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Category Archives: Wisconsin
Wisconsin Gov. Walker: Won’t remove Sheriff David Clarke over jail dehydration death
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke speaks during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July 2016. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said April 26 that he won't remove Clarke from office over the death of an inmate who was allegedly denied water for seven days in a jail Clarke oversees.
Wisconsin AG: Undercover campaign videos reveal no crime
The Wisconsin Department of Justice has concluded that secretly recorded videos of a Democratic activist bragging about deploying troublemakers at Donald Trump presidential campaign rallies show no evidence that laws were broken. Conservative activist James O'Keefe and his investigative film group, Project Veritas, released secretly recorded and selectively edited video footage in October of Wisconsin -based liberal operative Scott Foval boasting about connections to the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton 's campaign.
Manifesto-writing fugitive found camping on Wisconsin farm
A Wisconsin man says he found Joseph Jakubowski camping on his land, and the two spoke for an hour before he called police and realized he was a fugitive. MILWAUKEE - Fearing a mass shooting, authorities chased nearly 800 leads in search of a Wisconsin man they believed had a cache of stolen firearms and had written of his desire to commit violent acts against the government.
Voters await economic revival in a part of pro-Trump America
President Donald Trump is sworn in during a live broadcast of the inauguration as Denny Riebe, from right, Doug Dickman, Scott Reilly, and Bill Winter, play cards at the Sawmill Saloon in Prairie du Chien, Wis., Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. The men who meet here for cards every morning and call themselves the Corner of Superior Knowledge are made up democrats, Trump supporters and another described as agnostic.
Will rural Wis. Trump voters swing back to Dems in 2018?
Will rural Wis. Trump voters swing back to Dems in 2018? Rural voters almost always against the party in the White House.
Walker’s Wisconsin tuition idea shuffles political alliances
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to cut tuition at the University of Wisconsin and use taxpayer funds to pay for it is shaking up normal political alliances with some Democrats expressing support while skeptical fellow Republicans worry it could put the state on a path toward socialist Bernie Sanders' free college tuition plan. Republican governors across the nation have criticized universities over higher tuition and some, including Walker, have forced tuition freezes.
Advocates of hate crimes law prepared to try again
When advocates for a hate-crimes bill took their case to the Legislature last year, their cause was quickly overshadowed by a separate effort to expand the state's civil rights law to include LGBT protections. The latter measure, which ultimately failed, became known derisively as the "bathroom bill" with opponents who claimed, falsely, that it would allow predatory men to sneak into women's restrooms.
Student: Girl slammed to ground was trying to break up fight
The Latest on the federal sentencing of Dylann Roof in the deaths of nine people at a South Carolina church : The Latest on the federal sentencing of Dylann Roof in the deaths of nine people at a South Carolina church : A school resource officer in North Carolina has been placed on leave after a brief video posted online shows him picking up and slamming a female high school student to the ground. A student who was slammed to the ground by a police officer at a North Carolina high school was trying to break up a fight involving her sister, said the 15-year-old who posted video of the incident.
Search intensifies for missing 84-year-old man from Town of Beloit
The National Guard and the Wisconsin State Patrol are among the many agencies assisting in helping find a man from the Town of Beloit who went missing on Tuesday. A Silver Alert has been issued for 84-year-old Stuart Austin who was last seen in Madison leaving Triangle Super Services on Milwaukee Street.
Road funding big, but not only, issue facing Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Legislature begins the 2017-2018 session on Tuesday.
Priorities USA positions itself as center of gravity for the left in the Trump era
The super PAC that poured nearly $200 million into trying to elect Hillary Clinton president is remaking itself as a permanent center of opposition to the impending Trump administration, with the long-term aim of helping the Democratic Party claw back voters it lost in the November election. Priorities USA Action is merging with a nonprofit voting rights group called Every Citizen Counts to form an expanded organization with an ambitious agenda, according to veteran Democratic strategist Guy Cecil, who ran both organizations and will lead the merged group.
Catholic surprise: another way Trump is remaking the GOP :0
Hillary's corruption? The betrayal of the American Dream? Vladimir Putin? Wrong. Wrong.
Trump tells Wisconsin crowd booing Paul Ryan: ‘I’ve come to appreciate him’
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the USA Thank You Tour event at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center in West Allis, Wisc., on Tuesday.
Federal judge refuses to halt Wisconsin recount
Michigan's ... /Jackson Citizen Patriot via AP). Diane Petryk of Lansing, Mich., holds a sign that says, "Let the Recount continue" to rally and speak out against the courts decision to shut down the recount, at the ... .
Authorities say Fox Lake victim died of gun shot wound
Court records show a 27-year old woman in Fox Lake died of a gun shot wound to the head. Authorities say the body of Sesalie Dixon was found in a truck at a home at 100 We-Go Trail Sunday.
Wisconsin starts recount on presidential ballots
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.
Presidential election recount set to begin in Wisconsin
The first candidate-driven statewide recount of a presidential election in 16 years was set to begin 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. Presidential election recount set to begin in Wisconsin, a state where Donald Trump won by less than a percentage point over Hillary Clinton (AFP The recount requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein carries none of the drama of the Florida presidential recount of 2000, when the outcome of the election between Al Gore and George W. Bush hung in the balance.
Green Party Candidate Jill Stein to Sue Wisconsin for Time-Consuming Manual Recount
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.
Former Labour MP Ed Balls says he does not know what lies ahead after Strictly exit.
The Midge: two-thirds of Scots want to keep pound after independence; FM Nicola Sturgeon to Dublin for two-day visit; calls for reform of Evel voting rules Hello and welcome to The Midge, the e-bulletin that takes a bite out of politics in Scotland and elsewhere. Former French PM Francois Fillon wins conservative nomination for presidency a Government facing fresh legal challenge over European Economic Area membership a May hosts summit with Polish PM in Downing Street a Fighting continuing in Aleppo a UN investigator arrives in Turkey following torture allegations a Record number take their own lives in prisons in England and Wales a New leader of Ukip revealed today a Ed Balls out of Strictly.