Wisconsin sawmill has agreed to stop hiring children after a 16-year-old died on the job

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A Wisconsin sawmill operator has agreed to stop hiring people under the age of 18 following a teenager's death on the job.

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Wisconsin Republicans float the impeachment of a new liberal state Supreme Court justice because the court could toss GOP-friendly legislative maps

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Janet Protasiewicz, left, was sworn in as a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice on August 1, 2023.

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Shipwreck hunters found a schooner that sank in 1881 intact in Lake Michigan

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Shipwreck hunters found the intact remains of a schooner that sank in 1881 in Lake Michigan, they said Thursday.

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Once called a 'haunted house,' this Victorian mansion in Wisconsin was just snapped up for $1.5 million — see inside

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The front of the Jenkins Austin Day Mansion.

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A judge dismissed a Wisconsin politician's defamation suit against a newspaper, but the legal fees may still shutter the paper.

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The Wasau Pilot & Review faces $150,000 in legal fees, even though a judge dismissed the lawsuit against the newspaper.

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The story behind Uline, the packaging powerhouse whose reclusive billionaire owners use their fortune to influence American politics

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Close-up of logo for shipping and logistics supply company Uline on packing tape dispenser, San Ramon, California, June 18, 2020.
Uline provides the essential – and often invisible – products that small and large businesses need every day, and it rakes in an estimated $6.1 billion in sales per year.

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Republicans are being throttled in college towns across the country, imperiling their competitiveness in key states

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A view of Madison, Wisconsin.

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Sen. Ron Johnson repaid himself $400,000 in old campaign loans days before saying he had 'no intentions of doing that'

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Sen. Ron Johnson, seen here at a recent press conference, says he won’t seek to recoup $8.4 million in personal loans from his campaign — even though he legally could.
Sen. Ron Johnson, seemed to indicated in May that he would not seek to recoup the old loans he'd made to his own campaign.

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2 Wisconsin Republicans want 14-year-olds to be allowed to serve alcohol in restaurants

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Patrons gather at Pop's Pub to watch the Green Bay Packers football game on November 6, 2022 in Muskego, Wisconsin.

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A huge win in Wisconsin shows Dems how fiercely defending abortion rights can kneecap the GOP in 2024

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Abortion rights demonstrators in Washington, DC.

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