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GREEN BAY- We need some rain. There’s a small chance we will get some Wednesday afternoon.

We’ll see some sun and clouds Wednesday with a chance of rain and even some thunder possible this afternoon.

The next chance for rain is Friday, but again only an isolated chance.

Ingredients:

4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Salt and pepper
3 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup dry white wine or chicken stock
1 can (10.75 ounces) condensed cream of chicken soup
1 cup milk
8 thin slices of deli ham
1 cup shredded swiss cheese
1 tablespoon fresh chopped parsley

Directions:

Season chicken with a little salt and pepper. Heat the butter in a large skillet. Cook chicken in skillet until brown on both sides and juices run clear. Remove chicken from skillet and set aside. Add wine or stock to the pan. Turn up heat and bring to a simmer, stirring up any of those great brown bits on the bottom. Add soup and milk and whisk until smooth. Add chicken back to the pan. Top each piece with 2 slices of ham. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of cheese on top of ham. Cover skillet and cook for a few minutes until cheese melts. Garnish with parsley. Great with hot cooked and buttered egg noodles or rice.

BALTIMORE (AP) – A line of police behind riot shields hurled tear gas canisters and fired pepper balls at as many as 200 protesters Tuesday night to enforce a citywide curfew, imposed after the worst outbreak of rioting in Baltimore since 1968.

Demonstrators threw bottles at police and picked up the canisters and hurled them back at officers. But the crowd rapidly dispersed and was down to just a few dozen people within minutes.

The clash came after a day of high tension but relative peace in Baltimore, as thousands of police officers and National Guardsmen poured in to try to prevent another round of looting and arson like the one that rocked the city on Monday.

It was the first time since the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 that the National Guard was called out in Baltimore to quell unrest.

The racially charged violence on Monday was set off by the case of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of a spinal-cord injury under mysterious circumstances while in police custody.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said 2,000 Guardsmen and 1,000 law officers would be in place overnight.

“This combined force will not tolerate violence or looting,” he warned.

In a measure of how tense things were on Tuesday, Baltimore was under a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. All public schools were closed. The Baltimore Orioles postponed Tuesday night’s game at Camden Yards and – in what may be a first in baseball’s 145-year history – announced that Wednesday’s game will be closed to the public.

The streets were largely calm all day and into the evening, with only a few scattered arrests.

About 15 minutes after the 10 p.m. curfew took effect, police moved against protesters who remained in the street in the city’s Penn North section, near where a CVS pharmacy was looted the day before.

Shortly before the curfew and in a different neighborhood, police arrested three to four juveniles in South Baltimore after people started attacking officers with rocks and bricks, authorities said. At least one officer was reported injured.

Monday’s outbreak of looting, arson and rock- and bottle-throwing by mostly black rioters erupted just hours after Gray’s funeral. It was the worst such violence in the U.S. since the unrest last year over the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

At the White House, President Barack Obama called the deaths of several black men around the country at the hands of police “a slow-rolling crisis.” But he added that there was “no excuse” for the violence in Baltimore, and said the rioters should be treated as criminals.

“They aren’t protesting. They aren’t making a statement. They’re stealing,” Obama said.

Political leaders and residents called the violence a tragedy for the city and lamented the damage done by the rioters to their own neighborhoods.

“I had officers come up to me and say, ‘I was born and raised in this city. This makes me cry,'” Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said.

Haywood McMorris, manager of the wrecked CVS store, said the destruction didn’t make sense: “We work here, man. This is where we stand, and this is where people actually make a living.”

But the rioting also brought out a sense of civic pride and responsibility in many Baltimore residents, with hundreds of volunteers turning out to sweep the streets of glass and other debris with brooms and trash bags donated by hardware stores.

Blanca Tapahuasco brought her three sons, ages 2 to 8, from another part of the city to help clean up the brick-and-pavement courtyard outside the CVS.

“We’re helping the neighborhood build back up,” she said. “This is an encouragement to them to know the rest of the city is not just looking on and wondering what to do.”

