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The Navy will let Wisconsin keep its beloved badger statue for 50 more years, scrapping plans to move the sculpture to an East Coast museum. The statue, sculpted from melted-down cannons seized from Cuba during the Spanish-American War, was affixed to the first USS Wisconsin before World War I. The U.S. Naval Academy Museum lent it to the state in 1988. The academy museum contacted state officials in March 2020 asking for the statue's return so it could be lent to the nonprofit Nauticus Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, where the second USS Wisconsin is berthed as an exhibit.

The moves comes amid broader attempts nationally to restrict the use of drop boxes and an effort by congressional Democrats to require states to make them available.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is known for his folksy demeanor, sprinkling his speeches with “by gollys” and the occasional PG-rated swear word.

The ruling could potentially remove an option for voting ahead of the state's crucial midterm elections. The decision is all but certain to be appealed.

Michigan offensive coordinator Josh Gattis watches a third down in the fourth quarter of their Big Ten football game against Wisconsin at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, on Saturday, November 14, 2020. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com

“To be poop shy is to live your life in the shadows.”

The lake's fish contain what are known as "forever chemicals." Will the government’s recent steps to regulate this type of chemicals be enough?

No one was hurt. One witness said the crack in the ice ran as far as the eye could see. Most of the rescued had been ice fishing.

Authorities rescued 27 people from a floating chunk of ice that broke away from shore near Green Bay, Wisconsin, the sheriff’s office said Sunday. No injuries were reported in the incident that happened Saturday morning north of Green Bay, in the arm of the bay that’s part of Lake Michigan, the Brown County Sheriff’s Office reported. Many of the 27 people rescued were ice fishing at the time of the incident. A barge traveling through the bay may have caused the ice chunk to break off the shoreline, the sheriff’s office said. Airboats from the Brown County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Coast Guard were able to rescue eight passengers at a time.

Barge traffic may have caused the ice to weaken and break, officials said.

Authorities say 27 people were rescued from a floating chunk of ice that broke away from shore in the bay of Green Bay in eastern Wisconsin.

Authorities rescued 27 people from a floating chunk of ice that broke away from shore in the bay of Green Bay in eastern Wisconsin, the sheriff's office said Sunday. No injuries were reported in the incident that happened Saturday morning north of Green Bay, in the arm that's part of Lake Michigan, the Brown County Sheriff's Office reported. Many of the 27 people rescued were ice fishing at the time of the incident.

Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state of Georgia, says "the only person who should touch your ballot is you and the election official."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says "there's an agreement to be reached" with West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin on President Biden's Build Back Better Act.

The controversial Republican said he will seek a third term, in what is expected to be a hotly contested race that could determine which party controls the Senate.

The man who bought Kyle Rittenhouse a rifle when he was only 17 has taken a plea deal to avoid criminal conviction.

FanDuel, DraftKings, Caesars Sportsbook and Rush Street Interactive are launching New York's first mobile sports betting, but investors are still skeptical.

His decision ends months of speculation about whether he'd seek a third term.

KEWEENAW COUNTY, MI – A Wisconsin man was injured when he lost control of his snowmobile while trying to avoid another rider in the Upper Peninsula. The Keweenaw County Sheriff’s Office responded to the crash, which occurred on Trail 3 at the intersection of Brockway Mountain Drive in Eagle Harbor Township at 5 p.m. on Wedneday. Police say the 51-year-old man was traveling southbound when he lost control of his machine after swerving to avoid a collision with another snowmobiler. The snowmobiler, who was ejected from his snowmobile, was transported to Aspirus Keweenaw for injuries. Deputies were assisted at the scene by the Keweenaw County Off-Road Rescue, Copper Harbor Mercy 8 and Mercy Ambulance.

Powerball tickets sold in Wisconsin and California were winners of the latest jackpot and will split $632 million.

If you played the <a href="https://www.powerball.com/" target="_blank">Powerball</a> in Michigan Wednesday, you’re not the winner.

Finding a four-leaf clover, having conjoined twins or dying in a vending machine-related incident are all more likely than you winning the lottery.

LANSING, MI – Two players will split the $632 million Powerball jackpot as winning tickets were sold in California and Wisconsin for the drawing held on Wednesday, Jan. 5. The $632 million jackpot is the 7th largest in the history of the Powerball game. · The jackpot increased prior to the drawing from $630 million to $632 million. Deadline is 7:08 p.m.For the latest on Michigan Lottery, check out the official Michigan Lottery site, which also offers more information on instant tickets, raffles and other lottery games. The last players from Michigan to win a Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot is the Wolverine FLL lottery club which claimed a $1.05 billion jackpot in March.

