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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas contacted at least two Wisconsin state lawmakers urging them to overturn President Joe Biden’s win in 2020 in the tightly contested state. Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas also had sent identical messages to more than two dozen lawmakers in Arizona. In her communications with lawmakers in both states, Thomas urged Republicans to choose their own slate of […]

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A lawyer for a 14-year-old Wisconsin boy accused of killing a 10-year-old girl after luring her into the woods said Thursday that he will seek to have the case moved from adult to juvenile court. During a brief Zoom appearance in Chippewa County Circuit Court, attorney Michael Cohen said he planned to file the request in the coming weeks. Judge Benjamin Lane found probable cause […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Bird flu has returned to the Midwest earlier than authorities expected after a lull of several months. Officials say the highly pathogenic disease was detected in two commercial turkey flocks in western Minnesota's Meeker County. Tests confirmed the disease Tuesday evening. Officials also report that a small hobby flock of chickens, ducks and geese in Elkhart County, northern Indiana, tested presumptively positive Tuesday. They were the first […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin secretary of state hopeful Amy Loudenbeck says if she wins lawmakers should give her some control of elections in the key battleground state but the Republican candidate isn't saying what she wants to do with it. Loudenbeck faces long-time Democratic incumbent Doug La Follette in the Nov. 8 election. She has called for shifting election oversight from a state commission to the secretary of state's […]

Students are back in class for another school year.  Waupun School Superintendent Steve Hill says Wednesday was the first full day of class for all students.  "The last couple years it's just been mitigating, mitigating, mitigation.  How can we protect them (students) so we've done everything we can,"  Hill told WFDL news.  "This year we are just thrilled that we are focused on education.   The third Friday enrollment count will […]

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office says its waiting for autopsy results before determining if an elderly Campbellsport man's death was caused by a traffic crash.   Sheriff's Lieutenant Chris Dobyns told WFDL news there is a possibility the 77 year old man may have suffered a  medical incident before crashing into a parked car on Main Street in Campbellsport Tuesday afternoon.  Dobyns says family members told investigators the man did […]

The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who restored democracy to many European countries under communist rule, was mourned as a rare world leader.   Ripon College political scientist Marty Farrell says on one hand Gorbachev brought global change and at the time a hope for peace among the superpowers.  But Farrell says the man who died in Moscow Tuesday at the age of […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge says Wisconsin voters with disabilities can get help returning their ballots. U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson cited a federal law that trumps a recent state Supreme Court ruling and state laws that suggest otherwise. Peterson issued his order Wednesday ahead of the November election saying that voters who have difficulty returning their own ballot can choose someone to do so for them. […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections agency will be asking the GOP-controlled Legislature to create a new division designed to increase confidence in election results in the face of ongoing conspiracy theories and false claims of widespread fraud. The Wisconsin Elections Commission, which has been under fire from Republicans since Donald Trump’s loss in 2020, unanimously approved a proposal at its Wednesday meeting to seek $1.3 million to hire […]