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- EPA workers are inside Lindey Cleaners this week. We look at how the clean-up process is going and what it means for the City of Rhinelander.
- A new type of foundation could give homebuilders a better and more efficient way of building homes. The idea and production of the improvement starts right here in the Northwoods. Coming up on Newswatch 12 you'll hear how the composite panels can help improve living conditions in basements, and how the panels compare to a tradition concrete foundation.
We'll have the details on those stories and more tonight on Newswatch 12 - news from where you live.
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RHINELANDER - Northwoods heat the past few days forced plants to endure different weather, but you don't need to do extra gardening just because it's hot.
Experts at Hanson's Garden Village in Rhinelander say plants can manage the heat just fine. On hot, sunny days, many plants will wilt, but that doesn't mean they need more water.
"If the soil is moist on a hot day, I wouldn't water more. That's probably more harm. The plant can only take up so much moisture at a time, so I would just hold off on watering," says Sue Hanson, Hanson's Garden Village Co-Owner.
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MILWAUKEE - Authorities are looking for a fourth suspect in a shooting on an interstate in Milwaukee County.
Sheriff David Clarke says people in a minivan and another vehicle were shooting at each other in a ``running gun battle'' on Interstate 43 Tuesday afternoon. One vehicle struck the other and the minivan spun into the ditch near Fox Point. Three people in the van were arrested. Authorities say a fourth person left the scene.
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ASHWAUBENON - The Lambeau Field area boasts Lombardi Avenue, Brett Favre Pass and Donald Driver Way.
Now, Packers coach Mike McCarthy will get his own street name near Lambeau Field.
The Ashwaubenon Village Board voted last night to change part of Potts Avenue to Mike McCarthy Way.
The village will work with the Packers to cover the costs of the address changes.
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RICE LAKE - A northern Wisconsin man probably could have found a better way to pay his court obligations.
The 19-year-old Rice Lake man told police he robbed a local bank to get money for court obligations...so he wouldn't go to jail.
The man was arrested last week.
He had been spotted running from the Sterling Bank in Rice Lake.
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MADISON -
A spokeswoman for Trek Bicycles says its full page newspaper advertisement complies with Wisconsin law and is constitutionally protected free speech.
The Wisconsin Republican Party on Tuesday filed a complaint with the state elections board saying the ad that ran Sunday in Madison and Milwaukee newspapers was an illegal campaign contribution to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke.
Her father started Trek and she formerly worked for the company.
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STAR LAKE - Two people nearly drowned in Vilas County today. A boater pulled a 47-year-old woman and an 8-year-old boy out of the water after they started drowning in Star Lake.
The Vilas County Sheriff's Office believes both went under water during a rescue attempt.
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