Lecture series incudes presidential adviser
EAST LANSING (AP) — Author, activist and longtime presidential adviser Vernon Jordan is among the scheduled speakers for Michigan State University’s series during Black History Month.
Jordan is scheduled to speak Feb. 28 on the East Lansing campus as the final speaker of the "Dr. William G. Anderson Lecture Series: Slavery to Freedom."
The series kicks off Feb. 7 with the Rev. Freddie Haynes III, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, and continues Feb. 21 with Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson.
Jordan served as executive director of the United Negro College Fund and advised former President Bill Clinton.
The lecture series is named after the first black president of the American Osteopathic Association. Anderson tells the Lansing State Journal it's important to host people who have lived the stories of civil rights.
State AG files murder charges in 2012 meningitis outbreak
HOWELL (AP) — The Michigan attorney general has filed second-degree murder charges against a pharmacist and the co-founder of a Massachusetts pharmacy who are blamed for a fatal meningitis outbreak.
Barry Cadden was co-founder of New England Compounding Center and Glenn Chin was a pharmacist.
They are currently serving federal prison sentences for convictions in a separate case related to the 2012 national outbreak.
At least 76 people died and hundreds more became ill nationwide because of tainted steroids.
The attorney general’s office charged Cadden and Chin in connection with 11 deaths in Livingston County. Spokeswoman Andrea Bitely says investigators connected the compounding pharmacy to Michigan clinics that were supplied with the steroids.
Bitely tells the Livingston Daily Press & Argus that Michigan waited to file charges until after Cadden and Chin were prosecuted in Boston federal court.
Vermont community attempts to make world’s largest s’more
MIDDLESEX, Vt. (AP) — One Vermont community is celebrating the holidays and the winter solstice with a massive bonfire and what they hope will be the world’s largest s’more.
The Winter S'morestice takes place Saturday at Camp Meade in Middlesex and includes fire artists and dancers, music, food, beer and wine and, of course, a sampling of the giant s'more.
The local Red Hen Bakery will make the 4-by-8-foot concoction, baking its own enormous cracker, whipping up marshmallow and using chocolate from a neighboring business.
The giant dessert will then be chopped up and shared with attendees. Organizers said they were too late in pursuing a Guinness World Record but may try next year.
“This is going to be a feat of baking engineering,” said bakery co-owner Randy George.
The project comes at the bakery’s busiest time. “We will be making the world’s largest s’more when we’re also making more bread than we’ve ever made before,” he said.
Organizers have also made a massive bush-like structure out of evergreen branches that will be set on fire. Before the fire, people can walk through the small maze inside it.
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