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WI & Local News
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Governor Scott Walker has announced a nearly $13 million effort to boost walleye production.
Karen Merkel will be joining the FDL City Council.
The girlfriend of a Wausau man accused of providing the heroin that killed him has pleaded not guilty in Marathon County.
The Wisconsin State Patrol says aerial patrols helped catch speeders on Highway 41 near Oshkosh on Tuesday.
Today's 'Google doodle' is from a student in Wisconsin.
Fewer people plan to travel during the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.
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Market & Business News
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Wednesday the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 80.41at 15,307.17.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 13.81 at 1,655.35.
The NASDAQ Composite Index was down 38.82 at 3,463.30.
In commodity markets: Gold fell $11.27 to $1,365.10. Silver fell $0.15 to $22.30. Oil prices fell $1.96 to $94.22.
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Sports
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Carl Crawford and Scott Van Slyke drove in two runs each yesterday in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 9-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.
Milwaukee right-hander Kyle Lohse will miss his next scheduled start because of irritation in his pitching elbow.
The Brewers are planning to honor a Wauwatosa police officer who was gunned down on Christmas Eve while on duty.
The Milwaukee Wave indoor soccer team will stay in downtown Milwaukee.
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Pop News/Morning Java
Thursday May 23, 2013
Yes, that really was Warren Buffett at a Dairy Queen the other day in Ralston, NE, serving the new S'mores flavor Blizzard to help promote it. He's quite a fan. Even had on a Dairy Queen tie. Oh yes, and his company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns DQ.
Kellie Pickler won "Dancing with the Stars" this year. The two-hour live results show was up 44% from last week, but it was the lowest-rated finale for DWTS ever, down 13% from November, 2012 and down 21% from its last spring finale on May 22.
Aretha Franklin is taking the month of June off to rest and get a medical treatment (not specified), then will return to the concert trail in July.
Dean Jeffries has died at the age of 80. He was a specialty car designer and came up with the Monkeemobile for the 1960s TV show The Monkees, the original Green Hornet's Black Beauty and the MoonBuggy from the James Bond epic "Diamonds Are Forever."
The University of Michigan has taken their rivalry with Ohio State to an entirely new level. The school will now only use footballs in their games that are stamped, "Made in USA. Not in Ohio."
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Today's 'Google doodle' is from a student in Wisconsin. Sabrina Brady, a high school senior from Sparta, won an on-line voting contest. Her artwork will be featured on the Google search engine's home page. The contest was to draw 'your best day ever'. Sabrina's doodle showed her father coming home from a deployment in Iraq. Sabrina will attend Minneapolis College of Art and Design this fall. She gets a $30,000 scholarship from Google for winning this year's doodle contest.
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