News Archive for December 21, 2012
Parents hesitant about NRA armed schools proposal
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
MIAMI --
The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for the placement of an armed police officer in every school, but parents and educators questioned how safe such a move would keep kids, whether it would be economically feasible and how it would alter student life.
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'Every second counts': Stores mark 3rd save with AEDs
By GINA DUWE - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
JANESVILLE --
In the last six months automated external defibrillator machines have helped save three lives, including a woman last month at Blain's Farm & Fleet in Janesville.
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Red kettle campaign on track to meet goal
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Christmas came a little early at the Salvation Army on Tuesday when four gold rings and two sets of gold stud earrings with gemstones were found in a plastic bag during the red kettle count.
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Town of Delavan officer terminated after hearing
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
TOWN OF DELAVAN --
A town of Delavan police officer who admitted causing a scene at a Walworth County strip Club has lost his job.
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Newcomers might challenge school board incumbents
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Four newcomers have taken out papers to challenge the three incumbents in April's elections for Janesville School Board.
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Man charged after leaving overdosing friend in park
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
JANESVILLE --
A Janesville man faces felony charges and is accused of leaving a man overdosing on heroin on the ground in a Janesville park in September.
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MSOE fends off Beloit
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
Austin Stueck and Victor Bande combined for 32 points to lead the Milwaukee School of Engineering men's basketball team to a 56-52 win over Beloit College on Thursday night.
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Public record for Dec. 21, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
Winds take storm from bad to 'ugly'
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
An overnight slushfest Thursday turned to fluffy, blowing and sometimes blinding snow as the first winter storm of the season hit the area.
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Elkhorn man lights up the season—and the countryside
By STAN MILAM - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
ELKHORN --
At his farm on the County ES shortcut from County A to Highway 12 north of Elkhorn, Kevin Strickhouser gives new meaning to outdoor Christmas decorations.
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We’ll call it square: Packers will be pulling for Seattle
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
GREEN BAY --
The Green Bay Packers have put the Inaccurate Reception behind them, and they’ve done their best not to begrudge Seattle the win that really wasn’t. But karma has a way of coming back around, and the Seahawks have a chance to put things right this weekend.
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Packers-Titans family affair for Matthews' brood
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
NASHVILLE, TENN. --
Bruce Matthews watches Green Bay film first as an uncle. Then he hits replay and studies the defense in his role as Tennessee's offensive line coach. Each time, he's watching the same Packers linebacker.
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Travelers hope to be on their way after snowstorm
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
CHICAGO --
Travelers facing canceled flights and closed roads were hoping to finally head to their holiday destinations Friday as a widespread snowstorm that dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Midwest moved across the Great Lakes toward Canada.
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10 Things to Know for Friday
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about Friday.
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Death notices for Dec. 21, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
Probing roots of mass murder
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
WASHINGTON --
There's no free lunch. Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties. You learn this every time the TSA invades your body at an airport.
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When healers are the targets
By MICHAEL GERSON - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Shutting down an anti-polio campaign in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi and other areas after workers administering the program were murdered could hardly come at a worse time in the global effort against the disease.
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