A family were fishing on a lake in Wisconsin when they spotted a bear with a plastic jar stuck on its head. After several attempts at moving their boat next to the bear and removing the jar, they were finally able to free the animal. 'Never dreamt we would ever do this in our life time,' Tricia Hurt wrote on Facebook. 'Out on Marshmiller Lake yesterday with Brian Hurt and Brady Hurt when we spotted this poor bear. He made it to shore after all that'
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Joe Biden assailed Donald Trump in a pair of virtual events in Wisconsin, calling him “a destroyer of everything he touches.”
“All he’s ever done is hollow out what really matters and then slap a gold sign on a flimsy foundation,” Biden said during the virtual rally in the battleground state.
“Donald Trump claimed he would fight for the forgotten man, the working class,” the former vice president continued. “But as soon as he got into office, he forgot them.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Biden held a virtual roundtable with Wisconsin congressman Ron Kind and community advocates who spoke about the challenges facing rural Americans during the epidemic.
During the back and forth, Biden, referring to federal funding to combat the economic fallout from the virus, said: “Not one more penny should go to a Fortune 500 company. Period. Period. They don’t need it.”
“Among the speakers at the “rally” was Wisconsin senator Tammy Baldwin, who has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee after she won re-election in 2018. Biden called her a “true champion for Wisconsin, a true leader.”
Biden has been ramping up his virtual campaign schedule in recent weeks. Earlier events have been riddled with technical glitches - and the occasional honking duck. By contrast, Wednesday’s events went smoothly.
Related: Biden's lead over Trump widens – but strain on his virtual campaign grows
Prisoners and advocates told the Guardian that some infected inmates are in isolation without medical care or adequate food, cut off from family and attorneys
More than 3,200 prisoners in California have contracted Covid-19 and at least 16 inmates have died, in a public health catastrophe that advocates say was both predictable and preventable.
Related: 'People are sick all around me': inside the coronavirus catastrophe in California prisons
Continue reading...Wisconsin: drinkers return to bars after judges strike down stay-at-home order
- Court decision overrules lockdown by Democratic governor
- Individual counties able to determine whether they can reopen
Wisconsin’s supreme court struck down the state’s stay-at-home order on Wednesday, and some residents took immediate advantage – by packing the bars.
Videos and reports from some areas of Wisconsin showed some bars filled with revelers, most of them not wearing masks.
Continue reading...Republicans appear on track to win two congressional seats in boost to Trump
Mike Garcia leading in California’s special election while Tom Tiffany easily won a special congressional election in Wisconsin
Republicans appeared on track for a pair of congressional wins on Wednesday, after notching an easy victory in a Wisconsin House seat and appearing poised to take a seat away from the Democrats in California.
The wins would be seen as a boost to the party and President Donald Trump, whose re-election campaign has been battered by outrage over his response to the coronavirus pandemic and whose popularity has been dipping in many recent polls.
Continue reading...Republicans tried to suppress the vote in Wisconsin. It backfired
Wisconsin Republicans lost a state supreme court race on Monday after pushing to hold an election amid the Covid-19 pandemic
In the end, it wasn’t even close.
Less than a week after forcing Wisconsin voters to risk their health and go to the polls, Wisconsin Republicans suffered a stunning defeat on Monday night.
Continue reading...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.
Continue reading...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.
Continue reading...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
Continue reading...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.
Continue reading...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.
Continue reading...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.
Continue reading...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
Continue reading...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
Continue reading...Milton woman wins Wisconsin Woman Veteran of the Year
The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs named U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Kim Graff of Milton as the 2018 Wisconsin Woman Veteran of the Year. The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs named U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Kim Graff of Milton as the 2018 Wisconsin Woman Veteran of the Year.
Midwestern restaurants accused of exploiting Latino workers
On a cool Monday evening in August, a few minutes after the 10 p.m. closing of Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, a group of men is settling in for the night. Some are from Guatemala, others are Mexican and one is a U.S. citizen.
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.
Barnes says he’s not interested in Obama-Trump voters
The Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor says he is not interested in people who voted for Barack Obama and then switched to Donald Trump, if they still support the president. The comment from Mandela Barnes drew criticism from the Wisconsin Republican Party.
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.