Some of the same neighborhoods that rose up this week burned for days after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 47 years ago. At least six people died then, and some neighborhoods still bear the scars.

Jascy Jones of Baltimore said the sight of National Guardsmen on the street gave her a “very eerie feeling.”

“It brought a tear to my eye. Seeing it doesn’t feel like the city that I love,” she said. “I am glad they’re here, but it’s hard to watch.”

The rioting started in West Baltimore on Monday afternoon and by midnight had spread to East Baltimore and neighborhoods close to downtown and near the baseball stadium.

At least 20 officers were hurt, one person was critically injured in a fire, more than 200 adults and 34 juveniles were arrested, and nearly 150 cars were burned, police said. The governor had no immediate estimate of the damage.

With the city bracing for more trouble, several colleges closed early Tuesday, including Loyola University Maryland, Johns Hopkins University and Towson University.

The violence set off soul-searching among community leaders and others, with some suggesting the unrest was about more than race or the police department – it was about high unemployment, high crime, poor housing, broken-down schools and lack of opportunity in Baltimore’s inner-city neighborhoods.

The city of 622,000 is 63 percent black. The mayor, state’s attorney, police chief and City Council president are black, as is 48 percent of the police force.

“You look around and see unemployment. Filling out job applications and being turned down because of where you live and your demographic. It’s so much bigger than the police department,” said Robert Stokes, 36, holding a broom and a dustpan on a corner where some of the looting and vandalism took place.

He added: “This place is a powder keg waiting to explode.”

In the aftermath of the riots, state and local authorities found themselves facing questions about whether they let things spin out of control.

Batts, the police commissioner, said police did not move in faster because those involved in the early stages were just “kids” – teenagers who had just been let out of school.

“Do you want people using force on 14- 15- and 16-year-old kids that are out there?” he asked. “They’re old enough to know better. But they’re still kids. And so we had to take that into account while we were out there.”

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake waited hours to ask the governor to declare a state of emergency, and the governor hinted she should have come to him earlier.

“We were trying to get in touch with the mayor for quite some time,” Hogan said. “She finally made that call, and we immediately took action.”

Rawlings-Blake said officials initially thought they had the unrest under control.

Gray was arrested April 12 after running away at the sight of police, authorities said. He was held down, handcuffed and loaded into a police van. Leg cuffs were put on him when he became irate inside. He died a week later.

Authorities said they are still investigating how and when he suffered the spinal injury – during the arrest or while he was in the van, where authorities say he was riding without being belted in, a violation of department policy.

Six officers have been suspended with pay in the meantime.

 

MENASHA – We have an update for you regarding plans for an 8-story office building in downtown Menasha.

Developers are asking the city to kick in more than $6.5 million toward the project.

Developers told FOX 11 Tuesday this new office tower will bring about 320 jobs into downtown Menasha.

“If we can bring a mass of people downtown who work there everyday, they will frequent the shops and other things along Main Street and it will tend to build upon itself,” explained project investor John Hogerty.

The 8-story building will be going on the former site of the Hotel Menasha and First National Bank on Main Street.

But the project investors are asking the city to pitch in some money for the project through what’s called tax increment financing.

“What we are doing is asking the city to take the taxes, the real estate taxes that will be generated by this new building and invest them into the project,” Hogerty explained.

The developers are asking for $1.75 million to help cover costs of removing the old buildings and another $4.8 million to pay for a new parking ramp on the site of a current city-owned parking lot.

The plan is for the ramp to have 300 stalls and only be used for tenants of the new office tower during normal work hours. It would be open to the public on evenings, weekends and holidays.

“If you have surface parking it’s less expensive, but you also have less places to shop, less places to eat, less places to work, because you’re using up all that spaces,” Mayor Don Merkes told FOX 11.

As it stands, the parking plan isn’t sitting well with some. There’s concerns the new ramp will take away parking from businesses already on main street.

