News Archive for December 17, 2012
Bacon, meet doomsday
By ESTHER J. CEPEDA - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
CHICAGO --
Though every credible news agency has emphasized that there’s really no merit to the belief that the world will end on 12/21/12, it’s pretty much irresistible to not wonder what the end of the world would really be like—in the pettiest possible terms.
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Consensus builds progress on sidewalk plan
By CAROL TIDWELL - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
All members came to Janesville's sidewalk committee with very different opinions about how or even if to require these “in-fill” sidewalks. And yet all members were respectful of each other and worked very hard to be reasonable and fair.
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On traffic patrol, not all goes as planned
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Three Beloiters in a Chevrolet Cavalier had their Friday evening interrupted by a Janesville police officer who pulled up next to them on Milton Avenue.
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Area doctors say flu season has started early
By GINA DUWE - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
JANESVILLE --
The flu—and other viruses people think are the flu—have arrived early.
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Janesville schools to discuss shooting, security Monday
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Janesville public school principals will hold short meetings with staff members this morning to discuss Friday's school shooting in Connecticut.
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Anytime Fitness changing locations
By JIM LEUTE - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
Anytime Fitness, one of the world's largest 24-hour gym and co-ed fitness center chains, is changing locations on Janesville's west side.
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Public record for Dec. 17, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
Family carries on Swedish tradition of St. Lucia Day
By GINA DUWE - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
EVANSVILLE --
Grandma Grace Murray hurried down the hall after her granddaughter with a plate of Santa Lucia buns. "OK, time to put the crown on," she said to Kymberlee Rethlefsen, 9, as they prepared to celebrate the Swedish holiday tradition of St. Lucia Day.
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Newtown holds the first funerals for the victims
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
NEWTOWN, CONN. --
A grief-stricken Newtown on Monday began burying the littlest victims of the school massacre, starting with two 6-year-old boys — one of them a big football fan, the other a mischievous, whip-smart youngster whose twin sister survived the rampage.
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New Badger football coach could be named this week
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
MADISON --
Barry Alvarez’s birth certificate says he’s about to turn 66. The bounce in his step on Wisconsin’s practice field suggests differently.
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Death notices for Dec. 17, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
Newtown plans burials as school's future debated
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
NEWTOWN, CONN. --
A grieving Connecticut town braced itself Monday to bury the first two of the 20 small victims of an elementary school gunman and debated when classes could resume — and where, given the carnage in the building and the children’s associations with it.
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10 Things to Know for Today
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about today.
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Senate veteran Ellis wants to avoid ‘another war’
By STEVEN WALTERS - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
Will debate on a right-to-work bill—and a new round of massive protests in Madison that would trigger—occur in Wisconsin’s 2013-14 legislative session? no says Senate President Mike Ellis, a wily 42-year veteran of Wisconsin’s Capitol. It was a rare one-word answer.
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