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  1. Letters to the editor: U.S. cannot afford to be global policeman

    Sequester? Both sides are partially right and partially wrong in their take on this. President Reagan told us that the government is the problem, not the solution. He ignored the good that government does.

    • May 22, 2013
  2. Letters to the editor: Letter reveals why America kills other people

    Because more than the talk on gun controls, the furthered discussion on taxes and spending, far past the continuing talk about work/job status and job creation as a whole.

    • May 22, 2013
  3. Sam Adams: Mediation of disputes is rewarding challenge

    At a certain age, all you ask from life is peace. When I was young, I wanted to turn up the volume and dance to the music. Fireworks were almost too tame. I laughed at 'The Bickersons' on the radio and Lucy and Desi spatting on television.

    • May 22, 2013
  4. Guest editorial: A shield for what, for whom?

    The media shield law bill that the Obama administration wants revived in Congress is not as friendly to the press as it appears on its surface.

    • May 22, 2013
  5. School board approves strategic plan agreement

    School and community leaders adopted a strategic plan for the Oshkosh public school system Wednesday with twenty goals including revamping teacher pay, improving communication and eventually boosting funding for schools.

    • May 22, 2013
  6. Work zones to close during Memorial Day weekend

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin motorists won't have to worry about possible traffic delays when travelling during the Memorial Day weekend.

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  7. Recent drug crime convictions in Winnebago County

    Recent drug crime convictions in Winnebago County:

    • May 22, 2013
  8. Recent drunken driving convictions in Winnebago County

    Recent drunken driving convictions in Winnebago County:

    • May 22, 2013
  9. GO! (Gals Only!) Fire Science Camp at Appleton Fire Station 6 on in 2012. UW-Oshkosh

    UW-Oshkosh keeps whispers of 'boredom' out of summer

    'I'm bored.' Not in the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh's vocabulary. If that refrain is cropping up around home, consider the array of summer camps — from sports to science — that UW Oshkosh has to offer. These programs take the notion of '

    • May 22, 2013
  10. Divergent opinions offered on education standards

    Education standards adopted in Wisconsin and 44 other states are either a rigorous benchmark that will improve student performance, or they're a dangerous intrusion on local control masterminded by the federal government, speakers said at a joint legislat

    • May 22, 2013
  11. Senate rejects Republican bid to let states run food stamp program

    The Senate on Wednesday rejected a Republican bid to turn the federal food stamp program over to the states.

    • May 22, 2013
  12. Green Bay area sees growth among suburban poor

    The number of poor has been growing faster in the communities around Green Bay than in the city itself, reflecting a national trend of poverty increasing faster in the suburbs than in urban areas.

    • May 22, 2013
  13. Cody Cannon looks at tornado destruction in his neighborhood from the second floor of his parent's home that once was his bedroom Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) AP

    $2B in Okla. tornado damage means hard recovery

    MOORE, Okla. (AP) — All that is left of Shayne Patteson's three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to protect their three children when a tornado packing winds of at least 200 mph slammed through his neighborhood.

    • 9:04 AM
  14. Lourdes Academy's Chris Hetzel has been a four-year starter for the Knights and can do it all on the mound, at the plate and in the field Shu-Ling Zhou/Oshkosh Northwestern Media

    Mr. Versatile: Lourdes' Hetzel does it all for the Knights attack

    Where do opposing teams like to see Lourdes Academy baseball player Chris Hetzel?

    • May 22, 2013
  15. Winneconne keeper Taylor Tomcyzk makes a save during the Wolves 2-0 loss to the Xavier Hawks in Winneconne on Wednesday JEANNETTE MERTEN/FOR OSHKOSH NORTHWESTERN MEDIA

    Wolves handed first loss of season

    The Winneconne Wolves girls soccer team had been on an incredible undefeated run in the Eastern Valley Conference this season.

    • May 22, 2013
  16. Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Jean Segura turns a double play during the Brewers 9-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday at Miller Park. USA TODAY Sports

    Slumping Brewers dominated by Dodgers

    This has been one miserable May for Wily Peralta and the Milwaukee Brewers.

    • May 22, 2013
  17. A Marine Corps League member participates in a Memorial Day ceremony at Riverside Cemetery in Oshkosh in 2012. Oshkosh Northwestern media file photo

    Event City Guide: Take time to gear up for fun-filled season ahead (story, video, photos)

    Memorial Day weekend is traditionally the start of a busy summer event schedule. So you'd expect the calendar to be overflowing in Oshkosh, Wisconsin's Event City, but that's just not the case.

    • May 22, 2013
  18. This film image released by HBO shows Michael Douglas, left, as Liberace, and Matt Damon, as Scott Thorson in a scene from 'Behind the Candalabra,' premiering Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO. (AP Photo/HBO, Claudette Barius) AP

    Douglas, Damon dramatize a steamy show-biz affair

    The idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself.

    • May 22, 2013
  19. In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013, photo, Sam and Liz Weidner, of Hudsonville, Mich., view a home for sale in Lowell, Mich. The National Association of Realtors reports on sales of previously occupied homes in April on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

    US home sales tick up to highest in 3 ½ years

    Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes ticked up last month to the highest level in three and a half years, helped by a jump in the number of houses for sale.

    • May 22, 2013
  20. Letters to the editor: Military intervention in Syria wrong

    It was with dismay I read the Bethany Lerch commentary May 16 proposing U.S. military intervention in Syria. That sarin gas is a particularly nasty poison is true, but dead is dead, whether by bullet, bomb, or gas.

    • May 21, 2013
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    Introduction and welcome

    Welcome to the 2013 edition of the Oshkosh Northwestern’s Salute to Veterans, our annual keepsake edition. This guide contains two sections. One contains individual tributes to veterans submitted by veterans and their families honoring their service. Another contains a listing of veterans from Winnebago County who made the ultimate sacrifice serving their country.

