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Law enforcement personnel respond to a report of a person armed with a rifle at Mount Horeb Middle School in Mount Horeb, Wis., Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The school district said a person it described as an active shooter was outside a middle school in Mount Horeb on Wednesday but the threat was “neutralized” and no one inside the building was injured. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Police killed student outside Wisconsin school after reports of someone with a weapon, official says

May 1, 2024 at 7:56 p.m.

Witnesses described children fleeing after the sound of gunshots near a Wisconsin middle school where authorities said an active shooter who never got inside was “neutralized” outside the building Wednesday....

Rae-Ann Eifert, a lake monitor for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, braved sub-freezing temperatures to gather buckets of water for testing off a Lake Michigan breakwater in Racine, Wis., on Feb. 28, 2024, as part of an effort across the Great Lakes to understand the effects of an iceless winter. Unseasonable warmth has left the Great Lakes all but devoid of ice, leaving scientists scrambling to understand the consequences as climate change accelerates. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Fewer fish and more algae? Scientists seek to understand impacts of historic lack of Great Lakes ice.

March 8, 2024 at 9:34 p.m.

Researchers believe that warmer lakes could lead to bigger algae blooms, more evaporation, and beach erosion, and less oxygen for bottom-dwelling organisms that bigger fish consume.

Chrystul Kizer sits in the Kenosha County Courthouse on Feb. 6, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Wisconsin's Supreme Court is set to decide Wednesday, July 6, 2022, whether Kizer, an alleged sex trafficking victim accused of homicide, can argue at trial that she was justified in killing the man who trafficked her, a ruling that could help define the extent of immunity for trafficking victims nationwide.

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court to rule on immunity in sex trafficking case

July 6, 2022 at 7:28 a.m.

Wisconsin's Supreme Court is set to decide Wednesday whether a sex trafficking victim accused of homicide can argue at trial that she was justified in killing the man who trafficked...

Miller Park fans watch the racing sausages during a baseball game between the Brewers and the Giants.

Early voting canceled at Fiserv Forum and Miller Park in Milwaukee

October 6, 2020 at 11:57 a.m.

Election officials said Tuesday that they scrapped their plans to use the Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers' stadiums as early voting sites in the presidential battleground state of Wisconsin. Milwaukee's election...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, stands outside the state Capitol in Madison on June 3, 2019. He has vowed to veto a series of abortion restrictions making their way to his desk through the Republican-controlled state Legislature.

Wisconsin Legislature to send anti-abortion bills to Democratic governor, who vows to veto them

August 22, 2019 at 11:11 a.m.

Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Legislature was poised Wednesday to send four anti-abortion bills to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who has vowed to veto all of them. One bill up for final approval...

Kidnapping victim Jayme Closs, second from left, appears with her family and supporters to receive a "hometown hero" award from the Wisconsin Assembly on May 15, 2019, in Madison, Wis. Closs escaped in January after her parents were killed and she was held captive for three months in a remote cabin.

Man who kidnapped Jayme Closs, killed her parents is sentenced to life

August 22, 2019 at 11:08 a.m.

A Wisconsin man was sentenced Friday to life in prison for kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents in a case that mystified authorities for months until the girl...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks during an interview during the National Governors Association 2019 winter meeting in Washington on Feb. 23, 2019.

Wisconsin governor recalls troops from Mexico border, angering Illinois U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who was just there

August 22, 2019 at 10:35 a.m.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers ordered the state's National Guard troops to withdraw from the border with Mexico Monday, drawing the ire of Illinois Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger, who says he...

A "Tree of Hope" for teenager Jayme Closs outside her school, Riverview Middle School, in Barron, Wis, on Jan. 11, 2019, shortly after she was discovered alive. She had been missing for months.

Jayme Closs kidnap suspect’s lawyers say confession makes it hard for defense

August 22, 2019 at 10:18 a.m.

Defense attorneys for the man accused of kidnapping a Wisconsin teenager and killing her parents acknowledged Wednesday that they're starting the case at a disadvantage after their client gave detectives...

People protest the legislature's extraordinary session during the official Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Capitol in Madison, Wis. on Dec. 4, 2018. Demonstrators booed outgoing Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday during the festivities, at times drowning out a high school choir with their own songs in protest of a Republican effort to gut the powers of his Democratic successor.

Wisconsin GOP votes to weaken incoming Democrat who defeated Gov. Walker

August 22, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.

Wisconsin Republicans pushed through protests, internal disagreement and Democratic opposition Wednesday to pass far-reaching legislation that would shift power to the GOP-controlled Legislature and weaken the Democrat who defeated Republican...

In this June 1, 2017 file photo, part of the Didion Milling Plant lies in ruins following a May 31, 2017, explosion in Cambria, Wis. Federal labor officials say the Wisconsin milling company should pay $1.8 million in fines for failing to prevent the fatal explosion.

Feds propose $1.8 million fine in fatal Wisconsin plant explosion

August 22, 2019 at 1:41 a.m.

A Wisconsin milling company should pay $1.8 million in fines for failing to prevent a fatal plant explosion earlier this year, federal labor officials announced Friday. The Didion Milling Co....

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