MSU names panel to search for president
EAST LANSING (AP) — Michigan State University trustees have appointed 19 members to a search committee looking for the school's next president.
The committee will have 10 men and nine women — including representatives for students, faculty and the board of trustees.
A co-chairwoman of the presidential search committee, Trustee Dianne Byrum, says the panel is “inclusive, diverse and representative of the broader MSU stakeholders.”
After Lou Anna Simon resigned in January amid fallout from the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal, MSU named former Gov. John Engler as interim president. The board of trustees plans to announce a new president no later than June 2019.
Appeals court upholds Nassar’s 60-year child porn sentence
LANSING (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar’s 60-year prison sentence for possessing child pornography and destroying evidence.
A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati denied Nassar's appeal Wednesday.
The former Michigan State University employee and USA Gymnastics team physician had argued that a district judge erred in increasing his sentence due to his multiple sexual assault convictions in state courts. Nassar also disputed the order that his federal term run consecutively — instead of at the same time — as his state sentences.
Nassar, 55, also is appealing his 40-year minimum state sentences, which he will serve if he is still alive after the federal term.
He pleaded guilty to molesting young athletes and a daughter of family friends.
Tweet over deli packaging gets governor’s attention
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A supermarket customer’s tweet on stickers placed over the opening of bagged deli meats got the attention of New Hampshire’s governor, and a change.
NH1 reports Londonderry Town Manager Kevin Smith recently took to Twitter to ask that the company, Market Basket, not put the price tag stickers over the zipper of the meat bag. He said it’s impossible to open it without destroying the bag.
Gov. Chris Sununu responded, saying he has to re-bag cheese every time because of the problem.
Market Basket answered that it would speak to its deli departments about it.
On Tuesday, both Smith and Sununu tweeted that the stickers were moved to the bag itself. Sununu said he was celebrating with grilled cheese for dinner.
Delaware license plate auctioned for $410K
REHOBOTH, Del. (AP) — Low-numbered Delaware license plates are in demand.
Someone paid $410,000 for the plate bearing the number 20 when it went up for auction Sunday at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center.
John Wakefield, of Delaware Tag Traders, tells the Delaware News Journal the price exceeded expectations. He says it surpassed $325,000 spent on a number 14 license plate three years ago.
Wakefield says a number like 20 “generates quite a stir and a buzz.”
Wakefield likens the license plate auction to baseball cards. He says “it’s a Delaware thing.”
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