News Archive for November 20, 2009
WIAA football playoffs
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
Complete state final results
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Influential Janesville teacher dies unexpectedly
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
JANESVILLE --
Thousands of Janesville students will remember Larry Cain as their gym teacher at Van Buren School.
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Kids at least 10 years old can hunt under new law
By TED SULLIVAN - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
Nine-day gun season opens Saturday
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Vote could resurrect workers union at Woodman’s
By JIM LEUTE - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
JANESVILLE --
Workers at Woodman’s Food Market in Janesville will vote in December whether to recover union representation they lost earlier this year.
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Sneakers returns to Janesville City Council
By MARCIA NELESEN - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
JANESVILLE --
Sneakers Bar & Grill will be back for a second volley before the Janesville City Council on Monday.
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Warhawks to begin another playoff trip
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
WHITEWATER --
The road to Salem, Va., begins Saturday for UW-Whitewater’s football team.
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Lake Geneva appointee planning to seek seat in recall
By KAYLA BUNGE - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
LAKE GENEVA --
Despite a previous promise not to seek the office, a man appointed to the city council to fill in for a member who remains suspended plans to run for the his seat in a recall election next month.
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Holiday walk features Elkhorn homes
By PEDRO OLIVEIRA JR. - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
ELKHORN --
The Wediges and four other Elkhorn homeowners will open their doors Saturday to host the seventh annual Homes for the Holidays Walk, hosted by the Elkhorn Area Women’s Club.
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Fight could cost Elkhorn felon 10 more years in prison
By PEDRO OLIVEIRA JR. - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
SHEBOYGAN --
Man didn’t like racial slurs prisoner was allegedly using
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Police commission demotes sergeant
By KAYLA BUNGE - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
GENEVA TOWNSHIP --
A town police sergeant was demoted for engaging in conduct unbecoming an officer and mishandling evidence, the town police commission ruled late Thursday night.
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Big Foot wins Division 4 state title by 29 points
By TIM WESTER - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
MADISON --
The unbeaten Chiefs were simply awesome and certainly as impressive as the 42-13 score in their decisive victory over Kewaunee (13-1) for the Division 4 title.
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Public record for Nov. 20, 2009
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
Chiefs come close to a perfect game
By JOHN BARRY - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
MADISON --
Bowling and baseball are the only two sports where a perfect game is possible. But Walworth Big Foot’s football team came awfully close.
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Big Foot fans get fired up about title
By ANN MARIE AMES - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
MADISON --
Even though the red-clad Big Foot fans took up less than a tenth of the bleachers at UW-Madison’s Camp Randall Stadium, they raised goose bumps as they cheered the team onto the field.
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New Visit Beloit director chosen
By STEVE BENTON - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
BELOIT --
Debra Frederiksen of Naperville, Illinois will take over for retiring Visit Beloit director, Martha Mitchell
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Death notices for Nov. 20, 2009
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
Obama faces showdowns on health, Afghanistan, jobs
By CHARLES BABINGTON - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Two days after his return to Washington, the Senate plans a make-or-break vote on his hard-fought plan to overhaul the nation's health care system. Obama also confronts a difficult choice on strategy and troop levels in Afghanistan, which will be criticized no matter what he decides.
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Badgers hope to keep up defensive pressure
By BENJAMIN WORGULL - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
MADISON --
Should the 17th-ranked Badgers (8-2, 5-2) hold Northwestern (7-4, 4-3), their final Big Ten opponent, under 100 yards rushing, Wisconsin will have gone the entire conference season not allowing a team to break the 100-yard mark on the ground.
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Kampman knows his limits
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
GREEN BAY --
Aaron Kampman says the Green Bay training staff won’t need to keep a sharp eye on him when he returns to the field for Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers.
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Edgar dominates to end
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
MADISON --
It didn’t take very long to see it was going to be Edgar High School’s day—again.
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Late run lifts Badgers past Panthers
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
MILWAUKEE --
Wisconsin used an 8-0 scoring run late in the game to put away host UW-Milwaukee, 64-55, in a nonconference women’s college basketball game Thursday night.
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Travesty in New York
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
WASHINGTON --
The self-proclaimed architect of 9/11, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. Just as the memory fades, 9/11 has been granted a second life—and KSM, a second act: “9/11, The Director’s Cut,” narration by KSM.
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Picking a fight is GOP tradition
By DAVID BRODER - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Many Republicans worry that the populist anti-establishment “rogues” such as Sarah Palin will kill GOP prospects for a comeback in 2010 by backing ideologues in many other primaries and scaring off independents and moderate Republicans.
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