Study to show value of Young Auditorium
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 4:11 p.m. October 31, 2007
UW-Whitewater officials are conducting an economic impact study to show how important the university's Young Auditorium is to the local economy. Results of the study will be released in January. ...
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New county clerk could be sworn in early
Posted by ANN MARIE AMES at 3:59 p.m. October 31, 2007
The Rock County Board will consider approving Lori Stottler as the county's clerk at 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5, said Josh Smith, assistant to the Rock County administrator. The board's ...
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Staskal to be released to group home in Eau Claire
Posted by MIKE DUPRE' at 2:12 p.m. October 31, 2007
Mark Staskal will be released from Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison to a group home in Eau Claire, perhaps as soon as Thursday. Staskal, 44, stabbed his sister, Marcy, ...
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UPDATED: Female football player alleges discrimination
Posted by GINA DUWE at 12:06 p.m. October 31, 2007
An Evansville mother and daughter are seeking $50,000 for pain, suffering, mental and emotional distress and expenses after the girl broke her clavicle in football practice. Deborah St. Aubin-Elborough and ...
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Seven deer struck in one day
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 10:10 a.m. October 31, 2007
The Green County Sheriff’s Department reports seven different vehicle collisions with deer between 3:45 a.m. and 7:12 p.m. on Tuesday. None of the motorists involved in the collisions were injured ...
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Is plug pulled on Wi-Fi plan?
Posted by JIM LEUTE at 9 a.m. October 31, 2007
Nationwide industry concerns have forced a local group to rethink its strategy of bringing wireless Internet service to Rock County. Escalating costs, evolving technology and higher expectations have prompted municipalities ...
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Police urge safety for Halloween
Posted by STAN STRICKER at 6:27 a.m. October 31, 2007
Janesville police are urging everyone to remember safety this Halloween. Community services officer sergeant Brian Donahue says visibility is key. Donahue also reminds parents to supervise younger children and consider ...
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No price tag for Rock County Jail update
Posted by BETH WHEELOCK at 5:12 a.m. October 31, 2007
The design team for the Rock County Jail expansion project is using different techniques to save taxpayers' money. However, Sheriff Bob Spoden says it's too early to tell the economic ...
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Mirbeau-Hummel debate isn't over yet
Posted by KAYLA BUNGE at 10:29 p.m. October 30, 2007
LAKE GENEVA—The debate isn’t over for the proposed Mirbeau-Hummel development on the city’s south side. An hour-and-a-half of public comment wasn’t enough for the more than 120 residents who came ...
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Traffic rerouted on County A
Posted by GINA DUWE at 8:10 p.m. October 30, 2007
Traffic is being rerouted on County A just outside the western Janesville city limits after a vehicle struck a utility pole near Austin Road, according to a shift supervisor at ...
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Judicial candidates narrowed to four
Posted by MIKE DUPRE' at 4:09 p.m. October 30, 2007
Public hearing tonight for Mirbeau-Hummel development
Posted by KAYLA BUNGE at 2:47 p.m. October 30, 2007
A 6 p.m. public hearing on the proposed Mirbeau-Hummel development is expected to draw plenty of Lake Geneva residents to city hall. City Clerk Diana Dykstra said the public hearing ...
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Firefighters battle brush fire
Posted by MARCIA NELESEN at 2:11 p.m. October 30, 2007
Janesville and Clinton firefighters are battling a large brush fire in the area of Avalon and Milton-Shopiere roads. The departments were dispatched at about 1:30 p.m. today, said a staff ...
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Senate passes bill legalizing breast feeding
Posted by ASSOCIATED PRESS at 1:30 p.m. October 30, 2007
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Mothers could breast-feed their children in any public place under a bill that passed the state Senate today. Nothing in the current law specifically prohibits mothers ...
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Agent: Brewers decline Jenkins' option
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 12:11 p.m. October 30, 2007
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The agent for Geoff Jenkins says the Milwaukee Brewers will decline a nine million dollar option for left fielder. Agent Damon Lapa said today the Brewers gave ...
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Buyout approved for Midwest Air Group
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 10:54 a.m. October 30, 2007
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Midwest Air Group's shareholders today approved a 450 million dollar sale to the private equity firm TPG Capital. A majority of shareholders approved the sale of Midwest ...
