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OSHKOSH – A century-old house in Oshkosh is on the market for a dollar, but even if you have a buck in your wallet, you’d have to pay a lot more for a piece of the city’s history.

This is the Schreiber House. A banker built it in Oshkosh in 1913.

“The importance of the Schreiber family to banking in the community, the impact, starting in the 1860’s, it’s a very important structure to the city,” explained Oshkosh’s Mayor-Elect Steve Cummings.

The brick house is five-thousand square feet and three stories high.

“It’s one of the last remaining examples in the city of Georgian Revival architecture,” said Cummings.

The Paine Art Center and Gardens next door has owned the house since 2011, but now it’s looking to sell.

“We’re offering the house for one dollar to any individual that can come up with a viable plan to move the house,” explained the Paine’s executive director Aaron Sherer.

However, it will cost you a few more dollars than that.

The estimated price just to move the house is $150,000.

“That doesn’t include the lot, the foundation, the garage,” said Sherer.

The Paine’s executive director told FOX 11 the museum needs to put a parking lot in the house’s place. Visitors can only park on the street now.

“We acquired the house and the property with the intention that we would create handicap accessible parking,” Sherer explained.

Near main entrance to the Paine and there’s just no room for off street parking in this area, but once the house, which is only yards away, is gone there will be room for about 25 parking stalls.

“It creates a circular drop off area,” said Sherer.

The hope is the parking lot will create safer access to the museum.

“For particularly seniors, families, school groups,” Sherer added.

Cummings told us the city is considering buying the house and moving it close by, near the Oshkosh Public Museum.

“We just can’t keep taking our heritage to the landfill. Once it’s gone, it’s gone,” he said.

The Paine hopes to build the parking lot a year from this summer.

Renters currently live in the Schreiber House.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Frank Kaminsky of national runner-up Wisconsin has won the John R. Wooden Award as college basketball’s top men’s player.

The senior center received the trophy Friday night at the first College Basketball Awards from Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, where his name was announced by Greg Wooden, a grandson of the late UCLA coach. Earlier, Kaminsky won the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year trophy.

Kaminsky led the Badgers to the Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles, and the NCAA Tournament championship game, where they lost to Duke after upsetting undefeated and No. 1 Kentucky in the semifinals.

He received 3,385 points in voting from nearly 1,000 national college basketball experts and online fan voting.

Jahlil Okafor of Duke finished second with 3,060 points. Willie Cauley-Stein of Kentucky was third at 2,361. Jerian Grant of Notre Dame finished fourth at 1,870, and D’Angelo Russell of Ohio State was fifth at 1,583.

Kaminsky averaged 18.8 points, 8.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.5 blocks as a senior. He was named Big Ten Player of the Year, one of several player of the year awards he has collected.

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MADISON – Some UW-Madison students are hoping to make the world’s largest Rice Krispie treat this weekend.

Preparations for the baking started Friday with thousands of pounds of cereal, marshmallows, and butter.

The plan is to create a 15,000 pound treat, beating out the current record for a cereal treat weighing more than 10,000 pounds.

The best part is, you can actually eat it…

UW-Madison freshman, Cole Bielen, says, “The largest piece we’re selling is a 22 pound block. It costs $50. If you’d like, you can order it on our Facebook page, Project Freshman 15,000, and you can fill out an order form for that.”

The students will sell the small cubes starting at one dollar with proceeds going to Madison-area charities.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Frank Kaminsky of national runner-up Wisconsin has won the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year award.

The senior nicknamed “Frank the Tank” was presented with the award Friday night at the first College Basketball Awards show at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles.

Kaminsky led the Badgers to the Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles and a berth in the national championship game for the first time since 1941. They lost to Duke this week.

He won out over Bobby Portis of Arkansas, Jahlil Okafor of national champion Duke, Willie Cauley-Stein of Kentucky and Rakeem Christmas of Syracuse.

The winner was decided by a combination of fan votes and input from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame selection committee.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) – Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Friday that his fellow Republican senators want to restore much or all of the $127 million that Gov. Scott Walker has proposed cutting from public schools in the first year of his budget plan.

Speaking at Marquette Law School, the Juneau Republican said the precise amount will depend on updated revenue projections that will be issued in the next few weeks. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Fitzgerald was optimistic that the new revenue estimates will be higher than current estimates.