“We’re working with the developers as well as the prospective tenants of the buildin to make sure that we have those pieces in place as well as make sure we have adequate parking for our current businesses downtown,” Merkes explained.

But time is ticking.

Project investors want to start building in May and finish by next April. They told us one prospective tenant, Faith Technologies wants to move in ASAP.

“They have a very serious need to fill the building at a set time. So we want to make that deadline,” said Hogerty.

Menasha’s plan commission discussed the plans and passed part of them Tuesday. The developers need to tweak some of the details. The full city council will discuss the development plans at its meeting next Monday.

GREEN BAY – A sex offender living near Green Bay’s Red Smith School will have to find a new place to live.

The city’s sex offender residency board made that decision after hearing from dozens of upset neighbors.

A few blocks from Red Smith School, a daycare, and park is where 49-year-old sex offender Steven Gittens has been living with his girlfriend.

The couple’s neighbors packed Green Bay’s sex offender residency board meeting, hoping Gittens request to keep living there would be denied.

“You mentioned he was a deemed to be in the lowest class of at risk re-offender, I’m not taking that chance, nor should I have to,” said Derrick Washington, a neighbor.

Last year, Gittens was convicted of child enticement. Police say he met who he thought was a 15-year-old girl on Craigslist. When Gittens went to meet her for sex, he instead met an Ashwaubenon Public Safety Officer.

“I would never hurt a child,” said Gittens. “Never. I made a mistake and it’s something that I’m going to have to live with the rest of my life.”

Gittens’ neighbors turned in a petition with 395 signatures, asking the board to make Gittens move.

“Sexual offenders are called predators for a reason and predators hunt and when they are in a target rich environment, they hunt regularly,” said Jon Verstegen, a neighbor.

The petition stated Gittens has been staying at his house illegally since his conviction. However, his girlfriend, Julie Rentemeester said Gittens’ probation officer Ok’d it. Rentmeester says a community police officer made them aware Gittens also needed city approval to live there.

“He gave Steve two weeks to file with the board,” said Rentmeester. “He did it within two days, filed to come before the board.”

In the end, the board voted 3 to 1, denying Gittens’ request.

“Also to be successful you’ve got to have a support system,” said Dean Gerondale, a member of the board. “It’s not where you’re going to live or where you want to live.”

Under city ordinance, Gittens now has two days to find somewhere else to stay.

A sex offender can be fined $500 dollars, every night, if he or she stays in the city illegally. If you house a sex offender illegally, you could get that same fine.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s state dinner for the prime minister of Japan offered guests a new chef, new china and the specter of chopsticks — a daunting challenge for some nervous newcomers, no big deal to others.

The president welcomed guest of honor Shinzo Abe with a toast over sake that included a haiku about spring and friendship.

Abe, in return, went with R&B.

He quoted the song “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” to convey the strength of the bonds between the U.S. and Japan.

First lady Michelle Obama found another way to pay tribute to the guest nation, wearing a purple sleeveless gown by Japanese-born designer Tadashi Shoji.

President Barack Obama raise a cup of sake as he offers a toast as he and first lady Michelle Obama host Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie Abe at the State Dinner at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

With less than 200 guests, it was Obama’s smallest state dinner, and it had a decidedly low celebrity quotient.

“Star Trek” luminary George Takei was back for his first state visit since the Clinton administration. TV powerhouse Shonda Rhimes, mastermind of the hit shows “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal,” was a first-timer.

Asked about her chopstick skills, Rhimes waggled her hand uncertainly. Takei, by contrast, said he’d grown up with chopsticks.

Takei’s husband, Brad, wondered what the big deal was.

“Is that exotic for the White House?” he asked.

Anyway, no worries: There was flatware for those wanting to play it safe.

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson turned up with R&B singer Ciara, fresh off attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner over the weekend with his grandmother.

“She’s back in Virginia,” Wilson explained of his grandmother. His new date, for her part, took plenty of time to arrange her gown just so — twice — for the cameras.