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Stottler selected for county clerk
Posted by ANN MARIE AMES at 9:21 a.m. October 30, 2007
An ad hoc committee formed to select a new Rock County Clerk has made its decision. The committee will recommend Janesville School Board member Lori Stottler to replace retiring Clerk ...
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Burglaries reported in Walworth County
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 8:59 a.m. October 30, 2007
FONTANA Authorities are investigating at least four daytime burglaries on the west side of Geneva Lake, including a Sunday-morning home invasion. Village police say a burglar entered a Fontana home ...
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Granaries receive $1.25 million for rail projects
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 7:56 a.m. October 30, 2007
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Janesville family escapes porch fire
Posted by SHELLY BIRKELO at 6:48 a.m. October 30, 2007
Thanks to the quick action of a passerby Monday afternoon, a family of six escaped a fire at their home at 610 Linn St. in Janesville. Firefighters were called to ...
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Two arrested in drug bust
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 6:38 a.m. October 30, 2007
DELAVAN—A search warrant at 1205 Whispering Pines Drive Monday morning led to the arrest of two men for drug-related charges. According to the city of Delavan Police Department, Hector Manuel ...
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More passport delays expected
Posted by BETH WHEELOCK at 5:08 a.m. October 30, 2007
The Rock County Clerk's office is bracing for more passport application delays with the introduction of new laws January first. That's when a traveler will need a passport for trips ...
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Packers beat Broncos in OT
Posted by DAVE VON FALKENSTEIN at 10:58 p.m. October 29, 2007
Brett Favre connected with Greg Jennings on an 82-yard touchdown pass on the first play following the kickoff in overtime and the Green Bay Packers defeated the Denver Broncos 19-13 ...
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Janesville School Board lowers tax increase
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ at 7:20 p.m. October 29, 2007
JANESVILLE The Janesville School Board on Monday night trimmed a projected tax increase to an amount it hopes will be more palatable to taxpayers. The board took $1 million from ...
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Home invasions reported in Walworth County
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 3:58 p.m. October 29, 2007
FONTANA—Village police are investigating a burglary that took place around 6:45 a.m. Sunday. The intruder entered through an unlocked patio door, was confronted by the homeowner and fled with a ...
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Delavan men arrested after search warrant
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 3:55 p.m. October 29, 2007
A search warrant at 1205 Whispering Pines Drive Monday morning led to the arrest of two men for drug-related charges. According to the city of Delavan Police Department, Hector Manuel ...
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Edgerton, Milton districts face higher levies
Posted by STACY VOGEL at 3:15 p.m. October 29, 2007
Taxpayers in the Edgerton and Milton school districts will probably face higher levies because of the delay in passing the state budget, officials in each district said today. Because the ...
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Thanksgiving dinner needs boost
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 1:46 p.m. October 29, 2007
The Delavan Elks Club and a group of local citizens are looking for cash or food donations to help put on a free Thanksgiving Day dinner for the less fortunate. ...
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Charter school applications scrutinized
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 12:58 p.m. October 29, 2007
(AP) - Fewer applications for charter schools are getting approval from the state this year. The Department of Public Instruction has approved only ten of 50 applicants for federal funding. ...
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Lyons woman found after search
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 9:57 a.m. October 29, 2007
Woman with Alzheimer's was missing more than three hours.
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Belvidere's third shift to end?
Posted by JIM LEUTE at 9:13 a.m. October 29, 2007
Rumors are swirling around the future of third-shift production at Chrysler’s Belvidere assembly plant after a high-level United Auto Workers official told members “the third shift was gone.” The comment ...
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Delavanite on Rachael Ray Show
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 8:56 a.m. October 29, 2007
Delavan's Joey Torkelson is a guest on today's Rachael Ray Show, airing at 9 a.m. on CBS. From the show's Web site: "...Then, are you always late? ...
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Work on municipal building entrance
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 8:12 a.m. October 29, 2007
JANESVILLE—The Janesville Municipal Building front deck improvement project will require closing of the main entrance on Jackson Street starting today. The present schedule requires this entrance to close for three ...
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UPDATE Field fire destroys 10 acres
Posted by SHELLY BIRKELO at 7:30 a.m. October 29, 2007
BELOIT TOWNSHIP—A corn combine and 10 acres of a cornfield were destroyed Sunday afternoon at 2918 W. Finley Road. Town of Beloit firefighters responded to the scene at 1:15 p.m. ...
