News Archive for February 21, 2013
Longtime teachers await Janesville School Board benefits decision
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
JANESVILLE --
The Janesville School Board is considering a less expensive early-retirement benefit for its employees, but some of those under the existing system might be allowed to keep the current benefit.
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Hot Wheels race stays on track to benefit charity
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
CLINTON --
Down the front of the couch, around the coffee table legs, through the charger and a loop de loop, around the corner, and then, just as things get exciting, you run out of orange track.
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Lake Geneva twins’ seasons involve surprising success, cruel disappointment
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
LAKE GENEVA --
Twins are known for having an innate sense of what the other is feeling and thinking.
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Walworth County Sheriff releases name of deputy who shot inmate
By NICO SAVIDGE - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
ELKHORN --
Walworth County Sheriff David Graves on Wednesday released the name of the deputy who fatally shot an inmate at an Elkhorn hospital one month ago.
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UW-Rock Rattlers advance in WCC women's basketball tourney
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
The second half was the difference Wednesday night for UW-Rock County’s women’s basketball team.
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Whitewater musician remembered for talent, charity
By NICO SAVIDGE - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
WHITEWATER --
Whitewater musician Pat Peterson died of a brain tumor Feb. 7. He was 40. Friends and fellow musicians remember him as a talented and driven man whose second passion was helping others.
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Google adds new touch to line of Chrome laptops
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO, CA. --
Google is adding a new and more expensive touch to its line of Chrome laptops in an attempt to outshine personal computers running on software made by rivals Microsoft and Apple.
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Flu shot did poor job against worst bug in seniors
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
ATLANTA --
This year’s flu shot is doing a startlingly dismal job of protecting senior citizens from the harshest strain this season, proving only 9 percent effective, the government said Thursday.
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Elkhorn’s Stilling goes after his second straight state title
By JOHN BARRY - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
ELKHORN --
Jake Stilling, Elkhorn High senior and defending Division 1 state champion, is such a skilled technician that many of his matches don’t make it past the first period.
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Nets have Bucks' number
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
MILWAUKEE --
Deron Williams scored 23 points and the Nets escaped with a 97-94 victory on Wednesday night after Milwaukee’s Monta Ellis missed a chance to tie the game with three foul shots in the final seconds.
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Text of Gov. Scott Walker's budget address
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
MADISON --
Text of Gov. Scott Walker’s address on budget proposal, as prepared for delivery Wednesday.
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When do student prayers cross the First Amendment line?
By CHARLES C. HAYNES - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
Pity school administrators charged with figuring out if and when to draw the line on student prayers. Current controversies in two regions of the county illustrate how complicated this line-drawing has become:
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Pro: Our presence in unstable places encourages extremism
By JOHN B. QUIGLEY - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
COLUMBUS, OHIO --
Extremism in the Middle East and northern Africa may be fed by our military presence in that part of the world. Our interests may suffer precisely because of our presence.
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Con: Tide of war not receding; dangers will mount as U.S. exits prematurely
By LAWRENCE J. HAAS - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
WASHINGTON --
The 43 percent of U.S. voters who think that America is “too involved” in the Middle East, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, or the 58 percent who think that we should “leave things alone” in the Islamic world have it backward.
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No. 19 Wisconsin cruises past Northwestern 69-41
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
EVANSTON, ILL. --
Ben Brust had 12 points and eight rebounds as the 19th-ranked Badgers shut down Northwestern 69-41 on Wednesday night for their fifth win in six games.
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Gov. Walker proposes income tax cut
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
MADISON --
Gov. Scott Walker proposed an income tax cut targeted to the middle class as part of a state budget introduced Wednesday.
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10 things to know for Thursday
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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Death notices for Feb. 21, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
Voices for the voiceless
By ESTHER J. CEPEDA - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
CHICAGO --
Every politician who supports immigration reform makes it a habit of trotting out a model would-be citizen, while those who don’t pick hardened immigrant criminals as their examples. Yet the people in the middle simply can't be ignored.
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