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    February 26, 2015
    Frozen Lake Pepin
    Army Corps of Engineers measuring ice on Lake Pepin again, finds more thickness
    CAMP LACUPOLIS, Minn. -- Officials are trying to determine how soon the spring shipping season can begin on the Upper Mississippi, and yesterday...
    newsFebruary 26, 2015 - 8:22am
    February 25, 2015
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: Protests continue as State Senate takes up right-to-work law
    MADISON - Today's crowd of right-to-work protesters at the State Capitol was about the same as yesterday's -- around two-thousand. They rallied both inside and outside the statehouse. Many chanted, sang, and screamed outside the doors to the Senate chamber as the debate began. ...
    newsFebruary 25, 2015 - 7:37pm
    February 24, 2015
    Pepin man pleads innocent to hunter's beating
    DURAND -- A western Wisconsin man has pleaded innocent to assaulting a Hmong deer hunter last November. Kevin Elberg, 43, of Pepin had recently had a false imprisonment charge dropped in Pepin County, and he was arraigned Monday on his one remaining felony count of aggravated ...
    newsFebruary 24, 2015 - 9:37am
    February 20, 2015
    Shipping season on Mississippi River could start earlier than usual
    LAKE CITY - There are early indications that shipping boats will start going up the Mississippi River earlier than usual along the western Wisconsin...
    newsFebruary 20, 2015 - 8:02pm
    February 17, 2015
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: Tuesday primary features mainly local contests like Prescott referendum
    It's primary election day. Wisconsin voters will elect a new state senator, and choose finalists for a host of local government and school board...
    newsFebruary 17, 2015 - 9:35am
    February 15, 2015
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: USDA says farmers to take biggest single-year cash drop since Depression
    WASHINGTON D.C. - The U.S.
    newsFebruary 15, 2015 - 8:57am
    February 10, 2015
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: St. Paul man found dead near Pepin
    PEPIN - Authorities in western Wisconsin are trying to find the family of a 35-year-old Minnesota man found dead near a set of railroad tracks. Pepin County sheriff's deputies said the body of Steven Joui Glaze of the Saint Paul area has been taken to the Ramsey County medical...
    newsFebruary 10, 2015 - 4:09pm
    February 8, 2015
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: State scholastic standardized test to be scaled back
    Some technical glitches in the system means Wisconsin public school students will take a scaled-back version of a standardized test next month. School officials say it will be more rigorous than the usual exam, but the planned online testing software wasn’t working properly....
    newsFebruary 8, 2015 - 11:09am
    February 2, 2015
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: Ashley Furniture levied fine from OSHA, rebuke from Labor Department
    ARCADIA - Wisconsin's largest furniture-maker faces a $1.8 million dollar fine -- plus a major scolding from the Labor Department -- for alleged safety violations. Ashley Furniture of Arcadia said today it "strongly disputes" what it calls "grossly inappropriate and over-zealous...
    newsFebruary 2, 2015 - 5:46pm
    January 28, 2015
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: DNR to take new look into frac sand mining
    MADISON - The Wisconsin DNR will take a fresh look at frac-sand mining in the Badger State. The Natural Resources Board unanimously agreed this morning to have staffers update a 2012 report on silica-sand mining, and related environmental and health effects. The Midwest Environmental...
    newsJanuary 28, 2015 - 3:24pm
    January 23, 2015
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: Walker turns down proposed Kenosha casino
    MILWAUKEE - The answer to a new Kenosha casino is no. Governor Scott Walker today rejected the Menominee Indian tribe's request to build its long-proposed off-reservation casino and resort at the former Dairyland Greyhound Park. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs gave its blessing...
    newsJanuary 23, 2015 - 3:47pm
    January 7, 2015
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: Crash kills one, injures two near Eau Claire
    EAU CLAIRE - One person was killed, and two others were injured in a western Wisconsin Interstate crash that involved three semi-trucks. The crash occurred about three this morning on I-94 at Foster in Eau Claire County. Investigators said a westbound semi on Interstate-94 near...
    newsJanuary 7, 2015 - 5:36pm
    January 5, 2015
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: Diamond to stand trial for stabbing in Port Washington
    PORT WASHINGTON - Actor Dustin Diamond was ordered today to stand trial on Ozaukee County charges that he stabbed a man in the armpit during a Christmas Night bar fight. The 37-year-old Diamond, who played Screech on "Saved by the Bell" in the 1990's, was bound over at a preliminary...
    newsJanuary 5, 2015 - 5:01pm
    January 3, 2015
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: Shooting in Monfort kills six-year old, wounds two others
    MONFORT - Investigators with the Grant County Sheriff’s Office report a six-year-old child was killed and two other people wounded in a shooting inside a home in the village of Montfort. The incident happened Friday. Names of the shooting victims weren’t released. Deputies...
    newsJanuary 3, 2015 - 10:36am
    December 14, 2014
    WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: Lawyers wants state to pay legal costs for SSM case
    MADISON - They won the landmark case, now they want to be paid. Lawyers who successfully argued that Wisconsin’s ban on same-sex marriage should be overturned now want the court to award them $1.2 million in legal costs. A group of same-sex couples had sued the state over its...
    newsDecember 14, 2014 - 11:15am
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