Those who would like tips on managing credit card debt, paying off student loans, finding the right bank and more may want to check out the book “Get A Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties,” by Beth Kobliner.
The book is an updated and expanded version of Kobliner’s first edition of the same [...]

The Party Line has been Centralized.
As of May 10, The Party Line, 104 E. May St., has a new owner, a face-lift and a different name – Party Central.
“Party Line is dead. Long live Party Central,” said new owner Jenny Darling, Mount Pleasant resident.
The store’s name change should help customers realize there is a new [...]

An investigation into claims of Agent Orange on CMU’s campus has found no direct proof that the chemical lies underground.
Jean Lindley, senior officer for Facilities Management and CMU Police, said she talked to the former supervisor of Facilities Management, the foreman of the grounds crew and a grounds worker from the 1970s in her investigation.
“I [...]

Macomb County Sheriff William Hackel faces up to 15 years in prison after a six-man, six-woman jury found him guilty of rape Thursday in Isabella County Circuit Court.
After deliberating for almost 10 hours beginning Wednesday, the jury announced its verdict Thursday morning. Hackel was convicted of two counts of third-degree criminal-sexual conduct, involving oral penetration [...]

During his imprisonment by Chinese
communists, Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso ate belt and shoe leather so
he wouldn’t starve and endured electric cattle prod tortures because
of his [...]

Mount Pleasant citizens have drank fluoridated water since the 1950s because the American Dental Association found fluoride to be beneficial, according to one city official.
“It was found to benefit people’s teeth,” said Malcolm Fox, superintendent of the city’s water treatment plant, 4195 S. Lincoln Road. “It has high benefits and very low risks.”
In February of [...]

A lawsuit against the state of Michigan that aims to nullify a new voter law may now be heard in a state court rather than a federal court.
A preliminary injunction hearing was held at the Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan, in Detroit April 11.
Seven universities, including CMU, serve as plaintiffs in [...]

An investigation into claims of Agent Orange buried on campus is in progress.
A Facilities Management worker told CM LIFE on March 28 that he helped bury Agent Orange chemicals in three locations on and near CMU’s campus in the early 1970s.
Jean Lindley, senior officer for Facilities Management and Police, said she met with the worker [...]