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			<title><![CDATA[Wild ride ends in arrest]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286676</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A 25-year-old Sun Prairie man was arrested on a variety of traffic offenses after he reportedly forced other cars off the road, including a deputy&#39;s squad car.  Peter Pratsch was tentatively charged with eluding and will be ticketed for reckless driving, passing into oncoming traffic, failure to stop at a stop sign and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended driver&#39;s license.  According to the Dane County Sheriff&#39;s Office, the incident started about 8 p.m. Thursday when ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-16T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Woman dies from car crash injuries]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286672</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A 30-year-old Jefferson woman died Thursday from injuries suffered in a car crash May 8.  Tricia Kerr died as a result of injuries in the two-vehicle crash on Ziebell Road in the town of Aztalan in Jefferson County.  According to the Jefferson County Sheriff&#39;s Office, Kerr was eastbound on Ziebell Road near Zabel Lane at 8:14 p.m. May 8, when she tried to avoid an oncoming Ford Expedition driven by Jennifer Yelk, 30, Lake Mills, since the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-16T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gas cost dips here, but hits new highs across state]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286671</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Madison gas stations broke the string of record high prices for regular unleaded Friday as the average gallon price dropped a penny from $3.81 to $3.80, but that was the only bright spot in the state as new record high prices were reported across Wisconsin.  AAA Wisconsin said the average statewide price for regular unleaded is now at a record $3.85 a gallon, up 0.6 cents from Thursday, with mid-range unleaded just below $4 at $3.997 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-16T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Weekend weather will be mostly nice]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286670</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The weekend is shaping up to be great for outdoor activities in south central Wisconsin.  There is a slight chance of rain later Friday afternoon or evening, but the day will be mostly sunny and pleasant with a high of 72.  Weather Central meteorologist Brian Olson said Saturday will be mostly to partly sunny and windy with a high of 67 while Sunday will be partly sunny and cool with a high of 62.  The National Weather Service ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-16T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Men charged in construction site burglaries]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286633</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Two men who were caught trying to break in to the Epic Systems construction site in Verona last year have been charged with eight more burglaries at area construction sites and a third men has been charged with helping them in six of the burglaries.   Bradley S. Millette, 34, and Roy B. Waugh Jr., 22, both of McFarland, are charged with stealing thousands of dollars worth of tools and other items from the construction sites ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW chancellor search: Blank offers unique perspectives]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286621</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In the contest to be named the next chancellor at UW-Madison, Rebecca Blank is an outsider in more ways than one.  Of the four finalists to replace John Wiley as leader of Wisconsin&#39;s flagship university, Blank is the only one who has never spent at least a couple years in Madison -- although she was a visiting fellow at the UW in the fall of 1985.  Blank is also the only candidate who has significant experience working ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Police to meet with Marino family]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286605</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Madison Police Department, repeatedly criticized by a Madison family unhappy with the lack of progress in solving their son&#39;s murder, has offered to meet with the murder victim&#39;s father again next week.  Madison Police Chief Noble Wray and Assistant Chief Randy Gaber have invited Lou Marino, whose son Joel was murdered in his West Shore Drive home in January, to sit down with them Tuesday afternoon to discuss the case, the department said in a ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dane County Board chair expects 911 audit approval]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Dane County Board Chairman Scott McDonell said in a memo to county supervisors Thursday that he expects a June 4 meeting of the Executive Committee will approve an independent audit of the county&#39;s troubled 911 Center.   McDonell also used the memo to take a swipe at conservative supervisors who have called for a town hall meeting Monday night in Fitchburg to explore problems which have emerged in the system during the investigation of a Madison ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Activists protest proposed coal plant]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286589</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Protesters demonstrated&nbsp;Thursday against a coal-powered power plant proposed by Alliant Energy Corp. at Cassville, heartened by an environmental impact statement by state officials that said the proposed plant was &quot;not the least cost option under any scenario.&quot;  That statement, in a draft EIS by the Public Service Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, fueled protests by more than 70 environmentalists -- some on bicycles -- chanting &quot;No more coal,&quot; prior to Alliant&#39;s annual shareholder meeting ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anita Weier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Green-certified vet clinic to hold open house]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286586</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Care, which touts itself as the first green vet clinic in the nation, will hold an open house Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to highlight its green features.   The facility is on the far west side at 1848 Waldorf Blvd., one-quarter mile east of County M, just off of Midtown Road.  GOOGLEMAP2[310|maps.google.com/maps?f=q:hl=en:geocode=:q=1848+Waldorf+Blvd.,+Madison,+WI:sll=37.0625,-95.677068:sspn=35.684144,65.302734:ie=UTF8:s=AARTsJpF141pmfkXg3Ii2G2uJXrWGpJyOA:ll=43.034455,-89.52467:spn=0.009724,0.017166:z=15:iwloc=addr:output=embed]  Veterinary Specialty said its building qualifies for a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Certificate. The ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sixth Democrat enters Assembly race for Travis&#39; seat]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A Hmong activist and restaurant owner has added his name to the already crowded field of candidates vying for the 81st Assembly District.  Peng Her is the sixth Democrat seeking the seat, which will be open for the first time in 30 years. Incumbent Rep. Dave Travis, D-Madison, has said he won&#39;t seek re-election. The district is considered solidly Democratic and no Republicans have filed to run for the seat.   The district encompasses north Madison, the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Elbow]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stolen Chihuahua returned to owners]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286580</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A Chihuahua named Swiper who was tied up outside the Dollar General Store in Sun Prairie was swiped earlier this month, but the tale has a happy ending since the swiper turned in Swiper&nbsp;to a veterinary clinic after learning the police had been called.   According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday, a customer at the store tied her pet up outside the store on May 4 while she and her family went in to shop.  When ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Teen faces prison time for shooting in love triangle]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286576</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Continuing conflict over the attentions of a young woman led to the shooting of one teen outside the Mental Health Center of Dane County two weeks ago and has left another facing serious prison time for attempted murder.   Cash bail of $40,000 was set Thursday for Michael T. Thomas, accused of firing the shots the evening of April 30 which wounded Tyrone E. Wheeler as he was standing near the Mental Health Center. While both ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lawyer: California ruling won&#39;t affect challenge to gay marriage ban here]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286573</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Though hailed as a major gay rights victory, Thursday&#39;s ruling by the California Supreme Court overturning that state&#39;s gay marriage ban will likely have no effect on the current challenge to Wisconsin&#39;s gay marriage ban, says a local attorney working on the case.   &quot;It has no bearing,&quot; said Tamara Packard, who is one of the attorneys representing William McConkey, a college instructor who filed suit against the state in July saying Wisconsin&#39;s constitutional ban on ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Judith Davidoff]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Downtown traffic delays due to memorial service expected]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286534</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Downtown motorists should expect traffic delays Thursday afternoon at rush hour due to the memorial service scheduled at Monona Terrace for Dr. Darren Bean and pilot Steve Lipperer, two of the three UW Hospital Med Flight crew members killed Saturday night in a helicopter crash near La Crosse.  No parking will be allowed on East Wilson Street between King Street and South Hamilton Street from 1 p.m. to about 8:30 p.m. Several emergency vehicles and funeral ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[11 Madison-area students win at National History Day]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286562</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A group of 11 Madison-area students won events in various categories at the state finals of National History Day and will represent Wisconsin June 13-15 at the national competition in College Park, Md.  Based on the theme titled &quot;Conflict and Compromise in History,&quot; students went head-to-head against each other in junior and senior levels by creating Web sites, exhibits and documentaries, writing papers and organizing performances.  The event is sponsored by the Wisconsin Historical Society and the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Madison resident a Braille Challenge finalist]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286560</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Madison resident Amelia King was announced as a finalist in a competition associated with the International Braille Challenge.  King, 16, who is a finalist in the event for a second time, won the competition in 2004. She is a sophomore at the Wisconsin School for the Visually Handicapped in Janesville and has been a student at Madison Memorial High School.  Students in the competition are judged on reading comprehension, proofreading, spelling and diction skills, in addition to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Doyle to again propose hospital tax]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286559</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle today told members of the Wisconsin Hospital Association that he plans again to propose a hospital tax that could bring hundreds of millions of federal dollars to state hospitals and provide the government with $125 million to help it through trying economic times.  &quot;We&#39;ll be putting forth a new budget next January for the next two years, and when we do we&#39;ll be working to make sure that that federal money is ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Elbow]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Killer Staskal not going to group home]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286543</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Mark Staskal will not be going to the Brighter Life Living adult home after all.  Staskal, 44, the man who killed his sister 23 years ago and has been given his release from Mendota Mental Health Institute, was set to go to the home at 924 E. Mifflin St. by order of Rock County Circuit Judge Michael Byron, but Ald. Brenda Konkel was told Thursday by the Department of Health and Family Services that Staskal will ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[State unemployment down in April]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286541</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Warmer weather for construction work and strong exports by manufacturers resulted in a drop in the unemployment rate in Wisconsin in April.  The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April was 4.3 percent, a half-percentage point lower than the 4.8 percent rate in March and eight-tenths of a percentage point lower than the 5.1 percent rate in April 2007.  Without factoring in seasonal jobs, the unemployment rate in April was 4.4 percent, down 1.2 percentage points from March ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reaction sour to Royster-Clark coal storage idea]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286540</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ An area businessman envisions the former Royster-Clark fertilizer plant on Madison&#39;s east side as a coal and rock salt storage and distribution point.  Paul Tesmer, president of Capitol Warehousing Corp. in the town of Windsor, said this week he would like to used domed storage areas at the site to store and transfer rock salt for area municipalities and coal for the University of Wisconsin&#39;s Charter Street heating plant.  