Kevin Lavery
Kevin Lavery has been news director at WKAR since September 2006.
Just prior to coming to WKAR as news director, Lavery was a reporter at KWMU in St. Louis, Missouri, covering local politics, government, and biotechnology issues.
Lavery's journalism career began in the Navy. He studied journalism at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana; worked as news director and television producer for American Forces Network-Japan; and served in Antarctica as radio program director at the McMurdo Station Research Facility on Ross Island.
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Michigan State University's Department of Police and Public Safety is sharing new information about the February shooting on campus. -
As the five Michigan State University students hospitalized in last week’s shooting continue to receive medical care, several community-based fundraising efforts are proceeding. On Wednesday, one of the students who’d previously been listed in critical condition was upgraded to serious. -
Law enforcement in Jackson is now investigating the source of a hoax phone call falsely reporting a shooting Tuesday at Jackson High School. -
Every year a vintage steam locomotive in Michigan takes thousands of festive families to the North Pole. With some imagination and hot cocoa — the spirit of Christmas is still on track.
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A unionized Starbucks store near the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing joined more than 100 others nationwide Thursday to strike for better working conditions.A handful of baristas picketed outside the East Lansing store in a strong late morning snowstorm to call for a fair contract. -
Michigan State University is recruiting childcare providers across the state to participate in a nutrition awareness initiative. -
The city of East Lansing honored veterans Thursday with a small ceremony in a place that bears witness to the memory of one of its most storied residents. Under a crisp blue sky, three Marines in even crisper dress blue uniforms laid wreaths at a set of black stone markers outside the Hannah Community Center.During the Korean War, Second Lieutenant Sherrod Skinner shielded his fellow Marines from a bomb blast that took his life and earned him the Medal of Honor. -
A group of state officials and business leaders is calling for more investment in a statewide child care program with a unique funding model. -
The head of a mid-Michigan software company has been arrested on suspicion of stealing personal information of hundreds of election workers in California. -
A new Michigan State University report indicates state educational policies are hurting rural school districts.
