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Video released in December by the animal rights group Mercy For Animals showed workers at Wiese Brothers Farm beating, kicking, stabbing and whipping sick and injured cows.

On Thursday, the Eau Claire Community Foundation announced the effort to plan and build Jeffers Park. It would have a five-field complex, a playground, pavilion, and trails.

After cutting a trench in the ice more than 600 feet out to where the bulldozer fell through, divers attached a cable to it on Wednesday night.

Democratic Sen. Tim Carpenter unveiled the amendment in the state Capitol flanked by a longtime gay couple from Madison and Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa, a bisexual Milwaukee Democrat.

The bill passed Thursday 8-1 instead simply requires that any school that takes public money must report a variety of data to the state Department of Public Instruction.

Cedar County Attorney Jeffrey Renander filed the charge Thursday against Kristen R. Smith, saying she endangered newborn Kayden Powell "in numerous ways."

A co-worker found the victim pinned under the tree in the Town of Sherry Wednesday.

The ad is the first television salvo in the re-election race for Walker, a national conservative star who is also eyeing a 2016 presidential run.

Current state law prohibits anyone under 21 from entering or being on the premises of any establishment with a retail alcohol sales license without a parent, guardian or spouse.

A search warrant says the 27-year-old Owen man told police he gave the drug to 23-year-old Jesse Jensen January 22. He found her without a pulse the next day.

Max Jacoby, Richie Jacoby, Kyle Ryman, Aaron Peine, Brent Zeien and Travis Krinkle of Hastings, Minn., were found 11 miles southwest of Togwotee Mountain Lodge on Wednesday afternoon.

The bill up for a vote on Thursday sets the age requirement while also making it easier for people from out of state to officiate.

Someone told investigators that the man was selling meth. That person then went undercover, and bought drugs Tuesday.

However, the Democratic-sponsored bill to do that appears to be going nowhere in the Republican-controlled state Legislature.

He was brought back to his parents, who thanked the employee and apologized.

Records from a criminal investigation into a former aide of Gov. Scott Walker's to be released next week include 27,000 pages of emails.

The bill passed the Assembly's judiciary committee on a 9-0 vote earlier this month. The full Assembly is set to take it up Thursday.

The speech comes as the Menominee is trying to persuade Gov. Scott Walker to approve plans for an off-reservation casino in Kenosha.

The spread of virus that has killed millions of pigs across the country has caused Wisconsin officials to impose new restrictions on showing swine at county fairs this year.

A proposal that would allow maximum contributions to a state college savings plan to increase based on inflation is up for a vote in the state Assembly.