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    A runner waves to her friends and family during the Cellcom Green Bay Marathon outside Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis., on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Lukas Keapproth/Press-Gazette Media

    Video, photos: Runners seek return to Boston

    Jill Coens ran Sunday's 26.2-mile Cellcom Green Bay Marathon for one reason: to qualify for next year's Boston Marathon.

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    Green Bay Southwest's Erin Huffer, shown inside the music room at Southwest High School on Thursday, May 2, 2013, is a Green Bay Press-Gazette 2013 Academic Team member. Huffer will be attending college at Dartmouth College next year. Evan Siegle/Press-Gazette Media

    Academic Team: Erin Huffer surprises others with variety of involvement

    Erin Huffer, a senior at Green Bay Southwest High School, is a member of the 2013 Press-Gazette Media Academic Team.

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    Demolition of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay chancery in 2010 galvanized historic preservation advocates in the area to seek new protections for historic structures. File/Press-Gazette Media

    Demolition may be slowed on historic buildings

    Aiming to protect Green Bay's historic structures, city officials are considering slowing the process of issuing permits for building demolitions.

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    DOT suggests using Main Avenue and Scheuring Road as an alternative during the closure of the Grant Street-Mid Valley Drive intersection.

    Roadwork focuses on Highways 41, 29

    Another week of spring means another week of developments in road construction in Northeastern Wisconsin.

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    Second-graders learn about healthy eating in schools in January at Pioneer Elementary School in Ashwaubenon. A local health advocacy group is providing some schools grants to grow gardens. File/Press-Gazette Media

    Gardens a tool to help kids learn about healthy eating

    Some local students are learning about healthy eating while developing green thumbs.

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    Notre Dame Academy graduates at their commencement ceremony at the school in Green Bay on Saturday. Mike Peters/Press-Gazette Media correspondent

    Photos: Notre Dame Academy commencement ceremonies

    Notre Dame Academy had its commencement ceremony at the school in Green Bay on Saturday.

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    Bellin College graduate Erin Wartick waits to enter the Byron L. Walter Theater at St. Norbert College in De Pere for her school’s commencement on Saturday. Mike Peters/Press-Gazette Media correspondent

    Photos: Bellin College commencement ceremonies

    Bellin College commencement ceremonies took place Saturday at the Byron L. Walter Theater on the St. Norbert College campus in De Pere.

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    Tom Garvin of Marshfield photographed this whooping crane foraging in the reeds at McMillan Marsh earlier this month. File/Gannett Wisconsin Media

    Black flies at wildlife refuge plague whooping cranes

    Experts say swarms of black flies appear to be the best explanation for why endangered whooping cranes are abandoning their nests at a Wisconsin wildlife refuge.

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    The day in photos: May 19, 2013

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    High-speed chase starts in Green Bay, ends near Bonduel

    A Shawano County deputy used road spikes to end a high-speed chase that started in Green Bay early Sunday.

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    Brianwa Flores, left, and Katie Cosentino from the Illinois State Lottery greet fans before Game 2 of an NHL playoff game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks in Chicago on Saturday. Nam Y. Huh/AP

    $590M Powerball ticket sold in Florida

    It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million.

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    Carly Anderson, left, and Sandy Anderson embrace after finishing the half-marathon portion of the Cellcom Green Bay Marathon outside Lambeau Field on Sunday morning. Lukas Keapproth/Press-Gazette Media

    Video, photos: 'Nearly ideal' morning for Cellcom Green Bay Marathon

    An estimated 7,000 runners started the Cellcom Green Bay Marathon under "nearly ideal conditions" on Sunday morning. Eliud Ngetich of New York won the men's marathon in about 2 hours, 18 minutes.

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    May 19 in history

    May 19, 1950 — Irwin School forms P.T.A.

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    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.

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    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.

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

    Photos: 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.

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    Trisha Sellen Scott Cooper Williams/Press-Gazette Media

    Marathon runners aim to finish what they started

    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 today’s event.

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    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.

    • May 18, 2013
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    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.

    • May 18, 2013
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    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: Health, safety 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.

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    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.

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    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.