Tesmer stressed he had not yet approached the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW-Madison chancellor search: Mulcahy says UW can&#39;t rest on laurels]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286431</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ If you are in the camp that believes all is well at UW-Madison, Tim Mulcahy may not be the perfect fit to replace John Wiley as the next chancellor.  Mulcahy, who spent 20 years at UW-Madison before leaving to become vice president for research at the University of Minnesota in February of 2005, isn&#39;t afraid to note that he&#39;ll be asking some tough questions and pushing for plenty of change, if needed, should he be appointed ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[HospiceCare event moved to Marriott]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286538</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The 30th anniversary celebration for HospiceCare is being moved from Monona Terrace to the Marriott Madison West hotel in Middleton Thursday night because of the memorial service at Monona Terrace for Dr. Darren Bean and Steve Lipperer.  The HospiceCare event will begin at 6 p.m. at the hotel, 1313 John Q. Hammons Drive.  ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cop applauded for saving man from hanging self]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286536</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A Madison police officer is being nominated for a departmental life saving award for his quick action in preventing a man from hanging himself.  Officer Paul Fleischauer lifted the man hanging from a bannister in a home in the 2000 block of Londonderry Drive, allowing the man who was losing consciousness to get air.  Fleischauer responded to a frantic call for help at 1:51 a.m. Thursday from a woman who said the man was hanging from the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW-Platteville student appointed to regents]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286535</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Kevin Opgenorth, a student at UW-Platteville who recently returned to school after three years in the U.S. Army, was appointed to the University of Wisconsin System&#39;s Board of Regents by Gov. Jim Doyle on Thursday.  Opgenorth is replacing Thomas Shields as the non-traditional student representative. His appointment is effective June 9 and expires May 1, 2010.  Opgenorth is majoring in business administration and economics. Of the three years he spent in the Army, Opgenorth spent one year ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Man offers drink, is robbed]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286528</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A man offering to buy his knife-wielding robber a drink got slashed on the wrist and had his money taken.  Madison police reported the incident took place at 1:05 a.m. Thursday in a parking lot in the 500 block of State Street behind Uno&#39;s Restaurant.  The 55-year-old victim was walking across the parking lot when he was approached by the suspect, holding a knife and asking for money.  &quot;The victim declined to give him money but offered to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Theft at burned-out frat house alleged]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286516</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A man who allegedly tried to steal from the burned-out Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house on Langdon Street was arrested by Madison police Wednesday night.  Wilkie L. Johnson, 43, was tentatively charged with burglary, criminal damage to property, resisting an officer, obstructing an officer, unlawful trespass and a probation violation.  According to police reports, officers responded at 6:42 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a burglar inside the house at 237 Langdon St. and found the suspect ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Burning pizza boxes, mail cause house fire]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286505</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A fire that caused $150,000 in damages to a downtown residence Wednesday started when a resident burning mail and pizza boxes in a fireplace pushed the burned debris down an ash chute, with the debris landing on items in the basement.  Madison Fire Department officials determined the fire at 125 S. Hancock St. was accidental.  The ash chute emptied into an ash trap in the basement of the home, but there was no cover installed on the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charter to track customer browsing; pilot program outside Wisconsin]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286500</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Charter Communications is preparing to begin testing a program under which it will track the browsing habits of its high-speed Internet customers in order to send them targeted ads, providing a new revenue stream for the company but raising privacy and legality concerns.   The program was reported Tuesday by Broadbandreports.com and confirmed Thursday by Ted Schremp, senior vice president of Product Management &amp; Strategy for Charter.   Schremp said in an e-mail interview Wednesday that ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Richgels]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Deputy saves inmate]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286499</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A Dane County sheriff&#39;s deputy saved a choking inmate in the county jail Wednesday morning by using the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge a piece of bread in the inmate&#39;s throat.  The 29-year-old inmate was eating breakfast in a &quot;pod&quot; jail area at the Public Safety Building. A pod can hold 48 inmates, supervised by one deputy.  The deputy saw the inmate gasping for air, so he quickly assessed the inmate was choking on a piece of bread ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Developer that lost building deal can&#39;t sue state]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286491</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A developer that claims it lost a major building contract for political reasons cannot sue Gov. Jim Doyle&#39;s administration for damages.  The District 4 Court of Appeals has upheld a judge&#39;s dismissal of the lawsuit by Prism, which was a bidder on a $68 million construction project at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  Prism claims it won the contract after a competitive bidding process in 2003. But the following year, the state issued a new request for proposals and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Four arrested in store holdup]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286486</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Four men have been arrested in connection with a holdup early Monday morning at the Lake Oasis Truck Stop near Lake Mills in Jefferson County.  Brandon Reynolds, 19, Chicago, Troy Waite, 19, Sun Prairie, Andre Saffold, 18, Sun Prairie and Jesse Brown, 18, Sun Prairie were arrested following the holdup which happened at 1 a.m. Monday morning,  According to the Jefferson County Sheriff&#39;s Office, two suspects with handguns held up the store, taking more than $500 before ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin 78 closed Friday]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286484</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A six-mile stretch of Wisconsin 78 between Blanchardville and County H in Dane County will be closed starting Friday for a major reconstruction project.  The first part of the project includes grading for new pavement, installing new storm sewers and culverts, curb and gutter and signage.  The initial construction should end by Nov. 1, and final work on the project will be completed in spring 2009.  Through traffic on Wisconsin 78 will be detoured to County F and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin pols OK Great Lakes pact; now it goes to gov]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286482</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Wisconsin lawmakers finally ratified an interstate treaty that is designed to block arid states from getting access to Great Lakes water.  The Great Lakes Compact now goes to Gov. Jim Doyle, who is expected to sign it, making Wisconsin the fifth Great Lakes state to approve the treaty.  Legislators called the compact historic, saying it would preserve the Great Lakes and protect Wisconsin businesses and cities that depend on Great Lakes water for years to come.  &quot;We see ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Controversial tax exemption for low-income housing providers survives in budget bill]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286409</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A provision included in the budget repair deal passed by the state legislature this week has taxpayer advocates, legislators and city officials scratching their heads because nobody seems to know who put it there or what it will do.  The provision, inserted quietly in a legislative proposal to fix a $527 million hole in the budget, would expand property tax exemptions for low-income housing, but would have no effect on the state&#39;s budget because the provision ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Elbow]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[School Board&#39;s Carstensen gets fond farewell]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286478</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ More than 100 friends, colleagues, family members and parents showed up at a farewell party Wednesday at Olbrich Gardens to say goodbye and thank you to Carol Carstensen, who served six terms on the Madison School Board and stepped down after the spring elections.  &quot;There will never be another Carol Carstensen. I will predict that,&quot; said School Board member Johnny Winston Jr. &quot;There will never be another School Board member in this community that will serve ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Samara Kalk Derby]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Regular gas close to $4 in Milwaukee]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286477</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Regular unleaded gasoline is nearing $4 a gallon in the Milwaukee metropolitan area as gas and diesel prices broke all-time highs Thursday across Wisconsin, continuing a string of records being set every day.  All grades were up an average of three cents a gallon from Wednesday, according to the AAA Wisconsin daily fuel gauge report.  The statewide average for regular unleaded gasoline is $3.84 a gallon, mid-range $3.99 a gallon, premium $4.17 a gallon and diesel $4.44 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Memorial Day travel expected to decline]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286472</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ With gasoline and airfare prices going up, the number of Americans traveling Memorial Day weekend is expected to go down for the first time in 10 years.  AAA released its Memorial Day travel report Thursday, predicting a .9 percent decrease in travel for the Memorial Day holiday as 37.9 million Americans travel 50 miles or more from home.  About 31.7 million will travel by car, a 1 percent decrease from last year and 4.4 million will travel ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Weather looks good for weekend]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286471</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Calm wind, clear skies and temperatures around 40 combined to produce some areas of frost overnight, but Thursday will turn out to be a very nice spring day with temperatures in the upper-60s under mostly sunny skies.  The weekend forecast from Weather Central meteorologist Brian Olson is a good one.  Friday will be partly sunny with a high of 70, a shower possible at night then partly sunny Saturday and Sunday with highs of 68 on Saturday ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Driver injured when van crashes into home]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286435</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Dane County Sheriff&#39;s Lt. Brian Hayes said the accident occurred about 3:40 p.m. when Thomas H. Thousand, 54, of Dane, was heading northbound on J and his 2001 Chevy Van when he lost control of the vehicle, and left the road and crashed into the garage portion of a home at 4168 County Highway J.   The home owner was home at the time of the crash but was not injured, although the home sustained extensive ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fire damages house on S. Hancock Street]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286432</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Fire damages house on S. Hancock Street  Fire caused extensive damage to the interior of a house at 125 S. Hancock Street in Madison Wednesday evening.   The Madison Fire Department was called to the scene shortly before 6 p.m. after one of the four residents of the building opened the garage door to find smoke, said Fire Department spokesperson Bernadette Galvez.   Although the fire was put out at 6:12 p.m. after being &quot;chased&quot; up through walls ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Madison man sent back to prison for selling drugs]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286427</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A Madison man who was still on extended supervision for selling drugs was put in federal prison for more than six years Wednesday for selling drugs again after he got out of prison.   James Sanderson, 47, was given a 77-month sentence by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb for distributing crack cocaine and must also serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.   Sanderson was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Jan. 21, ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&#39;Bandana Bandits&#39; charged in federal court]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286426</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Two men suspected of being the &quot;Bandana Bandits&quot; who staged holdups at various businesses on East Washington Avenue the past several weeks have been charged in federal court for their last two heists, according to the U.S. Attorney&#39;s office.   