“If there is enough revenue, I think there is a real commitment to do that,” Fitzgerald told reporters afterward. “There is definitely a commitment to take care of K-12 education.”

Fitzgerald also said GOP senators want to increase K-12 per-pupil spending in the second year of the budget but declined to specify how much because of uncertainty about the upcoming revenue estimates.

While Republicans control the Senate and Assembly, they’ve differed at times with the GOP governor on spending priorities.

Restoring the K-12 cuts may mean there would be less money available to prevent some of the $300 million in reductions Walker is seeking from the University of Wisconsin System over the next two years.

Fitzgerald was more guarded about whether lawmakers would restore any funding to the UW system. He said they’ve always had a “love-hate relationship” with the system and the independent board of regents that governs it.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 16-year-old transgender girl who spoke on YouTube about being bullied at school in Southern California killed herself, a support group said, raising questions about what educators can and should do to support students who change gender identity.

Taylor Alesana was constantly picked on by peers before taking her life last week, the North County LGBTQ Resource Center said.

“With few adults to turn to, and with no support from her school, her life became too difficult,” the group said. “Taylor was a beautiful and courageous girl, and all she wanted was acceptance.”

Alesana attended meetings at the center and was very supportive of others, said Max Disposti, the group’s executive director. She posted a series of online videos that included makeup tutorials and accounts of her struggles.

In her first video posted in October, she said bullying began at a San Diego-area middle school when she disclosed that she was bisexual.

“I fear for anyone that’s even just a little bit different. They know what bullying is like,” she said.

Alesana said her family recently moved to Fallbrook — a community of about 30,000 people next to Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base, 70 miles north of San Diego — and that she was “living my life as a girl now,” wearing female clothing on weekends and during summer. She eventually found friends at Fallbrook High School but encountered rejection first.

“I made a couple (friends), went from group to group. The group would usually kick me out after they realized, ‘Oh, you’re different. We can’t have you hanging out with us,'” she said.

Alesana had a strong relationship with her school counselor but administrators “didn’t take the necessary steps,” Disposti said. They never contacted his organization, even after a Thursday night vigil at his Oceanside office that was attended by Alesana’s family and about 200 others, he said.

Fallbrook Union High School District Superintendent Hugo Pedroza said in a statement that a student died tragically on April 2. “It is never easy when something like this happens, but we are working to move forward together and stronger than before,” he said.

Experts said schools must train staff to be alert to bullying and instill in students that it is unacceptable, but they also need to acknowledge any of their own biases.

“The fears that students have of transgender youth actually stem from adults,” said Dorothy Espelage, professor of educational psychology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “If you’re not going change the attitude of the adults, you’re not going to change the attitudes of the kids.”

James Garbarino, professor of humanistic psychology at Loyola University in Chicago, said transgender students are in a similar position as gay and lesbian students 10 or 20 years ago. Homophobic bullying remains a serious problem, but it has declined to the point that gays and lesbians are elected prom kings and queens.

“What really drives this — whether gender, race, class — is how the adult society views these issues,” he said.

Alesana is the second transgender teen who sought services at the North County LGBTQ Resource Center to die by suicide since March, Disposti said. A boy who took his life last month had a supportive environment at home and school, but he struggled with other issues, including his mother’s death.

Alesana was unusually vocal about the challenges of being a transgender teen. An effort to reach her family through Disposti was unsuccessful.

“She was very out

TOWN OF WASHINGTON – No one was injured in a disturbance at the Country Lane Estates mobile home park near in the Village of Cecil Friday afternoon.

The Shawano County Sheriff’s Office said they responded to a report around 2:09 p.m. saying a 44-year-old man had been involved in a disturbance and locked himself inside one of the homes.

Authorities were advised to use caution as the man was suspected to be armed with one or more edged weapons.

Attempts to talk the man went unanswered so the Shawano County Special Response Team was dispatched to get the man out.

Area residents were asked to leave the area away from potential danger.

Just before 6:00 p.m. officials took the subject into custody.

COLUMBUS – A skunk in Columbia County was happy to savor any leftovers from an empty McDonald’s McFlurry cup, but wasn’t lovin’ it when the cup became stuck on its head.

Around 9:00 a.m. Friday, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Department received calls from drivers reporting a skunk in a sticky situation near the intersection of State Highway 146 and Highway 16 near Fall River.

Deputies called the DNR, and Warden Ryan Volenberg came to the rescue.

