Eastern Michigan University received a $2.5 million gift. As WEMU’s Taylor Bowie reports, the money goes to the Department of Athletics.

Lawyers for the state and for two 2018 ballot measures argued over the constitutionality of a legislative tactic known as “adopt and amend” before the state Supreme Court Thursday. Colin Jackson has more.

A group of Ypsilanti residents have ended a recall effort against Mayor Nicole Brown. They are moving forward with the campaign against two city council members. WEMU's Taylor Bowie has details in this report.

We'll be talking movies as we always do on Thursday, but with a slight twist. Russ Collins is taking a couple of weeks away, so the Michigan Theater Foundation's cinema programming manager, Nick Alderink, will sit in his Cinema Chat chair. Nick will bring all the movie news you expect to discuss with WEMU's David Fair.

Ypsilanti City Council has voted to renovate the current Department of Public Services facility, rather than relocate the operation. WEMU’s Taylor Bowie has more.

Survivors of child sexual abuse are continuing to call on state lawmakers to extend the statute of limitations for criminal sexual conduct involving minor victims. Colin Jackson has more.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she hopes tougher laws will help stem the growth of threats and violence against health care workers. She signed the bills Wednesday at a hospital in Lansing. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Pro-Palestinian student groups at the University of Michigan plan to protest Thursday afternoon’s Board of Regents meeting on the Ann Arbor campus. WEMU’s Taylor Bowie has more.

Deer populations in Michigan are already overpopulated in some areas. Managing the herds and the damage they can cause is difficult. As some in Ann Arbor will attest, a large deer can have a dramatic impact on the health of the overall ecology of the environment and on the pocketbook. WEMU's David Fair talked with Michigan Department of Natural Resources game management specialist, Chad Stewart about the present and future of deer management.

There are tarantulas in Ypsilanti! Fortunately, they are kept under the close watch of some good folks in the Eastern Michigan University biology department. Studying tarantulas in the lab is one thing, but getting up close and personal with the eight-legged wonders on their territory is an entirely different experience. So, some EMU students are heading out west to see and study the arachnids at work and play in their natural habitat. EMU student Spencer Poscente joins Concentrate Media's Rylee Barnsdale for “On the Ground Ypsi” to talk about his experiences in EMU's arachnid lab and what he hopes to learn out in the field.