In addition to the jackpot winners, 14 other tickets won million-dollar prizes, including one in New Jersey.

Saddiq Bey scored a career-high 34 points and the Detroit Pistons beat Milwaukee 115-106 to snap the Bucks’ six-game winning streak.

NorthShore University HealthSystem has largely suspended elective surgeries for the next two weeks

At a time when Democrats and Republicans can agree on little, they find themselves in rare consensus in Wisconsin: Seemingly everyone there wants Sen. Ron Johnson (R) to run for a third term.Democrats view him as vulnerable, pointing to provocative comments on the coronavirus, 2020 election, racial justice protests and more, and are eager for him to take another crack at the Senate. Republicans see in Johnson a battle-tested incumbent who has...

'Winter has finally arrived'

A collectible Jim Harbaugh bobblehead has just hit the market ahead of Friday's Orange Bowl game.

Christmas may be over, but here are some of the most memorable people, places and practices from our 24 Days of Christmas series.

A massive pileup unfolded on Interstate 94 in Wisconsin around 5:45 a.m. CST on Thursday, shutting down the highway before the Thursday morning commute. Initial reports suggested that over 100 vehicles were involved in the crash, which occurred in west-central Wisconsin south of Eau Claire. However, State Patrol Lt. Tim Weiberg later said that the actual number of vehicles involved was closer to 40, according to The Associated Press. Miraculously, there were no injuries or fatalities, according

Detroit Pistons rookie Cade Cunningham has entered the NBA’s COVID health and safety protocols, according to a report.

Pfizer’s Paxlovid is a series of 30 pills that can be taken at home over five days and is shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization from COVD-19 by nearly 90%.

There's a reason Wisconsin's Dana Rettke was named the college women's volleyball National Player of the Year on Friday. On Saturday night, the five-time, first-team All-American's 11th and final kill gave Wisconsin a 22-25, 31-29, 25-23, 23-25, 15-12 victory over Nebraska and the Badgers' first national championship. Rettke also finished with a career-high 13 blocks in her collegiate finale.

There are now multiple efforts in the state to scrutinize how the election was run, including a legislative-backed inquiry led by figures who have embraced false claims of fraud.

More than 36 million people from New Mexico to Michigan were under high-wind warnings, and at least one state saw a December tornado for the first time.

There is a moderate chance of significant tornadoes in an area we would normally think of as in winter. Look at the Storm Prediction Center’s severe weather outlook for tonight to Thursday morning. Southern Minnesota, southwest Wisconsin and northern Iowa have a severe weather map that looks like June. Overall severe weather risk for 8 p.m. Wednesday to 8 a.m. Thursday. What is even more bizarre is the area that could have tornadoes also has four inches to nine inches of snow on the ground.

Partisan election reviews of the 2020 presidential election are underway in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin while Republican lawmakers elsewhere continue their calls to bring them to their states.

An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election. Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and their 79 Electoral College votes by a combined 311,257 votes out of 25.5 million ballots cast for president.

Wisconsin's Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul said in an interview Tuesday that he would not investigate or prosecute anyone for having an abortion should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade and a currently unenforceable state ban takes effect. The comments to The Associated Press are Kaul's strongest to date about how he would react to the Supreme Court undoing the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. A Wisconsin ban enacted in 1849 has been unenforceable under Roe v. Wade, but would take effect again if conservative Supreme Court justices decide to overrule Roe, as they suggested during oral arguments this month in a case over Mississippi’s 15-week ban on abortions.

Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Tuesday said the investigation he ordered into the 2020 presidential election will spill into next year and cost more money, factors he blamed on Democrats who are fighting subpoenas. The current contract Vos signed this summer with former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to lead the investigation runs through the end of this month at a cost to taxpayers of nearly $680,000. As part of his investigation, Gableman sought subpoenas of the mayors of the state’s five largest cities and the state’s top elections official.

Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle (TNS)Most if not all of the guests wore masks when the Nov. 27 wedding ceremony started at a Wisconsin celebration that is now the suspected origin of an outbreak of COVID-19 and the omicron variant among California’s Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland Medical Center staff, according to an attendee.

A year ago today in December 2020, a huge logistics operation began to ship millions of vaccines to hospitals across the country, and it all centered here in Michigan.