Curtis J. Langlois, 27, and Scott Andruss, 18, were both arrested by Madison Police after they allegedly tried to rob the Red Roof Inn on Hayes Road on May 8, followed with a robbery at the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dane County Board members announce public hearing on 9-1-1 center issues]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286425</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Three members of the Dane County Board plan to hold a public hearing Monday night in Fitchburg on the problems plaguing the Dane County Public Safety Communications Center and have invited top officials to attend and speak to the crowd.   Dane County Supervisors Ronn Ferrell, District 15, Eileen Bruskewitz, District 25, and Jack Martz, District 33, will co-chair the event, which is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Fitchburg Community Center at 5510 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dane County Board members announce public hearing on 9-1-1 center issues]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286425</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Three members of the Dane County Board plan to hold a public hearing Monday night in Fitchburg on the problems plaguing the Dane County Public Safety Communications Center and have invited top officials to attend and speak to the crowd.   Dane County Supervisors Ronn Ferrell, District 15, Eileen Bruskewitz, District 25, and Jack Martz, District 33, will co-chair the event, which is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Fitchburg Community Center at 5510 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin&#39;s budget passes Assembly, heads to Doyle]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286424</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Gov. Jim Doyle now gets his chance to change a bill intended to fix the state&#39;s $527 million budget shortfall.  The budget bill cleared the Republican-controlled Assembly on Wednesday, the day after it passed the Democratic-led Senate.  Doyle is expected to issue his vetoes within days. He&#39;s already said he&#39;s unhappy with major parts of the plan, including a $125 million delay in school aid payments and a $209 million refinancing of tobacco bonds.  &quot;The governor does not ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Edwards backs Obama]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286419</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a move designed to help solidify support for the party&#39;s likely presidential nominee even as Hillary Rodham Clinton refuses to give up her long-shot candidacy.  Edwards made a surprise appearance with Obama in Grand Rapids, Mich., as the Illinois senator campaigns in a critical general election battleground state.  The endorsement came a day after Clinton defeated Obama by more than 2-to-1 in the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Drunk driver a no-show in court]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286416</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ More arrest warrants were issued today for a man charged with third time drunk driving and a host of related charges when he was stopped on the Beltline going just 20 miles per hour on a Friday afternoon, and was released from jail after giving police a phony name.   Jorge Dominguez-Flores, 23, of Madison, failed to show up Wednesday for his scheduled court appearance on the third time drunk driving charge, and separate charges of ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&#39;Jeopardy&#39; experience a dream come true for UW-Madison student]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286414</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ She knew her Brewers, Bucks and Packers. She even surprised herself by knowing Flavor Flav.  But a bit of history that involved President John Tyler and Texas stumped Suchita Shah, and the UW-Madison senior saw her run on &quot;Jeopardy!&quot; end in a semifinal that aired on Wednesday. By making it that far, she won $10,000 at the college tournament that was filmed at the Kohl Center last month.  &quot;I was wavering between California and Texas at the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Burns]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Doyle says new group will cut race gap in criminal system]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286389</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ MILWAUKEE -- A newly created commission will ensure that recommendations to reduce the racial gap in the state&#39;s courts and prisons are put into place, Gov. Jim Doyle said.  Wisconsin has ranked at or near the top of national lists in terms of disproportionate representation of minorities in the corrections system, Doyle said.  &quot;We should be very sobered by our comparison to other states in terms of racial disparity,&quot; Doyle said at a news conference in Milwaukee. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tenney-Lapham residents want answers regarding release of Staskal to neighborhood]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286385</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The president of the Tenney-Lapham Neighborhood Association is asking for an informational session about the pending release of a man who killed his sister to a group home a half block away from Lapham Elementary School.  Patrick McDonnell said neighborhood residents and parents of the schoolchildren want answers concerning Mark Staskal&#39;s pending release from Mendota Mental Health Institute to the group home located at 924 Mifflin St.  Staskal, 44, was found not guilty by mental disease or ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW climatologist&#39;s research leads to polar bears being listed as threatened species]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286384</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Department of the Interior has listed the polar bear as a threatened species, the first major listing based largely on the effects of climate change.  The decision announced Wednesday by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was based in large part on research by University of Wisconsin-Madison climatologist Eric DeWeaver.  DeWeaver used climate models to predict how global changes in coming decades will likely affect the Arctic, particularly with regard to summertime sea ice, a critical part ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anita Weier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama snags another Wisconsin superdelegate -- a UW senior]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286358</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama may have lost West Virginia&#39;s primary on Tuesday, but he won an online &quot;contest&quot; that has yielded him a pair of additional delegates to this summer&#39;s Democratic National Convention.  And that&#39;s got the senator from Illinois personally welcoming a University of Wisconsin student as his latest delegate catch.  Two weeks ago, the president and vice president of College Democrats of America -- both convention superdelegates -- posted a YouTube video that asked young people to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Man shot in robbery attempt]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286373</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A man was shot in the leg early Wednesday morning after being chased by a would-be armed robber.  According to Madison police, the 31-year-old victim was found at a local hospital by police after he drove himself there for treatment. He was treated and released.  The victim told police he was in the 5000 block of Camden Road at Hobb Street around 12:04 a.m. when a man armed with a handgun tried to rob him.  &quot;The victim ran, ... ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW Health takes down Web site in Med Flight memorial mix-up]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286372</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Confusion over memorial funds for the three victims in Saturday night&#39;s Med Flight helicopter crash has prompted UW Health to take down a Web site initially set up for donations.  UW Health said would-be contributors were upset that money could be going to the UW Foundation and not according to the wishes of the victims&#39; families.  &quot;We&#39;ve pulled the information that could in any way be misunderstood,&quot; said UW Health spokesperson Lisa Brunette. &quot;It was never our ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bus rider followed home, robbed]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286370</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A robber claiming to have a gun followed a Metro bus passenger to her home Tuesday night, and when she told him her money was inside the home, followed her into the residence.  Madison police reported the incident took place Tuesday about 10:46 p.m. in the 400 block of North Segoe Road.  The 24-year-old victim left a Metro bus and started to walk home, while the suspect who was on the same bus followed her.  &quot;The perpetrator first ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Two new Mexican restaurants to open in Fitchburg]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286368</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ By summer, it will be even easier to get a burrito in Fitchburg.  Two new eateries featuring tacos, burritos, quesadillas, black beans, salsas and other favorites will be opening soon on opposite ends of McKee Road/Highway PD. Fitchburg is already home to several Mexican restaurants, including Casa de Lara and Qdoba.  A Laredo&#39;s restaurant, owned by partners Jose Onate and Julian Escamilla, will open at the end of June or beginning of July in the Yarmouth Crossing ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Troller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Baldwin calls for family/medical leave for part-time workers]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286364</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Family and medical leave would be extended to part-time workers employed at least 12 months by their employer, under legislation introduced by Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)  &quot;The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides a good and necessary benefit to some of our working families,&quot; Baldwin said in statement. &quot;It&#39;s imperative we make those benefits available to all our working families.&quot;  The original act, in place since 1993, provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Interstate delays likely due to Rock County road work]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286363</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Motorists on Interstate 39/90 in Rock County should expect delays Wednesday because of highway maintenance.  The Wisconsin Department of Transportation said work is being done in the westbound (northbound) lanes at the bridge over County M, about midway between Janesville and Newville near Lake Koshkonong.  One lane will be closed at a time, so traffic will be able to get through the construction area.  The work should be completed Wednesday and traffic back to normal Thursday.  ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[More weather radios will be for sale]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286340</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A second batch of weather hazard radios is now available through municipalities across Dane County, but won&#39;t be available at Madison Fire Department stations until June because the department-run sale needs to be approved by the Madison City Council.  Dane County Emergency Management bought 4,500 radios this time around, after the initial batch of 6,800 radios sold out.  The fire department&#39;s initial order of 1,500 radios was sold within 15 minutes at the city&#39;s 11 fire stations ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Many bus detours coming]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286317</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Road work and a bike race will force several Metro bus routes to take detours beginning Sunday.  The Willy Street Bike Race on Sunday will push buses off Williamson Street from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Routes 4 and 7 will detour via Baldwin Street, East Washington Avenue and First Street in both directions, but because of a tight turning condition at Winnebago and First, the southbound Route 4 and westbound Route 7 buses will detour ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gorham Street work set to start]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286295</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Reconstruction of East Gorham Street will disrupt commuter traffic beginning Monday, May 19, through Labor Day in September.  Gorham Street is a one-way westbound street into downtown from the eastern isthmus, so motorists will be detoured onto East Washington Avenue for the duration of the project.  Roadwork is scheduled on Gorham Street between North Baldwin Street and North Ingersoll Street May 19 to May 26, and between North Baldwin Street and North Livingston Street May 27 to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CEOs tout hard-working Wisconsin folks]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286146</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Given the weather, the wages and the layoffs, I wonder if the state&#39;s new business recruitment slogan &quot;Why Wisconsin&quot; isn&#39;t missing a question mark.  But officials with the Department of Commerce maintain there&#39;s no typographical error.  &quot;I&#39;m an optimistic individual and lots of companies here are doing extremely well,&quot; said Jack Fischer, who quietly took over as secretary of the state agency in November, replacing Mary Burke.  Six success stories are included in the new &quot;Why Wisconsin&quot; brochure. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ivey]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Farm report: Spring planting far behind schedule]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286294</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Minimal rainfall last week allowed Wisconsin farmers to get into their fields, but spring planting is still well below normal.  The Wisconsin Crop Progress Report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture said corn planting is now 29 percent complete, up 25 percentage points from a week earlier but still well below 65 percent complete at this time a year ago.  