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AREA STATE Oshkosh Northwestern C2 Saturday, May 15, 2004 Committed, i Caring Capable Officials say lab may speed DNA testing Could help solve hundreds of cases 7 "We provide modem, gentfe dentof care in a lofe environment Our caring, professional and friendly staff take the tme to listen to you and onswer off your questions In a kind, polite and understanding woy." Associated Press I GntheWeb For more information on the Wisconsin Department of Justice visit: www.doj.state.wi.us For more information on the Wisconsin Innocence Project visit www.law.wisc.eduFJR innocence vv MADISON A new state-of-the-art crime lab scheduled to open in days should speed up results of DNA tests that could help solve hundreds of cases, justice officials say. The $12 million facility replaces the current lab in Madison, where analysts walk the halls with sensitive evidence and work in cramped spaces divided between two floors of a 45-year-old building, said Marie Varri-ale, the lab's forensic supervisor. No new DNA analyst positions come with the facility, but the lab's one-room layout will help forensic scientists work more efficiently to whittle away at the backlog of evidence waiting for DNA tests, she said. "There's going to be some time savings, no doubt about it," Varriale said. )1 1 1 The power of DNA testing was demonstrated in Wisconsin last year when tests helped exonerate Steven Avery of Two Rivers, who had served 18 years in prison for sexual assault.

The DNA tests linked the attack to a man already in prison. Keith Findley, corrector of a University of Wisconsin-Madison program called the Wisconsin Innocence Project, helped clear Avery. Findley said evidence in Avery's case sat for months at the state crime lab after a judge ordered it tested again for DNA. DtBiraA DtKrahoMl ASSOCIATED PRESS Rain travel Appleton (920) 730-0400 2600 N. Richmond Street Oshkosh (920) 233-0400 1 720 Congress Avenue Dr.

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peared in 1998 with the rest of his family and was found dead in North Carolina. Derek Anderson is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in Jefferson County Circuit Court. An appeals court asked the Court to hear man's case in family's disappearance MADISON The state Supreme Court will decide whether Wisconsin has jurisdiction in the case of a man charged with killing his father, who disap- HUNT: People bring local store, household items a. i -'V -J ij n. 19.

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"Oh, this isn't the end. He'll be back," Deb Sadowski said. "I'll bring the reinforcements," he laughed. The Sadowskis' children get a thrill out of the hunt just as their parents do. "It's really a nice activity for the whole family.

Gets us outside for family time and a little exercise," Ralph Sadowski said. The Sadowskis have been into geocaching for about a year and only twice have been unable to find the geocache, Deb Sadowski said. The name for geocaching comes from geo for geography and cache, a safe place for storing things. When the Sadowskis hide a cache they usually include things from around the house or items bought inexpensively from their local dollar store, they said. The fun is using their GPS device to hone in on their target, they said.

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Bethany Warner: (920) 426-6668 or bwarnerthenorthwestern.com. Mueller also explained why the wetlands are environmentally valuable to clean the water by doing an experiment with the students. In the experiment, she had students pour muddy water through a cornucopia basket filled with grass and moss, which -t 1 it 1 JS i V7- I fi rrrrr" I I I WEED NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS TOWNS OF ALCOMA, BLACK WOLF, CLAYTON, NEKIMI, OMRO, OSHKOSH, POYCAN, RUSHFORD, UTICA, VINLAND, WINCHESTER AND WINNECONNE, and, CITIES OF OMRO AND OSHKOSH NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to each person who owns, occupies or controls land in the above mentioned townships and cities, Winnebago County, State of Wisconsin, to destroy all noxious weeds, such as defined in and pursuant to the Wisconsin State statutes Sec. 66.96: thistle, leafy spurge, saw thistle, bull thistle, field bindweed (creeping jenny), ragweed, poison ivy, poison oak, wild mustard and other noxious weeds. Kenneth W.

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