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The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill that would outlaw using GPS to secretly track someone.

The bipartisan bill approved unanimously Thursday would also require police to obtain warrants before using drones to collect evidence.

Several other states are considering similar legislation.

The measure approved on a voice vote Thursday would require the state to maintain and provide a system that allows district attorneys to manage and share domestic abuse case-related information.

Under the voucher program, students receive a taxpayer subsidy to pay for their private school tuition. The program now operates statewide, after initially being only in Milwaukee.

Prosecutors filed felony charges of False Swearing against Le Roy Kelsey, 67, of Tomah on Thursday.

The lawsuit, filed in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court, alleges that Mark Stitt, of Panama City, Florida, used fraudulent representations to sell an attic insulation product called ProGuard AB to Wisconsin homeowners, a number of whom were elderly.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has complained that delaying getting the DNA to the crime lab needlessly complicated the law, which takes effect in April 2015.

Rep. Jim Steineke says he is still trying to find a bill that can pass the Assembly on Thursday as well as clear the Senate.

The second-seeded Badgers (27-7) recovered from a brief first-half rut and seven-point deficit to extinguish the dreams of the 15th-seeded Eagles (20-13), champions of the Patriot League.

The puppies gained attention when one was found in a plastic bag in a trash container in Fond du Lac last month.

Daughter Margie Phelps says Fred Phelps died shortly after midnight Thursday.

The findings by three Princeton University economists show the extent to which the long-term unemployed have been shunted to the sidelines of the U.S. economy since the Great Recession.

Hotels, restaurants and bars catering to the throngs of college basketball fans descending on Milwaukee are winners in the economic arena.

The bill easily passed the Senate earlier this week and Gov. Scott Walker has said he would sign that version into law.

The Village Clerk says samples show the water is safe again.

Two people suffered minor injuries after a crash on Highway 14 in the Town of Coon.

The mayors of Duluth and Superior, Wis., are backing the expansion of the Enbridge Energy pipeline.

An Australian search and rescue official says that planes have been sent to check on two objects possibly related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight that were spotted on satellite imagery in the Indian Ocean about 1,550 miles southwest of Perth.

The report says a woman's estimated lifetime risk of developing Alzheimer’s after the age of 65 is 1 in 6, compared with nearly 1 in 11 for a man.