The U.S. Supreme Court this week rejected a lawsuit from Wisconsin Republicans seeking to kill a redistricting case brought by Democrats, keeping hope alive for liberals that they can seek to block GOP-drawn maps through the federal courts. The decision means that liberals will still have a chance to fight for the maps they want in federal court after the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court issues its ruling, likely early next year. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has given both sides to submit potential maps by Dec. 15, with arguments planned in January. The court last month ruled 4-3 in favor of Republicans by saying it will only consider maps that make as few changes as possible to the current district lines that were drawn by Republicans a decade ago and solidified their control of the state Legislature.

The greenTONE a cappella group has been performing holiday carols at Wisconsin's Cave of the Mounds since 2010.

As intensive care units fill up, hospitals say their staff are growing increasingly frustrated.

After a record-setting season last year, the Michigan women’s basketball team has its sights on another program first: winning the Big Ten. Michigan won the second half, but the damage had been done. Michigan had gone on the road previously this season, at Central Michigan, but this was a different type of environment. Up next: at Wisconsin; MinnesotaMichigan opens Big Ten play in Madison in a game that will air on Big Ten Network. After these two league games, Michigan will return to nonconference play for two more games.

Six houses in Racine, Wisconsin, are staffed by police, whose job it is to get to know the communities they serve.

Returning abortion to the states doesn’t put power into the hands of voters in much of the country.

“It was gut-wrenching.”

A group supporting former President Donald Trump's agenda is working to bypass Wisconsin's Democratic governor to change the swing state's election laws.

A group formed to support former President Donald Trump's agenda is working with Wisconsin Republicans on a ballot measure that would bypass the state's Democratic governor to change how elections are run in the battleground state. The effort represents a new escalation in the ongoing Republican campaign to alter voting laws in response to Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. It comes as Wisconsin has become the epicenter of this year’s voting wars, with Republicans trying to dismantle the election system they themselves put in place several years ago — and figure out how to do that with a Democratic governor still in office.

They were born when Warren G. Harding was president.

Ron Heuer, one of the investigators in the election review ordered by the GOP-led Wisconsin Assembly, was involved in two failed lawsuits to overturn Biden's 2020 victory.

On July 29, following an 11-day trial, a jury convicted Armbruster of four counts of violating federal securities laws, including misleading a public company’s auditors, securities fraud, and keeping false books and records. “This sentence reflects the serious harm an executive caused by deliberately misleading shareholders, auditors, and the general public about the financial health of a publicly traded company,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Corporate fraud remains a top priority for the FBI, as stamping out illegal activity like this scheme is essential to preserving confidence in our collective ability to invest for a brighter tomorrow. Trial Attorneys Emily Scruggs and Kyle Hankey and Acting Principal Assistant Chief Justin Weitz of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section prosecuted the case.

Some GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin want to strip the state's bipartisan elections agency of its power and give it to the Republican-controlled Legislature. The idea is backed by GOP Sen. Ron Johnson.

Michigan State struck gold landing a running back from the transfer portal before this season and is attempting to do so again. Michigan State coach Mel Tucker in January added Kenneth Walker III, a running back transfer from Wake Forest who revitalized the rushing attack. The Wisconsin State Journal, citing sources, said Berger “didn’t react well” to the Badgers bringing in transfer running back Chez Mellusi from Clemson and missed meetings and workouts. Berger is the first transfer portal addition for the Spartans in the new cycle. Related Michigan State football stories:Michigan State DB Emmanuel Flowers enters transfer portalMichigan State notes: Senior day to remember and improved health for a bowl gameWhat Mel Tucker said about long-term contract extensionMichigan State DB Michael Dowell enters transfer portalMichigan State moves up AP Top 25 rankings

DELTA COUNTY, MI – A Green Bay man led police on a multicounty chase before he crashed on a bridge connecting Michigan and Wisconsin. Deputies from the Delta County Sheriff’s Office attempted to stop the vehicle on South Lincoln Road in Escanaba at approximately 8:20 p.m. on Nov. 26. The pursuit entered Menominee County where officers successfully deployed “Stop Sticks.” However, the driver of the vehicle continued traveling southbound on three tires as he entered Menominee. Both subjects are currently lodged in the Delta County Correctional FacilityThe Delta County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Menominee County Sheriff’s Department, City of Menominee Police, Michigan State Police. Marinette City Police and the Marinette County Sheriff’s Office.

Michigan jumped to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday and Oklahoma State joined the top five for the first time since 2015.

Baylor coach Scott Drew knew his sixth-ranked Bears might need time to blend a changed roster after losing four starters from a national-championship run.

Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican Ron Johnson said it's come to their attention that some may use the tragedy for their "own political purposes."

Scientists are working around the clock to make cranberry production more sustainable.

