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Lawmakers push higher taxes for higher ed

Published on September 8, 2009 (2 months, 1 week ago)

MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) – Wisconsin’s technical colleges would train about 40-thousand more workers under a plan by unveiled by Assembly Democrats today.

Racine Representative Cory Mason said those making over a million-dollars a year would pay one-percent more on their income taxes. That would raise 145-million dollars, which Mason says ...

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Police arrest suspected serial killer in Milwaukee; tied to several killings through DNA

Published on September 8, 2009 (2 months, 1 week ago)

MILWAUKEE, Wis (WSAU) Milwaukee Police say they nabbed a serial killer during the holiday weekend.

49-year-old Walter Ellis has been charged with two killing women – and he’s a suspect in six other slayings. Charges are expected in some of those cases this week. Ellis was picked up Saturday at ...

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Larger capital gains tax exemption proposed

Published on September 8, 2009 (2 months, 1 week ago)

MADISON (WRN) Several Democratic state lawmakers want to give greater tax benefits to long term investments in Wisconsin businesses.

State Representative Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) is among a group of lawmakers who are proposing a bill that would create a capital gains tax exclusion of 60-percent for assets held longer than ...

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Boater missing in Door County

Published on September 8, 2009 (2 months, 1 week ago)

UNDATED (WSAU) The Coast Guard has suspended a search for a 40-year-old boater missing in the Bay of Green Bay off Door County.

Sheriff’s deputies were told late Sunday night that a man fell from a 27-foot craft on a trip from Fish Creek to Marinette. The man was ...

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Fond du Lac County begins sales tax as part of Mercury Marine agreement

Published on September 7, 2009 (2 months, 2 weeks ago)

FOND du LAC, Wis (WSAU) Fond du Lac City and county officials will be giving specifics of their deal with Mercury Marine at a news conference tomorrow morning. The company says it is moving forward with plans to consolidate its manufacturing at the Fond du Lac plant. That comes after ...

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Zoo monkey re-captured

Published on September 7, 2009 (2 months, 2 weeks ago)

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis (WSAU) She was free for more than two weeks, but now a female capuchin monkey is back home at the Irvine Park Zoo in Chippewa Falls.

The monkey was caught in a trap last Thursday.

A vandal cut open and exterior fence at the zoo August 19 ...

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Milk prices up slightly; still near historic lows

Published on September 7, 2009 (2 months, 2 weeks ago)

UNDATED (WSAU) Despite a recent, slight increase in prices, Wisconsin dairy farmers are hurting.

Consumers were paying 22 dollars per hundredweight of milk in June, but dairy farmers were only seeing 12 dollars, according to Vernon County Extension Agent Tim Rehbein. He says somewhere along the line of dairy production ...

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Camp-Randall security enforces no-alcohol policy

Published on September 7, 2009 (2 months, 2 weeks ago)

MADISON (WSAU) Nearly 30 people didn't get to see the end of Wisconsin's season-opening 28-20 victory over Northern Illinois. Those people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium by university police.

Most of the ejections were related to alcohol, with a dozen people shown the door because they are ...

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Fewer WWII vets attend submarine convention

Published on September 6, 2009 (2 months, 2 weeks ago)

ASHWAUBENON, Wis (WSAU) World War Two veterans say it's getting tough to come to conventions. The National Convention of U.S. Submarine Veterans is holding a meeting in Ashwaubenon this weekend.

Those veterans say the crowds are being thinned by the years. This is the 70th anniversary of the ...

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Federal funding for BadgerCare

Published on September 6, 2009 (2 months, 2 weeks ago)

MADISON (WSAU) Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle says a 50 million dollar grant from Washington will help more uninsured residents get the health care they need.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is sending the money to be used to improve the BadgerCare program over the next five ...

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