The rate of completed corn planting is at the lowest level at this time of the spring ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Regular unleaded gas price soars to $3.81 average]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286293</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The relentless surge in gasoline prices continued Wednesday as records continue to be set day after day.  The AAA Wisconsin daily fuel gauge report said the two grades used as benchmarks, regular unleaded and diesel, reached new heights, with the average statewide price for regular unleaded at $3.817 a gallon, up 1.4 cents from Tuesday, and diesel averaging $4.41 a gallon, up 1.2 cents.  Mid-range gasoline and premium gasoline also went up, with mid-range now at an ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cop &#39;feels great&#39; about her lifesaving role at frat]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286292</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Madison Police Officer Angie Dyhr realizes that had she happened upon the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity fire even five minutes later, the result could have been devastating.  Dyhr, 33, a mother of three, was patrolling Langdon Street in her squad car when she noticed what appeared to be a campfire or a grill fire in the back of 237 Langdon St.   So she pulled in the driveway and notified dispatch right away.   Two weeks earlier she ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Samara Kalk Derby]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Teen arrested in West Wash shooting]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286291</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A 17-year-old Madison youth has been arrested and tentatively charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the shooting of a 19-year-old man last month.  Michael &quot;Mikey&quot; T. Thomas was arrested Monday and is being held in the Dane County Jail.  The shooting took place April 30 outside the Mental Health Center of Dane County facility, 625 W. Washington Ave., shortly before 6 p.m.  The victim had been at the center and was waiting for a ride outside when ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pro-Life Wisconsin joins national protest to end legal access to birth control]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286148</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In recent years, some anti-abortion advocates have turned their attention to birth control -- not as a means to reduce unplanned pregnancies, but as another target of protest.  One of the most fervent anti-contraception crusaders is Pro-Life Wisconsin, which believes virtually all forms of birth control can cause a &quot;chemical abortion&quot; by preventing an already fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall.  The Brookfield-based group, along with the American Life League and Pharmacists for Life International ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Judith Davidoff]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Anyone there? Disconnected call to 911 wasn&#39;t returned]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286171</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Joe Norwick prefers talking about how, since becoming Dane County&#39;s 911 Center director in July, he&#39;s slashed overtime by 50 percent, added 10 new staff members and moved ahead with more than $30 million in upgrades to a highly complex computer, radio and telephone emergency network serving more than 400,000 county residents.  What Norwick doesn&#39;t like talking about is how often his dispatchers skirt a county policy requiring them to verify -- with a follow-up call ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan J. CompCorrespondent for The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Correction: 911 center staffing]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286290</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In Tueday&#39;s CapTimes.com story about improvements made at the Dane County 911 center, County Board supervisor Brett Hulsey wanted to clarify the 911 center doesn&#39;t have a total of 12 communicator positions, but that the center is staffed with 12 communicators and one supervisor during peak times. The 911 center has more than 70 staff members.  ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Homeless advocate for themselves, but does it work?]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286125</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A dozen of them sit huddled together against the chill on a recent Friday in the Brittingham Park shelter -- schooled in bracing against the wind by stints of living on the street -- to hear about the neighborhood&#39;s reaction to their presence.  People -- mothers -- say they&#39;re scared, reports Aaron Crandall, a founder of the newly formed Monona Bay Neighborhood Association.   &quot;You don&#39;t have any idea about our lifestyle,&quot; Robert McGee tells Crandall. &quot;Come ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Phil Woodman accused of trying to bust grocery workers union]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286149</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A move is under way to get rid of the long-established unions at area Woodman&#39;s grocery stores and union leaders are pointing the finger at owner Phil Woodman.  &quot;The question everyone is asking is why is Phil Woodman taking such an aggressive stance against his hard-working employees,&#39;&#39; said John Eiden, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1473, which represents Woodman&#39;s grocery workers and meat cutters.  A spokesman for Woodman says it&#39;s the workers themselves who ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Lundey]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Who calls the shots, UW or UW athletics?]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285898</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It&#39;s no secret that some on the UW-Madison campus believe the athletic department operates more like an autonomous empire than a subset of the university.  That friction got a public airing May 5 when Walter Dickey, associate dean of the UW Law School and chairman of the Athletic Board, which is charged with oversight of the athletic department, was challenged on the maverick ways of the athletic department while delivering his annual report to the Faculty ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nice weather rest of week]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286289</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Nice weather is expected in south central Wisconsin the next seven days, with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms Friday and Saturday.  Madison will start out cloudy Wednesday but the clouds will clear later, making for a sunny afternoon with a high in the low-60s.  For the rest of the week, temperatures will be close to seasonal normals, with highs in the mid- to upper-60s and lows in the mid- to upper-40s.  Tuesday&#39;s high in Madison was ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Criminal minds? Some say justice system fails inmates with fetal alcohol disorders]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285900</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Tyler Mills lost nearly 25 pounds over the course of three weeks, but his jailers didn&#39;t see anything alarming about that. It was his choice to stop eating, his choice to stop drinking, his choice to swallow the toothbrush that was lodged in his stomach.  Sauk County Jail officials deemed it a behavior issue, not a medical one. It could be handled with discipline -- solitary confinement, suspension of privileges, physical restraints.  On June 8, 2006, jail ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Elbow]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW-Madison chancellor search: Martin offers &#39;fresh pair of eyes&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286231</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Carolyn Martin knows UW-Madison.  She was a lecturer at the university in the early 1980s and earned her doctorate from UW-Madison in 1985 in German Literature.  Yet Martin, who has spent more than 20 years at Cornell University, an Ivy League school in Ithaca, N.Y., also brings an outsider&#39;s perspective in her quest to become UW-Madison&#39;s next chancellor.  &quot;It&#39;s always an advantage to know a place and to love a place, and then also to have had experiences ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fiscal bureau: State budget deal just delays problems]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286235</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The budget-balancing plan the Senate passed Tuesday would still leave the state nearly $1.7 billion short three years from now.  The nonpartisan legislative Fiscal Bureau delivered that news to Republican state lawmakers in two separate briefings just before the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 17-16 along largely partisan lines to pass it. Only Sen. Tim Carpenter, D-Milwaukee, broke party ranks to vote no.  The Republican-controlled Assembly planned to take up the bill to fix the current $527 million shortfall ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dead bats tested here for mysterious syndrome]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286175</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ About 100 bats that died of a mysterious syndrome in the northeastern United States are being analyzed at the U.S. Geological Survey&#39;s National Wildlife Health Center in Madison.  The illness, which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of bats found since March at more than 25 caves and mines, is referred to as &quot;white-nose syndrome&quot; because of a white substance on the muzzles and wings of dead and hibernating bats.  The condition was first observed in ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anita Weier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin: An affordable place to vacation]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286228</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Wisconsin usually seems to rank at the top of lists we don&#39;t like to be on, such as those tax comparisons, but the AAA is out with a new list in which the Badger State can be proud to rank in the lower half of the states.   The average daily costs for food and lodging for a family of four in Wisconsin is $206, which ranks 32nd in the nation in the AAA calculations, making ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Historic Utica Store set to close]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286192</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ After 136 years of serving southeastern Dane County, the Utica Store is closing its doors on June 1.  Maybe.  Barney Lambert and Jackie Sperle, who have operated this friendly store selling the essentials of life, are closing a 30-year chapter of their lives as owners, operators, counselors, advisers, sympathizers and providers to a unique community of farmers and rural residents.  The little store at the corner of County W and County B, about halfway between Stoughton and Cambridge, ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Oncken]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Madison man faces peeping Tom charges]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286227</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A Madison man who was ordered to stay out of the west side Wal-Mart after being caught there taking a picture of a 12-year-old girl as she was using the toilet, has now been banned from all shopping malls after having been seen peeking over a bathroom stall at a woman at the Westgate Mall.   Byron M. Mitchell, 19, was charged with attempting to make a nude picture and disorderly conduct in the Wal-Mart incident ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Home sales, prices continue to fall]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286182</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Even though the weather is warming, the tepid local housing market is showing little sign of heating up. But prices have fallen, giving hope that more buyers will be coming out of the woodwork this spring.  Sales in Dane County during the first three months of 2008 were down 27 percent from the same period a year ago, with the median sales price falling three percent as well.  The Wisconsin Realtors Association on Tuesday reported 906 sales ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ivey]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cop hailed for getting everyone out of frat]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286134</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The 25 students evacuated from the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity are being assisted Tuesday in finding temporary living quarters, and the police officer who pounded on the door of the house to awaken and then evacuate all inside is being nominated for a Madison Police Department life-saving award.  The fire destroyed the fraternity at 237 Langdon St., displacing the 25 students living there during finals week.  UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam said all of the young ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Protest planned at Alliant meeting]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286162</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Coal powered power plant protesters plan to picket the Alliant Energy shareholders meeting Thursday, citing the proposed plant in Cassville as a bad investment in Wisconsin&#39;s environment and economy.  The shareholders meeting is Thursday afternoon at the Alliant Energy Center.  &quot;Protesters are coming from all over Wisconsin and from Iowa as well,&quot; said Jennifer Feyerherm of the Sierra Club.  The Sierra Club and Clean Wisconsin are organizing the protest, which will include a two-story inflatable coal plant and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Inmate saved from suicide]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286164</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A Dane County sheriff&#39;s deputy stopped a jail inmate from committing suicide Monday night after finding the inmate with a sheet tied around his neck.  According to the sheriff&#39;s office, the incident happened about 11 p.m. Monday.  &quot;The deputy found the inmate attempting to strangle himself,&quot; said sheriff&#39;s office spokeswoman Elise Schaffer. &quot;He was able to untie the sheet from around the man&#39;s neck, enabling the inmate to get oxygen.