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Ice Castles at Lake Geneva Open for the Season Friday
Ice Castles in Lake Geneva are set to open to the public Friday with several precautions meant to reduce the spread of COVID-19, the popular attraction announced Monday. This year, the winter wonderland will be located at Geneva National Resort and Club and feature a variety of interactive attractions including ice carved-tunnels, fountains, slides, frozen thrones and towers of ice…
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Ice Castles Return to Lake Geneva For a Winter Wonderland
A winter wonderland is expected to make a return to Lake Geneva this year even as coronavirus metrics surge in the state.
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Ice Castles in Lake Geneva Set Opening Date
Ice Castles are set to open in Lake Geneva next week, the attraction announced Friday, despite the warmer winter Wisconsin has experienced.
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Ice Castles at Lake Geneva Set to Return as Early as This Month
Ice Castles are set to return to Lake Geneva this month. The award-winning frozen attraction is aiming to open at the end of January or beginning of February, officials said. The attraction was hoping to open earlier this winter, but warm weather has prevented it. The ice castles are located in six cities across North America. The experience is built…
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WEB Rundown
The top headlines you need to know as you start your day on Dec. 3, 2019.
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Teen Girls Strike for Global Action on Climate Change
Fridays for Future school strikes — a movement led largely by teenage girls — has eclipsed the quiet, solitary protests started by its founder, 16-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg, in August 2018. Now upward of 2 million supporters from The Hague to Kampala, Uganda, regularly skip class on Friday and take to the streets to protest government inaction on climate change....
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Swiss Celebrate Once-in-a-Generation Winegrowers' Festival
Swiss residents and tourists alike are partying like they haven’t since 1999. The town of Vevey has kicked off the 12th “Fete des Vignerons,” or Winemakers Festival, the latest installment in a centuries-old tradition of celebrating vineyard workers — which nowadays takes place only once a generation. Festival organizers have pulled out the stops for the celebration in Vevey, a...
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IOC Formally Opens $145M New Headquarters in Switzerland
The International Olympic Committee has formally opened its 145 million Swiss francs ($145 million) new headquarters exactly 125 years after the Olympic Games was revived. “On our 125th anniversary, we clearly see what a great visionary Pierre de Coubertin was,” IOC President Thomas Bach told guests Sunday at the inauguration. “By bringing the entire world together in peaceful competition, the...
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IOC Formally Opens $145M New Headquarters in Switzerland
The International Olympic Committee has formally opened its 145 million Swiss francs ($145 million) new headquarters exactly 125 years after the Olympic Games was revived. “On our 125th anniversary, we clearly see what a great visionary Pierre de Coubertin was,” IOC President Thomas Bach told guests Sunday at the inauguration. “By bringing the entire world together in peaceful competition, the...
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Take a Sneak Peek at Stunning New Ice Castles in Lake Geneva
The stunning, internally-lit life-size castles, made by hand each winter by a Utah-based sculptor and his team, are slated to open in Lake Geneva at the end of December.
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Incredible Ice Castle to Open in Lake Geneva This Week
For area residents looking for something fun to do this winter, a new construction project in Lake Geneva is sure to amaze you.
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Construction Begins on Massive Ice Castles in Lake Geneva
The stunning, internally-lit life-size castles, made by hand each winter by a Utah-based sculptor and his team, are slated to open in Lake Geneva at the end of December.
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Coke, Guns and Monkey Masks: Wisconsin Men Were on Retaliation Mission, Authorities Say
Three Wisconsin men found Wednesday morning near north suburban Antioch with guns, drugs and monkey masks inside their vehicle were on their way to retaliate against another group over an earlier confrontation, according to authorities.
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Underground Railroad Controversy Draws Crowd to School Board Meeting
A school board Monday heard an hour of passionate and at times heated comments about one part of a long cherished four-day 6th-grade trip that one family and their daughter believe should never be repeated.
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Underground Railroad Controversy Draws Crowd to School Board Meeting
A school board Monday heard an hour of passionate and at times heated comments about one part of a long cherished four-day 6th-grade trip that one family and their daughter believe should never be repeated. Dick Johnson reports.
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‘It Infuriates Me': Family Outraged Over Underground Railroad Field Trip
A couple says their child was subjected to a racially insensitive exercise on a school field trip and they still can’t believe it happened.
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Family Outraged Over Underground Railroad Field Trip
A couple says their child was subjected to a racially insensitive exercise on a school field trip and they still can’t believe it happened. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has the details.
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Former Professor, Oxford Employee Indicted in Chicago Stabbing
A grand jury has indicted a former Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee on first-degree murder charges in the July stabbing death of a hairstylist in the professor’s Chicago apartment, a judge announced Friday.
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Chicago Murder-Suicide Fantasy Suspects to Appear in Court
Prosecutors alleged Sunday that the men charged in the “gruesome” stabbing death of a 26-year-old hairdresser committed the crime as part of a sexual fantasy of “killing others and then themselves.”
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Chicago Slaying Was Part of Murder-Suicide Sex Fantasy, Prosecutors Say
Prosecutors alleged Sunday that the men charged in the “gruesome” stabbing death of a 26-year-old hairdresser committed the crime as part of a sexual fantasy of “killing others and then themselves.”