Wisconsin
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20 years after Brown's murders, daughter carries onJan 08, 2013 4:30 am - At the end of her first week of work as a legislative aide, Jennifer Ehlenfeldt Shilling sat down on a Wisconsin Capitol bench and wrote her father a letter filled with ...
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Trial ordered for funeral director in drug caseJan 04, 2013 8:37 am - MARKESAN, Wis. — A mortician accused of dealing drugs at her family’s Markesan, Wis., funeral home will stand trial. Twenty-five-year-old Melissa Wachholz has pleaded n...
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10-year sentence for abuse that nearly killed boyJan 04, 2013 8:37 am - MADISON, Wis. — A Madison man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for physically abusing his former girlfriend’s 4-year-old son who suffered brain damage and nearl...
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Women’s history pioneer Gerda Lerner dies at 92Jan 04, 2013 8:20 am - MILWAUKEE — Gerda Lerner spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi prison, sharing a cell with two gentile women arrested for political work who shared their food with the Jewis...
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Judge to rule in Wisconsin wolf hunt challengeJan 04, 2013 6:26 am - MADISON, Wis. — A Madison judge is expected to rule on whether hunters can use dogs to go after wolves. A group of humane societies filed a lawsuit earlier this year all...
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2 giraffes die in Wisconsin Dells park fireDec 31, 2012 3:43 pm - WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. — Two giraffes were killed during a fire at a Wisconsin Dells wildlife park. According to Wisconsin Dells police, someone called 911 at about 6 p.m...
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Wisconsin couple says pet chicken alerted them to blazeDec 29, 2012 7:00 am - MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin couple says clucks, not fire trucks, helped them escape a blaze at their home. Dennis Murawska, 59, said a pet chicken named Cluck Cluck woke his...
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Husband charged in Wis. officer’s shooting deathDec 28, 2012 6:56 am - MILWAUKEE — An Iraq War veteran charged with ambushing his wife Christmas Eve as she worked as a Milwaukee-area police officer told investigators he shot her in the head...
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Whooping cough hits Wisconsin hard this yearDec 27, 2012 6:40 am - MADISON, Wis. — The whooping cough hit Wisconsin residents hard this year. According to the Wisconsin Division of Public Health, there were nearly 5,700 confirmed and pr...
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Tolkien class at Wis. university proves popularDec 25, 2012 5:00 am - MILWAUKEE — The vast collection of J.R.R. Tolkien manuscripts initially sold senior Joe Kirchoff on Marquette University, so when the school offered its first course dev...