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UW fires communications professor over porn films

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to fire a communications professor who was seeking to retain tenure after his dismissal as chancellor of one of the system's campuses for making pornographic films. Joe Gow, who had served as ...

Utilities complete transmission line

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Construction work on a high-voltage transmission linking Iowa and Wisconsin has been completed and the line is fully operational, a group of utilities announced Friday. American Transmission Company, Dairyland Power Cooperative and ITC Midwest began work on the 102-mile ...

Postal chief seeks to reassure

Lawmakers said during a contentious congressional hearing Thursday they are uneasy about the U.S. Postal Service's readiness for a crush of mail ballots for the November election because some of them feel burned by other Postal Service actions. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy sought to ...

Tiffany falsely suggests clerk was lying about absentee ballots

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The mailing of about 2,200 duplicate absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s heavily Democratic capital city of Madison has led a Republican member of Congress to falsely suggest that the clerk was lying about the presence of barcodes on the ballots themselves. Ballots in ...

Loans offered to repair older Wisconsin homes

A new program in Wisconsin will provide low-interest loans to eligible homeowners to make structural repairs and energy efficiency updates. The More Like Home Repair and Renew Loan program provides loans between $5,000 and $50,000 to owners of houses more than 40 years old, Gov. Tony Evers ...

Judge orders Wisconsin reservation roads open

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge Thursday ordered the U.S. government to temporarily leave roads open on a northern Wisconsin reservation, giving non-tribal homeowners hope that they can maintain access to their properties for a while longer. U.S. District Judge William Conley’s ...