    • May 18, 2013
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    The day in photos: May 18, 2013

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    • May 18, 2013
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    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.

    • May 18, 2013
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    May 18 in history

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

    • May 17, 2013
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    Vendors fill the Lambeau Field Atrium for the Prevea Health & Fitness Expo in Green Bay on Friday, May 17, 2013. Lukas Keapproth/Press-Gazette Media

    Runners shop for gear at expo before Cellcom race events

    The expo was held to help runners find last minute products for the 14th annual race events. Saturday’s Cellcom Green Bay 5K Run/Walk begins at 8 a.m. and waves of the WPS Kids’ Power Run begin at 10 a.m.

    • May 18, 2013
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    Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach, of Madison, gets a kiss from Casey, a 4-year-old yellow Labrador that he worked with while deployed in Afghanistan, as the two are reunited Friday during a surprise ceremony at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Gundlach thought he was traveling to Iowa to tell state officials why he should take ownership of the dog, which has been working for the state fire marshal's office. Gundlach didn't realize officials already had made arrangements to get another dog for explosives detection. Charlie Neibergall/AP

    Watch: State Marine, military dog reunited

    When Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach served as a dog handler in Afghanistan, he told the yellow lab who was his constant companion that he'd look her up when he returned home. On Friday, he made good on that vow.

    • May 18, 2013
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    Photo shows the Ashland Avenue house in Green Bay where Daniel Kuehl's body was found. His death has been ruled a homicide. File/Press-Gazette Media

    Green Bay man's death is ruled homicide

    The death of Green Bay resident Daniel Kuehl has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Friday.

    • May 18, 2013
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    Man burned in Bellevue cooking fire

    A 44-year-old man sustained minor burns to his hand and forearm Friday night during a cooking fire at 1814 Verlin Road.

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    Marcy Skowronski, 87, looks through a pile of bras on Friday that used to hang from the ceiling of her bar, Holler House, in Milwaukee. The city told her they were a fire hazard and ordered them to be taken down but later backed down after the newspaper and an alderman got involved. Carrie Antlfinger/AP

    Milwaukee bar's bras aren't fire hazard after all

    A historic Milwaukee bowling alley and bar almost went without the appropriate support after a city inspector decided dozens of bras hanging from its ceiling were a fire hazard.

    • May 18, 2013
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    Patty Stepien stands next to her daughter's crib at their home in Pulaski on Thursday. Stepien's daughter underwent a surgery while still in the womb. Lukas Keapproth/Press-Gazette Media

    Pulaski mom has surgery to help fetus diagnosed with birth defect

    Like most parents, Patty and Justin Stepien want their unborn daughter to have the best life possible.

    • May 18, 2013
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    Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. File/AP

    Walker's Medicaid plan cost increases by $73M

    The cost of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's plan to reject federally funded Medicaid expansion and instead tighten income eligibility for the program has gone up.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Alayna Adams, 9, runs to see her father, Army Lt. Col. William Adams, before a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox on Thursday in St. Petersburg, Fla. Lt. Col. Adams, who had been stationed in Afghanistan, surprised his wife and daughter. Chris O'Meara/AP

    Watch: Dad comes home from Afghanistan, surprises daughter at home plate

    A Tampa Bay area girl throwing the first pitch at a Rays game got a big surprise from her father, who had been stationed in Afghanistan for the past two years.

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    Eight co-workers in the Monongalia County Tax Office claim their $276 million Powerball prize in Charleston, W.Va., in March 2008. Work pools for big jackpots are often fraught with controversy, resulting in lawsuits, broken friendships and worse: delayed payouts. File/AP

    How to run an office pool for that $600M Powerball jackpot

    In workplaces across the nation, Americans are inviting their colleagues to chip in $2 for a Powerball ticket and a shared daydream.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Burglary ring spanned 12 counties, authorities say

    Two men serving time for unrelated crimes have been implicated in a burglary ring believed responsible for crimes in 12 counties, including Brown, Oconto and Shawano.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Caleb Schneider, 8, New Holstein, carries a yellow rose to signify he is a cancer survivor at Runway for Life, a fashion show fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, held Thursday, May 16, 2013, at the Jet Air facility. Mike Peters/Press-Gazette media correspondent

    Runway for Life raises money for American Cancer Society

    A number of cancer fighters and survivors got a chance to be models at Thursday night's American Cancer Society Runway For Life fundraiser.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Pulaski School Board member cited in connection with underage drinking party

    A Pulaski School Board member has been cited in connection with a weekend underage drinking party.