&quot;  The inmate was conscious but turning blue and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Memorial service set for two of Med Flight victims]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286166</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A public memorial service for two of the victims of the UW Med Flight crash will be held on Thursday at 7 p.m. at Monona Terrace.  The service was organized by the families of Dr. Darren Bean and pilot Steven Lipperer. Also killed in the crash was flight nurse Mark Coyne, whose family has not yet announced plans for a service.  A memorial fund will be established in Bean&#39;s name, and Lipperer&#39;s obituary suggested that memorials be ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Man who killed sister to be released from Mendota]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286133</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A murderer who killed his sister 23 years ago has been cleared to be released from Mendota Mental Health Institute to a group home on Madison&#39;s east side.  Mark Staskal, 44, was granted his conditional release Tuesday by Rock County Circuit Judge Michael Byron to the Madison group home, about six months after he upheld Staskal&#39;s conditional release to an Eau Claire group home.  That move was opposed by area residents in Eau Claire as well as ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[County: &#39;We are making progress&#39; on 911 center]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286132</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In the wake of the Brittany Zimmermann phone call to the Dane County 911 center, staffing of the center has improved, and more equipment is coming, according to the chair of the committee overseeing the center.  &quot;The good news is we are making progress in the strategic plan for the 911 center,&quot; said County Board Supervisor Brett Hulsey. &quot;But questions remain on how we deal with hang-ups and how to educate people to take 911 off ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[School budget quietly OK&#39;d]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286119</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Madison Metropolitan School District budget for the 2008-09 school year was approved with little fanfare Monday at the School Board meeting at the Doyle Administration Building.  Despite the relatively simple approval, board members expect discussion of a referendum when Dan Nerad takes over for Art Rainwater as the new superintendent July 1, as the district faces a $9.2 million gap for the 2009-10 school year.  For the first time in 14 years, the projection for the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamira Madsen]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Squad car hit; alleged drunk driver arrested]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286109</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ An alleged drunken driver rammed a Fitchburg police squad car at about midnight Monday, with the suspect being arrested a short time later but not before hitting another car.  According to Fitchburg police reports, Andrejs Jakovlevs, 29, was arrested outside his house in the 1000 block of Hackberry Lane and tentatively charged with operating while intoxicated, fleeing an officer and two counts of hit and run.  Police said a Fitchburg officer observed Jakovlevs driving northbound in the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Another record for gas prices]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286101</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Gas prices keep rising, and the records keep falling.  AAA Wisconsin reported the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline reached $3.80 Tuesday, up two cents from the old record of $3.78 a gallon set Monday.  Diesel fuel also hit a new high Tuesday, averaging $4.38 a gallon in Wisconsin, up three cents from the record of $4.35 a gallon Monday.  Prices in all five metropolitan areas of Wisconsin broke records Tuesday.  The highest price for regular ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Spectating: Ch. 15 pulls plug on Wisconsin Sports Sunday]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286093</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Local sports fans are about to lose a major source of weekend news.  WMTV-Ch. 15 is canceling &quot;Wisconsin Sports Sunday,&quot; a weekly staple of local news and features hosted by sports director Robb Vogel for the past four years. The show&#39;s finale is set for June 15.  Vogel said that station management wants to focus its resources on the regular 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. broadcasts. While the cancellation will lighten the workload for Vogel and his ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Punzel]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New county initiative seeks jobs for teens, ex-offenders]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286089</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Jobs for young people and former offenders are the goals of two new initiatives from Dane County.  County Executive Kathleen Falk announced Monday the youth employment initiative will help middle and high school students 14 to 18 years old learn job skills and assist with job placement and mentoring services.  The initiative was recommended in 2007 by the Joint Gang Task Force.  &quot;This new effort will help keep young people who face so many challenges and outside influences ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tuesday night forecast: stormy weather]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286086</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A nice but breezy Tuesday will end with showers and thunderstorms late in the afternoon into Tuesday night, but the storms aren&#39;t expected to be severe.  Rainfall amounts could total up to a half-inch, according to the National Weather Service.  Rain will clear after midnight, paving the way for partly sunny but cool weather Wednesday through Friday.  The forecast for the weekend calls for mostly cloudy skies and a chance of showers Saturday.  Monday&#39;s high in Madison was 61 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fire in Middleton park]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286083</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Middleton firefighters are battling a blaze in a shelter in Lakeview Park, 6300 Mendota Ave.  A Middleton police officer said the fire is in the shelter near the baseball diamond.  Lakeview Park has an east and west shelter in the complex, one with a large meeting room and adjoining kitchen.  No occupants were inside the lodge, according to the officer.  ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Update: Frat fire cause unknown; damage estimated at $750,000]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286082</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Instead of cramming for finals, 25 members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity sat on a Metro Transit bus early this morning at the corner of Langdon and Frances streets keeping warm as dozens of Madison firefighters battled a massive fire that enveloped their fraternity house.   The fire department got the first call at 11:41 p.m. Monday after a city of Madison police officer noticed a glow that she thought was a grill at the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Samara Kalk Derby]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Search warrant details man&#39;s firefighting fascination]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286032</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Dane County Sheriff&#39;s deputies found all kinds of firefighting and emergency medical equipment in a home between McFarland and Stoughton when they executed a search warrant Friday which alleges the home owner often poses as a firefighter, usually as one from the town of Blooming Grove.  Sheriff&#39;s Detective David Lambrecht said in an affidavit for the search warrant that an investigation into the 24-year-old&#39;s fascination with being a firefighter found &quot;over 30 documented instances,&quot; where the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW-Madison chancellor search: Sandefur stresses relationships]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286028</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ If Gary Sandefur earns the nod as the next chancellor of UW-Madison, the soft-spoken dean of the UW&#39;s College of Letters and Sciences hopes to build a better university one relationship at a time.  &quot;I think building relationships is something that is very important for the next chancellor, no matter who that person is,&quot; Sandefur said during a news conference Monday at the Memorial Union. &quot;I would want to try and build relationships not only with ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Man given probation on child porn charges]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286023</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Most child pornography cases result in jail or prison time, but a Madison man who everybody agreed has a good chance of rehabilitation escaped that Monday when he was put on probation for six years.  Brian Riha, who at the time was residing in Sun Prairie, was arrested late last year after a break-up with his girlfriend. As she was going through various CDs and DVDs to take her own with her when she left the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Group calls for condemnation of hate messages]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286021</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Hate crimes must not be met with silence, members of Communities United said Monday in issuing a call for the community to join them in proclaiming &quot;not in our town.&quot;  A statement recounting the historical silence of others as Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany and set up death factories that murdered millions of Jews in mid-20th century Europe asserts that &quot;Communities United will not stand silent today.&quot; The group invites people of varied backgrounds ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Day care operator pleads guilty to running center without license]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286020</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The operator of a child care center where a 4-month-old baby died last August has been found guilty of four misdemeanor counts of operating a child care center without a state license.  In a court hearing last Friday, Kristy Kaltenberg, 26, entered guilty pleas to the four counts after investigators found her to be operating without a license on Aug. 29, Sept. 24, Jan. 14, and March 13.  Under state law an unlicensed provider can care for ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bean was pioneer in resuscitation efforts]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286019</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Although the loss of Dr. Darren Bean will be felt deeply at the Madison Fire Department, his commitment to cutting edge, life-saving programs will live on, vows Jim Keiken, assistant chief of planning and training for the department.  &quot;We&#39;re going to continue to strive to make his vision a reality,&quot; Keiken said Monday. &quot;And make it a vision for other people on how a regional cooperative EMS system could work.&quot;  Bean, who has served as the Madison ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Lundey]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[West side murder suspect nabbed in Chicago]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286018</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Long-sought murder suspect James P. Bohanan was arrested Monday afternoon in Chicago, the Madison Police Department said.  Bohanan, who celebrated his 35th birthday Friday, was arrested by a team of investigators from the U.S. Marshal&#39;s Service, the Great Lakes Regional Task Force and the Chicago Police Department&#39;s Fugitive Squad at about 1:30 p.m. in a Chicago apartment.  Bohanan has been wanted since last summer, when he was accused of shooting and killing Kevin Cobbins, 26, at a ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Med Flight helicopter didn&#39;t have recommended safety gear]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286015</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The UW Med Flight helicopter that crashed near La Crosse did not have two pieces of safety technology recommended by the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration, but an official of the company that owned the craft said Monday it was installing them as quickly as it could on its 330-craft fleet.  Mike Allen, senior vice president at Denver-based Air Methods, said the helicopter was not equipped with a computerized voice system to warn ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Again seeking manager, water utility names two finalists]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=286001</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Two people have been named finalists in the second search to find a manager for the Madison Water Utility, after a previous attempt failed to find satisfactory candidates.  Just 15 applied, after a nationwide search, for the position that pays $89,103 to $120,287 annually. Last time, three finalists emerged from 14 applicants, but the city did not hire anyone.  The position is a vital one because city officials are struggling to restore trust in the utility after ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anita Weier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Children&#39;s museum details plans for new location]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285999</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Madison Children&#39;s Museum unveiled plans for its new home Monday to a crowd of local civic leaders who museum officials hope will help send its capital fund drive to the $10 million goal.  The popular downtown museum, now located at the top of State Street, will move to its new location at another corner of the Square as soon as J.H. Findorff &amp; Son remodels the 79-year-old, 41,570-square-foot building that was a gift from W. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Doyle not happy with state budget deal]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285980</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Gov.