“This guy must have stuck its head down into this lid as it narrowed to get whatever was left in it,” Warden Ryan said.

Warden Ryan said the skunk was motionless at first, but alive. He took a catch pole, a stick with a lasso at the end, and carefully cinched it down on the cup and removed it.

The skunk thanked the warden in the only way it knew how, it ran off in the other direction without spraying him.

“We (wardens) constantly get calls about wildlife,” Warden Ryan said. “This one was definitely different. That was my first big skunk rescue.”

GREEN BAY – More than 600 girls are competing in Green Bay to get one step closer to the national championships in Iowa.

From the balance beam to a floor routine, gymnasts filled the KI Convention Center hoping for a high score.

For many of the girls in this room, gymnastics has been a part of their lives for a long time.

“[I started] when I was three and I just turned 15,” said Alexa Al-Hameed.

“Since I was two, so 11 years,” said Brooke Hillmann.

Making it to the USA Gymnastics Region 4 Championships takes strength, precision, dedication and a lot of practice.

“It takes a lot of dedication. We go in the gym and practice every day. We practice our routines and work to get our confidence up,” Al-Hameed said.

Al-Hameed says when you’re competing against the best, you have to stay focused.

“A lot of the time, when you see girls who are good, it pushes me to work even harder,” Al-Hameed said.

Recruiters are also watching every step and move the girls make to see if they have what it takes to compete on a college level.

“The NCAA coaches that are here, they’re here this morning looking at the junior age groups, these 10, 11, 12-year-old kids and kind of getting them on track to see where they’re going to be in a couple years,” said Jack Nettesheim with Midwest Twisters Gymnastics.

Just a few miles up the road at Air Force Gymnastics in Green Bay, five top-level gymnasts are gearing up to compete for a championship title.

“I usually try to visualize my routines and just go through it in my head and just relax a little bit,” said Brightyn Zuelke.

“It’s a little nerve-wracking but exciting at the same time so I try to just get the nerves out, visualize the best thing I can do, and just go out there and have fun,” said Ellie Scherwinski.

Once the girls hit the mat, all the coaches can do is watch.

“We are with them every step of the way cheering them on, feeling what they’re doing, trying to help them along and then celebrating with them when it goes the way it’s supposed to go,” said Jen Beyer owner of Air Force Gymnastics.

Back at the convention center, the pressure is on, but the athletes know how to stick the landing.

Competitors from seven states are at the region four championships this weekend. The competition ends Sunday.

GREEN BAY – A snowy owl from Ontario, Canada is on its way north after being released this afternoon in Green Bay.

The owl, injured over the winter, had been recuperating at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary.

Once the gate was opened, the snowy owl wasted little time getting out of the cage, and into the air.

“That was even better than I thought it could be. She literally flew out, knew where she was going, turned back, and looked at us, and just flew a longer distance than I could have imagined,” said Lori Bankson, Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Curator of Animals.

The “snowy’s” journey capped a four-month stay at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary. The owl was found in January in a Door County ditch with a broken wrist.

“It actually was broken in two places, and had already started to heal. So our job then was just to encourage it to continue to heal properly and make sure the nutrition was there,” said Dr. Daniel Gray, Gentle Vet Animal Hospital.

Sanctuary staff worked daily with the bird known affectionately as “Snowy,” or “Ontario.”  They netted the bird for the final time Friday morning.

“We want them to make sure they understand that humans are predators. So that’s good, that she gave us a little bit of a chase, and she’s angry. And an angry owl, is a healthy owl,” said Bankson.

Matt Rupnik worked with the bird from day one.

“You take all the necessary precautions. Make sure you’re wearing all your protection. So that you don’t get yourself injured, and make sure that you’re handling properly so that you don’t hurt the bird in any way,” said Matt Rupnik, Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Senior Animal Keeper.

And if the release was any indication, the “snowy” is on its way.

“Are you going to miss her? Absolutely, yes. She was wonderful to work with. It’s not everyday that you get to see a bird like that up close and personal,” said Rupnik.

“It’s great to see them everyday, but it’s more wonderful to see them go. And now we have an empty cage that we can clean up, get ready for somebody new to get back out into the wild,” said Bankson.

Snowy Owls will generally migrate at lower altitudes than other birds.

But with a good wind, they can cover up to 100 miles in a day.

