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  1. Trisha Sellen Scott Cooper Williams/Press-Gazette Media

    Runners aim to finish what they started after last year's cancelled marathon

    It goes against the nature of marathon runners to stop before they reach the finish line. So after last year’s aborted Cellcom Green Bay Marathon, competitors are anxious to go the distance in Sunday’s event.

    • 5:58 PM
  2. In middle, Sonya Loberger, from Green Bay West High School, is all smiles as she gets some love from her parents, Rich and Sue Loberger, during the Press-Gazette Media's 25th annual Academic Team awards ceremony at the Hyatt on Main in downtown Green Bay on Monday, May 13, 2013. Evan Siegle/Press-Gazette Media

    2013 Academic Team runners-up honored

    The 10 students selected to the 2013 Press-Gazette Media Academic Team were drawn from a pool of the area's best and brightest.

    • 9:39 PM
  3. The expansion of the KI Convention Center will be above Adams Street, connecting the convention center, at right, to the Clarion Hotel, left.

    Downtown Green Bay's growth spurt

    What's next? Ask Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt that question about city development and he looks exasperated, as if the multitude of projects announced and underway are just a warmup for the real work.

    • 8:51 PM
  4. Carissa Kilmer was among the students to receive her degree during Saturday's commencement ceremony at the Kress Events Center in Green Bay.

    UW-Green Bay says goodbye to class of 2013

    About 700 University of Wisconsin-Green Bay graduates were expected to participate in Saturday's commencement ceremonies at the Kress Events Center.

    • 9:04 PM
  5. Jockey Gary Stevens, left, clenches his fist aboard Oxbow, as outrider Clark Kelly guides them to the winner's circle after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. AP Photo/Garry Jones

    No Triple Crown: Oxbow upsets Orb at Preakness

    Oxbow put D. Wayne Lukas in the record books again with an upset of Orb in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving the Hall of Fame trainer his 14th win in a Triple Crown race.

    • 6:59 PM
  6. Milwaukee Brewers' Jeff Bianchi, right, is congratulated by first base coach Garth Iorg after hitting a two-run single during the 10th inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Saturday, May 18, 2013, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) AP

    Bianchi's single in 10th lifts Brewers over Cards

    Jeff Bianchi drove in two runs with a 10th-inning single up the middle, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 on Saturday night.

    • 10:45 PM
  7. Patty Schranz's dog, Roxy, models one of her Green Bay Packers-themed dresses. Lukas Keapproth/Press-Gazette Media

    De Pere designer's pet project pays off with haute dogs, high-fashion felines

    Schranz, who has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, made her first dog dress a few years ago after she couldn’t find anything at a store to fit her own. When she took the dog to her teen daughter’s softball game someone urged her to sell the clothing.

    • 7:59 PM
  8. A Cleveland police patrol car sits in front of the boarded up home of Ariel Castro in Cleveland Tuesday, May 14, 2013. As questions linger about how three women could have been hidden in the house on a busy street in Cleveland for a decade, local law enforcement officials say they take a 'common sense' approach when they're called to check on someone's safety File/AP

    Police: Welfare checks can help solve cases

    As questions linger about how three women could have been hidden in a house on a busy street in Cleveland for a decade, local law enforcement officials say they take a 'common sense' approach when they're called to check on someone's safety.

    • 7:49 PM
  9. Dave Schlies of Old Settlers Dairy is getting ready for planting in New Denmark. H. Marc Larson/Press- Gazette Media

    Area farmers don't think late start will hinder crops

    A John Deere 8640 and the attached cultivator kicked up a small cloud of dust as it circled a farm field here Wednesday morning.

    • 8:17 PM
  10. Traffic moves on Brown County GV between Brown County G and Brown County X. That section of roadway recently was upgraded to handle increasing amounts of vehicles. File/Press-Gazette Media

    GV speed limit to remain at 35 in Bellevue

    Brown County supervisors decided this week against increasing the speed limit on a section of Brown GV to 40 mph, but acknowledged that many drivers on the newly upgraded road drive much faster.

