Articles filed under Wisconsin
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Lifting Family Care enrollment cap heads to Wisc. SenateMar 14, 2012 8:28 am - Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — A proposal to lift an enrollment cap on the Family Care program has passed the state Assembly with a change that will require the Senate...
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Wisc. Assembly votes to halt registration at schoolsMar 14, 2012 8:28 am - MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin state Assembly has passed a bill that removes a requirement in state law that voter registration be offered to students in high schools. Th...
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Wis. court upholds inmate phone scam convictionMar 13, 2012 12:38 pm - MADISON, Wis. — A state appeals court says a prison inmate was properly convicted setting up a phone scam from behind bars. Prosecutors accused Matthew Steffes of steal...
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Transparency on Wisconsin spending still lackingMar 13, 2012 7:39 am - MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin residents have waited a long time to get a good look at the state’s checkbook. They’re going to be waiting longer. Nearly six years after legis...
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Ho-Chunk leader to deliver Wis. tribes speechMar 13, 2012 7:39 am - MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin tribal leader is delivering the annual State of the Tribes address to the state Legislature. Ho-Chunk President Jon Greendeer is scheduled to...
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High court to decide sex offender registry issueMar 13, 2012 7:39 am - MILWAUKEE — The state Supreme Court is considering whether a convicted sex offender is exempt from reporting his address to the state because he claims to be homeless. W...
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Wis. Assembly to vote on budget earmark billMar 13, 2012 7:39 am - MADISON, Wis. — The state Assembly is set to vote on a bill that would bar Wisconsin lawmakers from passing the state budget without a report listing all the earmarks in...
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Wisconsin Assembly to vote on abortion billMar 13, 2012 7:39 am - MADISON, Wis. — A bill designed to make sure a woman isn’t forced into having an abortion is up for a vote in the Legislature. The state Assembly was scheduled to vote o...
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Former Wis. teachers plead not guilty in drug caseMar 13, 2012 7:39 am - ANTIGO, Wis. — Three men, including two former teachers in northern Wisconsin, are pleading not guilty to marijuana charges. Chris Nicholson, Joseph Adams and Anthony Cr...
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Wisconsin man catches Illinois’ largest walleyeMar 12, 2012 5:19 pm - A fisherman named Fred Goselin held the record for the largest walleye ever caught in Illinois for more than a half century before 15-year-old Nick Tassoni caught a bigg...