Associated Press
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The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's top official has taken the first steps toward removing a faculty member who was earlier fired from his job as chancellor over his fledgling porn career.
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A Wisconsin prison inmate charged with killing her cellmate has pleaded not guilty to first-degree intentional homicide. Taylor Sanchez, a 28-year-old inmate at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution, entered the plea Tuesday during her arraignment in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court in the death of Cindy Schulz-Juedes.
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The federal government is for the first time requiring nursing homes to have minimum staffing levels after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed grim realities in poorly staffed facilities for older and disabled Americans.
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The Biden administration is enlisting officials in 15 states to help enforce consumer-protection laws covering air travel.
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An 18-year-old who triggered a bonfire explosion that injured more than a dozen people at a backyard gathering in eastern Wisconsin has been sentenced to a year in jail and five years probation
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley says she won't seek another term next year, setting up a high-stakes fight for control of the battleground state’s highest court.
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Sen. Rob Cowles, the longest-serving incumbent in the Wisconsin Legislature, announced Monday he will retire rather than run in a district now more favorable to Democrats or move under new district boundaries that take effect in November
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President Joe Biden said Monday that more than 30 million borrowers would see “life-changing” relief from his new plan to ease their student loan debt burdens, a fresh attempt by the Democratic president to follow through on a campaign pledge that could buoy his standing with younger voters
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Biden was making the announcement Monday in Madison, the state's liberal capital and home of the University of Wisconsin's flagship campus