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Three wounded in shooting at Wisconsin software business; gunman killed
The lone suspect in a southeast Wisconsin workplace shooting Wednesday morning has died after being shot by responding officers, according to police. Middleton Police Chief Chuck Foulkes said officers were alerted to an active shooter situation at software company WTS Paradigm around 10:25 a.m. Foulkes ...
A former Milwaukee County Jail inmate has filed a federal lawsuit claiming she was forced to wear shackles during childbirth at a hospital. Sandra Robles' lawsuit alleges the chain between her feet was so short that she couldn't reach the stirrups during labor in February ...
Wisconsin boy swept into sewer sticks finger out of manhole and is saved
An 11-year-old boy sucked into a flooded Wisconsin storm sewer was saved when an eagle-eyed firefighter saw the boy's fingers pop through an opening in a manhole cover. The astonishing rescue Tuesday evening came as storms pounded the southern half of the state and southeastern ...
Hon Hai joins Wisconsin firms to forge $100 million investment fund to aid tech startups
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. will partner with three major Midwestern U.S. companies to create a $100 million fund to help launch technology startups around the world, the companies announced Tuesday. The Taiwanese electronics giant, Advocate Aurora Health, Johnson Controls and Northwestern Mutual will each ...
Amid Harley-Davidson feud, Trump brags about economy at future FoxConn factory site
U.S. President Donald Trump highlighted his economic policies Thursday at the groundbreaking for a massive $10 billion FoxConn factory complex that may bring thousands of jobs to Wisconsin, a state he barely carried in the 2016 presidential election. At the same time, Trump kept ...
U.S. top court sidesteps major rulings on partisan gerrymandering electoral map manipulation
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to election reformers by declining to use high-profile cases from Wisconsin and Maryland to curb the ability of state lawmakers to draw electoral districts purely for partisan advantage. Sidestepping major rulings, the nine justices decided both ...
ashington Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign will take part in a Wisconsin recount of votes cast in the U.S. presidential race won by Republican Donald Trump, a campaign official said on Saturday. Wisconsin's election board on Friday approved the recount, requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein. ...
Group wants Wisconsin voter ID law blocked over misinformation; transgender ranks face poll woes
Wisconsin's voter ID law should be suspended for next month's election in light of new audio recordings revealing state Division of Motor Vehicles workers giving inaccurate information about what's required to vote, a liberal advocacy group argued in a motion filed Tuesday in federal ...
Alert cop outside prom kills teen gunman who shot two, foils dance massacre
An 18-year-old man opened fire with a high-powered rifle outside of a high school prom in northern Wisconsin, wounding two students before a police officer who was in the parking lot fatally shot him, authorities said Sunday. Investigators did not say whether they believe the ...
Cruz gets a taste of 'New York values' in Bronx; Trump picks up Giuliani endorsement
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is getting a taste of the "New York values" he derided in Iowa as Republicans turn to the next big U.S. presidential contest in the home state of front-runner Donald Trump. The New York billionaire lost the Wisconsin Republican ...
Cruz win stokes Republicans' push to halt Trump's nomination 'inevitability'
Ted Cruz's emphatic victory in Wisconsin's Republican primary gave new energy on Wednesday to groups battling to prevent Donald Trump from capturing the party's presidential nomination. What once appeared as a long-shot bid to force a contested convention in July by blocking Trump from amassing ...
Trump trips heading into Wisconsin primary to delight of Cruz, other foes
Next Tuesday's Wisconsin presidential primary is emerging as a crucial lifeline for Republicans desperate to stop Donald Trump's march to their party's nomination. One of his worst weeks of the 2016 campaign is colliding with a state already skeptical of his brash brand of ...