Jim Doyle hinted today that a budget repair compromise proposed by
legislative leaders may be a target for his veto pen, which despite a
recently enacted constitutional amendment scaling back his veto powers,
is nonetheless a force to be reckoned with. &quot;I think I&#39;ll have plenty of veto power left,&quot; he said.  Assembly
Speaker Mike Huebsch and Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker earlier in
the day announced a budget repair compromise to fix the state&#39;s $527
budget deficit. The plan would add $69 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Elbow]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hwy. 92 closed in Mt. Vernon]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285986</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Wisconsin 92 in Mt. Vernon is closed and will be closed through Wednesday so contaminated soils can be removed from an old gas station site.  GOOGLEMAP2[310|maps.google.com/maps?f=q:hl=en:geocode=:q=state+road+92,+Mt.+Vernon,+WI:sll=37.09024,-95.712891:sspn=35.684144,65.302734:ie=UTF8:s=AARTsJoPm7v3Dib8zrdY5DWijNSjqyVD5A:ll=42.948633,-89.66114:spn=0.077903,0.137329:z=12:output=embed]  Dane County highway superintendent Steve Haag said the work is being done by a private contractor in conjunction with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.  The highway is closed in the short stretch in town where County G follows the same path as Wisconsin 92.  A detour route is marked at the site. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charter loss narrows, but misses analysts&#39; forecasts]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285977</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ST. LOUIS -- Charter Communications Inc. reported Monday that its first-quarter loss narrowed on higher revenues as it benefited from a 13 percent increase in average revenue per user and strong growth in subscribers to its various services.  Charter, the dominant cable provider for the Madison area, posted a loss of $358 million, or 97 cents per share, after losing $381 million, or $1.04 per share, in the year-ago period. Revenues grew 10 percent to $1.56 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Staff/news services]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bodacious Boutique to close]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285970</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Monroe Street will lose a women&#39;s clothes shop this month when Bodacious Boutique closes its doors.  Store owner Sheryl Batten said her lease is up at 1719 Monroe St. and she has decided to retire.  &quot;I had a great run,&quot; Batten said of her newest venture. &quot;I had great fun and Monroe Street is an absolutely great place to be. But it&#39;s just that my lease is up and I&#39;ve made the decision that I&#39;m going to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynn Welch]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Man chased and arrested]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285969</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A 48-year-old Madison man fled from police wanting to question him about a disturbance at the Ohio Tavern Friday night, but he was captured and arrested a short time later with the help of the Madison Police K-9 unit.  Gary Cox was tentatively charged with domestic battery, domestic disorderly conduct, resisting/obstructing an officer and a parole violation.  According to the incident report, Madison police responded to a disturbance at the tavern, 224 Ohio Ave., at 8:16 p.m. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[General manager buys local video and film production firm]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285956</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Long-time Madison-based video and film production company Provideo of Wisconsin Inc. announced Monday that it has been purchased by Jim Stiener, the company&#39;s general manager, putting it back in local hands.  Steiner completed the purchase from Quincy Newspapers Inc. on May 1. Terms were not disclosed.  Provideo was founded in 1985 and Stiener joined the company is 1989 after graduating from UW-LaCrosse.  Stiener said he isn&#39;t planning any major immediate changes, but feels the time is right to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Richgels]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Another day, another gas price record]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285954</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Gasoline prices continue to creep upward across Wisconsin, setting records today for the highest recorded average prices for a gallon of regular unleaded gas and a gallon of diesel fuel.  AAA Wisconsin&#39;s daily fuel gauge report shows the current average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is $3.78, up two cents from a day earlier. A gallon of mid-range gas is at $3.93 and premium unleaded is at $4.11 a gallon.  Diesel went up the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Local airport leader to speak May 20]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285952</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The status of the Dane County Regional Airport is the top of the monthly luncheon meeting of WIN-Madison on May 20.  Airport Director Brad Livington will discuss how the airport keeps Madison connected to the world during a challenging era for the airline industry, WIN said in its announcement. He will be joined by Ron McNeill, a former airline executive and now an airline industry consultant with Mead &amp; Hunt, and Michael Brophy, vice president for ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[DISH Network launching 22 more national HD channels]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285951</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- DISH Network Corp. on Monday began launching 22 additional high-definition national channels as part of its plans to reach 100 national HD channels by the end of the year.  DISH, which is trying to catch up to fellow satellite provider DirecTV and stay ahead of cable companies like Madison area provider Charter Communication in HD offerings, also has been adding local network affiliates in HD in many markets this year, including Milwaukee and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Richgels]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin lawmakers reach deal on $527M budget shortfall]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285941</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ MADISON, Wis.&nbsp;-- Wisconsin lawmakers say they have reached a deal to solve the state&#39;s $527 million budget shortfall.  Democratic Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker&#39;s office says a deal has been reached and details will be announced at a late Monday morning news conference in the Capitol  Republican Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch and Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Jim Kreuser of Kenosha are expected at the news conference.  Gov. Jim Doyle&#39;s spokeswoman did not immediately return a message seeking comment.  Doyle ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Another 11 a.m. homecoming game for UW]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285903</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ For the third straight year, the University of Wisconsin football team will kick off its homecoming game at 11 a.m.  The Badgers will host Illinois the morning of Oct. 25 at Camp Randall Stadium in a game that will be televised by either ESPN, ESPN2 or the Big Ten Network, UW announced Sunday.  Wisconsin also had 11 a.m. start times for homecoming against Minnesota in 2006 and Indiana in 2007.  The Illini handed Wisconsin its first loss of ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stoughton hate crime likely &#39;isolated incident&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285928</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The word &quot;Jew&quot; in large letters on a garage door in Stoughton is most likely an isolated incident and not connected to recent hate crime incidents in Madison or the Town of Windsor, according to a Stoughton police officer.  The latest incident was discovered Sunday morning.  &quot;It&#39;s probably an isolated incident,&quot; said Stoughton Police Officer Gary Morstad, the investigating officer in the incident. &quot;We haven&#39;t had any problems like this in the past.&quot;  Morstad said two other houses ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Avoid Dayton Street during student move out, commencement]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285901</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Move out week and commencement exercises at the Kohl Center will combine for a perfect storm of traffic this week on Dayton Street and the surrounding area on the eastern edge of the UW-Madison campus.  Motorists not involved in either the move out or graduation are asked to try to avoid driving in the area.  Three of the university&#39;s major dormitories, Ogg, Sellery and Witte Halls, are located on Dayton Street, so motorists helping students move out ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pleasant today, but cooler than normal most of week]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285888</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Below normal temperatures will dominate area weather this week, with a chance of storms Tuesday.  After a sunny and pleasant Monday with high in the low-60s, Tuesday will start out partly sunny, according to Weather Central meteorologist Brian Olson, then turn mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms later in the day into the night.  The rest of the week will be a mix of clouds and sun, highs in the low-60s and a chance of rain on ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW chancellor search heats up]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285840</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly last week announced the four finalists being considered for the position of chancellor at UW-Madison.  But the preliminaries are over.  Now is when the process to name John Wiley&#39;s successor truly begins to heat up.  Starting Monday and running through Thursday, each of the finalists to become the next leader of Wisconsin&#39;s flagship university -- with 40,000 students, 16,000 employees and an annual operating budget of $2.2 billion -- will interact ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Studies show hike in EMS aircraft crashes]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285826</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Twenty-three years of accident-free medical rescues by UW Med Flight ended in tragedy Saturday, with the fatal nighttime crash of an American Eurocopter EC 135 helicopter on a wooded bluff five miles outside downtown La Crosse on a return trip to Madison after ferrying a patient to a La Crosse hospital.  The craft lost contact with the airport shortly after take-off at 10:48 p.m. Killed in the crash were Dr. Darren Bean, nurse Mark Coyne and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nurse, EMS instructor Coyne &#39;really affected a lot of people&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285825</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Mark Coyne loved sailing, flying and Jimmy Buffett. But most of all, he loved teaching emergency medical services.  &quot;Just a couple weeks ago, we were both talking shop about EMS,&quot; said his friend, Todd Cole. &quot;He said, &#39;You know, I really make a difference with what I do. Teaching really means something. I&#39;ve really affected a lot of people.&#39;  &quot;I said, &#39;You absolutely have, Mark.&#39; It was one of those comments that was so true.&quot;  Coyne, 54, was ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Burns]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sheriff to swear in new deputies]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285823</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Dane County Sheriff David Mahoney will swear in 11 new deputies during a ceremony Monday.  The ceremony will take place at about 8:30 a.m. in the Public Safety Building, 115 W. Doty St.  