News Archive for September 18, 2012
Shooting suspect held in Memphis
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
ROCKFORD, ILL. --
Officials will learn after a court hearing this morning in Memphis, Tenn., how long it could take to get Kody Walsh back to Illinois to face murder charges.
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Answers sought in women's deaths
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
ROCHESTER, MINN. --
Family and friends of a Winona State University graduate who died in Vietnam under unexplained circumstances have launched a letter-writing campaign to get the U.S. government to seek answers.
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'As Goes Janesville' screening is Oct. 7
By JIM LEUTE - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Area residents will get a one-day jump on the nation in seeing a documentary that profiles Janesville and efforts to survive and fix a wounded economy.
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Janesville man charged after fight between football fans
By ANN MARIE AMES - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
JANESVILLE --
A Janesville man faces a felony charge after insults between football fans turned into a bartime fight downtown.
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Police provide more details in fatal crash
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
DELAVAN --
An Elkhorn man who died in a vehicle accident Friday had gotten a ride home from police hours before the crash that killed him and injured at least one other person, police say.
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Ruling stokes contract fire
By ASSOCIATED PRESS AND GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
MADISON --
Wisconsin school and government employee unions Monday were considering whether to seek new contract talks after a state court threw out a controversial law that restricts public workers' collective bargaining rights.
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Janesville's Carr exceeds Ironman goal
By KEN VELOSKEY - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
JANESVILLE --
What propelled 35-year-old Baker-Tilly CPA Zach Carr of Janesville to a stellar 19th-place overall finish among 2,700 entrants in the Sept. 9 Ironman Wisconsin in Madison?
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Grain elevator in Avalon expands
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
AVALON --
From Highway 140, the structure looks like a giant hockey rink or a go-cart track. Instead it's just one part of a multi-million expansion of the Gavilon Grain Elevator in Avalon.
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Public record for Sept. 18, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
Open house slated at Elkhorn hospital gift shop
By STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
ELKHORN --
Gifts ‘n More, located just inside the main entrance of Aurora Lakeland Medical Center, Elkhorn, is hosting an open house on Fri., Sept. 21, from 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Top conservative mentors helped to form Ryan's ideas
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Paul Ryan's mentors have included some of the biggest conservative names of recent decades, among them Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett.
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Cancer overtakes heart disease among US Hispanics
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the No. 1 killer among Hispanics in the U.S., and the rest of the country may be only a few years behind.
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Three lawsuits pending in Wisconsin union fight
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
MADISON --
A state court ruling that threw out major parts of the new Wisconsin law restricting collective bargaining came in one of three lawsuits challenging the 2011 law.
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Ryan, Falcons defeat mistake-prone Broncos
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
ATLANTA --
Peyton Manning kept throwing up wobbly passes. The Atlanta Falcons kept picking them off.
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Family seeks answers in Lake Geneva woman's death
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
LAKE GENEVA --
Family and friends of a Winona State University graduate who died in Vietnam under unexplained circumstances have launched a letter-writing campaign to get the U.S. government to seek answers.
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Romney: 'Victims' comment not elegantly stated
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
COSTA MESA, CALIF. --
Republican Mitt Romney is trying to head off a new distraction for his campaign after a video surfaced showing him telling wealthy donors that 47 percent of all Americans “believe they are victims” entitled to help from the government that permeates their lives.
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Bielema coy about Badgers' QB situation
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
MADISON --
Bret Bielema seems to have a pretty good idea of how he’ll handle Wisconsin’s murky quarterback situation this week. He’s just not sharing it right now.
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Death notices for Sept. 18, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
Google maps out Old World Wisconsin
By STAFF - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
EAGLE --
Old World Wisconsin, the outdoor historical museum in Eagle opened its gates Monday to the Google Maps team so the group could collect street-view images for use in Google maps. The Internet search filmed the museum grounds at street level using a special tricycle with a camera mounted on top. When completed, images of the museum’s road and farmstead will allow Google Maps users to take a virtual walk through the museum’s grounds.
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Rockford murder suspect caught in Memphis
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
MEMPHIS, TENN. --
Authorities in western Tennessee have chased a murder suspect from Illinois across parts of three counties before capturing him.
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East Troy parish works to keep 140-year-old church on solid ground
By MARGARET PLEVAK - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
Long before they reach East Troy, drivers heading into the village from the south on Wisconsin Highway 120, or from the east on Wisconsin Highway 20, can spot St. Peter the Apostle’s steeple, topped by a metal cross that glints in the sun. The stone church on Beulah Avenue has been a presence here since it was built in 1872.
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Adrift on the Middle East
By MICHAEL GERSON - Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
WASHINGTON --
After pumping up foreign affairs expectations to the size of a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon, the deflation has not been dignified.
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