News Archive for July 30, 2011
Brewers win 5th straight
By COLIN FLY, - Saturday, July 30, 2011
MILWAUKEE --
Corey Hart hit a leadoff homer in the first for NL Central-leading Milwaukee, which earned its fifth consecutive win and stayed 1 1-2 games ahead of St. Louis.
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Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, July 30, 2011
NEW YORK --
Besides ending nearly 3,000 lives, destroying planes and reducing buildings to tons of rubble and ash, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed tens of thousands of records, irreplaceable historical documents and art.
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Whitewater considering plan to maintain effigy mounds
By KEVIN HOFFMAN - Saturday, July 30, 2011
WHITEWATER --
Supporters of Whitewater’s effigy mounds have a $130,000 plan for preserving and maintaining some of the city’s oldest archeological features at Indian Mounds Park.
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Public record for July 30, 2011
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, July 30, 2011
Meat animal sale breaks record
By ANN MARIE AMES - Saturday, July 30, 2011
JANESVILLE --
Event $55,000 higher than previous mark
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Changes to state law put schools in vexing tax situation
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Saturday, July 30, 2011
JANESVILLE --
After touting their plans to hold the line on taxes, Republicans say they can’t help Janesville taxpayers facing a school-tax increase as high as 7.6 percent.
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Attorney appointed in Janesville child porn case
By DAVID BRAZY - Saturday, July 30, 2011
JANESVILLE --
A Rock County judge appointed an attorney Friday for a Janesville man accused of possessing child pornography.
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Woman shares details of what makes a quality carcass
By ANN MARIE AMES - Saturday, July 30, 2011
DARIEN TOWNSHIP --
About 40 people Thursday night crowded into a back room at Sorg’s Quality Meats & Sausage on Highway 14 near Darien for the results of the Rock County 4-H Fair swine and beef carcass contests.
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Area National Night Out events scheduled for Tuesday
By DAVID BRAZY - Saturday, July 30, 2011
JANESVILLE --
The Rock County Sheriff’s Office will host a National Night Out event from 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, at Purdy Park, 100 W. Church St.
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Group tests Janesville retailers for illegal tobacco sales
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, July 30, 2011
JANESVILLE --
The WI Wins program and Youth2Youth group recently completed another survey as part of the tobacco industry access to youth project.
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Walworth County judges to rotate judicial assignments
By DARRYL ENRIQUEZ - Saturday, July 30, 2011
ELKHORN --
The four Walworth County judges will rotate their judicial assignments beginning Monday.
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Janesville 13s get clobbered in first inning
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, July 30, 2011
"We had a bad inning and we paid for it,” coach Tom Davey said.
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Favorites play their roles
By JOHN BARRY - Saturday, July 30, 2011
JANESVILLE --
Matt Behm and Sam Van Galder were the clear-cut favorites in this year’s Janesville Men’s City Golf Tournament.
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Behm is first-round leader
By JOHN BARRY - Saturday, July 30, 2011
JANESVILLE --
Former city champion leads Michael Ollerich by two strokes going into today's round at Riverside
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Janesville 14s win Babe Ruth Ohio Valley Regional opener
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, July 30, 2011
Nick Blomgren laced a two-run homer in the first inning.
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Janesville Legion ousted from state tournament
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, July 30, 2011
BELOIT --
"We just ran into a team that was better than us,” said Janesville coach Bob Schenck.
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Recession risks up amid slow growth, debt standoff
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, July 30, 2011
WASHINGTON --
The economy is at risk of slipping into another recession.
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Brewers blank Astros
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, July 30, 2011
MILWAUKEE --
Hunter Pence was traded midway through the game, and Randy Wolf and two relievers took advantage of Houston's punchless lineup.
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Death notices for July 30, 2011
By GAZETTE STAFF - Saturday, July 30, 2011
Con: Cries of voter fraud are being used to suppress democracy
By RICHARD MEANS - Saturday, July 30, 2011
OAK PARK, ILL. --
At this critical time in our nation’s history, when wider participation by the American people in their own democracy should be encouraged, Republican politicians are instead suppressing that participation by limiting access to the voting booth.
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Pro: Voter ID is a sensible precaution
By HANS VON SPAKOVSKY - Saturday, July 30, 2011
WASHINGTON --
Polling shows that a substantial majority of Americans from all racial and ethnic backgrounds agree requiring voters to show identification is the right thing to do.
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Norway’s "crusader for Christendom" is no Christian
By CHARLES C. HAYNES - Saturday, July 30, 2011
Within hours of last week’s mass murder in Norway, headlines around the world proclaimed the accused killer, Anders Behring Breivik, a “Christian terrorist.”
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