News Archive for September 7, 2012
School workers to pay more for insurance
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Changes in insurance coverage for some 1,200 employees of the Janesville School District could save about $7 million next year.
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Group's goal: No more bullying
By NEIL JOHNSON - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
MILTON --
A Milton community group is cranking out a big, bright orange message to fight bullying.
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Verona volleyball tops Craig; Parker falls on road
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
Verona showed why it will be among the Big Eight Conference elite again this season Thursday night. The defending conference champion Wildcats defeated Craig, 25-11, 25-21, 25-20, in the Cougars' gym.
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State Supreme Court hears GPS case
By KEVIN MURPHY - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
MADISON --
As GPS tracking devices become common in criminal cases, police need to follow the limitations judges impose on their use, an attorney seeking to reverse Walworth County burglary convictions told the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday.
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Hrycay leads Cougars to fifth-place finish
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
HARTLAND --
Janesville Craig senior Spencer Hrycay ran to victory in Thursday's Hartland Arrowhead Invitational, helping the Cougars to a fifth-place finish in the 15-team meet.
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Walk aims to boost suicide awareness, prevention
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Jessie Benash of Milton is serving as co-chairwoman of Youth Emotional Stability in Rock County's inaugural Suicide Awareness and Prevention Walk on Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Rock County 4-H Fairgrounds.
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Introducing President MSNBC
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
CHARLOTTE, NC --
The blending of news and opinion isn't new, but activism posing as journalism is a cancer on the body politic.
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Middleton tennis sweeps past Cougars
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
Middleton High showed off its girls tennis talent at Palmer Park on Thursday afternoon. The Cardinals swept host Janesville Craig, 7-0, in a Big Eight Conference match.
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Hunting for an answer to poverty
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Help is available for those struggling with poverty. Government agencies, community organizations, church groups and others offer meals, clothing, job search assistance and more to people that have fallen on hard times.
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White's header helps Craig soccer tie
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
Odean White's goal off a header gave Janesville Craig a 1-1 tie with visiting Greenfield in a nonconference boys soccer match Thursday night.
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Woodman's opens Sun Prairie store
By RYAN BROEGE - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Janesville-based grocer Woodman's Food Market continues to expand.
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Some Evansville residents to see bump in electric bills
By KEVIN MURPHY - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
MADISON --
The Evansville Water & Light Department will charge average residential customers an additional $7 on their monthly electric bills after the Wisconsin Public Service Commission approved a 7.7 percent rate increase this week.
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Wyss propels Parker golfers
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
MONONA --
Janesville Parker collected two Big Eight Conference victories Thursday, including one against Janesville Craig.
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Local schools gain state recognition
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Three Janesville elementary schools are among 132 statewide that were named Wisconsin Schools of Recognition on Wednesday.
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Martial artist pleads not guilty in brawl
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
JANESVILLE --
An amateur mixed-martial artist has pleaded not guilty to charges he punched and kicked five Janesville Police Department officers and one of the department's German shepherds.
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Clinton rallies for win over Snappers
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
BELOIT --
Clinton scored two runs in the top of the 10th inning to defeat Beloit, 7-5, and send the Midwest League first-round playoff series to a third and deciding game tonight at Pohlman Field.
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Romney, Obama in battle for working-class whites
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
DES MOINES, IOWA --
President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are working feverishly for an increasingly smaller but crucial slice of the electorate — white, working-class voters.
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Public record for Sept. 7, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
2012 boat count shows slight dip in numbers on the lakes
By GENEVA LAKE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
Working together, the Water Safety Patrol and the Geneva Lake Environmental Agency conducted the annual Geneva Lake Boat Count on August 13. All boats docked, moored, on shore stations or in off lake storage with access to the lake are counted to document the number of boats with access to Geneva Lake. The boats counted are divided into 4 categories, motorboat, sailboat, personal watercraft, and other. Personal watercraft includes jet skies and wave runners. Other includes kayaks, canoes, rowboats and miscellaneous. Every attempt is made to conduct the boat count on a cool, wet day, to ensure most boats are docked. This year the count was conducted on a cool, overcast day with light rain periodically during the count.
