News Archive for January 31, 2013
Evansville students turn to web to promote benefits of hometown
By GINA DUWE - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
EVANSVILLE --
It can be tough for 12- and 13-year-old students to understand the meaning of culture, but a workshop last summer at the Smithsonian Museum in New York City sparked an idea for Evansville social studies teacher Beth Oswald.
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Con: Benghazi tragedy won’t leave lasting scars on Clinton in 2016
By JIM COTTRILL - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. --
If Secretary Clinton’s approval numbers are this high during a month in which she endured a hostile congressional grilling over Benghazi, there is no reason to expect that the incident is going to plague her in any meaningful way.
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‘What difference … does it make’ quip may thwart Clinton's political ambitions
By JAMES JAY CARAFANO - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
WASHINGTON --
Last year, on 9/11, Secretary Clinton finally got that “3 a.m. phone call.” Her failure to answer leaves a permanent black mark on her record.
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Open enrollment period begins Monday in state
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
Parents who want to send their children to a different school district for the 2013-14 school year can start signing them up Monday.
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Officials rescue three from lake
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
MILTON TOWNSHIP --
Three men attempting to remove an ice shanty from Lake Koshkonong were stranded Tuesday in an eight-wheel drive amphibious vehicle between ice and open water and had to be rescued by local emergency crews.
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Warhawks sweep
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
The free-throw line was kind to UW-Whitewater's men's basketball team Wednesday night.
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Historical society seeks help for Tallman renovation
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
JANESVILLE --
When renovation of the Charles Tallman House is complete, storage space for collections and research will double for the Rock County Genealogical Society and Rock County Historical Society archives.
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Janesville's Casey earns spot among elite gamers in Vegas
By TOM MILLER - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
JANESVILLE --
With a trip to championships in Las Vegas on the line, Mason Crosby lined up for a 55-yard field goal attempt. There was never a doubt.
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Public record for Jan. 31, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
Blowers, mowers welcome precipitation
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
JANESVILLE --
It might not look like it today, but snow has been rare in southern Wisconsin this winter. Another rare commodity in the past year: grass.
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Wisconsin couple can't collect in birth control mix-up
By TODD RICHMOND, ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
MADISON --
A clinic that mistakenly gave vitamins instead of birth-control pills to a Wisconsin woman doesn't have to pay to raise the child she conceived but can be sued for other financial damages, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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Civil rights movement rode assembly, petition to greater freedom
By GENE POLICINSKI - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
During Black History Month, the quiet kids on the corner of the constitutional block—the rights to assemble and petition—deserve at least as much attention as their better-known brethren.
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Firefighter captures amazing photos from high above Burlington blaze
By STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
BURLINGTON -- Kevin Garrett, a firefighter with hose company No. 1 of the Burlington Fire Department has posted a series of amazing, up-close photographs from Echo Lake Foods fire in Burlington.
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Retired editor, publisher Behling dies at 84
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
Retired Beloit Daily News editor and publisher William D. Behling (BAY'-ling) has died after a brief illness. He was 84.
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Photo blog: As temperature dives, Winterfest sculptors get busy
By WALWORTH COUNTY TODAY - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
LAKE GENEVA -- As the fog lifted and temperatures headed south early Thursday, snow sculpting teams began work in earnest at the U.S. Nationals Snow Sculpting Competition, part of Lake Geneva's Winterfest celebration.
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From pets to 'recess': High school stress relief
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
MOUNT PROSPECT, ILL. --
The four-legged member of the counseling team at the high school in suburban Chicago waits patiently, as a crush of students fills the hallways. Her tail wags with the first pat on the head, then another and another.
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10 things to know for Thursday
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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Favre returns to Super Bowl for NFL Network
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
NEW ORLEANS --
Brett Favre is returning to the NFL — to work for the NFL Network.
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Robinson scores 24 to lead Bulls past Bucks
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
MILWAUKEE --
The Chicago Bulls weren't about to squander another second half lead against the Milwaukee Bucks.
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Death notices for Jan. 31, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
Records show mining company worked on bill
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
MADISON --
Drafting records show a company looking to open a huge iron mine in far northwestern Wisconsin made suggestions on language in a Republican bill that would streamline Wisconsin's mining regulations.
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Aurora Lakeland volunteer group offering health care scholarships
By STAFF - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
WALWORTH COUNTY --
Aurora Lakeland Medical Center Associates, the volunteer organization at Aurora Lakeland Medical Center, is offering scholarships to students who are residents of Walworth County and are pursuing a career in health care.
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Farm foreclosures once triggered fights in Walworth County
By STAFF - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
In a rural county like Walworth, farms are often family possessions, worth fighting for.
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Legislature oversteps with new rules
By BILL LUEDERS - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
New rules recently passed by the state Assembly and state Senate go beyond preserving decorum and ensuring order. They impede the ability of citizens to participate in their democracy and offer fresh proof, if any were needed, that the Legislature feels no need to follow the rules it has put in place for others.
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How answers define us
By ESTHER J. CEPEDA - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
CHICAGO --
Whether it’s a reaction to a statement or question from a teacher, an administrator, a prospective employer, a college admissions officer—or a law enforcement one, for that matter—the ability to speak with clarity and courtesy is a skill that every child should have drilled into him or her.
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