Elvis' Favorite Rollercoaster May Be Zippin' Into WI Submitted: 02/08/2010
TENNESSEE - If the mayor of Green Bay gets his way, the old wooden roller coaster Elvis Presley loved to ride will be rolling north.

Mayor Jim Schmitt and Green Bay's parks director Bill Landvatter were in Memphis Monday, looking over the Zippin Pippin, which is being dismantled.

A Tennessee newspaper says Schmitt won't tell the asking price, but says most of what he anticipates his city paying would be to move the coaster to Bay Beach Amusement Park.


It's being disassembled after the closure of Libertyland Amusement Park in 2005 and the planned redevelopment of the site.

Schmitt says he's talked to city engineers and said ``this can happen.''

Schmitt says he recommends his city to work diligently to get Pippin on the move.



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Governor Jim Doyle Attends an Asian Carp Summit in Washington Submitted: 02/08/2010

- Governor Jim Doyle took Wisconsin's Great Lakes concerns to the top dogs in Washington .

The Governor participated in an Asian Carp summit with President Obama's Chief Science Advisor, alongside the governors of Illinois and Michigan.

In a phone conference Governor Doyle said the Obama Administration will pledge between 75 and 80 million dollars in research and resources to stop the destructive carp from spreading into the Great Lakes.

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Sokaogon Chippewa Transit System Submitted: 02/08/2010

MOLE LAKE - A new Northwoods transit system is getting people where they need to go and giving a boost to the local economy.

The SCC Transit System is part of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's Supplemental Transportation Rural Assistance Program, or STRAP.

The system, which began in October, takes people from Mole Lake to stops in Crandon and Rhinelander, then back again for three dollars a ride.

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Lawmaker's Rhetoric Doesn't Match Reality Submitted: 02/08/2010

MADISON - A state lawmaker's rhetoric about the volume of complaints he's received from innocent people whose lives have been hurt by an online court database doesn't match reality.

Democratic Rep. Marlin Schneider of Wisconsin Rapids is a longtime critic of the database that provides information free to the public about court cases filed in Wisconsin.

But he admitted to The Associated Press that he was overstating his case when he said he has received hundreds of complaints.

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Veterans Tax Credit Submitted: 02/08/2010

RHINELANDER - Qualifying Wisconsin veterans are getting a break from the Badger State through a property tax credit.

Prior to the 2009 tax year, veterans who were 100 percent disabled under individual unemployability were not eligible for this property tax benefit.

They also had to be at least 65 years old, and have joined the military from Wisconsin. But this year is different.

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24 Freight Cars Derail in Southern WI Submitted: 02/08/2010

TOWN OF PLEASANT PRAIRIE - Police in Kenosha County say no one was hurt after about 24 Union Pacific freight cars derailed.

The incident happened just after 12:30 Monday afternoon in the Town of Pleasant Prairie.

Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis says 20 of the cars were empty, two were carrying wheat, one was carrying plywood and one was carrying potting soil.

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Man Dies After Truck Goes Through Ice on Fox River Submitted: 02/07/2010

BERLIN - A Wild Rose man has died after his truck went through the ice on Fox River in the city of Berlin.

Authorities say they got a call early Saturday about a truck in the river.

The truck was 10 to 15 feet from shore, and 45-year-old Kenneth Nigbor was inside.

Authorities pulled him from the truck, but he was unresponsive.

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No Search Sunday for Missing Snowmobiler Submitted: 02/07/2010

AFTON, MINNESOTA - Washington County authorities say there will
be no search Sunday for a man who may have been driving a snowmobile found in the St. Croix River.

Search efforts concluded Saturday night with no sign of the rider.

Searchers could not work Sunday due to environmental conditions.

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Two Found Dead in Milwaukee; Suspect in Custody Submitted: 02/07/2010

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee police are investigating the slayings
of a man and a woman whose bodies were found early Sunday.

According to a news release, police were called to a house in the 2300 block of S. 10th St. shortly before 1 a.m.

A suspect was arrested at the scene.

Details on the slayings were not being released, but police are calling the incident a double homicide.

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