The new deputies are: Donald Dudley, 21, DeForest; Dwight Schuster, 41, Sun Prairie; Tennita Funmaker, 24, Milwaukee; Kathryn Gove, 25, McFarland; Haley Collins, 21, Lansing, Mich.; Joshua LaFevre, 23, Alger, Mich.; Adam Mattson, 27, Sun Prairie; Corey Passer, 22, Milton; Jason Rudolph, 38, Madison; ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lipperer was Med Flight pilot for 8 years]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285822</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Steve Lipperer, the pilot of the Med Flight helicopter that crashed Saturday night near La Crosse, was recently married to Dr. Desiree La Charite, a Med Flight physician since 2001. The couple lives in the town of Westport.   Lipperer had been with Med Flight for eight years and had been a pilot for more than 20 years, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.  The plane crashed Saturday night about four miles from La Crosse. The two-man crew ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Samara Kalk Derby]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Doctor taught mayor, city officials on resuscitation technique]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285820</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Dr. Darren Bean spent time teaching cardiocerebral resuscitation to Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and members of the Madison City Council and Madison Rotary Club over the past six weeks.  Bean, along with nurse Mark Coyne and pilot Steve Lipperer, died in a Med Flight helicopter crash near La Crosse Saturday night, and Cieslewicz said he became acquainted with Bean and his work over the past year.  &quot;All three of the men dying is, of course, a terrible ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamira Madsen]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[North Street to be closed]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285819</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ North Street on the city&#39;s east side will be closed at 6 a.m. Monday as construction continues on the East Washington Avenue project. The closure will be between East Washington Avenue and East Johnson Street.   North Street will reopen later Monday, with off-peak lane closures to continue over the next couple of weeks.   Bus routes 5, 9, 56 and 57 will detour via East Washington Avenue and East Johnson Street during the closure. Passengers boarding ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dr. Bean was always busy, &#39;got so much done&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285817</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ To say Dr. Darren Bean was a high achiever would be an understatement.  Besides his role as a Med Flight physician for six years and the Madison Fire Department&#39;s medical director for the past 16 months, he was the director of ultrasound for the UW Hospital emergency department, according to UW Hospital&#39;s Web site. He was a member of the hospital&#39;s mulidisciplinary trauma committee and the Regional Trauma Advisory Committee.  An assistant professor with the UW School ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Elbow]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&#39;It&#39;s just terrible. It&#39;s such a loss.&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285807</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Thoughts and prayers are pouring in for the UW Hospital Med Flight crew of three killed Saturday night when the helicopter crashed on a bluff near La Crosse.   UW Health set up a tribute web site for Dr. Darren Bean, nurse Mark Coyne and pilot Steve Lipperer and as of 8 a.m. Monday, three dozen messages had been posted, many from colleagues at UW Hospital, as well as from hospitals around the state.   The ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamira Madsen, Steve Elbow and Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Home damaged in Dunkirk blaze]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285806</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Residents were evacuated Saturday night when a fire broke out at a home in the Town of Dunkirk near Stoughton.  Firefighters from the Stoughton Fire Department arrived at the home at 852 Collins Road at 9:45 p.m. and rescued the occupants. None were uninjured.  No cause for the fire has been determined, although damage to the house was significant.  The blaze is under investigation, but Dane County Sheriff officials said in a release that the fire does not ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&#39;MAMA&#39;s going to make it all all right&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285805</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Malfunctioning gear, squabbling bandmates, declining CD sales&nbsp;-- no matter what local musicians have to deal with, at least &quot;MAMA&#39;s going to make it all all right.&quot;  So sang the Gomers to kick off the fifth annual Madison Area Music Awards at the Barrymore Theatre on Saturday night, a chance for Madison musicians to honor each other and raise money for local music school programs. (The Capital Times&#39; 77 Square was a sponsor of the MAMAs.)  Last year, ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Thomas]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fire rips through southwest side home]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285801</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ No one was home early Sunday morning when a fire broke out at a residence on Madison&#39;s southwest side.  Just before 1:30 a.m. firefighters from the Madison Fire Department arrived at a home at 6521 Appleglen Lane and got the blaze under control at about 2 a.m.  Damage was estimated at $175,000.  The fire was discovered by an Alliant Energy employee who was sent to check on a power outage in the neighborhood. The worker saw the fire ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gloomy skies give way to sun]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285800</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ After a gloomy Mother&#39;s Day, this week will begin on a much brighter note.   Monday and Tuesday will be the two nicest days of the week with Monday being mostly sunny with the high temperature topping out at 65 degrees.   Thunderstorms are likely late Tuesday night, with showers sticking around early Wednesday.   Weather Central meteorologist Mike Stiller said wet weather will return later in the week. But he doesn&#39;t anticipate severe storms and says there ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mother&#39;s Day forecast: rain]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285739</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Taking your mother to brunch or planning an indoor celebration probably will be the best choice Sunday, as it appears Mother&#39;s Day will be wet and cool.   Rain began Saturday night, which also had a predicted low of 43 degrees.   Weather Center meteorologist Tom Carlson said temperatures Sunday will be chilly and top off at 54 degrees, 13 degrees below the normal of 67. It will also be breezy with a north wind between 15 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamira Madsen]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[State sends 1,000 letters to smokers, warns about Internet cigarette purchases]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285776</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The state&#39;s Revenue Department has sent out more than 1,000 letters this year to smokers who bought cigarettes online telling them to stop buying cigarettes that way or to pay the $1.77-per-pack state tax that&#39;s now in effect.  The letters could mean the smokers could be billed if their names show up as repeat buyers later.  The state said it got the names from Internet cigarette vendors after notifying 75 of them that a federal law makes ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW team soars to grand prize in NASA contest]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285773</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison earned grand prize honors in the 2008 NASA Means Business competition in Houston, Texas.  The annual competition, sponsored by NASA and the Coalition for Space Exploration, enlists college students to help NASA with promotional ideas. This year, participating teams were challenged to develop a program to help NASA share the innovation and technologies it creates to spur developments in research and commerce. The goal was to increase awareness that ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[April traffic deaths in state 2nd fewest since WWII]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285770</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The 37 traffic fatalities in the state last month were the second fewest in April since World War II, say preliminary statistics from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.  The safest month of April occurred in 1998 with 34 traffic fatalities, and the deadliest month of April was in 1973 with 113 fatalities.   This year&#39;s April statistics were down from last year, when 63 died in 54 crashes. This year&#39;s deaths were also 22 below the five-year ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[No surprises in school budget, but referendum looms]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285755</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Facing a possible referendum and $9.2 million hole for the 2009-10 school year, no major alterations are anticipated to the school 2008-09 budget that will be finalized Monday by Madison School Board members.  When new superintendent Dan Nerad starts in July, referendum discussion will come to the forefront for the Madison Metropolitan School District. If Board members decide to propose a referendum, which could occur as early as November, they will request taxpayers consider overriding state-imposed ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamira Madsen]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Two killed in Dodge County crash]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285749</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ BEAVER DAM&nbsp;-- A 41-year-old man and his 19-year-old son&nbsp;were killed and two women injured Friday afternoon when a car ran a red light at an intersection and struck another vehicle on County B, according to the Dodge County Sheriff&#39;s Department.  The car with two female passengers exited off ramp U.S. 151 and was traveling west toward County B in the town of Beaver Dam, when it failed to stop at a traffic light about 2 p.m. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Armed man robs east-side gas station]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285744</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A man with a handgun held up an east-side gas station Friday afternoon, then made his getaway on foot.  Police responded Friday afternoon just after 1 p.m. to the Mobil station located at 3505 E. Washington Ave.  The robber is described as black, with a heavy build, 5-foot-5 and about 25 years old. He was wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.  ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Radiothon raises over $600,000 for kids]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285743</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A&nbsp;grand total of $631,356 was raised over a three-day period in the &quot;Connie and Fish Champions for Kids Radiothon,&quot; a charitable benefit for American Family Children&#39;s Hospital, a Madison-area facility.  Hosts Connie and Fish from Z-104 FM announced the total Friday night at the conclusion of the event. A UW Health press release stated that $2.2 million has been raised since the annual broadcast event began four years ago.  According to the release, most listeners who made ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TV networks urged not to rush to Web]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285634</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ TV broadcasters and cable networks shouldn&#39;t abandon their traditional mode of business and rush to the Web, a new study reports.  &quot;There is no current economic rationale for broadcasters and cable networks to abandon traditional TV or attempt to accelerate a transition to a total online model,&quot; Convergence Consulting Group&#39;s sixth annual &quot;The Battle for the North American Couch Potato&quot; report states. &quot;To do so would put $66 billion in traditional TV advertising revenue and $30 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Richgels]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama&#39;s bracelet a constant reminder of Wisconsin mother, soldier]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285632</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama still has Wisconsin on his mind.   