http://www.kenoshanews.com/index.php Updated: Thursday Jul 3 - 9:44:27 pm CST Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:44:27 CST Copyright 2008 Kenosha News en-us http://www.kenoshanews.com/images/logo_144w.jpg http://www.kenoshanews.com/index.php 144 21 http://www.kenoshanews.com/articles/index.php?articleNum=3197430 PLEASANT PRAIRIE - A mobile home is a total loss and two other mobile homes have sustained some damage in a fire in the City View Mobile Home Park, 4303 75th St., this afternoon. No one was injured, and several cats were rescued from one of the adjacent trailers. http://www.kenoshanews.com/articles/index.php?articleNum=3192513 The ties between brothers Tim, Scott and Ken Pietruszynski are strong. All three served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Tim served in the first Gulf War, and Ken is a veteran of the Vietnam War. http://www.kenoshanews.com/articles/index.php?articleNum=3192781 BY ASSOCIATED PRESS and KENOSHA NEWS STAFF http://www.kenoshanews.com/articles/index.php?articleNum=3193974 Authorities are searching for a 14-year-old Salem girl who is believed to have run away with a 23-year-old man after communicating through text messages. According to Kenosha County Sheriff's Department detectives, Rachel D. Green was reportedly picked up Monday near a bus stop by Kyle A. DeWolf. The suspect was reportedly driving a 2003 Chevrolet Cavalier with Georgia registration AEB 2502. Rachel was reportedly in summer school at Central High School, according to authorities. http://www.kenoshanews.com/articles/index.php?articleNum=3191892 There was enough evidence to support the charges against a Kenosha man accused of trying to crash into several motorcyclists before causing a crash that killed one rider, a commissioner decided Wednesday. Luis M. Rocha-Mayo, 19, is charged with second-degree reckless homicide, while using a vehicle as a dangerous weapon, in connection with the death of motorcyclist Travis A. Bestwick, 25, also of Kenosha. http://www.kenoshanews.com/articles/index.php?articleNum=3192904 Kenosha County Medical Examiner Mary Mainland is leaving her job for sunnier skies in Tampa, Fla. Mainland confirmed Wednesday that she has accepted the position of associate medical examiner in Hillsborough County, Fla. http://www.kenoshanews.com/articles/index.php?articleNum=3192591 Levees generally come to the public's attention only when they fail, as they did this year in the Midwest and disastrously in New Orleans in 2005. But levees are a surprisingly common fact of American life and many people may not even be aware that they are living behind the protection of what is basically a pile of dirt. The condition of those levees may be the country's greatest unmet infrastructure need, especially because climate change models forecast an increase in the intensity and frequency of heavy rainfall storms, and because people insist on building on flood plains.