    • 9:15 PM
  11. Seventh-graders Kamara Zeise, left, and Padao Vang go through the lunch line earlier during the school year at Edison Middle School in Green Bay. A new phone app allows parents to monitor lunch accounts from anywhere. file/press-gazette media

    App lets parents control funds for school lunches

    Adding funds to your child's lunch account or overseeing their food purchases now are as easy as a swipe of your smart phone.

    • 9:06 PM
  12. Joe Fajardo poses holding his Powerball lottery ticket after buying it at a store Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego. With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the lottery game's highest jackpot on Saturday night, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that's after taxes. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) AP

    Winning numbers drawn in Powerball jackpot

    Lottery officials say the winning numbers in a near-historic Powerball jackpot have been drawn.

    • 10:55 PM
  13. People attend to a victim who was hit by a car during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in Damascus, Va., Saturday, May 18, 2013. Witnesses said the car drove into a crowd at the parade and hurt several people, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known. AP Photo/Republican-American, Bill O'Brien

    Up to 60 injured after car drives into Virginia parade

    An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into whether he suffered a medical emergency before the accident.

    • 8:45 PM
  14. Kentucky Derby winner Orb stands as he is cooled down after a workout at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013. The Preakness Stakes horse race is scheduled to take place May 18. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

    10 things to know about the Preakness

    There are only two outcomes when it comes to Saturday's Preakness Stakes — either the Kentucky Derby winner Orb wins the race to set up a Triple Crown try in the Belmont Stakes in three weeks, or another horse pulls an upset and prevents a shot at history

    • 11:55 AM
  15. The day in photos: May 18, 2013

    Enter here to view the photo gallery.

    • 10:14 AM
  16. The quarterly deadline to place a telephone number on Wisconsin's no-call list is May 31.

    Deadline is May 31 for state's no-call list

    The quarterly deadline to place a telephone number on Wisconsin's no-call list is approaching.

    • 10:12 AM
  17. Names disappear from Wisconsin's police reports

    Police work that has traditionally been conducted in public view is increasingly being shielded, as insurance companies and municipal attorneys throughout Wisconsin push departments to withhold names from reports due to liability concerns.

    • 8:34 AM
  18. IFL: Cedar Rapids stops Blizzard cold

    The Green Bay Blizzard had its three-game winning streak come to a screeching halt Saturday.

    • 10:47 PM
  19. Samantha Harke, 8, reads in her bed. Samantha and her parents found reading helps her sleep well at night. Graham Washatka for Gannett Wisconsin Media

    Bedtime can be anything but restful with kids who have sleep issues

    Sleep can feel like the final frontier for adults, who toss, turn and sometimes resort to medications to get some shut eye. But when sleep-related problems and deprivation affect children and lead to behavioral, educational, social and health problems, what’s a parent to do?

    • 8:24 PM
  20. Editorial: Run organizers adapt to challenges

    When it began in 2000, the Green Bay Cellcom Marathon attracted 4,722 registered for the marathon events. Today that number has climbed to more than 13,000 signed up for this weekend's activities.

    • 5:18 PM
  21. Larry the Logroller repaired, back home in Wabeno

    A treasured landmark has been returned to a small town in northern Wisconsin with a rich history in the logging industry.

    • 9:02 AM
  22. Richard Ryman column: RGL re-branding to grow, focus company

    RGL is combining all its logistics operations under one name, which means Leicht, Checker Logistics and RGL Specialty Services all will be known as RGL.

    • 8:15 PM
  23. Mike Nichols column: Got raw milk?

    Raw milk is not cocaine or heroin or pot. It's not illegal to acquire it in Wisconsin, says Joe Plasterer, who freely admits to purchasing it for his family.

