News Archive for February 8, 2013
City staff: New rules would likely improve rental properties
By MARCIA NELESEN - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
JANESVILLE --
Regular inspections of rental properties funded by a landlord registration fee would improve the city's rental stock, according to Janesville city staff, but it will be up to the city council Monday night to decide if such a program is worth investigating.
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Beer sales in parks again debated
By MARCIA NELESEN - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
JANESVILLE --
The Janesville City Council on Monday will consider requiring background checks for people who want to buy permits to serve beer and wine at park pavilions.
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Work could start this year on memorial baseball field in Whitewater
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
WHITEWATER --
A small boy's dream of playing baseball in the big leagues won't ever come true. Instead, his memory will give the community of Whitewater a place where all kids can play ball.
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Council names Scout executive; Tyms set to start March 1
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
MADISON --
The first item on Alex Tyms' agenda is simple: learn how Scouting can reach out to boys that the national organization might be missing.
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Town of Beloit puts off talk of incorporation
By GINA DUWE - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
TOWN OF BELOIT --
The Beloit Town Board will wait until after the April 2 election before resuming discussion of incorporating part of the town into a village.
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Senators seek deal on gun-sale background checks
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
WASHINGTON --
A bipartisan quartet of senators, including two National Rifle Association members and two with "F'' ratings from the potent firearms lobby, are quietly trying to find a compromise on expanding the requirement for gun-sale background checks.
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Public record for Feb. 8, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
Woman killed, husband hospitalized after Williams Bay fire
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
WILLIAMS BAY --
A Williams Bay woman died and her husband was injured in a Thursday night fire that destroyed their home, authorities and friends said.
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Craig boys beat perennial power Memorial
By ERIC SCHMOLDT - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
JANESVILLE --
Jerry Ngobi set the tone against the fifth-ranked team in the state. Then Mike Murphy and his teammates closed the door on a momentum-building upset victory for Janesville Craig’s boys basketball team.
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Wrestlers, swimmers close in on state
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
It’s WIAA tournament time in wrestling and boys swim. The road to Madison begins Saturday on the mat and in the pool.
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UW women fall in 2 OTs
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
COLUMBUS, OHIO --
Not even a career night by Jacki Gulczynski could save the University of Wisconsin’s women’s basketball team Thursday.
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Illini buzzer-beater upsets No. 1 Hoosiers, 74-72
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
CHAMPAIGN, IL. --
At this rate, no one will want to be No. 1. Indiana became the fifth straight top-ranked men's college basketball team to lose, falling to unranked Illinois 74-72 on a buzzer-beater by Tyler Griffey on Thursday night.
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10 things to know for Friday
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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Suspect and victim in shooting described as good neighbors
By ANN MARIE AMES - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
TOWN OF PLYMOUTH --
Chris Gestrich and Daniel Bellard were the kind of people who would give you the shirts off their backs, a neighbor said. Gestrich was a kind, generous person with a good eye for cattle.
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Death notices for Feb. 8, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
Call Obama’s sequester bluff
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
WASHINGTON --
President Obama has urgently called on Congress to head off the sequester with a short-term fix. What should Republicans do? Nothing.
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Obama drones on
By MICHAEL GERSON - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
WASHINGTON --
If America is in an ongoing war against al-Qaeda and associated groups, then the rules of war apply. This is the position taken by both the Bush and Obama administrations, consistent with America’s inherent right of self-defense and the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force.
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