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Wisconsin appeals court overturns ruling allowing for emailing ballots to disabled voters
A Wisconsin appeals court ruled that disabled people are not allowed to receive absentee ballots by email, overturning a lower court’s ruling less than three weeks before the April 1 election.
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Madison school policy cited in Trump order banning teaching critical race theory, gender identity
The order specifically mentions a Madison Metropolitan School District policy that it says calls on schools to “disrupt the gender binary” by teaching students to embrace different gender identities.
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Sean Duffy is confirmed by the US Senate to lead the Transportation Department
Sean Duffy, a former Wisconsin congressman, has been confirmed as transportation secretary, giving him a key role in President Donald Trump’s administration.
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‘Mr. Baseball’ Bob Uecker, Brewers announcer, dies at 90
Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who after a short playing career earned the moniker “Mr. Baseball” and honors from the Hall of Fame, has died. He was 90.
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Judge releases woman who stabbed a classmate to please Slender Man from a psychiatric hospital
Morgan Geyser has petitioned Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren, who committed her, for release four times since June 2022.
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Supreme Court will hear Catholic charitable group’s plea to be free from Wisconsin unemployment tax
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would take up a new religious rights case over whether a Catholic charitable organization must pay Wisconsin’s employment tax.
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The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own death moves to end their marriage
The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own drowning so he could leave her and their children and meet a woman in Eastern Europe filed court documents Thursday seeking to end their marriage.
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Madison clerk says barcodes on absentee ballot envelopes prevent duplicate votes
The mailing of about 2,200 duplicate absentee ballots in 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.
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Wagon rolls over at Wisconsin apple orchard, injuring about 25 children and adults
Three people suffered critical injuries, while injuries to five others were considered serious.
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Investigators say Wisconsin inmate killed his cellmate for being Black and gay
An inmate doing time at a maximum security prison in Wisconsin for trying to kill his mother strangled his cellmate for being Black and gay, investigators said.