    • 5:21 PM
  24. Late-blooming amaryllis was planted on New Year's Day

    If it was a marathon, there wouldn't even be anybody left standing at the finish line to clap.

    • 8:24 PM
  25. AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile will be joined by 200 other organizations backing an ad campaign this summer to discourage texting while driving. Damian Dovarganes/AP

    Cellphone carriers unite on anti-texting ads

    The country's four biggest cellphone companies are set to launch their first joint advertising campaign against texting while driving, uniting behind AT&T's 'It Can Wait' slogan to blanket TV and radio this summer.

    • 8:41 PM
  26. Hermsen

    Andrew Hermsen column: The fallacy of forecasting the stock market

    Almost everyone has heard of legendary investor Warren Buffett, and most would love to get investment advice from him. His investment prowess has turned him into one of the richest people in the world with an amazing investment track record.

    • 8:39 PM
  27. Own a piece of Green Bay for fun

    If you've always secretly wanted to buy Doc's Harley-Davidson, here's your chance.

    • May 17, 2013
  28. Heritage Hill's Spring on the Farm Submitted

    Out and about on Saturday

    Race into Reading: Brown Co Library Summer Reading Program Kickoff Party: Noon-3 p.m., East Branch Library & Gnome Games east parking lot, 2255 Main St., Green Bay. Meet real race car drivers and sit in the driver's seat of a real race car.

    • May 17, 2013
  29. Jake Van Camp holds up a white bass taken on a cold morning last weekend on the Wolf River. It's possible to catch these fish by the hundreds during the spring run. Submitted

    Pair of anglers discover lure of the Wolf's white bass

    Every outdoorsman in Wisconsin knows that when the early months of spring roll around, walleyes are the premier fish fishermen target.

    • 7:26 PM
  30. Chris P. Bacon has became an Internet sensation. MCT

    Media world can't seem to get enough of disabled pig

    Chris P. Bacon is hogging the spotlight.

    • May 17, 2013
  31. Michael Douglas, left, and Matt Damon star in 'Behind the Candelabra.' MCT

    Douglas and Damon star in HBO movie about Liberace

    When the news broke in 1987 that Liberace, the famously flamboyant Wisconsin-born pianist, was dead at age 67 with what his manager had claimed was anemia brought on by a watermelon diet but was, in fact, AIDS, it made front-page headlines around the coun

    • May 17, 2013
  32. Old bicycles are on sale in front of the Streets of Fire skate shop during the Oshkosh Saturday Farmers Market on Oct. 20, 2012. Oshkosh Northwestern photo by Ad/Adam Jungwirth/of

    Roll up for rides at Rock N Roll Land

    Vinyl LPs aren't the only round thing Rock n Roll Land will be spinning this summer.

    • May 17, 2013
  33. 'Baseball' is a summer tale

    This time of year, it's hard to sit still in school.

    • May 17, 2013
  34. Crossbows make archery deer seasons more accessible to women, boys and girls who can't pull regular bows to full draw. This bowhunter, Jesse Winand, used a crossbow to shoot this doe in Maryland, which allows crossbows in its archery season. Submitted

    Patrick Durkin column: Freshman Czaja at point for crossbow law

    Rep. Mary Czaja, R-Irma, knew her bill to legalize crossbows for all bowhunters during Wisconsin's archery deer season was a winner when her hunter constituents in Lincoln and Langlade counties consistently sighed the same three-word reaction:

    • 7:27 PM
  35. Bill Gosse column: Helping others helps you as well

    When a bank manager conducts regular staff meetings, she not only talks about business, but also about the importance of being involved in the community. Through her teaching and by practicing what she preaches, what point is she trying to make?

    • 7:24 PM
  36. Current State Supreme Court tarnishes reputation

    Attorneys and judges are expected to avoid 'even the appearance of impropriety.' In the legal community, this expectation carries tremendous weight approaching that of law.