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Milton School District considers tax rate
Posted by STAN STRICKER at 5:11 a.m. October 29, 2007
The Milton School District tax rate will likely rise thanks to a delay in the state budget process. District Business manager Diane Meyer anticipates an increase in the tax rate ...
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Cornfield fire in Beloit Township
Posted by ANN MARIE AMES at 1:40 p.m. October 28, 2007
Town of Beloit, Orfordville and town of Turtle fire departments are responding to a combine fire in the middle of a 100-acre cornfield this afternoon. The call came in about ...
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Police find missing man near Milton
Posted by ANN MARIE AMES at 10:27 a.m. October 28, 2007
Man was suicidal after fight with a family member.
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Police searching for man near Milton
Posted by ANN MARIE AMES at 6:30 p.m. October 27, 2007
The Rock County Sheriff's Department is searching for a missing man south of Milton near John Paul Road and County Y. A call came in at 3:45 p.m. from a ...
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Suspect in 1988 Beloit murder caught in Seattle
Posted by ANN MARIE AMES at 3:49 p.m. October 27, 2007
A Beloit man who disappeared in 1988 after his arrest for murder has been picked up by police in Washington State. Ezequiel Lopez-Zavala, 42, was picked up Friday on an ...
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Janesville's Lear employee condition improves
Posted by ANN MARIE AMES at 2:57 p.m. October 27, 2007
A Janesville woman has been upgraded to fair condition at University Hospital, Madison. Debra Knopes, 30, was injured on the job at 1:39 p.m. Thursday at Lear Seating, 3708 Enterprise ...
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Janesville cop wins big
Posted by ANN MARIE AMES at 8:16 p.m. October 26, 2007
Officer Laura Hauser was given the Mary Rita Ostrander Leadership Award Friday.
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FBI asked to help with Janesville rape cases
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 2:04 p.m. October 26, 2007
Two Janesville police detectives are consulting with FBI agents regarding the six home invasion sexual assault cases since August of 1998 attributed to the same serial rapist. Detectives Martin Altstadt ...
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A glance at the state budget
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 1:17 p.m. October 26, 2007
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Here's a summary of budget vetoes issued today by Governor Doyle: FREE SHOTS: Free shots of liquor won't be allowed at grocery stores. Doyle vetoed a ...
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Assembly honors Walworth's Kikkoman company
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 10:42 a.m. October 26, 2007
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The state Assembly has adopted a resolution honoring Kikkoman, maker of soy and teriyaki sauce and other condiments. The resolution says the sauces give Wisconsinites a ...
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Elkhorn police investigating mower thefts
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 9:56 a.m. October 26, 2007
The City of Elkhorn Police Department is asking for help in solving the theft of three riding lawnmowers. Sometime between 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 20, and 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. ...
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State budget signed
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 9:34 a.m. October 26, 2007
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin finally has a new state budget, nearly four months late. Governor Doyle signed it this morning at the University of Wisconsin in Madison after vetoing ...
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Charges filed after SWAT response
Posted by at 7:25 a.m. October 26, 2007
WHITEWATER—Prosecutors filed three misdemeanor charges Thursday against a Whitewater man arrested Tuesday after a SWAT team and two police departments responded to his home. John Ropiak, 40, 355a S. Janesville ...
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Teens arrested for Beloit burglaries
Posted by BETH WHEELOCK at 5:24 a.m. October 26, 2007
Beloit police say the suspects arrested after officers stopped a burglary in progress could be responsible for up to 20 similar crimes. Captain Bill Tyler says Marcus Q. Webb and ...
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Milton falls in sectional soccer
Posted by JOHN BARRY at 10:23 p.m. October 25, 2007
The Milton Red Hawks, who won the Southern Lakes Conference soccer championship, lost to Lake Geneva Badger 1-0 in a WIAA Division 1 sectional semifinal game. The Red Hawks ended ...
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Rock County Board approves pay hike
Posted by ANN MARIE AMES at 7:26 p.m. October 25, 2007
The Rock County Board voted Thursday to pay supervisors a bonus for meetings lasting longer than four hours.
