News Archive for January 25, 2013
Update: Two teens suspected of sexual assault in Lake Geneva
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
LAKE GENEVA --
Two Milwaukee teens are accused of sexually assaulting two 13-year-old Lake Geneva girls in a vacant home, according to Lake Geneva police.
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Votes upcoming on Brodhead fire district
By GINA DUWE - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
BRODHEAD --
After a year of negotiation, elected officials will vote in the coming weeks on a proposal to merge the Brodhead Fire Department and the Brodhead Rural Fire Association into a fire district.
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Washington Seminar growing, reaching out
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
JANESVILLE --
A longstanding program that demands college-like work from high school students is booming after its expansion last year.
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Class offers tips on nutrition when cooking small meals
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
JANESVILLE --
If you have an elderly parent or grandparent who lives alone, you know they don’t tend to eat healthy meals.
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Janesville City Council to consider permits for alcohol in parks
By MARCIA NELESEN - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
JANESVILLE --
Janesville City Council members Monday will decide whether to allow drinking in designated city parks and how much to charge residents to do so.
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Students recall H. Russell ‘Coach’ Carter, beloved Janesville teacher
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
JANESVILLE --
H. Russell Carter was 79 when he died Jan. 19 in St. Louis, the city of his birth. A memorial service is planned in Janesville on Feb. 17. It will ring with songs from the musical theater.
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Public record for Jan. 25, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
Whitewater Police seeking funding for K-9 unit
By STAFF - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
WHITEWATER --
The City of Whitewater Police Department is seeking donations for its first ever K-9 unit.
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Court: Obama appointments are unconstitutional
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
WASHINGTON --
In an embarrassing setback for President Barack Obama, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday that he violated the Constitution in making certain recess appointments and moved to curtail a chief executive's ability in the future to circumvent the Senate in such scenarios.
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Deadline approaching for Dairy Farmer scholarship
By STAFF - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
WALWORTH COUNTY --
The Dairy Farmers of Walworth County will award a $500 scholarship to a third- or fourth-year college student from Walworth County pursuing a dairy-related degree. Those who plan to enroll as a second-year student in a two-year program are also eligible to apply. The scholarship will be available for use during the 2013-14 school year.
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Grant County Sheriff's Department to give gun safety kits
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
The Grant County Sheriff's Department is giving out 500 free firearm safety kits.
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Man arrested in Beloit cemetery thefts
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
BELOIT --
Beloit police say an Illinois man has been arrested in the theft of grave vases and military markers stolen from a Wisconsin graveyard.
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UW-Madison seeks war veterans for PTSD research
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
MADISON --
Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are being invited to participate in a Wisconsin study designed to help soldiers adjust to life after combat.
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How states fared on unemployment benefit claims
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in five years, a positive sign that layoffs have fallen and hiring may pick up.
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Take a hike
By RUSS HELWIG - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
WALWORTH COUNTY --
Editor's note: Winter doesn't stop a weekly groups of hikers along the Ice Age Trail in portions of Walworth County. As the weather changes, so do the sights.
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Second inauguration shows Obama unbound
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
WASHINGTON --
Barack Obama’s inaugural address served to disabuse the fantasists of any interest by the president in fiscal reform or debt reduction. This speech was spectacularly devoid of any acknowledgment of the central threat to the post-industrial democracies -- the crisis of an increasingly insolvent entitlement state.
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