    • May 21, 2013
  21. Salute to Veterans 2013 profiles, remembering the fallen

    The Salute to Veterans 2013 keepsake edition will be included in Sunday's newspaper but you can click here to read the profiles, see the photos and browse a list of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation.

    • May 22, 2013
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  22. Actor Vin Diesel arrives at the LA Premiere of the 'Fast & Furious 6' at the Gibson Amphitheatre on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in Universal City, Calif. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP) Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP

    Review: 'Fast & Furious 6' is more of everything

    Ever wonder what it would feel like to suddenly wake up in another universe?

    • May 22, 2013
  23. Bernanke signals Fed to maintain stimulus efforts

    Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end its extraordinary stimulus programs.

    • May 22, 2013
  24. Letters to the editor: New quit smoking program available

    If you live in Winnebago County and are insured by BadgerCare Plus Standard Plan, or BadgerCare Plus Benchmark Plan or Medicaid for SSI, you might be eligible for a new quit smoking program called Striving to Quit.

    • May 21, 2013
  25. Inside the First Amendment: Graduation prayer, fighting over lost cause

    School officials in Lake City, Ark., have come up with a novel solution to the fight over prayer at graduation:

    • May 21, 2013
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  26. Joseph Frey, 54, leaves Winnebago County Circuit Court on wheelchair after his 1994 rape conviction was overturned by Judge Daniel Bissett Wednesday in Oshkosh. Shu-Ling Zhou/Oshkosh Northwestern Media

    Judge overturns man's conviction for rape of UW-Oshkosh student

    Joseph Frey's conviction for a rape more than 20 years ago was overturned Wednesday by a Winnebago County Circuit Court judge based on DNA testing and other evidence that showed Frey, who was serving a 102-year sentence, was likely the wrong man.

    • May 22, 2013
  27. Oshkosh West's Rebecca Wolf (16) and Katrina Scheuermann (22) along with oshkosh North's Nicole Herkert converge on the ball during the first half on Tuesday. Adam Jungwirth/Oshkosh Northwestern Media

    One and done: Paulick's goal enough for West to top North (video, photos, story)

    The first 74 minutes of the game between the Oshkosh North and Oshkosh West girls soccer teams were about as dead even as they can be.

    • May 21, 2013
  28. Guest editorial: President must show leadership

    It's bad enough that the Obama administration committed a wholesale violation of the First Amendment by prying into the records of phones used by almost 100 people at The Associated Press.

    • May 21, 2013
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    Reinhold Beuer-Tajovsky

    Hometown:Yorktown, Va.

    • May 21, 2013
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    T/5 Raymond Brandenstein

    Hometown: Oshkosh

    • May 21, 2013
  29. Sydney Angle, 9, whose grandparents live in Fond du Lac, was among the school children killed by a tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., Monday. Submitted photo

    Girl killed in Oklahoma tornado has area ties

    A fund is being set up for a former Fond du Lac County family who lost their daughter and home in the Oklahoma tornado.

    • May 22, 2013
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    David G. Buch

    Hometown: Oshkosh

    • May 22, 2013
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    Everett C. Brooks

    Hometown: Groton, Conn.

    • May 21, 2013
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    Clifford W. Bunks

    Hometown: Appleton

    • May 22, 2013
  30. Former Titans coach Lechnir speaks out on non-renewal of contract

    Flanked by 10 players that include two former major leaguers, long-time University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh baseball coach Tom Lechnir said he was sad and surprised by the non-renewal of his contract and is weighing a lawsuit against the university.

    • May 22, 2013
  31. Lowe's 1Q profit rises, but results miss Street

    Lowe's said Wednesday that its first-quarter net income rose nearly 3 percent, but results fell short of expectations as rainy weather hurt spring gardening sales.

    • May 22, 2013
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    Cpl. James Burns

    Hometown: Oshkosh

    • May 22, 2013
  32. Ministry Health Care to cut 225 jobs

    Ministry Health Care, the parent company of Menasha-based Affinity Health System, announced plans to lay off about 225 to 250 employees, citing a drop in the number of patients and cuts in federal reimbursement levels.

    • May 22, 2013
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    Pfc. GAYLORD D. BUSKIRK

    Hometown: Oshkosh

    • May 22, 2013
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    Spc. William Butzlaff

    Hometown: Oshkosh

    • May 22, 2013
  33. The City of Oshkosh Fire Department firefighters battle an apartment building fire at 1777 Maricopa Drive Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The fire started in the vicinity of a garage. The cause is still under investigation and no one was hurt. Shu-Ling Zhou/Oshkosh Northwestern Media

    Update: Improper disposal of ashes causes fire on Maricopa Drive (story, video, photos)

    The Oshkosh Fire Department has determined the fire that destroyed a garage and damaged two units of a Maricopa Drive apartment building Tuesday afternoon was caused by the improper disposal of ashes from a fire pit, Fire Chief Tim Franz said.

    • May 22, 2013
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    Staff Sgt. Jack Carrick

    Hometown: Oshkosh

    • May 22, 2013
  34. People fish on the Fox River from Riverside Park in Oshkosh on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Adam Jungwirth/Oshkosh Northwestern Media

    Special report: Chemical cocktails in Midwestern lakes (story, photos)

    On a midsummer morning last year at popular Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, Mark Ferrey dipped a brown glass bottle into the water. His hands were gloved, he had drunk no caffeine, he wore no insect repellent.

    • May 21, 2013
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    Richard Casey

    Hometown: Oshkosh

    • May 22, 2013
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