Former Vice President Walter Mondale, who also served as ambassador to Japan, arrived at the White House in the role of seasoned veteran of state dinners.

Graphic shows number of state dinners held by president.

Asked how many he’d attended, Mondale mused, “I’m not sure. Thirty?”

“When I was vice president, I had to go,” he confessed.

Guest chef Masaharu Morimoto, of TV’s “Iron Chef” fame, and the White House culinary team served up a meal fusing American and Japanese influences: Think Caesar salad tied up with Mizuhiki paper cord. American Wagyu beef. And cheesecake — made with tofu and soy milk.

Tables in the East Room sported the new White House china that the Obamas unveiled this week, featuring stripes of a “Kailua blue” hue inspired by the Pacific waters that are dear to the Hawaiian-born president and the Japanese as well.

As with every state dinner, it was all part of a carefully laid plan to promote friendly relations between the U.S. president and the leader of the guest country. That would be Abe, who joked at a Tuesday luncheon that he dared not overdo the drinking at dinner because he’s addressing a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday.

Even the after-dinner entertainment was aimed at bringing together the two cultures. Cast members from the film adaptation of “Jersey Boys” were performing selections from the jukebox musical, which was popular in Japan.

The White House state dinner has become an especially rare commodity under this president: This is just the eighth state dinner for Obama over more than six years in office. That’s the smallest number since the six dinners that Harry Truman played host to over eight years in office, according to the White House Historical Association. Obama has at least one more dinner in the offing, for China in the fall.

Morimoto was a natural choice as guest chef for the Obamas. His restaurant on Oahu is a favorite dining spot when the Obamas vacation in Hawaii. The chef tweeted a photo of himself working side-by-side with White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford in the cramped White House kitchen and called it an honor to be there.

Signs of transition in the final two years of the Obama administration were evident: After four years on the job, Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard was presiding over his final state dinner before handing off to his deputy, Deesha Dyer, a former hip-hop journalist who started out as a White House intern.

Early in the night, Bernard was all-business. But he predicted that would change as the night wore on.

“I will get nostalgic probably around 11 o’clock,” he said.

Bouquets of vibrant orchids, cherry blossoms and other flowers were arranged by the in-house White House team, with an assist from an unidentified outside design firm. Head florist Laura Dowling, who departed earlier this year, has not been replaced.

 

CINCINNATI (AP) – Johnny Cueto gave up three hits over eight innings during his latest dominant performance against the Milwaukee Brewers, and Brandon Phillips had a two-run homer Tuesday night, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 4-2 victory over the worst team in the majors.

Joey Votto and Marlon Byrd added solo homers off Kyle Lohse (1-4) as the Reds clinched the series. Half of their 10 wins this season have come against Milwaukee.

The Brewers fell to 4-17, the worst start by a National League team in 18 years, according to STATS. The 1997 Cubs had an identical record. The 2010 Orioles were the last team in the majors to open a season 4-17.

Cueto (2-2) gave up homers to Aramis Ramirez and Ryan Braun as he got his sixth straight win over the Brewers. He’s 9-3 career against Milwaukee, including 8-0 in 11 career starts at Great American Ball Park.

Aroldis Chapman retired the side in the ninth for his fifth save in as many chances, leaving the Brewers 1-7 on the road.

Braun was back in right field after getting the last two days off as part of a lineup shake-up. He hit his second homer of the season, but it didn’t much matter.

Votto ended an 0-for-15 slump with his seventh homer of the season.

Lohse had allowed a total of five homers in his first four starts.

Phillips hit a two-run homer to center field in the fourth, his first of the season. Phillips’ first 18 hits were singles, a streak he snapped with a double on Monday night during a 9-6 win over the Brewers.

Four pitches later, Byrd gave the Reds their first back-to-back homers of the season and a 4-0 lead.