    • May 18, 2013
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    The Dells Army Ducks in Wisconsin Dells. File/Press-Gazette Media

    Walker signs bill letting Wisconsin Ducks roam farther

    Gov. Scott Walker on Friday signed a bill designed to help one of the state's most popular tourist destinations, the military-style amphibious vehicle known as the Wisconsin Duck.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. File/AP

    Walker signs bill providing alternative to layoffs

    Gov. Scott Walker has signed into law a bill creating a program that gives Wisconsin employers an alternative to laying off employees when work slows.

    • May 17, 2013
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    A participant, with her head sticking out from holes of a large white fabric, reacts during a performance, "Divisor" during an exhibition, "A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, Ghosts, Rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong Story," in Central business district of Hong Kong Friday, May 17, 2013. The art work was originally performed on the streets of Rio de Janeiro in 1968, created by the Late Brazilian artist Lygia Pape. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

    The day in photos: May 17, 2013

    The top news, sports and entertainment photos from Press-Gazette Media wire services.

    • May 17, 2013
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    The Wisconsin State Capitol building on December 24, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images

    Bipartisan bill requires annual WEDC audit

    A bill introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers would require annual audits at Gov. Scott Walker's troubled quasi-public jobs agency, as well as put limits on terms that board members appointed by the governor serve.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker reacts at his victory party Tuesday, June 5, 2012, in Waukesha. Walker defeated Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in a special recall election. File/AP

    Tea party group says IRS asked about Walker recall

    A tea party group says the Internal Revenue Service asked about its involvement in efforts to verify signatures in the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Tougher safety belt enforcement starts Monday

    Wisconsin drivers and passengers should buckle up or they will have a better chance to get a ticket under a new statewide crackdown.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Emergency personnel look through debris on near Granbury, Texas on Thursday, May 16, 2013. Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. Emergency responders were still searching for missing people Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo/Rex C. Curry) AP

    Cleanup continues after Texas tornadoes

    Raul Rodriguez counts himself a lucky man.

    • May 17, 2013
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    May 17 in history

    May 17, 1963 — Scholarships Inc. to present 16 grants.

    • May 16, 2013
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    A Marinette County man suffered bite, cut and scratch wounds Wednesday after he was attacked by a black bear on Finch Lane in Silver Cliff. File/Gannett Wisconsin Media

    Man survives Marinette County bear attack

    A man was bitten, cut and scratched Wednesday when he was attacked by a black bear on Finch Lane in Silver Cliff in Marinette County.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Authorities work scene of crash on Velp Avenue in Howard, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. H. Marc Larson/Press-Gazette Media

    Bee causes Howard woman to crash car

    A 21-year-old Howard woman walked away from a car crash initiated by a bee in Howard on Wednesday.

    • May 17, 2013
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    This weekend's Cellcom Green Bay Marathon events means closures for numerous roads in the area. File/Press-Gazette Media

    Marathon events prompt weekend road closures

    Cellcom Green Bay Marathon organizers are warning motorists in the Green Bay area to be aware of road closures for its activities this weekend.

    • May 16, 2013
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    Ong Vue, left, laughs as she tries to hide her purse underneath her gown before the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College commencement ceremony at the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon on Thursday. Vue, from Green Bay, was graduating from the administrative professional program. Evan Siegle/Press-Gazette Media

    Photos: 700 NWTC graduates accept diplomas

    Northeast Wisconsin Technical College graduates took center stage Thursday as about 700 students and 160 faculty and staff participated in commencement ceremonies at the Resch Center.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Randy Karrer of suburban Tucson, Ariz., has dropped out of consideration for the job of Green Bay fire chief. Submitted

    Green Bay fire chief finalist drops out

    A finalist to become Green Bay's next fire chief has withdrawn as a candidate.

    • May 17, 2013

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