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A military veteran in dire need of a kidney transplant has won a cool $14.3 million in Wisconsin's Megabucks lottery. Napolean Elvord scooped the jackpot on January 14, yet didn't realize he was a millionaire until several ...
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One million Wisconsin workers angered over the destruction of their collective bargaining rights agreements have signed a recall petition that will force Governor Scott Walker into a recall re-election scenario.
The petition nearly doubled the number of signatures ...
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The Oregon Ducks and their entire student base have reason to celebrate today after the Ducks defeated Wisconsin to claim their first Rose Bowl victory in 95 years.
The victory comes on the heals of Darron Thomas who ...
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GRAND CHUTE, WI - A crazy cheese head in Wisconsin was arrested on Sunday when she tried to strangle her 11-year-old daughter after the Green Bay Packers lost their first game of the season.
According to police the ...
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Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson is set to announce his Senate bid today, though his choice of venue for the big reveal may raise eyebrows.
That's because Thompson will be announcing his run at a company owned by ...
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is under hot water once again but this time it's not for killing collective bargaining or messing further with unions but rather for the mundane reason that he renamed the state capitol's "Holiday ...
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Wisconsin Democrats on Monday announced that they will begin officially collecting recall signatures on November 15. Democrats must collect 540,206 signatures before they can demand a recall of the controversial Governor responsible for destroying collective bargaining for state employees.
If ...
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The Eau Claire public library in Wisconsin has taken library checkouts in the 21st century by providing users with the ability to check out iPads for reading purposes.
According to the library each of their 44 available iPad ...
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A forest fire that is blazing in Minnesota is causing air to become unsafe for people in Wisconsin according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
After examining the area the Wisconsin DNR raised the air quality ...
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Following Gov. Scott Walker's bill which took away a large portion of a teacher's collective bargaining rights in the state of Wisconsin, while making them pay more for benefits, a record number of Wisoncin teacher's have chosen ...
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker won't talk to Democratic senators in his state about the ongoing battle over union rights in Wisconsin.
So who is he taking phone calls from? I hesitated to post this because it seemed so ...
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Been following the protests in Wisconsin? The internet has been, too- here are five meme-tastic signs from the rallies, courtesy of Buzzfeed.
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Although the Amish in America tend to keep their bonnets down and their plows out of "English" trouble, two young men in a Lancaster, Wisconsin Amish family have been charged with incest and bestiality in a case ...
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14 skiiers were injured Thursday night at the Devil's Head Resort in Wisconsin when a crowded ski lift malfunctioned.
Initial reports indicate that a full chair lift suddenly stopped and began moving backwards at a high rate of ...
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A Milwaukee teacher has been charged with disorderly conduct and fined $175 after she cut the hair of a 7-year-old girl to punish the child for playing with it.
7-year-old Lamya Cammon says the teacher cut off one ...
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A Milwaukee Army Reservist got a pleasant surprise during a mugging, when the four men who accosted him had a change of heart.
The men singled out the 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student as he was walking home ...
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A Wisconsin court has found that cheerleading is a contact sport, as part of a hearing into a damages claim.
Brittany Noffke was practicing a stunt for the first time before a basketball game in 2004 when she ...
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Three men accused of trying to dig up a grave in Wisconsin in order to have sex with a dead woman entered not guilty pleas this week.
The twin brothers, Alex and Nicholas Grunke, and Dustin Radke (all ...
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Think that Jessica Simpson overshared as she professed her undying love for Tony Romo? That People interview's nothing when we look at her most recent concert whoopsie: the Niagra Falls Review reports that her concert at the ...
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