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Brodhead police investigate assault
Posted by GINA DUWE at 4:20 p.m. October 25, 2007
BRODHEAD—Brodhead Police are investigating an assault of an 18-year-old woman this morning, according to a press release. According to the release: The woman was walking at about 10:10 a.m. in ...
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Phone scam targets Walworth County citizens
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 3:23 p.m. October 25, 2007
Identity thieves are gaining access to personal information by calling Walworth County citizens and saying they are wanted for missing jury duty. The callers, posing as workers from the Walworth ...
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Police give warning about pot fields
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 2:51 p.m. October 25, 2007
Coming across a marijuana growing operation like the ones found in Darien Township can be dangerous, police warned. It an illicit drug that people will take measures to protect. Growers ...
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Pot find was second in two months
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 1:44 p.m. October 25, 2007
More than 600 marijuana plants were taken out of the public hunting grounds today near Turtle Creek, just northeast of the intersection of Creek Road and Highway 14 in Darien ...
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Major drug operation discovered in Darien
Posted by STACY VOGEL at 12:46 p.m. October 25, 2007
Police are on the scene of a large marijuana bust in Darien Township. Officials have found a marijuana-growing operation about the size of a football field near Creek Road and ...
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East Court Street open
Posted by SHELLY BIRKELO at 12:05 p.m. October 25, 2007
Janesville Transit System buses will return to their normal routes today on East Court Street. The Milton Avenue regular, the Milton Avenue Nightside and the Atwood/Holmes Extra Services routes return ...
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Man pleads innocent in robbery, sex assault
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 10:53 a.m. October 25, 2007
(AP) - A 20-year-old Janesville man accused of robbing a teenage couple and then sexually assaulting the girl after a Parker High School football game pleads innocent in the case. ...
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Three Janesville students expelled
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ at 9:56 a.m. October 25, 2007
The Janesville School Board expelled three high school students Tuesday, the first to be expelled this school year. They are: - A student accused of negligently handling burning materials on ...
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Burglary suspects arrested in Beloit
Posted by STEVE BENTON at 9:09 a.m. October 25, 2007
Beloit police arrested two suspects in a residential burglary Wednesday afternoon. Captain Bill Tyler says the two were caught in, or fleeing from a residence in the 1900 block of ...
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Federal grand jury indicts Janesville woman
Posted by SHELLY BIRKELO at 8:07 a.m. October 25, 2007
MADISON—A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted Linda Jo Curtis, 33, Janesville, on a charge of harboring a fugitive—a man convicted of sending threatening letters to President Bush. The charges ...
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Cuts proposed for historic property
Posted by ANN FIORE at 6:16 a.m. October 25, 2007
A tight 2008 city budget likely will put the squeeze on Janesville’s historic Lincoln-Tallman House, the city council learned Wednesday. The museum’s subsidy drops 20 percent in the city’s proposed ...
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Budget provides student aid
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 5:20 a.m. October 25, 2007
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Thousands of low-income University of Wisconsin students should be getting financial aid in the coming days. More than 5,700 students on a waiting list for a ...
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Robson out as Democratic leader
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 1:35 p.m. October 24, 2007
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Senate Democrats voted in secret to oust their leader and put the co-chair of the powerful Joint Finance Committee in her place. Senator Russ Decker of ...
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Three deer crashes in 7 minutes
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 1:22 p.m. October 24, 2007
Three separate highway crashes in Green County illustrates the increased danger of a colliding with a deer. Three drivers hit deer in different townships all within seven minutes of each ...
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Show won’t go on, school board decides
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ at 8:16 a.m. October 24, 2007
The All-City Sing, that extravaganza in which all of the city’s public-school fourth- and fifth-graders provide an evening of entertainment for family and friends, won’t go on as originally planned ...
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Robson remarks on budget
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 5:54 a.m. October 24, 2007
“This budget ensures that thousands of Wisconsin kids will no longer be deprived of the right to quality health care. It increases aid for struggling school districts, invests in our ...
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Parker falls in football playoffs
Posted by DAVE WEDEWARD at 9:09 p.m. October 23, 2007
Kenosha Bradford High School defeated Janesville Parker, 34-20, in a Level 1 WIAA Division 1 football playoff game here Tuesday. Bradford’s Troy Williams ticked off a 67-yard touchdown run on ...
