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Lansing Mayor Andy Schor was among dignitaries present Tuesday at the opening of the Pop-Up Satellite Lansing City Clerk’s Of-fice at the Foster Community Center, 200 N. Foster Ave. The center will provide a one-stop location for voter services for city residents. At the Foster Center Lab Room 110, Lansing voters will be able to register to vote, pick up an absentee ballot, or receive a replacement ballot for a spoiled or lost absentee ballot. The Pop-Up Office is open 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday until Nov. 6 and will stop issuing ballots at 4 p.m. Nov. 7 and be open Election Day, which is Nov. 8, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. In the photo above, from left are Nancy Mahlow, a longtime leader of the Eastside Neighborhood Organization; City Clerk Chris Swope; Deb Biehler of the City Clerk’s Office; Schor; Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum; and Melissa Cole, head librarian of the Capital Area District Libraries.

Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina told the Lansing State Journal she would consider serving as Michigan State University’s interim president and would put herself forward as a candidate for the permanent post. Aquilina, who told disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar, “I just signed your death warrant,” as she sentenced him to decades in prison, would succeed Samuel Stanley Jr., who announced his resignation Oct. 13. “They (survivors) still haven’t had the answers they need or the investigation that are needed, and I feel like they need a voice,” Aquilina said.

Following a seven-month investigation by the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office, a former Webberville clerk-treasurer has been charged with embezzling $50,000 to $100,000. Jaymee Hord, of Owosso, 52, was charged Friday with a 15-year felony following the investi-gation, which included a forensic audit by an outside firm, according to a Friday press release from the Sheriff ’s Office. Hord was arraigned in 55th District Court and given a personal recognizance bond. Her next court date is scheduled for Tuesday.

The Oct. 10 death of Lansing radio personality Michael McFadden silenced a deep baritone voice that echoed through radio speakers and made an impact on many people, friends said. McFadden’s broadcasting career began in 1984 at the Lansing-area Power 96.5 FM and WXLA 1180 AM radio stations. Known as “Mighty Mike,” McFadden got behind the microphone to spin music and used his platform to share news, events and other information that affected the Black community. “It was like he was born to do this kind of work,” said Marcus Jefferson, owner and general manager of The Michigan Bulletin, a Black community newspaper in Lansing.

A bizarre case of murder and cannibalism will send a Bennington Township man to prison for the rest of his life. Nearly a month after Mark Latunski pleaded guilty to open murder in the killing of Kevin Bacon, Shiawassee County Circuit Judge Matthew Stewart determined Latunski committed first-degree, premeditated murder, which carries a mandatory penalty of life in prison without possibility of parole. Stewart heard testimony and arguments for two days before making his finding. Sentencing was set for Dec. 15. “We are very happy to finally bring justice to (the victim’s family), and we believed strongly all along this was a premeditated act and that (Latunski) was deserving of a first-degree murder verdict,” Shiawassee County Prosecutor Scott Koerner said, according to the Lansing State Journal.

Michigan State University Professor Jennifer Johnson will help lead a newly established suicide prevention research center focused on reaching people in the jail system who are at risk of taking their own lives. As reported by the Lansing State Journal, the National Center for Health and Justice Integration for Suicide Prevention will be funded for five years with a $15 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. The center’s research is not yet under way but will begin within the next year. Johnson, a C.S. Mott endowed professor of public health at MSU’s College of Human Medicine, will serve as one of three primary investigators at the center. Two other primary investigators, from Detroit’s Henry Ford Health and Brown University in Rhode Island, will also lead the program.

Consumers Energy will end 60 years of operations in Lansing when it moves its mid-Michigan operations center outside the city limits. As reported by the Lansing State Journal, the move will relocate the site from which repair crews are dispatched to fix outages from Lansing’s north side to Windsor Charter Township. In executing the arrangement, officials from Lansing, Windsor Charter Township and Consumers Energy are also negotiating new tax-sharing and water service agreements. Scott Bean, a spokesman for Lansing Mayor Andy Schor, did not respond to an immediate request for comment regarding the agreements. In a statement provided to Consumers Energy, Schor said the agreements would “not negatively affect Lansing’s budget due to the tax-sharing agreement we have agreed to for utility services.”