Manitowoc's Quarter Hoisted by Cranes
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Not-very-sexy Manitowoc rode growth in all its segments to a solid quarter and year.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 9--BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. -- The names of two men arrested after an armed robbery at a town of Brockway home   Nov. 15 armed have been released by Jackson County authorities.
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Almost 100 injured as section of suspension bridge buckles during construction work.
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By Pam Firmin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 20--BILOXI -- Architects from throughout the state trekked around stacked steel and through debris and knee-high weeds Tuesday.
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By Andrew Wind, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa  Sep. 13--WATERLOO -- Alonzo Muhammed had three drinking straws, four Lifesavers and a sheet of paper. What he saw, though, was a pair of axles, four wheels and a sail.
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By Matt Bewley, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 25--1. Pearl Street levee safety measures: In July, La Crosse Common Council accepted reports about possible safety measures, but City Engineer Randy Turtenwald said the council did not authorize him to take any action, and he is awaiting council direction.
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By Steve Pollick, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 14--You could tell from the way the birds were reacting at the backyard feeders yesterday morning that something big was on the way.   The feeders at my rural western Sandusky County creekbottom home were gleaned all but clean.
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WILLIAMS, Ind. - Thieves stole a 65-pound mastodon jawbone and other artifacts from a display at a bait and tackle shop. Chris Amstutz, owner of White River Bait & Tackle, said someone entered through a window early Monday morning and took the items that he had collected through the years.
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When he reached his third-story workstation at a construction site near Pittsburgh two weeks ago, Errol Madyun saw the noose -- thick, neatly knotted and strong enough to hang a man.
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Thirteen endangered whooping cranes landed safely at a west-central Florida wildlife refuge Sunday morning, finishing a 64-day, 1,200-mile journey from Wisconsin to their wintering grounds.
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By Steve Cahalan, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 10--The second phase of a two-part expansion is under way at Chart Industries Inc.'s La Crosse plant and is expected to be completed this summer.
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Some Wisconsin quarters issued last year are turning out to be worth considerably more than 25 cents.
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By Larry Rulison, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec.
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There is something almost spectral about the vision of the new bridge across the Tarn Valley at Millau. It is almost as though it is not connected to the normal laws of gravity.
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At a time when restaurants typically put away their patio furniture, sweaters replace T-shirts and sailboats are plucked from the water, Midwesterners are out enjoying activities usually reserved for July and August &#151; not weeks past Labor Day. Summer is here. Finally.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 18--PASCAGOULA -- Sometimes individuals and groups in Jackson County do not have much to give back to volunteers for their long hours and hard work.