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GB City Worker On Leave For Stealing Aaron Rodgers Sign

Published on November 3, 2009 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)

The man arrested for stealing a temporary Aaron Rodgers street sign in Green Bay is a city employee. 47-year-old Thomas Hodkiewicz was jailed until he paid a $366 bond, the amount of his theft citation. He’s on paid leave from his technician’s job with the Green Bay Water ...

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Longer Wait For Residents Who Need Medicaid, Food Stamps

Published on November 3, 2009 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)

Low-income Wisconsinites are waiting longer than they should for their Medicaid health coverage and food stamps. Since June 15th, the Wisconsin State Journal said over two-thirds of childless adults with no or little income did not receive food stamps in the federal time limit of 7 days after they applied ...

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Assembly Set To Vote On Bill Teaching Students Birth Control

Published on November 3, 2009 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)

The Wisconsin Assembly is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a bill that would teach school students how to use birth control. The law would apply to the 60 percent of schools that offer sex education. They would have to provide information on both contraceptives and abstinence in an age-appropriate manner ...

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Wisconsin Rapids Man Gets 40 Years Prison For Sexual Assault Of Girl

Published on November 3, 2009 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)

A Wisconsin Rapids man will spend 40 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 17-month-old girl while he was babysitting her. 26-year-old Jeremy Lund will also spend 20 years under extended supervision once he gets out. Wood County Circuit Judge Greg Potter said it was hard to imagine how anyone ...

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FBI Probes Plymouth Native Killed At New Mexico Convent

Published on November 3, 2009 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)

The FBI is investigating the murder of a Catholic nun from Sheboygan County at her convent in New Mexico. 64-year-old Sister Marguerite Bartz, a native of Plymouth, was killed Saturday night or early Sunday on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Officials refused to say how she was killed. A colleague found ...

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Recall Election Tuesday For Monroe Co. Board Chair

Published on November 3, 2009 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)

The chairman of the Monroe County Board is up for a recall election Tuesday, after 7 of his colleagues were voted out last month. The group went ahead with plans to build a new $26 million county criminal justice center in Sparta, while residents said they couldn’t afford it ...

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Pewaukee City Leaders Vote To Eliminate Police Force

Published on November 3, 2009 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)

The City Council in Pewaukee took another step Monday night toward eliminating its 26 police officers to save money. The aldermen voted 4 to 2 to have the Waukesha County sheriff’s department patrol the city of 11,000 for at least the next 5 years. Mayor Scott Klein says ...

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Granton Woman Calls Herself In For OWI

Published on November 3, 2009 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)

A central Wisconsin woman is due in court December 10th after she had herself arrested for drunk driving. 49-year-old Mary Strey of Granton is charged in Clark County with first-offense OWI – a non-criminal matter. Authorities said her blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit when she called 911 while ...

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Fatal Crash Closing 41

Published on November 2, 2009 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)

One person is dead following a crash that will leave Highway 41 closed until about 6 Tuesday morning in Ashwaubenon. A semi and two S-U-V's were involved in the crash in the northbound lanes near Oneida Street. The driver of one S-U-V was killed. The other two drivers were ...

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Police Say Oconto Co. and Pulaski Robberies May Be Related

Published on November 2, 2009 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)

Authorities are trying to figure out if a string of gas station robberies in Oconto County and Pulaski are related. It started in September at the Brookside Shell in Abrams. Then, a robbery at the Pulaski Food & Gas in early October. Last Friday the North Chase Citgo on the corner ...

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