(SBG) While her candidacy will come as no surprise, the style of her announcement could. Many reporting, Hilary Clinton will use social media to make it official, then hit Iowa for a series of small events in homes and meeting personally with voters. A fresh start many say, she needs.

“If you talk to Democrats in this town, they’re a little worried that she’s gotten off to a rocky start with the emails, the Clinton foundation they all remember as we all do, 08 and 08 was disaster for her,” says Chief Political Strategist of Potomac Research Group, Greg Valliere.

It’s of course, this is hardly 08′, no Barack Obama juggernaut to tackle. Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, if he runs, would face an uphill battle considering the cash the clinton machine would raise. And at the moment, Elizabeth Warren is staying put on the hill.

“I believe in that America and that’s why I wrote this book. You sound like a presidential candidate? I believe all the way down in what we need to do as a country,” says Massachusetts Senator Warren.

For Republicans, the next rallies will be around senator Marco Rubio–set for his big debut Monday in Miami.

The child of Cuban immigrants could be a favorite dark horse. But the pitfalls on the Republican side are plentiful, from Paul to Cruz, Walker to Bush—there may be 2 dozen duking it out and in a marathon campaign, money often makes the difference.

“It’s entirely possible the republican primaries go well into the spring maybe into early June in California that means whoever has the most money probably will win so you have to think bush has an advantage there,” said Valliere.

Speaking of cash: Clinton’s campaign is expected to cost more than the $1 billion president Obama raised in 2012. Expect a big push for that money, online.

According to multiple national reports Green Bay has founds its next men’s basketball coach — Linc Darner.

Darner has coached the previous nine seasons at Florida Southern and led the Moccasins to the Division II national championship this past season as his team finished 36-1. Overall, Darner was 218-72 at Florida Southern.

Darner is a 1995 graduate of Purdue and was on the Boilermakers team that beat Green Bay, 49-48, in the NCAA tournament that season.

Other notable candidates for the position included assistant coach Brian Barone and St. Norbert College coach Gary Grzesk.

Darner replaces Brian Wardle, who left after five seasons to become the new coach at Bradley. Wardle led Green Bay to 95 wins in five years and three postseason tournaments (NIT twice and the CIT).

FOX 11 is looking to confirm the hire and will have more information when available.

SPRING GREEN – Getting through high school can feel like a lifetime for some kids, but for one Spring Green woman, it actually has been.

103-year-old Marie Hunt received her high school diploma Friday morning.

Hunt says when she was in 8th grade, she had no way of getting to and from school, and needed to stay home to help raise her eight younger siblings.

After mentioning to her hospice nurse that her biggest regret was never graduating, the nurse made sure it happened for Marie.

She’s now finally able to join the rest of her classmates who graduated in 1928.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s famous cherry blossoms are set to hit peak bloom this weekend as the National Cherry Blossom Festival draws big crowds for its annual parade and Japanese street festival.

The National Park Service says the trees are predicted to be in peak bloom Saturday through Tuesday. They bloomed about the same time the past two years. With most trees in bloom this weekend, organizers expect big crowds around the Tidal Basin and National Mall.

Festival President Diana Mayhew says early mornings are a good time to beat the crowds.

This year’s blossoms coincide with the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade Saturday at 10 a.m. The parade is followed by the Sakura Matsuri Japanese Street Festival on Saturday afternoon.

The cherry blossom festival closes Sunday with a new Anacostia River Festival.

HESPERIA, Calif. (AP) – A news video shows California sheriff’s deputies tracking down a man fleeing on horseback and then punching and kicking him dozens of times when he’s on the ground.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s office ordered an investigation into the beating Thursday.

“The video surrounding this arrest is disturbing,” San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner John McMahon said.

A sheriff’s statement said Francis Pusok, 30, fled from deputies early in the afternoon as they tried to serve a search warrant in an identity-theft investigation. He eventually abandoned a car in the Hesperia area and stole a horse, but was tracked down by deputies.

KNBC-TV (http://bit.ly/1H8UC3D ) helicopter footage shows the man dressed in bright red clothing falling from the horse as a deputy runs up and uses a stun gun on him. The sheriff’s department statement said the stun gun was ineffective.

The man falls face-down with his arms and legs outstretched and puts his hands behind his back. The video shows two deputies appearing to come up and kick him in the head and crotch. Other deputies arrive moments later.

KNBC-TV said up to 13 deputies eventually surrounded the man, and some of them kicked, hit and punched him dozens of times over a two-minute period.

