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In this Thursday, May 27, 2010, file photo, a worker looks out through the logo at the entrance of the Foxconn complex in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. Two Republican state lawmakers said Thursday, July 20, 2017, that Wisconsin could announce it has landed a deal for Taiwanese iPhone manufacturer Foxconn to locate in the state as soon as the end of the month.
In this June 5, 2017 photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks during a news conference in Madison, Wis. Gov. Walker put forward what he's calling a "reasonable proposal" that would tap federal money and lower borrowing to pay for roads, but it was unclear Thursday, July 6, 2017, whether it would be enough to unite Republicans who control the Legislature and are searching for a budget deal.
In an era of deep partisan division, the Supreme Court could soon decide whether the drawing of electoral districts can be too political. A dispute over Wisconsin's Republican-drawn boundaries for the state legislature offers Democrats some hope of cutting into GOP electoral majorities across the United States.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker discusses the creation of a new public policy leadership and research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Madison. The center will be named after former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson.
Wisconsin Department of Justice officials say about 60 of 6,000 untested sexual assault evidence kits have been analyzed so far. The kits are sitting for a variety of reasons, including prosecutors deciding cases were too weak to pursue, cases were resolved without testing or victims wouldn't cooperate.
Organizer Felicia Pendleton says the people giving of their time are all professionals who provide dental and doctor visits, clothing, chiropractic care and massages. She says the dental line fills up early with registration beginning at 4:30 a.m. and the services are first come, first served.
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. strides to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 23, 2017, as he and the Republican leadership scramble for votes on their health care overhaul in the face of opposition from reluctant conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus.
The Wisconsin Professional Police Association released a statement following the decision by the insurance company for the city of Madison to settle the federal lawsuit filed against Police officer Matt Kenny. This statement is from WPPA Executive Director Jim Palmer.
Nicole Kirby looks over results during a statewide presidential election recount Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Milwaukee. The first candidate-driven statewide recount of a presidential election in 16 years began Thursday in Wisconsin, a state that Donald Trump won by less than a percentage point over Hillary Clinton after polls long predicted a Clinton victory.
Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president on the November 8 ballot, filed a request for a recount of Wisconsin's presidential election results shortly before the state's Friday deadline. But after Wisconsin's Elections Commission denied Stein's request that ballots be counted by hand, Stein's campaign filed a lawsuit demanding all ballots be manually counted, rather than by optical scanners.
LGBT groups and advocates are still in shock, after Madison-based InterVarsity Christian Fellowship asked staff members who believe in same-sex marriage to leave the fellowship. "I'm angry that religious organizations are able to continue to discriminate," said Executive Director of Outreach LGBT Community Center Steve Starkey, in response to the new policy.
The Dodge County Sheriff's Office says Friday night at about 8, a car hit 25-year-old Kyle Dais on WIS 175 in the township of Theresa. Dais was taken to the hospital, he's expected to be okay.
House Speaker Paul Ryan took aim at Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during a speech to college Republicans in Madison, Wisconsin. While acknowledging "this election has taken some dark-sometimes very dark-turns," Ryan ignored for the most part Republican nominee Donald Trump and the controversies surrounding him.
Madison Police are looking for a teenager who took a man's gold chain and then pointed a gun at him when confronted later. Police say the robbery happened at about 10:30 Wednesday night in the parking lot of the Walgreen's on Raymond Road and Whitney Way.
Officers were called to the area of Taft and Buick around 9:30 p.m., near the Walgreens in the 2100 block of South Park Street. Police say one person was shot in the ankle and taken to the hospital.
Senate Democrats are calling on Republican leaders to schedule an extraordinary session of the legislature to approve roughly $18.5 million in repairs and upgrades at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King, just one day before the Joint Legislative Audit Committee will meet to discuss problems uncovered by a Capital Times investigation of the facility. The improvements were all detailed in the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs 2015-17 budget request, but were denied by Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee.
Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon shows the effects of a long day of deliberations as members of the Wisconsin state Senate debate proposed right-to-work legislation at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis.