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Mack Trucks This has been a tough couple of years for heavy-truck drivers on our nation’s highways. A U.S. Department of Transportation report compiling crash data for 2019, the most recent year for which these figures are available, shows that fatalities for large-truck occupants reached their highest level in more than 30 years. U.S. trucking fatalities for 2018 also exceeded a level not seen since 1988. There are many factors that may play into this trend. There is no secret that the industry has been challenged to attract and train drivers to fill the pipeline. Manufacturers of o...

Two Alton Memorial EMTS heading to med school The Telegraph FacebookTwitterEmail Brian Fogarty and Ruth Kvistad of the Alton Memorial Hospital EMS team are both heading to medical school later this year. ALTON — Brian Fogarty and Ruth Kvistad of the Alton Memorial Hospital EMS team are both heading to medical school later this year. Kvistad said she hadn’t planned on more school. An EMT with Alton Memorial Hospital’s EMS team since November 2020, she has even loftier goals. Neither of her parents had college degrees, and her high school wasn’t pushing students to apply. Then, during h...

Mar 6, 2021 MADISON, Wis. — Nearly 3,000 students received degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison during a virtual commencement ceremony on Dec. 13. Recipients from the local area are: Iron Mountain — Douglas Keeble, College of Letters and Science, master of science-cartography and geographic information systems, cartography and geographic information systems; Niagara, Wis. — Myah Anderson, School of Education, bachelor of science-kinesiology, kinesiology. The ceremony, forced online because of the coronavirus pandemic, was for doctoral, bachelor’s, master’s and law gradua...

  The strike’s momentum begins to wane on Monday, February 17, with numbers down to about seven hundred, but strikers continue to obstruct streets and disrupt classes. Some shout down Professor George Mosse as he attempts to lecture on European cultural history, but Mosse takes a historian’s view of the incident and is nonplussed. Late in the day, the Black People’s Alliance, WSA, and Third World Liberation Front issue a statement calling on students to return to class and engage their professors and classmates on the underlying issues.[i] On Tuesday, BPA leader Willie Edwards tells a ...

Winter commencement: Rose Lavelle lauds grads of ‘greatest university to ever grace this planet’ Soccer star Rose Lavelle says she always gets asked in interviews how her life changed after scoring a goal in the U.S. victory over the Netherlands in the Women’s World Cup Final last year. Her answer, she says, is that it didn’t. While life’s big moments are often what’s remembered, it’s the work that went into them that means the most, she told UW–Madison winter graduates Sunday. “That one moment didn’t make me,” said Lavelle, a UW–Mad...