Wisconsin
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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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Probe: Wis. clerk likely violated law in electionSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — Investigators say a county clerk likely violated the law when she failed to report thousands of votes in this past spring’s state Supreme Court election,...
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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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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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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 ...
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Wis. Supreme Court to discuss recusal proposalsSep 28, 2011 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to discuss proposed new rules about when to recuse themselves from cases. The discussion Wednesday afternoon is ...
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Another fatal ATV accident in WisconsinSep 27, 2011 12:00 am - CHETEK, Wis. — Another person has died in an all-terrain vehicle accident in Rusk County. A 47-year-old man was pronounced dead Monday afternoon near Potato Lake, east ...
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Woman sentenced for shopping outburstSep 27, 2011 12:00 am - APPLETON, Wis. — A woman whose profanity-laced struggle with store clerks on one of the busiest shopping days of the year has been sentenced to a year’s probation in Out...
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Labor pains at Wisconsin military truck manufacturerSep 27, 2011 12:00 am - OSHKOSH, Wis. — There are labor pains at one of the Fox Valley’s largest employers. Oshkosh Corp. and union workers are at odds on a new contract, with the old one expi...