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Wisconsin clerk who failed to count almost 200 ballots resigns

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The municipal clerk in Wisconsin’s capital city has quit amid investigations into how she failed to count nearly 200 absentee ballots in the November elections. Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s office announced City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl’s resignation on Monday. The mayor’s spokesperson, Dylan Brogan, said Witzel-Behl submitted her resignation Thursday but the mayor had to wait to announce it because Witzel-Behl’s contract granted her several days to change her mind. The Wisconsin Elections Commission launched an investigation in early January ...

Reviews for logging in national forests to be fast-tracked

The Trump administration is speeding up environmental reviews of logging projects on more than half of the country’s national forests, including parts of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin. A large part of the western Upper Peninsula, in the vicinity of Ottawa National ...

FBI: Teen charged in parents’ deaths plotted to kill Trump

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin teenager charged in the deaths of his parents faces wider allegations that he killed them to “obtain the financial means” to assassinate President Donald Trump and overthrow the government, according to a recently unsealed federal warrant. Nikita Casap, 17, was charged last month by Waukesha County authorities with first-degree murder, theft and other crimes in the deaths of his mother, Tatiana Casap, and his stepfather, Donald Mayer. Authorities allege the teenager fatally shot them at their home outside Milwaukee in February and lived with the ...

Drinking water offered to more Peshtigo well owners

State environmental regulators are offering emergency drinking water for 50 additional households relying on private wells in the town of Peshtigo. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources made the move after issuing new drinking water advisories based on updated health guidelines for ...

Wisconsin leader of Democratic Party leaving

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Democratic leader who revitalized the party in the presidential swing state announced Thursday he will be leaving his position in June after a six-year run that included a string of victories and “agonizingly close” losses. The move by Wisconsin ...

Mining company to test drill for copper, gold in northern Wisconsin

A Canadian mining company has been cleared to begin exploratory drilling for copper and gold in northern Wisconsin. GreenLight Metals, which does business as Green Light Wisconsin, says it wants to make the state a “premier” domestic producer of critical minerals. The company has ...