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5 Wis school districts settle investment lawsuit 5 Wis school districts settle investment lawsuitSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - KIMBERLY, Wis. — An investment firm accused of misconduct for selling risky investments to five Wisconsin school districts has agreed to pay them about $30 million. The...
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Lawmaker says Indiana stage collapse victims should get more moneySep 28, 2011 12:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS — State representative Ed DeLaney wants state lawmakers to consider increasing the amount paid to victims of the Indiana State Fair stage collapse. DeLaney...
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Cash-strapped Hammond to close two remaining library branchesSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - HAMMOND, Ind. — A northern Indiana city is closing its two remaining library branches to deal with a more than $800,000 cash shortfall. More than 70 people packed a comm...
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Cheesehead obscured on Wis. anti-cheese billboardSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - ST. FRANCIS, Wis. — A physicians’ group that paid for an anti-cheese billboard along a Wisconsin highway says the image of a foam cheesehead has been obscured after the ...
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Notre Dame president protests birth control inclusionSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - SOUTH BEND, Ind. — President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul should be changed so that religious schools such as the University of Notre Dame aren’t required to go a...
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Man gets 12 years in teen’s scrap yard killingSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - MILWAUKEE — A judge has sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for fatally shooting a teenage boy who broke into a Milwaukee scrap yard with his friends. Fifty-four-year-...
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Chicago man gets life for Lansing motel murderSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - A Chicago man already serving a 105-year prison sentence for a Minooka carjacking also has received a life sentence for killing a man during a Lansing motel robbery. Coo...
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Two toddlers killed in house fire identifiedSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - Two children are dead following a house fire in South suburban Hickory Hills. Hickory Hills police Sgt. Ervin Weesit says the boys were found in a second-floor bedroom. ...
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Wis. court upholds records lawsuit dismissalSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — A state appeals court has affirmed a judge’s decision to toss out a Madison newspaper’s lawsuit claiming former Gov. Jim Doyle’s office improperly delaye...
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Kenosha man convicted in '09 custard stand killingSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - KENOSHA, Wis. — Jurors have convicted a Kenosha man in the only trial to emerge from a fatal robbery at a custard stand two years ago. The jury of eight women and four ...