Rock County News

Tami Babcock poses with Elvis, a 2-year-old beagle, as it wins the best of breed award at a Kettle Moraine Kennel Club show in 2008.

As part of national efforts to create jobs and provide immediate economic benefits to Wisconsin and the country, Governor Jim Doyle has signed a contract to improve 5.8 miles of WIS 11 in Rock County.

" The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $2,203,292 National Emergency Grant increment to continue to assist approximately 1,515 Wisconsin workers impacted by automotive industry layoffs and plant closures in Rock County, Wis.

SARAH A. MCCARTHY, 20, of 841 E. Milwaukee St., Janesville, at 2:10 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of Parker Drive and Wall Street, on charges of second-degree reckless injury and resisting arrest, after a 32-year-old woman was stabbed in the back with a knife.

Two Rockford, Ill., area men suspected in a Walworth County burglary were arrested Wednesday evening after a high-speed car chase that ended at the interchange of Interstate 39/90 and Interstate 43 near Beloit.

Jun. 26, 2009 9:30 p.m. Janesville a ' The man who became known as the Janesville serial rapist was sentenced Friday to 195 years in prison.

Wisconsin elected officials issued statements Friday morning criticizing General Motors Corp.

A single thunderstorm cell developed in Rock county Tuesday evening producing an EF0 landspout tornado.

A pilot landing at a Janesville airport spotted an unexpected tornado in Rock County Tuesday night, throwing the National Weather Service at Sullivan into a sudden warning mode as more sightings were quickly reported by law enforcement.

Beloit Police Investigators have arrested two individuals in regards to an armed robbery investigation that occurred at The Mouse Tavern, located at 1408 Madison Road, on 06/14/2009 at approximately 3:34 p.m. Two male subjects from Orfordville, Wis., were being held in the Rock County Jail on probation violations within a few days of the armed ...

For more information about efforts to start a youth center in Milton, contact Jon Cruzan at 290-6465 or jcruzan@charter.net . For information about the new Milton Neighborhood Watch program, call officer Jim Martin at 868-6910, Ext.

Storms cause damage in Rock, Walworth counties

High schools participating in the Stateline Career & Technical Education Academy are Beloit Memorial; Beloit Turner; Clinton; Evansville; Janesville Craig; Janesville Parker; Orfordville Parkview; and South Beloit, Ill.

The ability to squash your resentment over unfunded state mandates. And, if you're appointed rather than elected, you might also have to take a quiz.

That's what took me to Milton in Rock County the other day. Three kids overdosed on heroin in a park in the middle of the picturesque, little town of about 5,000 people.

Doug Venable, Janesville Economic Development Director, left, and Rock County Economic Development Manager James Otterstein both work tirelessly to promote the area for economic development.

If you want to get the economy moving, put people to work. In the midst of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration to provide jobs for the unemployed millions.

Jurors will be picked outside Rock County to hear the case against a man accused of killing a neighbor and her two teenage children.

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for all of northern Rock County until 3:15 p.m. Monday.

Officials in a small town in southern Wisconsin are trying to address heroin use in their community after three eighth-grade boys overdosed on the drug last month.