Participants like the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies were in the holiday spirit as they stepped off for the Waukesha Christmas Parade.

An 8-year-old boy is the sixth person to die as a result of a man driving his SUV into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade.

Police say the suspect in a deadly Christmas parade crash in suburban Milwaukee was in a domestic disturbance just minutes before he killed five people and injured 48.

"College GameDay" will be hosting from Ann Arbor on Saturday.

Watch live coverage as officials provide an update after an SUV drove through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing multiple people and injuring more than 40 others.

Watch live coverage as officials provide an update after an SUV drove through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing multiple people and injuring more than 40 others.

Police say a person is in custody after an SUV sped through barricades and into a parade of Christmas marchers in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday, killing multiple people.

On both sides of America’s abortion debate, activists are convinced that the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion is imperiled as never before.

Portland police Friday night declared as a riot a demonstration downtown against the acquittal of a teen who killed two people and injured another during a protest in Wisconsin.

Kyle Rittenhouse, fighting back sobs, nearly collapsed out of the television camera's sight as the last of five ‘not guilty’ verdicts was read in a Wisconsin courtroom.

A jury has found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts in a murder trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Friday.

The upcoming verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial for shooting three men during street unrest in Wisconsin comes against a backdrop of deep political divisions and expanded access to guns in the United States – factors that some fear could lead to more dangerous encounters.

AbleLight College will open at Concordia University Ann Arbor in Fall 2022.

The Wisconsin governor on Friday called 500 National Guard troops to Kenosha ahead of the highly anticipated verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial.

U.S. government attorneys are set to appear before a federal judge to defend a decision from the waning days of the Trump administration that lifted protections for gray wolves across most of the country.

Republicans are increasingly optimistic about flipping governor’s offices in key battleground states next year.

A Wisconsin health care company has ended a nine-year partnership with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

No. 5 Michigan State visits Purdue in the game of the week in the Big Ten.

The 2021 Michigan General Election will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Here’s what you need to know before voting.

Graham Mertz scored on two quarterback sneaks and threw a touchdown pass to help Wisconsin trounce No. 9 Iowa 27-7 on Saturday for its fourth consecutive victory.

A matchup between Michigan and Michigan State always has special meaning within the state.

A highly anticipated nonpartisan audit of the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin did not identify any widespread fraud in the battleground state, which a key Republican legislative leader says shows that the state's elections are “safe and secure.”.

Michigan football survived the first half of its season without a loss. Now, after a well-placed bye week, the Wolverines face a much tougher second half.

In a story published Oct. 8, 2021, The Associated Press reported about federal officials announcing that federal prosecutors won't file charges against a police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last year.

Ninth-ranked Michigan looks to keep its roll going with a defense yet to give up more than 17 points and the confidence it can achieve championship goals after falling short in previous seasons under Jim Harbaugh.

“If I can change just one person’s life, that would make all of this totally worthwhile."

Jim Harbaugh’s stock is up at Michigan and Ed Orgeron’s stock is down at LSU five weeks into the college football season.

When Michigan football lost No. 1 wide receiver Ronnie Bell for the season, there were a handful of candidates to assume a larger role.

A police use-of-force expert says an Illinois man who shot three people during a police brutality protest in Wisconsin last year made a reasonable decision given everything that was going on around him.

College football fans can squabble about the strength of this year’s Wisconsin team all they want, but that won’t change the fact that Michigan just earned perhaps the most impressive win of the Jim Harbaugh era.

Cornelius Johnson caught both of Cade McNamara’s touchdown passes and No. 14 Michigan remained unbeaten with a 38-17 victory over Wisconsin, which lost starting quarterback Graham Mertz to a chest injury.

The University of Michigan defeated University of Wisconsin–Madison Saturday afternoon.

Undefeated Michigan hopes to reignite its ground game against the nation's top-ranked run defense when the 14th-ranked Wolverines look for their first victory at Wisconsin in 20 years on Saturday.

Michigan is seeking to win at Camp Randall Stadium for the first time since a 20-17 triumph in 2001 when the 14th-ranked Wolverines visit Wisconsin.

Michigan football survived its first four games without much of a passing attack, but that plan will have to change if the Wolverines hope to move the ball against Wisconsin.

Here are some key takeaways after the U.S.’s historic 19-9 rout of Europe during this weekend’s Ryder Cup in Wisconsin.

“Moliwood” is no more.

Civic-minded Wisconsinites wanted to make sure Bryson DeChambeau, who was chomping on a sandwich during a practice round Tuesday, sampled the local fare.