News Archive for July 17, 2012
K-Rod earns save as Brewers beat Cardinals 3-2
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
MILWAUKEE --
Francisco Rodriguez picked up a save on his first night as Milwaukee's new closer, Rickie Weeks hit a mammoth home run and Randy Wolf won his first game since April 30 as the Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 on Tuesday.
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Edgerton Outreach gets funding boost
By NEIL JOHNSON - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
EDGERTON --
A $381,000 grant has pushed Edgerton Outreach "into the homeward stretch" in the group's plans to renovate its downtown Edgerton service facility, the executive director announced Monday.
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Brodhead man makes offer for Newark school
By GINA DUWE - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
ORFORDVILLE --
After unanimously approving a plan Monday to list Newark Elementary School for sale for $135,000, the Parkview School Board got an offer to buy the building during its regular meeting.
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Janesville 11s earn regional berth
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Janesville strung together three wins to earn the 11-year-old Cal Ripken state championship at the Janesville Youth Sports Complex.
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Janesville 14s fall to Eau Claire
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
EAU CLAIRE --
Janesville’s road to the 14-year-old Babe Ruth state championship turned rocky Monday after an 8-5 loss to host Eau Claire put it in a win or go home situation in the double-elimination tournament.
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Edgerton rekindles chicken discussion
By NEIL JOHNSON - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
EDGERTON --
Edgerton's backyard chicken dialogue is like a grassfire in a drought. Just when you think it has fizzled out, it rekindles itself.
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Wild pitch dooms Beloit Snappers
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
EASTLAKE, OHIO --
The Lake County Captains scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning Monday to gain a 9-8 victory over the Beloit Snappers and a series sweep in Midwest League baseball.
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Delavan-Darien School District sets action plans
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
DELAVAN --
It's one thing to say, "We're striving to be the best." It's another to create a tangible, step-by-step plan to become the best.
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Waste-to-energy project coming to Whitewater
By STAN MILAM - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
JANESVILLE --
A $30 million waste-to-energy project is coming to Whitewater.
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Man accused of seeking child sex
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Janesville police Monday arrested a man they say traveled six hours from Michigan with the intent of having sex with a 13-year-old Janesville girl, according to a police news release.
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Graham leads Janesville tournament with 73
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Peyton Graham shot the low round Monday to open the 36-hole Optimist Junior Golf Tournament at Riverside Golf Course.
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Employee facing embezzlement charge
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Janesville police have arrested a Beloit woman they say stole $250,000 from her employer, Janesville Brick and Tile, 1801 W. Court St, Janesville.
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Group now checking rest of Rock County vote totals
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
JANESVILLE --
A group of residents that crosschecked part of Rock County's election results for last month's gubernatorial recall election now wants to review the rest of the county's ballots in the election.
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Drought conditions now grip more than half the nation
By JIM SUHR AND STEVE KARNOWSKI, ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
WALTONVILLE, ILL. --
The nation's widest drought in decades is spreading, with more than half of the continental United States now in some stage of drought and most of the rest enduring abnormally dry conditions.
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UW-Rock welcomes former Parker trio
By KEN VELOSKEY - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
JANESVILLE --
UW-Rock County men’s and women’s basketball coach, added three former Parker High School varsity players to his women’s recruiting class.
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Public record for July 17, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Clarke’s reign ends, but thrill never will
By BILL DWYRE - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
LYTHAM & ST. ANNE’S, ENGLAND --
The Irish have a prayer that wishes the road rise up to meet you and the wind stay ever at your back. That prayer was answered for one of their own in the British Open last year.
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Death notices for July 17, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Axford blows lead, Brewers fall to Cardinals 3-2
By CHRIS JENKINS - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
MILWAUKEE --
In what is shaping up as a rough season for John Axford, this might have been the worst moment yet.
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Our politics of polarization
By MICHAEL GERSON - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Whatever his intentions or provocations, President Obama is now engaged in partisan polarization on an industrial scale. His campaign’s latest round of Bain charges is not politics as usual. It is the accusation of criminal impropriety—the filing of false government documents—without real evidence, as various fact-checking outfits have attested.
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