News Archive for November 15, 2012
Fake reporter calling female prep athletes
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
MILWAUKEE --
Police say a man posing as a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter and photographer has been calling high school female athletes at home and asking to take their pictures and interview them.
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Darien police chief, village OK separation agreement
By STAN MILAM - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
DARIEN --
For reasons that remain unclear, Hunter Gilmore, on paid administrative leave, has signed a separation agreement removing him as Darien police chief.
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Janesville Comfort Shoppe not going out of business
By JIM LEUTE - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
JANESVILLE --
A Janesville furniture store is once again dealing with confusion over similarities between its name and the name of a store in Madison.
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Rock County officials say emergency radio communications improving
By ANN MARIE AMES - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Radio communications for Rock County law enforcement and firefighters are not quite as good as they were in June, but they are better than in September and ready to meet federal mandates, Rock County Interim Communications Director Kathy Sukus says.
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Holiday food drive effort more than $30,000 behind
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
JANESVILLE --
More than $30,000 is still needed for the annual Bags of Hope holiday food distribution.
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Parker basketball develops replacements
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Parker High begins the 2012-13 boys basketball season with fresh faces.
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Isotope manufacturer talks safety
By JIM LEUTE - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Representatives of a medical isotope manufacturer that plans to build a plant in Janesville left town encouraged by a growing interest in their project.
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Craig basketball adds muscle to lineup
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Craig High begins the 2012-13 boys basketball season stronger and leaner.
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Brodhead schools superintendent announces retirement
By GINA DUWE - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
BRODHEAD --
Brodhead schools Superintendent Chuck Deery has announced plans to retire at the end of the school year.
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Kindler repeats as first-teamer
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
WHITEWATER --
Eric Kindler got is foot into another All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference first-team selection.
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Former coach faces 21 more charges
By MARGARET PLEVAK - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
A former Williams Bay High School girls junior varsity basketball coach could be facing three more child sexual assault charges and 18 more counts of possession of child pornography based on evidence found on his computer, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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UW-Rock County has split results
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
JANESVILLE --
The UW-Rock women's and men's basketball teams had totally opposite games Wednesday night, which only turned out well for the women.
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Public record for Nov. 15, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
USDA expects 17% corn drop
By GAZETTE STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
JANESVILLE --
In Wisconsin, corn production is expected to be down 17 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In Rock County, production will be "variable," UW-Extension Agent Jim Stute said.
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Inland to honor Bliss with Casey Award
By STAFF - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Sidney "Skip" Bliss, chairman, CEO and president of Bliss Communications, will receive the Ralph D. Casey Award from the Inland Press Association.
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Drought, heat took toll on state's corn, soybeans
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
MILWAUKEE --
The prolonged heat wave and summer drought took a toll on Wisconsin's corn and soybean crops, as harvests this year are on pace to be at least 11 percent lower than last year's, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Mitt, Mormons, and the religious test that wasn’t
By CHARLES C. HAYNES - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
WASHINGTON --
After a bitter Republican primary season during which many evangelical leaders supported the “anybody but Romney” effort, prominent conservative Christian ministers lined up behind Mitt Romney for the general election.
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Wisconsin gun deer hunting season starts Saturday
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
MILWAUKEE --
Gun license sales are down and archery licenses are up ahead of this weekend's start of Wisconsin's gun deer-hunting season, a Department of Resources spokesman said Wednesday.
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Packers' Dietrich-Smith gets his shot to play
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
GREEN BAY --
Evan Dietrich-Smith hears all the nice things Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy are saying about him and does what he always does. He gets back to work.
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Jennings, Ellis lead Bucks past Pacers, 99-85
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
MILWAUKEE --
Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis scored 16 points each to help the Milwaukee Bucks cruise to a 99-85 victory over the struggling Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night.
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No. 22 Wisconsin falls behind, loses at Florida
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
GAINESVILLE, FLA. --
No. 22 Wisconsin isn’t built to overcome big deficits. So when the Badgers fell behind by 19 points early in the second half at No. 10 Florida on Wednesday night, the game was essentially over.
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Aurora Lakeland Medical Center to host 26th annual Love Lite ceremony
By STAFF - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
ELKHORN --
The Aurora Lakeland Medical Center Volunteers are inviting local families to the Love Lite ceremony at 4 p.m. Thursday, December 6 in the main entrance lobby. We will celebrate with music provided by a string choir from Delavan-Darien High School. After the lighting, refreshments will be served.
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BP gets record fine in Gulf oil spill
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
NEW ORLEANS --
Oil giant BP has agreed to pay the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history, totaling billions of dollars, for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a person familiar with the deal said Thursday.
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Death notices for Nov. 15, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
Horse breeder, ex-comptroller pleads guilty to stealing millions of dollars in public funds
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
CHICAGO --
Rita Crundwell, once the trusted comptroller of Dixon, Ill., entered her name into the record book of Illinois embezzlers Wednesday when she pleaded guilty to stealing tens of millions of dollars in public funds--a plea she made, her lawyer said, because she wanted to spare taxpayers the expense of a trial.
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DNR's call center handles questions from hunters
By WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
MADISON --
Last minute questions from hunters at deer camp and from deer stands day or night is routine. It’s all in a day’s work for the Department of Natural Resources Call Center. The expanded hours call center – unique among state natural resources agencies – has handled more than 370,000 customer contacts in the last year, one quarter of them at night and on weekends. More than 21,000 customers have also taken advantage of their on-line chat feature so far this year.
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State says most major road projects done for year
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
MADISON --
The state Department of Transportation says most major road construction projects have completed for the year and won't be a problem for Thanksgiving travelers.
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LCD buyers have until 12/6 to join settlement
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
MADISON --
The Wisconsin attorney general says those who bought a TV, monitor or laptop with an LCD flat screen have about three weeks left to claim part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit.
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Former Badger HS duo now play on Beloit College's court
By RICK WEST - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
BELOIT --
This year, the 6-foot Lana will be playing in a number of back-to-back games on the same court as her brother as a first-year player for the Beloit College women’s team.
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Advocacy is no lesson plan
By ESTHER J. CEPEDA - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
CHICAGO --
We should be concerned when public school teachers seem to see their place in the classroom not primarily as advancing the understanding of math or science but to mold soldiers to march in the war for social justice.
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