Ramirez led off the fifth inning with a homer into the upper deck in left field, the Brewers’ first hit off Cueto. It was Ramirez’s sixth career homer off Cueto – the most by any batter – and the first homer on the road by the Brewers this season.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Brewers: 2B Scooter Gennett expects to get the five stitches in his left hand removed on Wednesday. He cut it by the knuckle on a soap holder in the shower at PNC Park and went on the 15-day DL on April 21.

Reds: The club is exploring treatment options, including surgery, for the damaged ligament in Homer Bailey’s pitching elbow. He went on the DL on Monday and will be sidelined for a significant time.

ON DECK

Brewers: Matt Garza (1-3) makes his first start against the Reds this season. He went 2-0 with a 0.82 ERA in three starts against them last year.

Reds: Right-hander Michael Lorenzen makes his major league debut, filling in for Bailey. The 23-year-old has a fastball that comes in at nearly 100 mph. He also throws a slider and a change-up.

GREEN BAY – Troy Streckenbach was sworn in Tuesday as Brown County Executive.

During his first term, Streckenbach focused on bringing fiscal accountability to Brown County by cutting waste spending. This helped eliminate a $1.3 million structural deficit.

Streckenbach said his main goal will to make sure the county continues to move forward towards success, “I look at what’s important to this community and what I feel is important to this community is our ability to make sure that we are a destination for future businesses and families.”

Streckenbach’s swearing in marks the beginning of his second, four-year term.

 

 

 

BALTIMORE (AP) – A mother who was caught on video smacking her 16-year-old son around after he threw objects at police said when they made eye contact, he knew he was in trouble.

“I’m a no-tolerant mother. Everybody that knows me, know I don’t play that,” Toya Graham, a single mother of six, told CBS News. “He said, when ‘I seen you,’ he said, ‘ma, my instinct was to run.'”

Graham received wide praise from people on social media and even the Baltimore police commissioner, who said more parents should have taken charge of their children like Graham after the riots started.

Graham said she saw her only son wearing a hoodie and mask amid the protesters demonstrating just hours after a funeral for Freddie Gray, a black man who died after suffering an unexplained spinal injury in police custody.

“At that point, I just lost it,” she said. “I was shocked, I was angry, because you never want to see your child out there doing that.”

Graham said she and her son watched news coverage of the riots together. And then the images of her reaction went viral. Comments started appearing on her son’s Facebook page, many in support of her, she said.

“Friends and everybody making comments and saying, ‘you know, you shouldn’t be mad at your mother, you should give her a hug,'” Graham said.

She hopes it will be a teachable moment.

“And by him seeing everything what’s going on I just hope, I’m not sure, but I hope that he understands the seriousness of what was going on last night,” she said.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) – Nigerian troops rescued nearly 300 girls and women during an offensive Tuesday against Boko Haram militants in the northeastern Sambisa Forest, the military said, but they did not include any of the schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok a year ago.

The army announced the rescue on Twitter and said it was screening and interviewing the abducted girls and women.

Troops destroyed and cleared four militant camps and rescued 200 abducted girls and 93 women “but they are not the Chibok girls,” army spokesman Col. Sani Usman told The Associated Press.

Nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in April 2014. The militants took the schoolgirls in trucks into the Sambisa Forest. Dozens escaped, but 219 remain missing.

The plight of the schoolgirls, who have become known as “the Chibok girls,” aroused international outrage and a campaign for their release under the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.

Their kidnapping brought Boko Haram to the attention of the world, with even U.S. first lady Michelle Obama becoming involved as she tweeted a photograph of herself holding the campaign sign.

Boko Haram has kidnapped an unknown number of girls, women and young men to be used as sex slaves and fighters. Many have escaped or been released as Boko Haram has fled a multinational offensive that began at the end of January.

A military source who was in Sambisa told The Associated Press that some of the women rescued Tuesday fought back, and that Boko Haram was using armed women as human shields, putting them as their first line of defense.

