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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Mega Millions kicks off

by WRN Contributor on February 2, 2010

Wisconsin joins 12 others states across the country tonight in the Mega Millions lottery drawing. Tickets went on sale in the Badger State Sunday, but lottery players have their first crack at the jackpot tonight. State Lottery director Mike Edmonds talked up the game at Ma & Pa’s on the “Miracle Mile” in Fond du Lac, which had a $208 million Powerball winner in 2006. He says it’s another game and another opportunity for lottery players. [click to continue…]

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UW student dies of bacterial meningitis

by WRN Contributor 02/2/10 5:00 PM

A University of Wisconsin-Madison student who contracted bacterial meningitis has died. Neha Suri died Tuesday with family and friends at her side. The Universitiy is remembering the journalism and political science major as a writer for the Daily Cardinal newspaper who was active in the campus arts scene, worked at a campus recreational facility and [...]

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Krazy Glue case concludes

by WRN Contributor 02/2/10 4:51 PM

A sticky case has been resolved in Calumet County court, where four women accused of gluing a man’s genitals to his stomach each recieved one year of probation. The women, 48-year-old Therese Ziemann of Menasha, 44-year-old Wendy Sewell of Kaukauna, 43-year-old Michelle Belliveau of Neenah, and 31-year-old Tracy Hood-Davis of Fond du Lac were all [...]

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Jimmy predicts early Spring

by WRN Contributor 02/2/10 12:26 PM

Sick of Winter yet? Wisconsin’s rodent prognosticator says we’ll all be able to put away the snow shovels soon. Sun Prairie Jimmy failed to see his shadow this morning, not surprising on a cloudy day with snow falling across southern Wisconsin. Nevertheless, Sun Prairie Mayor Joe Chase interpreted that to mean an early Spring, according [...]

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Uncertainty for district attorneys

by Bob Hague 02/2/10 11:06 AM

There’s a lot of uncertainty facing the state’s district attorneys. Layoffs are said to be “imminent,” even though, as Association of State Prosecutors President Catherine White notes, a contract was ratified and signed by the governor back in November. “The state budget didn’t fund the contract,” says White. “So now they’re laying people off to [...]

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