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Janesville school taxes headed up
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ at 9 p.m. October 23, 2007
JANESVILLE—The Janesville School Board postponed its annual duty of setting a tax levy on Tuesday night. They’ll set the levy next Monday night instead. That’ll give officials time to gather ...
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Case vs. retired Whitewater detective over
Posted by MIKE HEINE at 1:39 p.m. October 23, 2007
A settlement was reached in a Whitewater businessman’s harassment case against a now-retired Whitewater police detective, according to federal court documents. Stephen D. Cvicker, 52, sued investigator Larry P. Meyer, ...
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Beloit hits population milestone
Posted by STEVE BENTON at 1:13 p.m. October 23, 2007
After years of watching surrounding communities grow, Beloit hits a new population mark. The term, boom, isn't being used, but Beloit City Manager Larry Arft is excited about hitting a ...
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Evansville crush plant awaits legislative action
Posted by GINA DUWE at 10:02 a.m. October 23, 2007
Momentum is building for a soybean crush plant in Evansville after legislative leaders included a $4 million grant for the facility in the state budget. The earmark has to survive ...
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Edgerton students expelled
Posted by STACY VOGEL at 9:05 a.m. October 23, 2007
EDGERTON Two Edgerton High School students arrested Oct. 4 after allegedly making threats at school probably won’t face criminal charges, but they will have to find somewhere else to finish ...
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Evansville's Main Street to open later this week
Posted by GINA DUWE at 8:31 a.m. October 23, 2007
EVANSVILLE—Construction crews will lay the last brick on East Main Street today, and the street should be open Friday, said project foreman Jason Grant of LPS Pavement Company. Between today ...
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East Court Street scheduled to reopen
Posted by ANN FIORE at 5:32 a.m. October 23, 2007
JANESVILLE After six months of dust, construction barrels and single-lane traffic, East Court Street is scheduled to open fully Thursday. And workers also have finished work on County E on ...
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Janesville budget faces more cuts
Posted by ANN FIORE at 11:18 p.m. October 22, 2007
The good news: Thanks to the state budget, Janesville taxpayers can expect a smaller increase in their city taxes next year. The bad news: Thanks to the state budget, Janesville ...
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Clown Posse fans face expulsion in Edgerton
Posted by STACY VOGEL at 5:49 p.m. October 22, 2007
The two Edgerton High School students arrested Oct. 4 for allegedly making threats at school face an expulsion hearing before the Edgerton School Board tonight, the mother of one of ...
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Parker, Craig offer student buses to games
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ at 4:33 p.m. October 22, 2007
JANESVILLE—The school district is offering buses for Parker High School students and for Craig High School students to see their football teams play separate games Tuesday in at Ameche Field ...
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Beloit to hold training exercise Wednesday
Posted by STEVE BENTON at 3:28 p.m. October 22, 2007
A small section of Beloit's East side will be temporarily blocked to traffic Wednesday morning due to a Rock County Emergency Government training exercise. Beloit police Captain Bill Tyler says ...
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Beloit police seek help in recent burglaries
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 12:42 p.m. October 22, 2007
Beloit police want to stem the rising number of recent home burglaries and is asking residents to watch for suspicious activity. Beloit police Captain Bill Tyler says the burglaries have ...
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Woman pinned when car hits tree
Posted by SHELLY BIRKELO at 7:19 a.m. October 22, 2007
JANESVILLE—A Janesville woman was being treated for injuries she suffered after her car hit a tree head-on at 5:20 a.m. today at 2645 N. Burdick Road. The impact pushed the ...
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Early morning fire displaces four people
Posted by SHELLY BIRKELO at 6:28 a.m. October 22, 2007
Tenants of a two-story apartment got out of a residential fire safely early today. Janesville firefighters were dispatched at 4:22 a.m. to 603 S. Main St. for a kitchen fire ...
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Green County man killed in tractor accident
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 5:13 a.m. October 22, 2007
A Green County man is dead in a tractor accident. The Green County Sheriff's Department reports 21 year old Tyler Forrester of rural Monroe lost control of a tractor and ...
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Sensors to be installed on a Rock County bridge
Posted by KYLE GEISSLER at 4:37 a.m. October 22, 2007
A Rock County bridge is one of the first in the state to receive new sensors. The state Department of Transportation is installing strain gauges on Wisconsin bridges similar to ...
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