The Nigerian troops managed to subdue them and rounded them all up, and some said they were forced to fight for Boko Haram, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Boko Haram also has used girls and women as suicide bombers, sending them into crowded market places and elsewhere.

A month ago the Nigerian military began pounding the Sambisa Forest in air raids, an assault they said earlier they had been avoiding for fear of killing the Chibok schoolgirls, or inciting their captors to kill them.

Two weeks ago, counterinsurgency spokesman Mike Omeri said a multinational offensive that began at the end of January had driven Boko Haram from all major towns in the northeast and that Nigerian forces were concentrating on the Islamic militant stronghold in the Sambisa Forest. Omeri said the military believed that the Chibok girls might be held there.

In Chibok, community leader Pogu Bitrus said townspeople were desperately trying to verify the identity of the freed girls and women. He said the town had learned of the rescue through social media, not from the military.

“We are trying to verify if there are Chibok girls among them. We are working hard to verify. … All we know is this number have been rescued,” he said. His comments reflected a distrust of the military, which has published many misstatements about the girls and once even claimed to have rescued some, though that proved to be untrue.

Unconfirmed reports over the past year had indicated the girls were broken up into smaller groups and had been forced to convert to Islam and that some were “married” off to their captors. Some witnesses said they saw the girls being ferried by canoe across Lake Chad and into neighboring Cameroon.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau published a video in which he threatened to sell the girls as slaves.

A Muslim leader who had tried to negotiate their release told the AP that at least three had died – from a snake bite, dysentery and malaria.

But the military has reported that none of the girls they found as they freed towns were the Chibok girls, indicating Boko Haram fighters might have held on to their most famous assets and taken them with them when they retreated to the Sambisa Forest, a national game reserve.

Unknown hundreds of people have been killed as the extremists retreated, according to reports from recaptured towns.

On Monday, a local government committee reported the burial of hundreds of skeletons of children, women and men believed killed by Boko Haram in Damasak, a town on the border with Niger.

“I know that there was a large-scale atrocity, but I cannot tell you the precise number of dead bodies,” Senator-elect Abubakar Kyari told reporters in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital 180 kilometers (110 miles) southeast of Damasak.

Damasak was recaptured by troops from Chad and Niger last month and had been occupied by the Islamic extremists since November.

Boko Haram continues to attack isolated communities. The government of neighboring Niger said a Boko Haram attack on Karamga island in Lake Chad over the weekend killed 156 militants, 46 soldiers and 28 civilians.

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Faul reported from Lagos, Nigeria. Associated Press writer Dalatou Mamane contributed to this report from Niamey, Niger.

SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) – Authorities say an explosion and fire at a Superior oil refinery poses no danger to the public.

Superior Fire Chief Steve Panger says the explosion happened in an empty asphalt tank at the Calumet Oil Refinery just before 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, and the fire was contained to that tank. The fire burned residual material in the 30-foot-wide tank.

WDIO-TV reports the fire sent a plume of smoke that could be seen from nearby Duluth, Minnesota.

No one was hurt.

The city’s three engine companies responded. Panger says Calumet activated its emergency response team and evacuated non-essential personnel.

Calumet says the cause of the fire has not been determined. The company says production at the refinery has not been affected and that regulatory agencies have been notified.

MILWAUKEE (AP) – Milwaukee police say a suspect is under arrest after fleeing an armed robbery and crashing into another car, killing the 54-year-old driver.

The robbery was reported about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in a U.S. Bank parking lot.

Police say the suspect fled in a car that crashed into another car driven by a Milwaukee man who died.

The Journal Sentinel reports the suspect, a 22-year-old Milwaukee man, got out of the car, dropped a loaded handgun and tried to get into a passing car. When he failed, the suspect ran into an apartment building where he was arrested.

A police officer who tried to catch up with the suspect came upon the car crash and collided with an SUV. The officer and the woman driving the SUV suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

CHICAGO — So much for this being a quick, easy tuneup for the Chicago Bulls.