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Obama fails, revealingly so
By MICHAEL GERSON - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
WASHINGTON --
As literature, President Obama's convention speech managed to be simultaneously lofty and pedestrian. America faces a “choice between two different paths” and the rules must be the same “from Main Street to Wall Street” and we’re “moving forward, America.” By the end of the speech, no boiler lacked a plate.
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Horse auction starts for Beloit breeder charged with stealing $53 million
By STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
An online auction of a herd of quarter horses seized from the former comptroller of Dixon, Ill., who has been federally charged with wire fraud and stealing more than $53 million from the city, starts today, according to a news story from WIFR-TV.
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East Troy police investigating gas station robbery
By STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
East Troy police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred Thursday at the Road Ranger gas station/truck stop, located at 2489 Main St., in the village of East Troy, according to a press release from the Village of East Troy Police Department.
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Seeing the sites in Walworth County: Sacred spot
By MARGARET PLEVAK - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
It sits, a link to a past over 1,000 years old, in the midst of a subdivision on the west side of the city of Whitewater.
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Illinois state trooper killed in Lake Como boating accident
By STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
GENEVA TOWNSHIP --
An Illinois State Police trooper was killed Labor Day in what authorities are describing as a freak boating accident on Lake Como in the town of Geneva.
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Contrasting styles for 49ers, Packers in opener
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
GREEN BAY --
Green Bay is Exhibit A in an NFL trend that emphasizes mesmerizing passing games above all else, and Aaron Rodgers nearly passed the Packers to an undefeated season in 2011.
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McIlroy, Woods off to strong start
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
CARMEL, IND. --
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy seem to be spending a lot of time together lately. That includes the top of a busy leaderboard at the BMW Championship.
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Nix the tiki bar: Hawaii tourism gets authentic
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
HONOLULU --
Coconut bras aren’t Hawaiian. Neither are grass skirts. Tiki bars? They’re from California. Yet they’re all among the most recognizable symbols of a Hawaiian vacation.
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Baldwin jabs Thompson, GOP in speech
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
MADISON --
U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin used her speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday to take aim at prominent Wisconsin Republicans, saying they don’t really know the state and only candidates like her will fight for the middle class.
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Death notices for Sept. 7, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
Johnson pitches 7 innings, Marlins beat Brewers
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
MIAMI --
Josh Johnson pitched seven solid innings and ended his career-worst four-game losing skid, leading the Miami Marlins past the Milwaukee Brewers 6-2 Thursday.
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Asking 2nd term, Obama says nation will recover
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
CHARLOTTE, NC --
His re-election in doubt, President Barack Obama conceded only halting progress Thursday night toward fixing the nation’s stubborn economic woes but vowed in a Democratic National Convention finale.
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Two deaths from probable West Nile virus in state
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
MILWAUKEE --
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reports two deaths from probable cases of West Nile virus.
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Baldwin jabs Thompson, Republicans in speech
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
MADISON --
U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin used her speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday to take aim at prominent Wisconsin Republicans, saying they don't really know the state and only candidates like her will fight for the middle class.
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East Troy Bluegrass Festival captures the sound
By STAFF - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
The sounds of bluegrass music and the fans who love it will fill East Troy’s historic village square for the 19th Annual East Troy Bluegrass Festival on Sept. 8 –9. The rain location is East Troy Middle School, 3143 Graydon Ave. Check www.easttroybluegrass.com for updates.
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Empathy gap is Obama’s lone hope
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Sept. 7, 2012
WASHINGTON --
The problem with swallowing the "he cares, therefore he does" line is that it's so plainly contradicts what we've seen over the last four years from President Obama .
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