all wrong doing in an Oct. 15 incident with a student.

Barbara Taylor, interim Affirmative Action Officer, completed the administration's investigation of the incident between Gates, interim dean of the College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Topinabee junior Dennis Lennox II.

This is the first installment in an occasional series remembering some of Central Michigan University's most established former student-athletes.

A majority of athletes learn far more than the rules of the game when they're playing sports.

It happened to George Ghattas, a former tight end for the football team from 1994 to 1998, who now works as a commercial real estate broker in Chicago for Marcus & Millichap.

Students looking to get into the Halloween spirit can stop by the “Haunted Yard” from 6 to 8 p.m. today at 814 N. Lansing St.

Mount Pleasant resident Cari Edgerly-Griffes said she and her daughter, Megan, have made coming to the Haunted Yard a yearly tradition.

Britney Spears wants you bad. Right now. She isn't even kidding.

“Blackout” is filthy, dirty pop.

Gone are the slick, over-produced ballads from her innocent years. The production is minimalist, fuzzy electro-pop, with distorted drums and buzzy synthesizers buttressing Britney's trademark vocal style.

Mount Pleasant resident Kriss Roethlisberger believes families that scare together share together.

Roethlisberger along with her husband, Mike Roethlisberger, director of Internal Audit at CMU, has operated a “haunted yard” out of her backyard for more than 10 years.

The Isabella Community Soup Kitchen runs mostly on volunteers.

One of those is Milan senior Clarence Richardson, who has been volunteering at the kitchen for more than a year.

“I had some spare time and I wanted to help the community in any way I could,” Richardson said.

The soccer team is out of the Mid-American Conference race, but attempts to salvage a win Thursday in its last game.

CMU was eliminated from MAC Tournament bid contention after losing two conference matches last weekend against Northern Illinois and Western Michigan.

CMU Basketball
Rose Rowdie Fright Night
Central Michigan University men's and women's basketball teams will host Rose Rowdie Fright Night from 8:15 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. today in Rose Arena. Those who attend will get to meet the basketball teams and coaches Ernie Zeigler and Sue Guevara.

Halloween is dead.

And it was one of the plastic swords from Wal-Mart that killed it.

Like many of the other yearly celebrations, Halloween has been usurped by marketing.

Once an opportunity for young people to pretend to be someone else, while guiltlessly consuming as much sugar as possible, Halloween now is just another excuse for adults to go shopping.

Thomas D. Babb may spend the final days of his life looking through the iron bars of a prison cell - that is, unless he lives past his 90th birthday.

The 38-year-old Evart man left the Isabella County Jail on Tuesday morning and was transported to the Southern Michigan Correctional Facility in Jackson, where he began serving a lengthy prison sentence for his involvement in the shooting death of his estranged wife earlier this year.