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Evers signs Wisconsin budget to secure Medicaid funds

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers last week signed a new two-year budget in a race against Congress to ensure the state gets a federal Medicaid match that it would lose under President Donald Trump's tax and spending cuts package that became law Saturday. In an extraordinarily rapid succession of events, Evers and Republican lawmakers unveiled a compromise budget deal on Tuesday, the Senate passed it Wednesday night and just before 1 a.m. on Thursday, the Assembly passed it. Evers signed it in his conference room minutes later. Democrats who voted against the $111 ...

Wisconsin’s high court strikes down 1849 abortion ban

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority struck down the state's 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by newer state laws regulating the procedure, including statutes that criminalize abortions only after a fetus can survive ...

Evers signs Wisconsin budget in early morning to secure Medicaid funds

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a new two-year budget in the early morning hours Thursday in a race against Congress to ensure the state gets a federal Medicaid match that it would lose under President Trump's tax and spending cuts package. In an extraordinarily rapid ...

Wisconsin lawmakers rush to pass budget deal to help hospitals

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature pushed to pass a compromise state budget Wednesday, with Democratic votes expected to be needed to approve the deal reached between Gov. Tony Evers and majority Republicans. Lawmakers were rushing to pass the plan and get it signed into law ...

Wisconsin Senate passes state budget in rush to help hospitals

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Senate passed a compromise state budget on a bipartisan vote Wednesday in a race to approve a deal reached between Gov. Tony Evers and majority Republicans. Lawmakers were rushing to pass the plan and get it signed into law before federal law changes take ...

Suspect in Green Bay child’s death held on $2M bond

Bond was set at $2 million Monday in Brown County, Wis., Circuit Court for a 21-year-old Green Bay man arrested Friday in Florence County in connection with the death of a 2-year-old boy. James VanderLeest and his father, 48-year-old David VanderLeest, also of Green Bay, are both expected to be charged in the death, but the Brown County District Attorney’s Office is still working on the final charges, the Green Bay Press-Gazette reported. The case concerns a 9:15 a.m. call June 22 to the 100 block of Alpine Drive for a 2-year-old boy with serious injuries, according to Green Bay ...