News Archive for September 28, 2012
Vote could kill highway extension
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Barring miraculous intervention, a proposed extension between County G and Interstate 90/39 is dead.
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Warhawks face Pioneers
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
Platteville's spread offense has produced an average of 52 points a game in three victories this season. Whitewater's defense has allowed just 14 points in three games.
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Shelter preparing for more men
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Organizers of the GIFTS shelter expect to house more homeless men this winter than last year.
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Red Hawks tennis turns back Cougars
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
MILTON --
Milton and Janesville Craig concluded their girls tennis regular seasons Thursday as the Red Hawks defeated the visiting Cougars. 5-2, in a nonconference match.
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Alliance offers new voice to statewide businesses
By JIM LEUTE - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
JANESVILLE --
On the campaign trail earlier this year, Lori Compas heard repeatedly from business owners frustrated by boarded up shops, a lack of affordable health care and cuts to education and libraries that make up the backbone of a community.
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Milton soccer earns victory over Craig
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
Milton High School's boys soccer team held on for a 2-1 victory over visiting Janesville Craig Thursday in nonconference action.
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Former Freedom Rider recalls civil rights movement at UW-W
By STAN MILAM - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
WHITEWATER --
If you were walking Thursday afternoon past the UW-Whitewater Old Main Ballroom, you could hear voices from the 1964 Freedom Summer.
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UW-Rock loses conference match in the sun
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
JANESVILLE --
A sun-aided free kick found the goal, and UW-Waukesha defeated UW-Rock County, 1-0, in a Wisconsin Collegiate Conference soccer match here Friday.
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Police: Woman left overdosing man in Janesville park
By ANN MARIE AMES - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
JANESVILLE --
A town of Fulton woman faces a charge of second-degree recklessly endangering safety after she and her boyfriend left a man who was overdosing on heroin on the ground in Janesville's Lustig Park.
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Muddy obstacle races such as Gladiator Assault Challenge proving popular
By GINA DUWE - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
LAKE GENEVA --
Forget the standard 5k or half marathon on a flat, paved surface. Try running through flames 4 feet high, crawling on your hands and knees under barbed and electricified wire, scaling a few 12-foot walls, and then jumping from a 12-foot platform into a pond.
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Public record for Sept. 28, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
Gym jamming for fitness
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
DELAVAN --
At 10 a.m. Thursday, 1.29 million children across the country attempted to set a world record for group exercise.
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Strong start sends Craig volleyball past Parker
By JOHN BARRY - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Ashley Hartwig was the best player on the court in Thursday night's Janesville Parker vs. Janesville Craig girls volleyball match. Unfortunately for Hartwig and the Vikings, the Cougars were the best team.
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In the digital age, a rare fight for print readers
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
NEW ORLEANS --
When The Times-Picayune decided to print three days a week, a nearby publication saw a chance to expand in the newspaper’s backyard and fill a void.
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Huskers, Badgers bracing for emotional B10 opener
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
LINCOLN, NEB. --
t’s not as if Saturday night’s Wisconsin-Nebraska game needs more buildup.
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Cheers as NFL refs return: 'It's good to be back'
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
BALTIMORE --
The final pass of the game sailed out of the end zone, saving the regular refs from the same type of call that brought the replacements to the height of unpopularity just three days earlier.
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Ravens beat Browns 23-16, but refs steal the show
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
BALTIMORE --
A game that featured nearly 800 yards in offense, an interception return for a touchdown, helmet-loosening hits and a thrilling finish may best be remembered for what it didn’t have: Controversy over the officiating.
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Europe looks to start fast, quiet Ryder Cup crowd
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
MEDINAH, ILL. --
Any notion the Ryder Cup is some friendly contest, a better version of a country club scramble, ended when Jose Maria Olazabal announced his first two pairings.
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Death notices for Sept. 28, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
To overcome Obama’s lead, Mitt must go large
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Mitt Romney needs to make the case. Go large. About a foreign policy in ruins. About an archaic, 20th-century welfare state model that guarantees 21st-century insolvency. And about an alternate vision of an unapologetically assertive America abroad unafraid of fundamental structural change at home.
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Still leaving our kids behind
By MICHAEL GERSON - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
WASHINGTON --
After getting “flexibility” in No Child Left Behind waivers, which now cover most of the country, most states have adopted new education expectations that are lower, sketchier, less binding and less connected to real accountability.
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