News Archive for August 20, 2012
Get students vaccinated now, local health officials urge
By GINA DUWE, CATHERINE IDZERDA - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Pertussis, better known as whooping cough, has been catching on, and the Rock County Health Department wants to make sure all kids are vaccinated.
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Alcohol a factor in three fatalities near Janesville
By STAN MILAM - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Authorities say alcohol was a factor in two separate crashes that killed three people in the town of Janesville late Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
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Agrace HospiceCare names Myers CEO
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
FITCHBURG --
Experience in local health care and a history with Agrace HospiceCare impressed leaders of this nonprofit community-based hospice enough to hire her as its new president and chief executive officer.
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River Bandits hold off Snappers
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
DAVENPORT, IA --
Kennys Vargas belted a two-run homer in the ninth inning, but it wasn't enough as the visiting Beloit Snappers lost, 5-3, Sunday to the Quad Cities River Bandits in Midwest League baseball.
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Raptors suspended by rain
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
BROWNSVILLE --
The Milton Junction Pub Raptors' second-round Rock River League tournament baseball game against Brownsville was suspended in the top of ninth inning Sunday due to rain.
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New state law creates higher level of vigilance on concussions
By GINA DUWE - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
JANESVILLE --
As the fall sports season begins, student athletes, coaches and parents face an increased awareness of the dangers of concussions after a new state law went into effect in April.
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Public record for Aug. 20, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
The Romney gaffe that wasn’t
By ESTHER J. CEPEDA - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
CHICAGO --
A word on Mitt Romney's fruit preferences: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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Wisconsin center of Republican wave
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
MADISON --
Wisconsin Republicans seem to have it all.
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Area legislators recognized by American Conservative Union
By STAFF - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
MADISON --
State Reps. Tyler August (R-Lake Geneva), Amy Loudenbeck (R-Clinton) and Evan Wynn (R-Whitewater) were named “Defenders of Liberty” by the American Conservative Union (ACU).
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Romney/Ryan staffers set stops in Racine, Janesville
By STAFF - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
RACINE --
The Romney/Ryan Mobile HQ will stop in Racine and Janesville today to energize volunteers and give supporters the opportunity to contrast the policies of President Barack Obama with the ideas presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan are offering.
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Area Sentry Foods store owner hopeful of brand in tough market
By STAFF - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
WALWORTH COUNTY --
At its peak, when it was owned by Fleming Cos, Sentry Foods had 70 stores in Wisconsin, but now that number has dropped to 22, and area store owners are watching how Sentry’s current supplier and franchiser responds, according to a story in The Business Journal.
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Salmonella cases in Wisconsin linked to cantaloupe
By WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, TRADE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
MADISON --
Illnesses in at least two people in Wisconsin are part of an ongoing multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections associated with cantaloupe likely from southwestern Indiana, according to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP).
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Ryan: Wisconsin roots, Washington clout
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Since his youth, Paul Ryan has shown a knack for eliciting mixed feelings.
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Packers' Jennings back at practice
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
GREEN BAY --
By Greg Jennings' math, he has only had two concussions in his life. By the Green Bay Packers' medical staff's, he has had three.
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Biffle triumphs at Michigan when Johnson's engine falters late
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
BROOKLYN, MICH. --
Jimmie Johnson looked as if he had already finished the hardest work. After starting at the back of the pack, he had moved up quickly, and when he passed Brad Keselowski for the lead on lap 191 of 200, his No. 48 Chevrolet seemed to be the superior car.
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Hawkeyes shake things up
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
IOWA CITY, IA. --
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz doesn't mind if people think the Hawkeyes are boring. He is not willing to accept the perception that Iowa has become an average team.
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For Ryan, fitness is a lifelong endeavor
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Paul Ryan's dogged commitment to fitness and healthy living can be traced to 1986 when, at age 16, he found his father dead of a heart attack in the family's Janesville home.
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Town of Geneva supervisor posts bond for boater
By STAFF - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
GENEVA TOWNSHIP --
Court records show a town of Geneva board member has posted bond for an Illinois boater accused of running over a 10-year-old boy, according to a story in the Lake County News Sun.
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Northern Calif. fire forces thousands to evacuate
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO, CA. --
Thousands of people were told to leave their homes Sunday as a growing wildfire burning out of control in thick forest threatened rural communities in far Northern California.
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Death notices for Aug. 20, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
State property values drop again
By STAFF - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
MADISON --
A new report says property values in Wisconsin have dropped for the fourth straight year.
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Sales taxes and those on income, cigarettes, beer now pay for roads
By STEVEN WALTERS - Monday, Aug. 20, 2012
Two provisions of the current state budget not only stopped raids on the Transportation Fund, they reversed them by diverting $160.1 million in general-fund taxes to the Transportation Fund.
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