News Archive for October 16, 2012
The cost of falls keeps adding up for seniors
By GINA DUWE - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Older people are especially susceptible to injury from falls. Statewide data indicate seven in 10 people hospitalized in Wisconsin in 2008 because of falls were 65 and older.
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Darien police chief returns from leave
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
DARIEN --
Darien Police Chief Hunter Gilmore returned Monday from a week of paid leave he took so the village board could clarify the "lines of authority" between the chief and village administration.
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Sheriff's office using Nixle to communicate
By ANN MARIE AMES - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Get ready for around-the-clock information from the Rock County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office has started using the website Nixle.com to distribute news releases and other information to the public.
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Balloon skydiver delays softball game
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Middle school softball season was wrapping up Monday night at Marshall Middle School when a man dropped out of the sky.
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Woman accused of theft from school, club
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
BELOIT --
Police arrested a Beloit woman on charges she stole from an elementary school parent-teacher organization and fraudulently used a credit card as an employee of the Beloit Boys & Girls Club.
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Craig boys third in Big Eight cross country meet
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
MADISON --
Craig High's boys cross country team headed into the Big Eight Conference cross country meet believing it could successfully defend its league title Monday at the Yahara cross country course.
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Public record for Oct. 16, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
Major league fan hits all the parks
By KEN VELOSKEY - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
Laurel Fant's tour of all 32 Major League Baseball stadiums began with a bus trip to Chicago's Wrigley Field in 1971 and ended at Baltimore's Camden Yards last Sept. 8.
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Knilans, Kolste disagree on most issues at forum
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
JANESVILLE --
The two candidates for the 44th Assembly District agreed on very little Monday, and it was that vast disagreement that provided the one thing they both agreed upon.
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Chestnut House students learn about life, living by running sweet business
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
JANESVILLE --
You probably don't know this muffin man. And you've likely never heard of these muffin women.
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Manning leads Broncos’ comeback over Chargers
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
SAN DIEGO --
It took a quarterback the caliber of Peyton Manning to pull off this kind of comeback.
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Ravens’ Lewis, Webb lost for season
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis will miss the remainder of the season with an arm injury, an enormous blow to an already depleted defense that has uncharacteristically struggled this year.
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9/11 responder viewing hearing: 'We want justice'
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
NEW YORK --
There are times when Ken Fairben, still mourning the loss of his paramedic son on 9/11, thinks he will never see the end of the complex, drawn-out legal case for the men accused in his death.
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Giants, Cards back to even
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO, CA. --
Marco Scutaro hit a two-run single in the fourth inning and the San Francisco Giants got their first home win this postseason, 7-1 over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night.
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Death notices for Oct. 16, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
Biden’s toxic victory
By MICHAEL GERSON - Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Vice President Biden’s debate performance will be forever remembered not for its content but for its tone. His presentation in Kentucky was a collection of disturbing, disorderly appetites. He alternated between scene-chewing antics and preening exhibitionism and smirking rudeness and egotistical exuberance and bullying condescension. It was the attack of the feral ham actor. It would have been embarrassing if done in front of a mirror, much less on a debate stage.
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