Suddenly, they’re on their heels.

Their 3-0 lead over the Bucks is down to 3-2, and if they drop Game 6 Thursday at Milwaukee, this first-round playoff series would really get interesting.

I don’t know if we were comfortable or confident or overlooking them,” Pau Gasol said after Game 5 on Monday night. “I just think we didn’t play with enough sense of urgency and desire, which you have to do when you’re ready to close out a team when you have them in that position. We’re going to have to play the next game like it’s the last game, not think that if we lose this one, we still have a chance, that we can play at home in Game 7. That would be a terrible mistake.”

No team has lost a best-of-7 series after winning the first three games, so history is at least on the Bulls’ side. But they let two big opportunities slip away.

They lost Game 4 on a last-second layup and came up short with another chance to put away the Bucks, falling 94-88 at home on Monday night.

Derrick Rose struggled in a big way for the second straight game after a promising start to the postseason, and the Bulls find themselves regrouping rather than getting ready for LeBron James and a Cleveland Cavaliers team that will be without the injured Kevin Love in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Chicago, ironically, has all its key players available, something it rarely had during the regular season because of injuries. But they are struggling at the moment.

“There’s two things that you want at this time of the year,” coach Tom Thibodeau said Tuesday. “You want your health, and you want to be playing well. If you have health and you’re not playing well, that does you no good. If you’re playing fairly well and you don’t have health, that’s probably going to hurt you also.”

Chicago Bulls’ players from left, Jimmy Butler, Joakim Noah, and Derrick Rose, wait for play to resume during the second half in Game 5 of the NBA basketball playoffs against the Milwaukee Bucks Monday, April 27, 2015, in Chicago. The Bucks won 94-88. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Thibodeau gave his team the day off on Tuesday. Players came in for treatment and some worked on their shot.

They will practice and review video on Wednesday, and what they see won’t be pretty.

The Bulls have been getting beaten to loose balls. They’re having trouble shaking defenders, and they’re not pushing the tempo on offense, getting the transition game going.

“I think they just played harder than we did on both ends of the floor,” Jimmy Butler said. “End of story.”

Actually, it’s an ongoing saga with a big subplot looming in the background -the future of Thibodeau. There has been plenty of speculation about his job security even though he boasts a 255-139 record and has led them to the playoffs all five seasons.

But for now, the Bulls need to shake off two rough games and move past the Bucks. Chicago is shooting 40.5 percent the past two games and has 45 assists and 41 turnovers during this stretch.

It’s been particularly rough for Rose. He has a combined 27 points and almost twice as many turnovers (14) as assists (eight) over the past two games. He is 10 for 33 from the field and 2 for 11 on 3-pointers in that span.

Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton tipped the ball from a dribbling Rose to force a steal late in Game 4 with the score tied. Then, Chicago’s star point guard got beaten backdoor by Jerryd Bayless off an inbounds pass.

In Game 5, Rose had 13 points and six turnovers. He shot 5 of 20, missed all seven 3-pointers and was outplayed by Michael Carter-Williams.

The 2011 MVP continues to fight through the inconsistency brought on by missing most of the previous two seasons because of injuries to each knee. Rose also sat out about six weeks late in the regular season after a minor procedure on his right knee.

“You’ve got to understand Derrick’s been out a long time,” Thibodeau said. “There’s going to be some bumps in the road, there have been all season long. Hopefully, he’ll continue to improve. When you miss the amount of time he’s missed – and you’ve got to remember the playoffs are different than the regular season; he’s readjusting to that as well – he’ll bounce back. He’ll be fine.”

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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will announce his plans to seek the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday, presenting a liberal challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Sanders, an independent who describes himself as a “democratic socialist,” will follow a formal statement with a major campaign kickoff in his home state in several weeks. Two people familiar with his announcement spoke to The Associated Press under condition of anonymity to describe internal planning.

