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Wisconsin
August 11,2016
by Jay Rath
A Cross Plains man says he can help law enforcement in the investigation of the 2008 killing of college student Brittany Zimmermann, but in exchange he wants a presidential pardon and the return of 19 guns confiscated more than two years ago.
Andrew J. Scoles has told authorities that David A. Kahl, a former roommate identified as a suspect in the Zimmermann case, told him details of the day the ....
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Lifestyle,
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August 10,2016
by Wisconsin Gazette
The U.S. General Services Administration recently announced the public offering of four lighthouses in Michigan.
The sale is part of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act program’s effort to find new owners for the historic structures.
Here's what the GSA says about the properties:
The iconic White Shoal Light, a major engineering feat at the time of construction in 1901,....
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August 09,2016
by Associated Press
Michigan officials say Enbridge Energy Partners had violated a legal requirement by having too much unsupported space along its twin oil and liquified natural gas pipelines running beneath the environmentally sensitive waterway that links Lakes Michigan and Huron.
Enbridge found similar problems two years ago with the pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac and said it had taken steps to ensure they....
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May 30,2016
by Associated Press
Layla was an energetic 4-year-old springer spaniel just reaching her prime. Jack Lundbohm figures she would have been the perfect dog for last fall’s grouse-hunting season.
But Layla died one day last August, after splashing along the shore of Lake of the Woods for nearly two hours. She had been playing with Lundbohm’s 5-year-old grandson, Gus, and not long after the boy took a break from t....
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April 14,2016
by Associated Press
Health officials in Chicago say last summer's deadly outbreak of meningitis in gay and bisexual men is continuing with two new confirmed cases.
The Chicago Department of Public Health says this brings the total to nine cases linked to the outbreak, all in men who have sex with men. One man died last June.
The department says the outbreak is disproportionately affecting men with HIV and black....
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Featured Views,
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Wisconsin
April 11,2016
by Associated Press
To those unfamiliar with the “tiny house” movement, the small structure being constructed in a barn in rural Racine County might look more like a kid’s clubhouse than an actual home in the making.
Take a look at the building through the eyes of Jeff Gustin, however, and it’s easy to see the 128-square-foot house as the perfect solution to eliminating veteran homelessness in Racine.
A....
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April 04,2016
by Associated Press
A white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the shooting of a black teenager has been hired to work as a janitor for the city’s police union as he awaits trial, the union president said last week, prompting protests.
Dean Angelo, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Chicago, says the union hired Jason Van Dyke about three weeks ago. Van Dyke is accused of shooting 17-year-old ....
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Environment,
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April 04,2016
by Associated Press
Experts believe an invasive beetle is responsible for an increase in sightings of a rare woodpecker species in the western Chicago suburbs.
The pileated woodpecker has been seen and heard fairly regularly for the past month or so on the east side of the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, John Cebula of the DuPage Birding Club told the Naperville Sun. The species also has been spotted near Naperville an....
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March 09,2016
by Wisconsin Gazette
Bernie Sanders' Democratic presidential campaign has sued Ohio's secretary of state in federal court over what it calls an unconstitutional attempt to prevent young people from voting in the state's March 15 primary.
“It is an outrage that the secretary of state in Ohio is going out of his way to keep young people – significantly African-American young people, Latino young people – from p....
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March 09,2016
by Wisconsin Gazette
Bernie Sanders stunned front-runner Hillary Clinton in a narrow Michigan primary upset, giving his upstart campaign new energy.
Clinton won in Mississippi, but Sanders' victory is seen as likely to ensure a prolonged fight to pick a candidate for November's general election.
Meanwhile, Republican front-runner Donald Trump racked up primary wins in the big prize of Michigan as well as Mississ....
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