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  • Wisconsin GOP Proves How Ridiculous They Are That They Don’t Care About Women’s Issues At All

    a plethora of anti-abortion bills aimed at regulating abortion clinics, restricting insurance from paying for abortions and even birth control, and creating bills exempting faith-based employers from providing contraceptive coverage (something that’s already been handled at the federal level). One measure would also outright ban the coverage of abortions for public employees who have ...

  • Wis. budget committee approves DNA upon arrest

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Legislature's finance committee Thursday approved a plan in Republican Gov. Scott Walker's executive budget that would dramatically expand the state's powers to seize DNA from crime ...

  • Wisconsin Scott Walker touts state ties during trip to Iowa

    WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Scott Walker tried to introduce himself to Iowa Republicans Thursday as so many would-be presidential candidates often do -- one of their own. After all, the Wisconsin governor weighing a 2016 bid for president spent seven years as a young child living in Plainfield, a tiny town in northeast Iowa Walker referred to a half-dozen times during a 40 minute speech at a ...

  • Judge reverses Wisconsin mans rape conviction after 20 years

    OSHKOSH, Wis. -- A Wisconsin man who spent two decades in prison for rape has had his conviction overturned. Joseph Frey, 53, received a 102-year sentence in 1994 for an attack three years prior on a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh student. The woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint after her apartment was broken into. On Wednesday, Winnebago County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Bissett ...

  • Wisconsin legislative committee votes to slash UW funding

    MADISON, Wis. -- A legislative committee has voted to slash the University of Wisconsin System budget, venting its anger after learning the system raised tuition for six straight years even though it's currently sitting on a surplus of $650 million. The Joint Finance Committee approved the UW budget bill Thursday evening. The bill eliminates a proposed spending increase of $181 million ...

Movie Review

Cop Land

I've heard too many people describing James Mangold's "Cop Land" as a movie about one good sheriff taking on a precinct of corrupt cops. Yes, that is part of the story, but it's not what the film is about. The good cop/bad cop is just the framework the movie uses to tell a tale of disillusionment, loss, and one man's harsh realization that what he looked up to all his life was wrong. The he ... ...

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  • Wisconsin DNR raises bag limits for walleye as Chippewa spearfishing winds down

    MADISON, Wis. -- Wildlife officials increased daily walleye bag limits for anglers on Thursday as Wisconsin Chippewa spearfishing winds down. The state Department of Natural Resources raised limits on 442 lakes in the ceded territory, a swath of northern Wisconsin the tribes gave to the government more than a century ago. The rules include a five-walleye limit on 289 lakes, a four-walleye limit ...

  • Wisconsin Budget committee cuts roadwork to close budget gap

    MADISON, Wis. -- The Legislature's budget-writing committee voted unanimously Thursday to delay some freeway projects and cut funding for others, as part of an effort to close a $54 million deficit in Wisconsin's roads fund that was prompted by a drop in gas-tax revenue. The Joint Finance Committee voted to postpone freeway work in the Milwaukee area and scale back road aid to local ...

  • West Bend girl gets major surprise

    WEST BEND – A seventh grader received a major surprise when her Marine father returned home. Major Greg Butcher just spent seven months in Afghanistan. Butcher, along with teachers at Badger Middle School, staged an elaborate plot to surprise his daughter, ...

  • Milwaukee County employee claims sex assault harassment by supervisor

    A Milwaukee County employee says she was sexually assaulted twice by her male supervisor while at work at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, according to a complaint filed with the state. The employee says she was harassed by her boss over a seven-year period, which included phone calls during and after work. The woman was forced to engage in sex acts with the supervisor once in the ...

  • Budget panel move would delay Milwaukee-area freeway projects

    Madison -- To close a shortfall in the state's roads fund, the Legislature's budget committee Thursday cut funding for highways and other projects by $59.5 million, which would delay work on the massive I-94 North-South and Zoo Interchange projects in the Milwaukee area. The proposal was approved unanimously without debate by the Joint Finance Committee after lengthy private ...

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