Sanders will become the second major Democrat in the race, joining Clinton. He has urged the former secretary of state to speak out strongly about issues related to income inequality and climate change. The former first lady and New York senator is viewed as a heavy favorite in the Democratic primary and formally entered the race earlier this month.

Sanders plans were first reported Tuesday by Vermont Public Radio.

The white-haired senator and former mayor of Burlington, Vermont, has been a liberal firebrand, blasting the concentration of wealth in America and assailing a “billionaire class” that he says has taken over politics.

In recent weeks, Sanders has been a forceful critic of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which would eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers for the U.S., Canada and Asian countries conducting commerce with each other.

“One of the key reasons why the middle class in America continues to decline and the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider is because of disastrous trade agreements which have sent millions of decent-paying jobs to China and other low-wage countries,” Sanders said.

He has called for universal health care, a massive infrastructure jobs and building program and a more progressive tax structure.

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Thomas reported from Washington.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin Republicans say they have reached an agreement to increase the speed limit to 70 mph on some stretches of interstates and highways in the state.

The deal is to be voted on by a Senate committee on Thursday, clearing the way for the bill to pass the Republican-controlled Legislature after it stalled last session.

Under the agreement, the state Department of Transportation would decide which roads could increase from 65 mph to 70 mph. The speed limit could not be raised on four-lane roadways with at-grade accesses. That means highways and freeways that don’t have entrance and exit ramps wouldn’t change.

Rep. Paul Tittl, a Manitowoc Republican, said Tuesday he reached the deal with Sen. Jerry Petrowski, a Marathon Republican and Sen. Devin LeMahieu, an Oostburg Republican.

NFL Draft Order
All Times CDT
At Chicago
Thursday, April 30 (7 p.m.)
First Round (10 minutes)

Friday, May 1 (6 p.m.)
Second Round (7 minutes)
Third Round (5 minutes)

Saturday, May 2 (11 a.m.)
Fourth-Sixth Rounds (5 minutes)
Seventh Round (4 minutes)

First Round
1. Tampa Bay
2. Tennessee
3. Jacksonville
4. Oakland
5. Washington
6. N.Y. Jets
7. Chicago
8. Atlanta
9. N.Y. Giants
10. St. Louis
11. Minnesota
12. Cleveland
13. New Orleans
14. Miami
15. San Francisco
16. Houston
17. San Diego
18. Kansas City
19. Cleveland (from Buffalo)
20. Philadelphia
21. Cincinnati
22. Pittsburgh
23. Detroit
24. Arizona
25. Carolina
26. Baltimore
27. Dallas
28. Denver
29. Indianapolis
30. Green Bay
31. New Orleans (from Seattle)
32. New England

GREEN BAY – Some Green Bay residents may want to break out their gardening gloves and shovels.

The Brown County UW Extension Community Gardens Program broke ground Tuesday on a tenth community garden.

The nearly 3 acre garden will sit at the intersection of Ricky Drive and Vine Street.

The Gardens Program helps put an effort in place to decrease hunger and increase food security in Brown County. Organizers say it is a great way to interact with others.

People can sign up on May 16 for a plot.

Prices for the plots range from $15 to $45.

MADISON – The Wisconsin DNR is making it easier for deer and bear hunters to register their harvest during the 2015 hunting season.

After a successful pilot program last year, electronic registration will provide additional convenience and reduced cost for hunters.

The DNR says walk-in registration will still be available throughout the state.

In 2014, 14,000 hunters were selected to register deer by telephone or online and test a new electronic registration system.

The DNR says the feedback they received from those hunters was positive and they used many of their suggestions to make the system even more user-friendly.

To register electronically, hunters can go online or call the registration system. Each hunter will get a confirmation number and the number will need to be written on the carcass tag attached the animal.

Deer and bear hunters will need to register their animal by 5:00 p.m. the day after harvest.

The DNR says registration for both deer and bear remains mandatory for all hunters.

Satellite images of Nepal before and after the destructive earthquake with interactive before-and-after comparisons.