In the victory speech he gave after winning the North Carolina primary and almost winning the Indiana primary Tuesday, the Democratic presidential candidate celebrated his best night since he swept the Feb. 19 voting in the Badger state.   And he did so by recalling an incident on the campaign trail in Wisconsin and suggesting that he is strengthened in his resolve to win the nomination and the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sheriff defends actions on immigrants]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Dane County will not become a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants, Sheriff Dave Mahoney said Friday.  &quot;It&#39;s not going to happen,&quot; Mahoney said in an interview recapping his meeting last week with a leader in the Union de Trabajadores Inmigrantes (Immigrant Workers Union or UTI) after a rally on the steps of the City-County Building.  Several hundred protesters -- some waving a cartoon of Mahoney&#39;s face followed by &quot;=ICE&quot; -- marched from Brittingham Park to the City-County Building ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Police honor fallen officers (with photo gallery)]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285656</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ More than 300 law enforcement officers from throughout Wisconsin assembled on the Capitol Square Friday, with squad cars and horses, as they honored three fallen comrades in the annual Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony.  Those honored this year included Officer Jackie Ryden of the Prescott Police Department, Deputy Frank Fabiano Jr. of the Kenosha County Sheriff&#39;s office and Deputy Jason S. Zunker of the Chippewa County Sheriff&#39;s Office, all of whom died in the line of duty. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Class action status granted in Kraft case]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285664</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Employees of Kraft Foods&nbsp;have been given class action status for their lawsuit seeking pay for time spent putting on and taking off safety equipment.  U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb says current and former hourly employees who worked at the company&#39;s Oscar Mayer meat processing plant in Madison since May 2004 can take part.  Crabb says the group includes at least 1,000 workers.  The workers claim the company is breaking the law by refusing to pay them for time ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Woman beats 5-year-old]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285663</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A Madison woman was charged with intentionally causing harm to a child Friday for beating her 5-year-old daughter with a belt, leaving several welts on the child&#39;s arms.   The criminal complaint said police were sent to the 31-year-old woman&#39;s home on the east side Thursday&nbsp; after the woman&#39;s mother called police and asked them to check on the welfare of her 5-year-old granddaughter.   The grandmother called police because her daughter had called her and said ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW student advances on &#39;Jeopardy!&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285613</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ UW-Madison senior Suchita Shah didn&#39;t win her first-round game on &quot;Jeopardy!&quot; but she survived to play into the show&#39;s second week.  Shah, a senior from Holmen, Wis., will appear on Wednesday&#39;s program after making enough money in her first-round game to earn one of the wild-card spots.   Shah led throughout much of her game that aired on Thursday, losing the lead when a contestant from the University of Michigan scored big on the Daily Double on ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Burns]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Heroin dealer flies into rage after sentencing]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285596</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Adrian Starks flew into a rage Friday as Dane County Circuit Judge Patrick Fiedler sentenced him to 24 years in prison for causing two deaths by heroin dealing in Madison in 2005, screamed &quot;F--- you!&quot;&nbsp;to the judge and tipped over a large water cooler as he stormed from the courtroom as bailiffs struggled to get him under control.   Earlier in the hearing, Starks maintained he was innocent of the two counts of homicide by heroin ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[2 caught in robberies, could be the &#39;bandana bandits&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285572</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Have the &quot;bandana bandits&quot; been caught?  Two men were arrested shortly after midnight Friday after one allegedly held up the PDQ convenience store at 4202 Milwaukee St. on Madison&#39;s east side, about an hour after a suspect tried to rob the Red Roof Inn at 4830 Hayes Road on Thursday night.  Police spokesman Joel DeSpain wouldn&#39;t say if the two are the bandits, but the method used in the two robberies was similar to seven holdups since ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New UW-Whitewater chancellor endorsed]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285577</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The interim chancellor at UW-Whitewater has been recommended to become the new chancellor of the university.  Richard Telfer, interim chancellor since June 2007, was selected by the UW Board of Regents search committee and UW System President Kevin Reilly, according to a news release Friday.  Telfer served as provost and vice chancellor at UW-Whitewater for five years and was associate vice chancellor at the university from 1997 to 2002. He served as a professor and department chair ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lake Wingra spring cleaning set]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285566</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ You can spring into spring by helping clean Lake Wingra&#39;s springs Saturday at Edgewood College.  The Friends of Lake Wingra group is looking for volunteers to help clean the area around rediscovered groundwater springs -- the group&#39;s Windows on Wingra spring event for 2008.  The event begins at 9:30 a.m. at the Mazzuchelli Center on the west shore of Lake Wingra behind Edgewood College, with talks about the history and current state of Wingra&#39;s springs, efforts to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[2 nabbed in case of pizza man who hit robber with door]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285565</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Two suspects have been arrested in the case of a pizza delivery guy who whacked a robber with his car door.  Cameron Gladem, 17, Madison, and a 16-year-old Madison male are tentatively being charged with attempted armed robbery.  The incident happened April 29, when one of the suspects tried to rob the pizza delivery man at gunpoint after the delivery man opened the car door but hadn&#39;t gotten out of the car. Instead of handing over any ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Another GOP pol calls it quits]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285546</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Another Republican legislator has decided to quit.  Rep. Sheryl Albers of Reedsburg says she&#39;s having problems with her left leg, including a torn anterior cruciate ligament, and plans to have surgery at the end of May. She says she won&#39;t be able to campaign for this fall&#39;s elections.  Four other Assembly Republicans have announced they won&#39;t run again this fall. Three Assembly Democrats also have declared they won&#39;t run again. A fourth Assembly Democrat, Sheldon Wasserman of ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Premium gas hits $4 a gallon in Wisconsin]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285531</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It was inevitable, but it&#39;s still hard to take.   For the first time ever, gas hit the $4 mark in Wisconsin -- for premium unleaded.   &quot;It&#39;s a sad day,&quot; said AAA Wisconsin public affairs director Pam Moen. &quot;This is the first time the daily fuel gauge report in Wisconsin has the first digit as a &#39;4.&#39; &quot;   The $4.03 per gallon average price in Wisconsin is for premium unleaded gasoline. Regular unleaded gasoline in Wisconsin ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stimulus checks are in the mail -- for some]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285529</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Economic stimulus checks from the Internal Revenue Service are beginning to be mailed Friday, but it will take until mid-July for millions of paper checks to be sent to taxpayers. Mass production of the paper checks started Thursday.  The IRS plans to send out close to 130 million economic stimulus payments, either by direct deposit or paper check.  According to the IRS, paper checks will be sent in numerical order based on the last two digits of ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Man nabbed in alleged door-to-door drug scam at Oakwood]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285528</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A man who reportedly went door to door claiming he needed to check expiration dates on medicine has been arrested for fraud.  John Voelz, 41, Madison, was arrested April 29 and tentatively charged with obtaining/possession of a controlled substance by fraud and a probation violation.  According to Madison police, Voelz went door to door to about 10 apartments at the Oakwood Village retirement community center, 6205 Mineral Point Road, claiming he worked for a pharmacy and needed ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mother&#39;s Day weekend a cool one]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285526</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Cooler temperatures and rain every other day will be the dominant weather pattern in southern Wisconsin Friday through Wednesday.  Friday&#39;s high should be in the upper 50s with a chance of showers under cloudy skies, but a clear, cold and calm Friday night could produce patchy frost in southern Wisconsin, with temperatures dropping to the mid 30s.  Saturday will start out with sun, according to Weather Central meteorologist Brian Olson, with clouds coming in later in the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[An iPhone for $199?]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285530</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ With competitive pressures mounting, AT&amp;T may cut the iPhone&#39;s price to boost demand -- and cement its relationship with Apple, according to media reports.   With less than two months to go before Steve Jobs takes the stage at Apple&#39;s Worldwide Developers Conference, where he&#39;s expected to unveil a new iPhone, it appears that AT&amp;T may not be convinced that new bells and whistles will be enough to get droves of new customers to switch from ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Richgels]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Confessions of a money manager: See the light of solar stocks]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/news/stories//index.php?ntid=285563</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Well, here we go again. Oil prices are now over $120 a barrel, and everyone, it seems, knows exactly what to do. Of course it depends on your perspective. If you&#39;re a member of Congress, you call for the umpteenth congressional hearing and harangue those rapacious, nasty oil executives. That&#39;s always good for a few votes. Unfortunately, such spectacles never amount to much.  If you&#39;re running for president, then you call for a moratorium on the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ray Unger]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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