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UW-GB to award degrees Saturday

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will award 506 eligible graduates with their degrees in ceremonies at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday in The Weidner on the Green Bay campus. In the morning commencement, degrees will be awarded to students in the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences and all associate’s degrees. The afternoon ceremony is for students in the Austin E. Cofrin School of Business, College of Health, Education & Social Welfare and the College of Science, Engineering & Technology. Featured student speakers will be James Harris and in the ...

Wisconsin judge refuses to step aside as requested by former Trump attorney

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday refused to step aside as requested by President Donald Trump's former attorney who faces felony forgery case related to the 2020 election in the battleground state. The judge also refused to cancel a Monday preliminary hearing for Trump's ...

Evers signs bill adding mandatory minimums for human trafficking

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announced Tuesday he has signed 34 bills into law, including a bill requiring judges to sentence offenders to at least 10 years in prison if convicted of a human trafficking crime and 15 years for a child trafficking crime. The Wisconsin Examiner’s Criminal ...

‘Highly variable’ winter predicted for UP

IRON MOUNTAIN — Forecasters expect plenty of temperature swings in the months ahead, with the odds slightly favoring a colder and snowier winter than normal in the Upper Peninsula. “Temperatures are expected to be highly variable along and north of the 40th parallel this winter, which ...

Evers vetoes bill to block Medicaid funds from undocumented residents

Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a host of Republican bills Friday, including legislation barring undocumented immigrants from getting federal health care funding. In his veto message, Evers accused GOP lawmakers of passing a bill to prevent “problems they admit do not exist, all for the sake of ...

Enbridge pipeline tunnel option ‘rushed’ and unsafe, opponents say

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Federal officials heard an earful Wednesday from Line 5 pipeline opponents who expressed skepticism about the latest option to keep oil flowing ...