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Wisconsin to vote on banning private money to help elections

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters are set to decide next month whether to make it unconstitutional to accept private grant money to help administer state elections, one of two Republican-backed ballot measures that Democrats say are meant to make it harder to conduct elections in the ...

Wisconsin ruling on Catholic Charities raises bar for religious tax exemptions

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Exemptions that allow religious organizations to avoid paying Wisconsin’s unemployment tax don’t apply to a Catholic charitable organization because its on-the-ground operations aren’t primarily religious, a divided state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The outcome ...

Court upholds Mishicot man’s conviction in cousin’s death

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld the reckless homicide conviction of a 20-year-old in the 2018 death of his younger cousin. Damian Hauschultz of Mishicot was 14 when his 7-year-old cousin Ethan Hauschultz was beaten, forced to carry a 44-pound log ...

Wisconsin elections review shows recall targeting GOP leader falls short

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Supporters of former President Donald Trump who organized an effort to recall Wisconsin's top elected Republican did not gather enough signatures to trigger the recall election under one scenario reviewed by elections officials Tuesday, but it likely will be up to the ...

Wisconsin Republicans fire 8 more Evers appointees

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the state Senate fired eight more of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' appointees Tuesday, including two Universities of Wisconsin regents who voted against a deal that limited campus diversity and four judicial watchdogs who wouldn't commit to punishing ...

Guilty verdict in Green Bay stabbings

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man has been convicted in the fatal stabbings of two women whose bodies were found last year in a Green Bay home. The Brown County jury deliberated for about an hour Monday before convicting Richard Sotka, 49, of charges including two counts of first-degree ...