Wisconsin’s primary subjected people of color to yet another Covid-19 disadvantage | David Bowen

The threat of the coronavirus is only compounded by a legacy of racial disparities that makes Milwaukee one of the worst places to be black in the US

“It’s a hoax,” Donald Trump said.

“It’s just the flu,” my friend told me.

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Milwaukee shooting: five dead at Molson Coors campus after employee opens fire

  • Police identify attacker as 51-year-old man
  • Authorities offer no immediate motive

An employee opened fire at the Milwaukee campus of Molson Coors on Wednesday, killing five fellow workers before taking his own life, police said.

Police identified the man responsible for the shooting at one of the world’s largest brewers of beer as a 51-year-old Milwaukee man who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Wisconsin’s dairy farmers see bleak future for ‘America’s Dairyland’

Collapsing prices, the rise of mega farms in warmer states and fluctuations in demand have led to a spate of bankruptcies

The Goodman family has been milking cows in Wisconsin since 1889. Jim Goodman is the last of his line. The 66-year-old farmer has sold his herd and the land where they grazed. His children have chosen other careers.

Related: Why America’s cheese capital is at the center of Trump’s trade war

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Game on: Wisconsin town to legalize snowball fights after 50-year ban

Wausau has voted to amend a 1962 ordinance that forbids the launching of projectiles – including snowballs – on city property

On Monday afternoon, last-minute shoppers shuffled the sidewalks around Wausau’s city center as the mercury topped 34F (1C) – a veritable heatwave for this time of year and, coincidentally, the perfect temperature for packing snowballs with volume and heft.

And inside the nearby city hall, a conversation has also been heating up – one that could shape the future of snowball fights in this central Wisconsin town.

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Jayme Closs: man gets life sentence for kidnapping teen and killing her parents

Jake Patterson pleaded guilty in March to intentional homicide and kidnapping, after Closs was held for 88 days

A Wisconsin man was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents in a case that mystified authorities until the girl made a daring escape from the remote cabin where she was held for 88 days.

Jake Patterson, 21, pleaded guilty in March to two counts of intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping. He admitted to abducting Jayme in October after killing her parents, James and Denise Closs, at the family’s home near Barron, about 90 miles north-east of Minneapolis.

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Polar vortex: eight dead as Arctic air spreads across midwest

Thousands of flights canceled, schools close, and post office halts deliveries as Chicago lows approach record

Frozen Arctic winds brought record-low temperatures across much of the US midwest on Wednesday, as a blast of Arctic air known as the polar vortex unnerved residents accustomed to brutal winters.

As of Wednesday evening, at least eight deaths were linked to the system, including an elderly Illinois man who was found several hours after he fell trying to get into his home and a University of Iowa student found behind an academic hall several hours before dawn. A man was struck by a snowplow in the Chicago area, a young couple’s SUV struck another on a snowy road in northern Indiana and a Milwaukee man froze to death in a garage, authorities said.

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Jayme Closs: grandfather says teenager in ‘good spirits’ after rescue

Authorities say Wisconsin girl escaped a man who killed her parents and held her captive for three months

The grandfather of a 13-year-old Jayme Closs, the girl from north-western Wisconsin who authorities say escaped a man who killed her parents and held her captive for three months, said on Sunday she’s in “exceptionally good spirits”.

Related: Jayme Closs: authorities search for motive in 'tragic' kidnapping case

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Jayme Closs: authorities search for motive in ‘tragic’ kidnapping case

  • Wisconsin town shares relief after 13-year-old found alive
  • Suspect, 21, in jail on suspicion of kidnapping and homicide

As authorities tried to find out what motivated a Wisconsin man to allegedly kill a couple he appeared not to know and kidnap their 13-year-old daughter, lawyers for the suspect in the murders of James and Denise Closs and the abduction of Jayme Closs lamented “a very tragic situation” and said they were relying on the courts to treat their client fairly.

Related: Jayme Closs, 13, found alive three months after parents' murder

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Walker would welcome Trump during hardest gubernatorial race

Gov. Scott Walker, reiterating that he's in the toughest race for governor in his career, said Friday he would welcome a visit from President Donald Trump to help him out even as polls show most Wisconsin voters disapprove of the job Trump is doing. Walker told reporters after a stop at Automation Components Inc. that he's said "100 times" he would be glad if Trump visited, even while admitting that anger over politics in Washington is fueling his opponents.

Your Views: Baldwin getting paid to be an obstructionist

For four years, Sen. Tammy Baldwin sat around doing nothing during her Senate term, and now in the last two years, she's trying to tell us what a great asset she is for the state of Wisconsin. An obstructionist is an asset? She voted against the tax cuts, which, as all can see, has been a blessing to our economy.

In Wisconsin, a running mate shakes up governor’s race Source: AP

Wisconsin's Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor has been mistaken for a dead car crash victim, been confused with a white guy, been wrongly accused of kneeling during the national anthem and had his name left out of voter guides. Mandela Barnes is also shaking up the governor's race in a way rarely done by a running mate in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin GOP Senate Hopes Rely on Underdog Leah Vukmir

Few gave the Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Wisconsin much of a chance of defeating her better-funded primary challenger last month, but she prevailed thanks largely to support from the party establishment. Now Vukmir faces another opponent with deeper pockets - Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin - in one of the most expensive Senate races in the country.

Walker touts college credit, Democrats hit him on insurance

Republican Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday touted his new plan to give college graduates $5,000 over five years if they promise to stay in Wisconsin, while a Democratic group launched an attack ad featuring a woman with breast cancer who says Walker doesn't care about families like hers. Walker faces Democrat Tony Evers, the state schools chief, in the November election.

Wisconsin GOP leader: Not enough votes for paper plants bill

A Republican co-chair of the Legislature's budget committee said Monday there are not enough votes in the Senate to pass a tax break bill designed to keep open a pair of Kimberly-Clark Corp. plants in northeast Wisconsin, saving more than 600 jobs. Kimberly-Clark, which makes Kleenex tissue, Huggies diapers and other paper products said earlier this year it planned to shutter the plants , but hopes of saving them were rekindled last month after the union representing workers there agreed to concessions.

Wisconsin GOP leader: Not enough votes now for plant bill

A Republican co-chair of the Legislature's budget committee said Monday there are not enough votes in the Senate to pass a tax break bill designed to keep open a pair of Kimberly-Clark Corp. plants in northeast Wisconsin, saving more than 600 jobs. Kimberly-Clark, which makes Kleenex tissue, Huggies diapers and other paper products said earlier this year it planned to shutter the plants , but hopes of saving them were rekindled last month after the union representing workers there agreed to concessions.