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Aug 3, 2022

FACT FOCUS: Wisconsin mobile voting truck claims scrutinized

Two years ago, the city of Racine became the first — and only — municipality in Wisconsin to purchase a mobile voting truck.

Aug 3, 2022

Is Alex Jones’ trial about free speech rights?

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones arrived at a Texas courthouse for his defamation trial for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack a hoax with the words "Save the 1st" scrawled on tape covering his mouth.

Aug 3, 2022

Elections commission deadlocks on witness address guidance

The Wisconsin Elections Commission deadlocked Wednesday on whether to rescind guidance issued in 2016 that says clerks can fill in missing witness address information on absentee ballot envelopes without contacting the witness or the voter.

Aug 2, 2022

Investigator who floated decertification later backed off

The special investigator hired by Republicans in Wisconsin to review the 2020 election told lawmakers in March that they should consider decertifying President Joe Biden's win, but later said in a private memo made public Tuesday that such a move would be a "practical impossibility."

Aug 2, 2022

Abortion ruling prompts reaction from Wisconsin

Abortion clinics have stopped performing the procedure in Wisconsin under an 1849 law that banned abortions except to save a mother's life. Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, has filed a lawsuit in state court challenging the ban

Aug 2, 2022

Minnesota man charged in deadly Wisconsin river attack

A 52-year-old Minnesota man was charged Monday with killing a teenager and stabbing four other people in a dispute that allegedly began with a lost cellphone during a weekend tubing excursion on a western Wisconsin river.

Aug 1, 2022

Judge awards $163,000 in fees in GOP election probe

A judge Monday awarded about $163,000 in fees to attorneys for the liberal watchdog group American Oversight in an open records lawsuit it brought against the investigator hired by Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to investigate the 2020 election.

Aug 1, 2022

States reach deal over marketing, safety of generic opioids

A former opioid manufacturer has agreed in principle to pay up to $2.4 billion in a deal with a dozen states over its marketing and product safety practices, state attorneys general announced Friday.

Aug 1, 2022

Bogus ballot requests latest issue in Wisconsin elections

Harry Wait was so determined to show Wisconsin's election system is vulnerable to fraud that he logged onto the state website, requested an absentee ballot in the state Assembly speaker's name and had it delivered to himself. Then he ran to a sheriff to tell him that he had committed fraud.

Jul 29, 2022

Evers appoints Anderson as Rusk County district attorney

Gov. Tony Evers has appointed Ellen Anderson to serve as Rusk County District Attorney. His appointment fills a vacancy created by District Attorney Annette Barna’s election to the Rusk County Circuit Court.

Jul 29, 2022

Maki-Wallander named Adams County district attorney

Gov. Tony Evers has appointed Rebecca Maki-Wallander to serve as Adams County District Attorney. The appointment fills a vacancy being created by District Attorney Tania Bonnett’s election to the Adams County Circuit Court.

Jul 29, 2022

Madison man pleads guilty in drunken crash that killed teens

A Madison man accused of speeding and driving drunk in a rear-end crash that killed three high school seniors pleaded guilty Thursday.

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