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  • Prosecutors have accused a Wisconsin police officer of going on a burglary spree, stealing two vehicles and leading officers on a high-speed pursuit.
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  • The Janesville school district is paying a teacher suspected of being drunk at a field trip more than $18,000 to resign.
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  • A 14-year-old has been sentenced to life in prison with a chance at parole at age 50 in the hatchet killing of his great grandmother in Sheboygan Falls.
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  • Chain saw artists from around the world gathered in western Wisconsin for a woodcarving competition.
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  • A California couple has found the World War II diary of a Wisconsin veteran, and officials in his hometown are trying to track down his relatives.
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  • Kenosha police say a 4-year-old boy who fell from a second-story window at his home has died.
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  • Walter Cnare's foot-long, 2-year-old orange beard has already earned him honors in a five-state competition in Minnesota.
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  • Two more people have been killed in Milwaukee.
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  • A computer crash over the weekend has affected Wisconsin state government offices.
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  • Gov. Scott Walker says he believes there would be significant bipartisan support in the Legislature to create a mandatory minimum sentence for those who illegally possess a gun.
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  • The Wisconsin Department of Justice says three Catholic hospital systems can't deny abortion providers admitting privileges.
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  • The University of Wisconsin-Madison's ranking as the nation's eighth best party school is being met not with a toast but a sigh by those who work to curb underage drinking.
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  • A Chinese scientist is set to be sentenced on charges stemming from the theft of a research drug from a Wisconsin medical school.
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  • Hundreds of people gathered are marking the one-year anniversary of a shooting rampage at a Wisconsin Sikh temple with a candlelight vigil in the very parking lot where two of the six victims died.
  • Hundreds of people gathered are marking the one-year anniversary of a shooting rampage at a Wisconsin Sikh temple with a candlelight vigil in the very parking lot where two of the six victims died.
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  • Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says Wisconsin should follow the lead of other Midwest states and legalize gay marriage.
  • Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says Wisconsin should follow the lead of other Midwest states and legalize gay marriage.
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  • The city of Madison has ordered the owners of a strip club to cover a racy new outdoor sign.
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  • A 14-year-old Racine boy is hospitalized after being accidentally shot while target shooting with relatives in central Wisconsin.
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  • The Justice Department will begin keeping numbers on hate crimes committed against Sikhs and six other groups, in connection with Monday's one-year anniversary of the killing of six Sikh worshippers in Oak Creek, Wis.
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  • The U.S. Senate has passed a resolution in honor of the upcoming one-year anniversary of a shooting at a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple.
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  • Two young teens from Wisconsin and Minnesota are two-thirds of the U.S. dream team that captured the National Geographic World Championship in Russia.
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  • Veterinarians and others say they're noticing an increasing number of ticks in Wisconsin this year.
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  • The American Cheese Society will choose a top cheese out of nearly 1,800 entries in Madison, Wis.
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  • New figures show Eau Claire is second in the nation in the percentage of new construction, mining and logging jobs.
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  • The Green Bay City Council had decided against imposing a ban on saggy pants in the city.
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  • Jetman, a Swiss adventurer, is using his custom-built flying jet suit to make his first public flights in the United States this summer...
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  • The great majority of unsolved murders in Wisconsin over the last decade occurred in Milwaukee and involved black men as victims.
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  • Neighbors in a small Washington County community were evacuated when a man barricaded himself in a home with more than 20 guns.
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  • Alterra Coffee is changing its name and parting ways with the Mars Corp.
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  • The Coast Guard is identifying the pilot killed when his plane crashed into Lake Michigan near Milwaukee.
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  • Two people are dead after a single engine plane went down in Lake Michigan near a Milwaukee suburb.
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  • U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan laid out his proposals to achieve a consensus in Congress and push through immigration law reform during a Racine town hall meeting.
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  • This is an undated handout photo of a grey wolf from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (AP Photo)
  • The deadline for applying for a 2013-14 Wisconsin wolf permit is closing in.
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  • Federal health authorities say more than 275 people in seven states have now been sickened with an unidentified stomach bug.
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  • The Wisconsin State Patrol says a woman held against her will by a Minnesota man she met online was able to text for help.
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  • Hundreds of Chinese, Ho-Chunk and Wisconsin high school students are set to visit Baraboo for a tri-national celebration.
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  • A 19-year-old man has died after being rescued from the Milwaukee River.
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  • A suburban Milwaukee detective is accused of stealing drugs from the police department evidence room.
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  • A central Wisconsin woman accused of trying to kill four of her six children to spare them the pain of her divorce has pleaded insanity.
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  • Court documents indicate Hartford police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old woman as a homicide.
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  • Wisconsin quarterback Tanner McEvoy is back with the team after being mugged in Madison over the weekend.
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  • A 76-year-old Milwaukee man who shot and killed his teen neighbor after accusing the boy of burglary has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
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  • A Madison man accused of trying to set his wife on fire has entered a plea agreement.
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  • An aging dog whose restful repose in Lake Superior while in the arms of his owner captured widespread attention has died.
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  • Milwaukee authorities are investigating three suspected heat-related deaths as a heat wave broils the city.
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  • Purdue University President Mitch Daniels says his attempt to keep liberal historian Howard Zinn's work out of teacher preparation courses was designed to ensure Indiana's K-12 students wouldn't read it.
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  • Police say a body found inside a car in a retention pond in a city west of Indianapolis fits the description of a 27-year-old man who has been missing for two years.
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  • A court-appointed doctor says a Milwaukee man who shot and killed his teenage neighbor last year over a suspected burglary didn't show signs of delusional behavior.
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  • Court records show the head of the Milwaukee FBI has been reassigned and is under investigation for trying to influence a subordinate's testimony in a lawsuit against the agency.
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  • The Green Bay Packers are cutting the ribbon on the team's $146 million renovation and expansion project.
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  • The search for a missing western Wisconsin toddler is over.
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