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KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) – The U.S. Coast Guard is expected to resume a search for a man presumed drowned in Lake Michigan off the Kenosha shore.  Fire officials say the man jumped in the water Monday evening with two other people near the North Pier, but then disappeared. Battalion Chief Ken Schroeder tells the Kenosha News More >

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The Wisconsin Senate is getting ready to vote on a bill that would limit terms for board members at Gov. Scott Walker’s troubled quasi-public jobs agency.  The bipartisan measure would require Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation board members to serve fixed six-year terms rather than serve at the pleasure of the governor More >

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is urging beachgoers to play it safe this summer.  The DNR recommends people log on to the Wisconsin beach health website to check on water quality conditions at scores of Great Lakes and inland beaches.  The DNR also recommends avoiding swimming after heavy rains, which can More >

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The state Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a bill that would invest millions of dollars in state and private money in Wisconsin startups.  The venture capital program created under the proposal would contain $25 million from the state and at least $50 million in private money. It will be More >

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The state Assembly plans to begin debate of the state budget, with Republicans hoping to fight back any significant changes to the $70 billion two-year spending plan.  The budget up for debate Tuesday would cut income taxes by $650 million, extend private school vouchers statewide, and reject a federally funded Medicaid expansion.  The More >

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The state Department of Justice has charged a southeastern Wisconsin tobacco store owner with evading state taxes and operating without the proper permits.  According to criminal complaints filed last week, 40-year-old Mohammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui of West Allis owns tobacco stores in Sheboygan and Milwaukee County. State tax agents wrote in the More >

PRAIRIE DU SAC, Wis. (AP) – Governor Scott Walker says the first state-inspected meat processor has started shipping meat across state lines under a federal-state deal announced two years ago.  Meatpacking companies usually can’t ship across state lines unless their products are inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But Wisconsin is one of three states More >

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) – The attorney for a 14-year-old boy contends the boy’s friend planned the murder and robbery of the friend’s great-grandmother at her Sheboygan Falls home.  Jurors heard opening statements Monday in the trial of Nathan Paape (pahp) of Sheboygan.   The defense says Paape had come home from school last September when his friend, Antonio More >

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) – Eau Claire Police say a body has been pulled from the Chippewa River.  Police say canoeists spotted the body Monday not far from the Short Street Bridge.  Eau Claire firefighters then launched a boat and recovered the body.  WQOW-TV reports there’s no word on an identity. (Information in the following story is More >

ASHLAND, Wis. (AP) – Ashland County authorities say a La Crosse doctor and his brother were killed in a single-engine plane crash on Madeline Island.  Sheriff Mick Brennan identifies the victims as the pilot, 63-year-old Doctor Richard Renwick, and his brother, 58-year-old Bruce Renwick from Waunakee.  WXOW-TV reports Doctor Renwick was a physician in obstetrics and gynecology More >