Economic Outlook: Wisconsin shows signs of rebound
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 3, 2009 - 5:42 p.m.
MADISON — Revenue officials say Wisconsin's economy is showing signs of a rebound, but the recovery in employment and personal income isn't expected to start until 2010. The quarterly Wisconsin Economic Outlook issued Friday by the state Department of Revenue notes that the national economic recession remains severe but adds ...
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Five motorcycles crash on I-90, tying up traffic
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 3, 2009 - 2:02 p.m.
STOUGHTON — Traffic is moving again on Interstate 90 near Stoughton after five motorcycles crashed Friday morning. The Wisconsin State Patrol says there were serious injuries. A MedFlight helicopter was at the scene. The patrol says the crash happened about 10:30 a.m. in the westbound lanes of the interstate. All ...
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Milwaukee Mile in financial trouble
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 3, 2009 - 11:23 a.m.
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Mile is in financial trouble, and even its biggest boosters wonder whether the nation's oldest auto racing facility will see its 107th birthday. The facility has been running auto races at State Fair Park since 1903. But now, the office is closed and all 12 staff ...
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Word up! Conference focuses on hip hop teaching
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 3, 2009 - 11:16 a.m.
MADISON — Word up! Forty teachers from nine states are gathering next week for a program to discuss the merits of using hip hop in the classroom. The conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will also address using spoken word as a teaching tool. Spoken word involves telling a story ...
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Summerfest winds down in Milwaukee
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 3, 2009 - 11:14 a.m.
MILWAUKEE — A staple of summer in Milwaukee winds down after this weekend. Summerfest, which calls itself the world's largest music festival, ends Sunday after an 11-day run. Every year, 800,000 to 1 million people pack the 75 acre grounds along Lake Michigan to listen to all kinds of music ...
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Former Wis. lawmaker buys lobbying firm
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 3, 2009 - 6:13 a.m.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Wisconsin Assembly Speaker John Gard and his wife have purchased a lobbying company. Gard and his wife, Cate Zeuske (zoo' - ski) say they bought Wisconsin Independent Businesses Inc. from founders Tom and Nancy Dohm. The firm lobbies legislators on behalf of small businesses and ...
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GM waits for judge's ruling on sale plan
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 2, 2009 - 9:51 p.m.
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in the General Motors Corp. bankruptcy case adjourned a three-day hearing without indicating when he will rule on the company’s plan to sell its good assets to a new company. U.S. Judge Robert Gerber asked GM’s attorneys to submit a proposed order that would ...
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One dead as ATVs crash in Jackson County
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 2, 2009 - 6:49 p.m.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. — A collision of two all-terrain vehicles in central Wisconsin left one person dead. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday the ATVs were going in opposite directions on a trail in the town of Brockway Wednesday afternoon when they collided on a curve. A 50-year-old ...
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Reckless homicide charge in Neshkoro child's death
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 2, 2009 - 4:49 p.m.
MONTELLO, Wis. — A charge of first-degree reckless homicide has been filed against a town of Neshkoro man in the death of his 6-month-old son. A criminal complaint filed against 27-year-old Benjamin Kamedulski said he called 911 on March 18, saying the baby was injured in a fall down the ...
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Highway deaths fall in 2009, lowest since ’61
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 2, 2009 - 2:29 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Fewer people died on the nation’s highways during the first three months of 2009 as motor vehicle fatalities continued to fall to levels not seen in nearly a half-century. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday about 7,689 motorists were killed in the months of January through ...
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Baby sitter sentenced to 13 years in prison
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 2, 2009 - 1:03 p.m.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Madison-area baby sitter has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for causing the death of an infant in her care. Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan handed down the sentence Thursday during an emotional hearing in a packed courtroom. A jury in April convicted ...
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Pierce Manufacturing gets $10M Navy contract
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 2, 2009 - 11:05 a.m.
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Two days after Oshkosh Corp. scored a billion-dollar defense contract, one of its subsidiaries has landed its own $10 million military contract. Pierce Manufacturing of Appleton said Thursday the U.S. Navy has ordered 29 special fire trucks. That follows a separate order for two Pierce hazardous-material ...
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Some fireworks retailers feeling pinch of economy
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 2, 2009 - 7:28 a.m.
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Some fireworks retailers in central Wisconsin say the sour economy is affecting their sales heading into the Fourth of July weekend. Jerry Bamke of Fireworks Country in Wittenberg says customers are spending less this year and commenting that they have to cut back. Derrick Sukow of ...
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Power outage in downtown area
Posted by GAZETTE STAFF on July 2, 2009 - 7:21 a.m.
Alliant Energy crews remain at the scene at the corner of Wall St. in front of St. Mary's Church in downtown Janesville where a hit-and-run crash damaged a switch gearbox. The crash happened at 1:17 a.m. Thursday morning. Janesville police are still investigating. The outage is isolated to the Janesville ...
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Tenn. governor says GM wanted $250 million for plant
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 1, 2009 - 9:31 p.m.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said Wednesday that Tennessee wouldn’t have met General Motors’ cash requirements to build a small car at its Spring Hill plant even if the state’s finances were in better shape. GM last week selected a facility near Detroit to assemble small and compact ...
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Local beans to go to Korea
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 1, 2009 - 5:33 p.m.
BISMARCK, N.D.—North Dakota’s lieutenant governor says four Midwestern companies, including Clinton's DeLong Co., have a $5 million deal to export about 275,000 bushels of soybeans to South Korea for tofu products. Lt. Gov. Jack Dalrymple said SB&B Foods of Casselton, N.D., Brushvale Seed of Wahpeton-Breckenridge, N.D., SunOpta of Moorhead, Minn., ...
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TV book in Friday’s paper in stores, racks
Posted by GAZETTE STAFF on July 1, 2009 - 5:30 p.m.
The Janesville Gazette will not publish Saturday, July 4. The “On Entertainment” TV book normally distributed in copies of the Gazette sold in stores and racks Saturdays will be inserted in Friday’s edition. Subscribers who receive “On Entertainment” will get their copies between Wednesday and Friday, as always.
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Immigration authorities auditing companies
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 1, 2009 - 2:12 p.m.
CHICAGO — The Obama administration is investigating hundreds of U.S. businesses as part of its strategy to focus immigration enforcement on employers who hire illegal workers, including, apparently, some in Wisconsin. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is notifying businesses of plans to audit their I-9 forms. Those are employment eligibility documents ...
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Court orders Wisconsin man to turn over deer head
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 1, 2009 - 1:15 p.m.
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Racine man must give a deer head he took from a roadside carcass to wildlife officials, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday. According to the ruling from the 2nd District Court of Appeals, John Longo found a dead deer ...
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Oshkosh evaluates job needs after $1B contract
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS on July 1, 2009 - 10:50 a.m.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Oshkosh Corp. says it's too early to know how many jobs its new billion-dollar military contract will create, but the number is "significant." The contract awarded Tuesday to the Oshkosh-based company calls for more than 2,200 bomb-resistant all-terrain trucks. The Defense Department says it urgently needs strong ...
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