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  • UW-Madison seeks exemption from open-records law

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The University of Wisconsin-Madison wants an exemption from the state's open-records law that would allow it to keep research information private until it's published or ...

  • Crystal Finishing expanding in Mosinee

    Crystal Finishing Systems has purchased a shuttered manufacturing plant in Mosinee for an undisclosed price. Crystal Finishing President Mark Matthiae (MATH'-ee) says his company will add about 250 to 350 jobs in the next three years. Jobs will range in pay from $10.50 to $25 an hour. Matthiae says the average annual wage for his employees is ...

  • Steelworkers union hands Caterpillar new South Milwaukee contract proposal

    Caterpillar and union officials met for several hours on Thursday and will meet again next week. United Steelworkers Local 1343 presented Caterpillar Inc. with a new labor contract proposal in a meeting Thursday, and the two sides will meet again May 30 to continue negotiations, a local union official said. Thursdays meeting was the first since May 8. That meeting was the first after 803 union ...

  • Suspect in Superior homicide arrested in Duluth

    Duluth officers swarmed the Allyndale Motel Thursday night and made the arrest. The shooting victim was found earlier Thursday in the parking lot of Genesis Attachments. The Duluth News Tribune ...

  • 107 displaced by Allouez apartment fire

    Fire crews remained on the scene of the fire in Allouez (AL'-oh-way) early Friday morning. The Red Cross set up an emergency shelter at Langlade Elementary School. The Red Cross says most of the displaced residents stayed with family. A handful of people stayed at the ...

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The Break-Up

The Break-Up

Star power is an interesting thing, especially when it goes wrong. Simply because of the presence of Vince Vaughn in The Break-Up, people have been entering the theater under the impression that they're in for an uproarious romantic comedy--When Harry Met Sally by way of ... ...

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  • Chicago rap stars visit canceled

    MILWAUKEE - Management at the venue 618 Live on Water confirmed late Thursday that controversial rapper Keith "Chief Keef" Cozart would not be performing as part of a concert scheduled to take place Saturday night. Nick Murado said discussions about canceling Cozart's performance began earlier this week. By Tuesday, Murado said, a decision was made that "Chief Keef" ...

  • Couple accused of hoarding horses appears in court

    KENOSHA - A couple from Pleasant Prairie accused of animal cruelty and neglect will wait three more weeks before the start of their preliminary hearing. Paula and David White still have not secured a lawyer. The last veterinarian that last saw the horses back in 2009 said the condition the horses were found in last month were not the way he last saw them. He believes this is a case of animal ...

  • Gov. Walkers Iowa trip raises questions of a presidential run

    Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, is introducing himself to Iowa Republicans as would-be presidential candidates often do -- as one of their ...

  • Bridge over I-5 collapses in Wash. people vehicles in water

    It was shortly after 7 p.m. when Dan Sligh and his wife Sally were near the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River. The semi-truck ahead on the far right seemed too wide for the bridge span, and Sligh told his wife so."We started slowing down, and about that same time another semi-truck came up on the left side," he told KIRO 7. "It almost looked like he pinned that truck over ...

  • In bipartisan vote lawmakers recommend UW System tuition freeze

    Madison - The Legislature's budget committee in a bipartisan vote Thursday froze tuition and tax dollars for the University of Wisconsin System over the next two years and delayed new flexibilities promised in the last state budget, leaving public universities to fund several new initiatives from recently discovered cash reserves that triggered a firestorm at the Capitol. The tuition ...

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