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Plea negotiations underway with judge accused of helping immigrant

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Plea negotiations with a Wisconsin judge accused of helping an immigrant evade federal agents are underway as her trial nears, the newly minted federal prosecutor overseeing the case said Tuesday. Interim U.S. Attorney Brad Schimel told The Associated Press in a ...

New scholarship for STEM students at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay received a $1 million scholarship gift from alumnus Dr. Paul J. Schilling, a 1982 graduate, aimed at expanding access to STEM degrees for high-achieving students with financial need. The newly established “Dr. Charles Ihrke ...

Experts: Cleanup of PFAS could cost Wisconsin billions

Wisconsin environmental regulators and Republican lawmakers don’t agree on much when it comes to addressing PFAS contamination, but both acknowledge it will likely cost the state billions of dollars. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources produced a fiscal estimate this fall on one ...

Trump issues largely symbolic pardons of fake electors

President Donald Trump has pardoned a group of Wisconsin Republicans who participated in his scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election by casting false Electoral College votes. The pardons were issued to a large group of people instrumental to Trump’s 2020 effort, including Rudy ...

Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP payments

BOSTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration's emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown, even though residents in some states already have received the funds. A judge had given the ...

Fifty years later, author separates Edmund Fitzgerald fact from folklore

Monday is the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic and well-known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The tragedy particularly resonates locally, with Superior being the ship’s last port of call, and “the wives and the sons and the daughters” of ...