News Archive for September 14, 2010
Election results: Gibbs wins Republican primary in the 32nd
By DAN PLUTCHAK - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
Walworth County election results
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Complete Walworth County election results
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
Complete Walworth County election results
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Janesville ice arena plan gets deadline
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
JANESVILLE --
Backers of a new ice arena have until Dec. 31 to raise at least $2 million.
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Milton district debates how to spend $117,000
By NEIL JOHNSON - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
MILTON --
The Milton School District is grappling with a dilemma many school districts would envy: What do you do with a non-budgeted surplus of money?
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Janesville police investigating string of strong-armed robberies
By TED SULLIVAN - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
JANESVILLE --
Four strong-armed robberies or attempted robberies were reported last weekend in Janesville, including three that could be related.
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Rescue reports on Geneva Lake nearly set record
By KEVIN HOFFMAN - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
WILLIAMS BAY --
Crowded beaches on Geneva Lake this summer forced lifeguards to make 17 rescues, nearly setting a record of beach pullouts through Labor Day.
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Milton couple happy to complete grueling Ironman race
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
The best thing entrants in Sunday’s Ironman Wisconsin can say is, “I finished.’’
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Delavan council approves Lake Lawn records audit
By ANN MARIE AMES - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
DELAVAN --
Most of the first three hours of Monday’s meeting was devoted to legal and financial issues associated with the resort.
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Warrant: Robber lifted mask too early
By DARRYL ENRIQUEZ - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
ELKHORN --
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP -- Jeremiah J. Ward helped authorities in his capture for a Pell Lake bank robbery by ripping off his hockey mask while fleeing with $8,415 and a BB gun, according to a search warrant returned Monday. Ward, 23, was well in the range of First Banking Center cameras, which snapped clear shots of his uncovered face, according to the search warrant.
Ward’s girlfriend, who figured out he had robbed the bank, called him a “dumb ass” for taking off his mask and letting authorities identify him, according to the warrant. Ward also is suspected of robbing the same bank earlier this summer.
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UW-Rock County Rattlers soccer fall
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
FOND DU LAC --
UW-Rock County lost, 4-3, to UW-Fond du Lac in Wisconsin Collegiate Conference men’s soccer Monday.
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Area BMX bicycle racers enjoying success, setting lofty goals
By KEN VELOSKEY - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
EVANSVILLE --
Sam Urquhart and Ross Schaffitzel of Evansville don’t have much time for video games because the good friends have been burning up BMX bicycle tracks for two years.
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Food pantry use is on the rise, while donations are down
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
JANESVILLE --
One in six Americans is going hungry, and over the past 10 years the number of families accessing food pantries nationwide has increased 50 percent, according to Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin, Madison.
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Public record for Sept. 14, 2010
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
Case Feed building debris still sits at site
By MARCIA NELESEN - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
JANESVILLE --
Paperwork glitch kept owner from being told of deadline
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Years after floods, homeowners still wait for FEMA
By KEN KUSMER - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
SEELYVILLE, IND. --
The FEMA buyouts are not automatic, nor are they quick, which is raising questions about whether the program is worth the limbo it creates for homeowners.
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Broke Blagojevich can't afford transcripts
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
Ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich is out of legal funds and can't even afford to pay fees to get critical court documents.
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Acid spill injures eight workers at Fort Atkinson plant
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
FORT ATKINSON --
Eight workers were treated for injuries from a phosphoric acid spill at a Fort Atkinson manufacturing plant early today, officials said.
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Hazmat training in Milton
By STEVE BENTON - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
MILTON --
Several agencies will be involved in a hazmat training exercise Wednesday morning
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Gingrich again, but louder
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
Just when Newt Gingrich thought he’d made his way back from serial scandal to respectability, just when he saw a path opening before him that could even lead to a certain oval office on Pennsylvania Avenue…suddenly, stupid is in.
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New rules allow hunters to transport dear out of CWD management zones
By WISCONSIN DNR NEWS RELEASE - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
Whole deer carcasses and certain restricted parts –- brain, spinal cord and lymphoid tissue -- can now be transported out of the chronic wasting disease management zone to other areas of the state
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Friendship formed in high school remains strong for D-DHS football coach and NFL star
By DELAVAN-DARIEN SCHOOL DISTRICT NEWS - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
DELAVAN --
Steve Tenhagen doesn’t line up as a slot receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, but he does catch passes from the team’s starting quarterback Tony Romo.
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Chemical leak at Fort Atkinson plant
By STEVE BENTON - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
FORT ATKINSON --
Seven Spacesaver employees treated after an acidic cleaning agent leaked from a storage tank.
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Death notices: Ahler, Belson, Lewis, Oppelt
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
Walworth County death notices for Sept. 14, 2010.
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Warrant: Pell Lake bank robber ditched disguise too soon
By DARRYL ENRIQUEZ - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP --
The suspect in a Bloomfield Township bank robbery Sept. xx, gave police a little help when he took off the hockey mask he was wearing while fleeing with $8,415 and a BB gun, according to a search warrant returned Monday.
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Polls now open for today's primary
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
WALWORTH COUNTY --
The polls have just opened for today's primary vote in Walworth County. Polls remain open until 8 p.m.
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In letter from prison, the harsh consequences of driving drunk
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
WHITEWATER --
In a letter written as part of her four-year sentence, a woman convicted in a 2007 drunken-driving crash that killed a UW-Whitewater professor urges others to consider the consequences drinking and driving.
Samantha Young of Mount Horeb was sentenced in 2008 for the death of 56-year-old Paula Poorman on Interstate 39-90 near Edgerton.
Dane County Circuit Court Judge David Flanagan also ordered Young to write a letter each year explaining her decisions that night.
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Death notices for Sept. 14, 2010
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
East Troy man crafts gypsy wagons with an eye toward the fanciful
By MARGARET PLEVAK - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
East Troy's James Nelson builds gypsy trailers and wagons, the kind you’ve seen in old movies, Romanian travelogues and back-and-white news clips of 1967's Summer of Love.
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Aging gas pipe at risk of explosion nationwide
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
SAN BRUNO, CALIF. --
The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.
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Ravens edge Jets in a sloppy opener
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. --
The Jets intrigued audiences in the preseason with their no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes TV show, but it was the Ravens who grabbed the spotlight Monday night.
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Myers’ strong start gives Astros a lift
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
HOUSTON --
Brett Myers become the eighth pitcher in 90 years to throw six or more innings in 30 consecutive starts in Houston’s 4-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.
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Injury bug again bites Harrell
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
GREEN BAY --
Season-ending knee injury puts DL’s future in doubt
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Nadal nets 3rd straight major, career Grand Slam
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
NEW YORK --
Nadal won his first U.S. Open title to complete a career Grand Slam, beating Novak Djokovic, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, Monday in a match filled with fantastic shotmaking by both men and interrupted by a thunderstorm a day after it was postponed by rain.
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No. 11 Wisconsin giving RB John Clay more work
By COLIN FLY - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
MADISON --
John Clay took a bulk of the carries in a 27-14 win over San Jose State on Saturday, and Wisconsin abandoned the roughly equal distribution of runs between Clay, Montee Ball and freshman James White in the season-opening win a week earlier at UNLV.
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Fielder ill; streak ends at 327
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
HOUSTON --
Flu-like symptoms forced Prince Fielder out of Monday night’s Milwaukee lineup, ending his streak of playing in 327 consecutive games.
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Lions QB Stafford won’t need surgery
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
ALLEN PARK, MICH. --
The Detroit Lions and Matthew Stafford are relieved the quarterback doesn’t appear to need surgery on his throwing shoulder.
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