Mon Nov 2, 2009 6:03 PM EST
A northern Wisconsin utility's latest plan to replace coal with logging waste and dead trees as its primary fuel to generate electricity has been approved by the state Public Service Commission.
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:13 PM EDT
A farm policy group Tuesday asked the U.S. Agriculture Department to investigate whether giant retailer Target Corp. misled consumers by claiming some soy milk it sold was organic.
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Tue Sep 8, 2009 2:01 PM EDT
A man whose penis was glued to his stomach testified Tuesday that a motel tryst with a girlfriend involving a bondage fantasy turned painful and humiliating after his wife, a second girlfriend and another woman burst into the room and harassed him because of his cheating ways.
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Tue Aug 4, 2009 4:00 AM EDT
A married man who planned to rendezvous with one of his handful of lovers at an eastern Wisconsin motel instead found himself bound, blindfolded and assaulted by a group of women out for revenge, according to court documents.
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Mon Aug 3, 2009 8:45 PM EDT
A married eastern Wisconsin man thought he was going to a motel for a little romance with one of his handful of lovers. She allegedly played along and suggested he be tied up and blindfolded for a massage, according to court documents.
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Sat Aug 1, 2009 6:18 PM EDT
(Stations: Please substitute the following for V3820, slugged Prayer Death, which moved at 4:29 p.m. Eastern time and the corresponding penultimate items in V3840 and V3900, both slugged Right now, which moved at 4:52 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Eastern time. The new version CORRECTS year from 2003 to 2008 in second graf.)
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Sat Aug 1, 2009 4:29 PM EDT
A central Wisconsin man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care was found guilty Saturday of second-degree reckless homicide.
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Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:11 PM EDT
An American flag flown upside down as a protest in a northern Wisconsin village was seized by police before a Fourth of July parade and the businessman who flew it — an Iraq war veteran — claims the officers trespassed and stole his property.
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:41 AM EDT
What a difference a year makes for growing cherries.
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Sat May 16, 2009 1:10 PM EDT
A mother accused of praying instead of seeking medical help for her dying 11-year-old daughter was found guilty Friday of second-degree reckless homicide.
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:27 PM EDT
A man accused of killing his estranged girlfriend and two of their children had sealed himself and an infant daughter inside his gasoline-soaked home before deputies arrived, a prosecutor said Monday.
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:25 AM EDT
The U.S. dairy industry wants to engineer the "cow of the future" to pass less gas, a project aimed at cutting the industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.
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Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:09 PM EST
A drifter convicted of helping his gang of scam artists kill a woman and torture her young son was sentenced to 58 years in prison Tuesday.
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Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:06 AM EDT
Darin "Doogie" Weiks is a high school football celebrity in central Wisconsin — thanks to playing one game that was his first and also his last.
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Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:13 AM EDT
The home where six young people died when a jealous off-duty sheriff's deputy went on a shooting rampage eight months ago has been likened to an infection in this small northern Wisconsin city.
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Thu Jun 5, 2008 3:00 PM EDT
Wisconsin fans of high school sports may soon get this message: Show your team spirit, but don't expose anything else.
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Sun May 25, 2008 12:17 PM EDT
Mitch Bocik waddles to the putting green, his legs bent and unsteady, his putter doubling as a cane. For balance, his left hand grips the right shoulder of D.J. Engel, his half brother and almost constant companion.
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Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:12 AM EDT
Some 15 months after a white hunter killed a Hmong hunter in the woods of northeast Wisconsin, a Hmong hunting and fishing club is forming to help ease racial tensions.
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Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:55 PM EDT
Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands.
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Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:51 PM EDT
The three siblings of a girl who died of diabetes that went untreated as her parents prayed instead of taking her to a doctor have been removed from the home during an investigation, police said Friday.
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Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:17 PM EDT
A state appeals court upheld sanctions Tuesday against a pharmacist who refused to dispense birth control pills to a woman and wouldn't transfer her prescription elsewhere.
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Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:04 PM EDT
Joan McDonald believes her son was a casualty of the war in Iraq, but the Army says that while he did suffer a severe head wound in a bomb blast, the cause of his death is undetermined, keeping him off the casualty list.
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Tue Mar 4, 2008 7:07 PM EST
Wearing a brand new No. 4 Packers jersey, Dave Ellis sat at Curly's Pub at Lambeau Field and watched the sports shows on TV detail the great career — and sudden retirement — of Brett Favre.
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:54 PM EST
A kindergartner hospitalized in critical condition after being exposed to a high level of chlorine at a swimming pool was upgraded to fair condition Saturday, a hospital official said.
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Sun Dec 9, 2007 9:32 PM EST
Relatives of six people killed by a young off-duty sheriff's deputy who then apparently killed himself called Sunday for required psychological screening, full training and a minimum age of at least 21 for anyone hired as an officer.
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