    • 5:26 PM
  37. Center-pivot animal waste systems are health risks

    The Door County Environmental Council that has been protecting our environment since 1970 would like to indicate our strong opposition to the proposal to allow animal and other waste be utilized through the method of liquid high-pressure spray by central

    • 5:26 PM
  38. Homelessness ministry: Animal and human varieties

    Having listened to interminable wrangling at the City Council meeting on May 7 concerning a city contract with the humane society shelter, it became obvious that Green Bay politicians are as incompetent in dealing with homeless animals as they historicall

    • 5:26 PM
  39. May 18 in history

    May 18, 1937 — Cats, rubbish, cars keep firemen on run.

    • May 17, 2013
  40. NBC's 'Biggest Loser' guru Bob Harper says not to change everything at once if you're trying to get in shape. Getty Images

    'Biggest Loser' coach says get fit for summer

    Want to get fit fast for summer? NBC's 'Biggest Loser' guru Bob Harper, who has whipped many obese contestants into shape in a TV season, says start small and stay focused.

    • May 17, 2013
  41. Volunteer opportunities

    • The Farmers Market on Broadway will begin June 5. Volunteers are needed every Wednesday. Work one or more weeks. Volunteers can assist with set-up (1:45-3:15 p.m.) or work in the beverage booth (2:30-8:30 p.m.) Contact Jeff Tilkens at (920) 437-2531 or events@onbroadway.org.

    • May 17, 2013
  42. Upcoming fundraisers

    » Benefit for Vicky Hermsen: 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Legends, 875 Heritage Road, Ledgeview. Silent auction, raffle, bake sale. Proceeds go toward Hermen's lung cancer treatment expenses not covered by insurance.

    • May 17, 2013
  43. Upcoming gardening events

    » Container Classes: 10 a.m. today, Saturday and May 26 at ScenicView Landscapes & Garden Center, 2320 Elmwood Road, Suamico.

    • May 17, 2013
  44. This is the time of year when gardeners who don't have one have magnolia envy, as they eye up the showy blossoms that emerge on the bare branches of a neighbor's tree. Carol and John Cole of Ashwaubenon planted their Royal Star about four years ago. You can almost smell those fragrant flowers, can't you? Submitted

    Reader submitted garden photo: Magnolia envy

    What's in bloom by you? Send a pic of what's flowering inside or outside your house to kmeinert@greenbaypressgazette.com with

    • May 17, 2013
  45. Wilder students raise $4,000 for shelter

    It's a new classroom record: $4,000 right on the money.

    • May 17, 2013
  46. Felt mice and glitter balls are fine for routine feline fun, but 'little techno savvy Tango'' likes to up the ante by playing his favorite fishing game on the iPad. Rescued by Mike and Brenda Fricton of Suring as an 8-week-old kitten, the orange cutie is now a year old. Like any good cat should, 'he adds lots of sassiness to our household. Never a dull moment ...'' Submitted

    Featured creature

    Have a creature for us to feature? We know you have an adorable pic of your pet, so how about sharing it? Send us a photo of your animal in motion, in mischief, in costume, in comic mode or simply looking cute.

    • May 17, 2013
  47. Arts notes: Allouez Village Band clowns around for circus-themed concert

    For the final concert of its 31st season, the Allouez Village Band heads to the circus at 7 p.m. Monday at the Meyer Theatre, 117 S. Washington St., Green Bay. The show, '

    • May 17, 2013
  48. Saturday's showtimes

    'Star Trek Into Darkness' (PG-13) at 12, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10.

    • May 17, 2013
  49. Pacifier Getty Images

    Birth announcements for the week

    Births of local interest reported by Green Bay-area hospitals

    • May 17, 2013
  50. Club house burgers with buttered buns. AP

    The secret to a great burger? Less is more

    When the weather turns warm, I find myself craving the smell and taste of a great homemade burger off the grill.

    • May 16, 2013

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