Attorneys for Pusok told KNBC-TV Friday that their client has a badly swollen eye, marks from the beating over his face and body, and is in pain. The attorneys made the comments as they left the jail.

“He remembers being beat, and he remembers that he wasn’t resisting, that he laid still, he complied immediately. He says that he didn’t even move a muscle because he didn’t want to be continuously beat, yet it still happened,” said attorney Sharon Brunner.

After the beating, a deputy whispered in his ear: “This isn’t over,'” attorney Jim Terrell said.

“And that’s why he’s scared to death for himself and his family right now,” Terrell said.

Ken Cooper, a use of force expert, said the deputies were clearly frustrated and appeared to take that out on the man.

“It doesn’t look good. It looks like his hands are behind his back even when they’re doing the blows,” Cooper said. “The justification for using force is to gain compliance from the suspect, and the suspect seems to be complying. So what this looks like is those blows are not justified, they’re not necessary and they’re not professional.”

Cooper said the officers should be disciplined, retrained to deal with stress especially, and the video should be used for department-wide training moving forward. He said the officers let their emotions and the adrenaline overtake their professionalism. But training helps “inoculate” officers from responding improperly during high-stress situations.

“When chasing a fleeing suspect, in high stress, you have to control that. It’s your obligation as a professional. You can lose it sometimes,” Cooper said.

Pusok’s attorney said to him the video showed “thugs beating up my client.”

“These questions about what was he doing, what were they doing?” attorney Jim Terrell told KCAL-TV.

The beating of Pusok, who is white, came as recent violent episodes by law officers dealing with suspects have provoked outrage after being captured on video, including the shooting death of an unarmed black man as he ran from a police officer last weekend in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Pusok’s girlfriend of 13 years Jolene Bindner said he has had several run-ins with the law but is a great father.

“I’m not going to stand here and say that he’s perfect, because who is?” she told the TV station.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Bindner said after seeing the video. “The first thing I said was ‘they cannot do that.'”

The American Civil Liberties Union released a statement saying it is “deeply troubled by the video images” and applauding McMahon’s call for an investigation.

Pusok was taken to a local hospital with unknown injuries, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

Two deputies suffered dehydration, a third was kicked by the horse and all were taken to a hospital for treatment, the statement said.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama paid more than $93,000 in taxes last year on adjusted gross income of more than $477,000.

That’s according to income tax returns Obama filed jointly with his wife, Michelle. The White House released copies on Friday, just before the April 15 federal filing deadline.

Obama also reported donating just under $71,000 to charity.

His largest charitable donation – $22,000 – went to the Fisher House Foundation. The organization aids wounded service members and their families.

The White House also released the 2014 income tax returns for Vice President Joe Biden.

Biden and his wife, Jill, paid more than $90,000 in federal taxes last year on adjusted gross income of nearly $389,000.

The Bidens reported $7,380 in donations to charity.

APPLETON – No one was injured during a house fire in Appleton Friday morning.

The Appleton Fire Department was dispatched to 1916 N. Harrman street around 11:34 a.m. for a reported structure fire.

Fire crews say upon arrival they saw heavy smoke and flames coming from the attached garage, extending to the second story of the home.

It took crews approximately 30 minutes to get the fire under control.

The home and the garage has extensive fire and smoke damage.

Officials are still trying to determine the cause of the fire.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Government health advisers have serious reservations about a proposal by Swedish Match to market its smokeless tobacco pouches as less harmful than cigarettes and other tobacco products.

The company is seeking Food and Drug Administration permission to remove or revise several warning labels on the pouches, called snus. It’s the first formal request the FDA has considered publicly since it gained authority to regulate tobacco products in 2009.

But a panel of FDA advisers said overwhelmingly Friday that company data do not support several key changes.

The eight-member panel voted unanimously that the company’s application does not show that snus lack the same risks of gum diseases and tooth loss as other smokeless tobacco products. Swedish Match has asked the FDA to drop those warnings from its U.S. offerings, including brands such as Longhorn, Timber Wolf and General snus.

Snus are teabag-like pouches or loose tobacco that users stick between their cheek and gum to absorb nicotine. They are popular in Scandinavian countries and are part of a growing smokeless tobacco market in the U.S. Swedish Match holds about 9 percent of the U.S. market, which is dominated by Richmond, Virginia-based Altria, parent company of Phillip Morris.

Swedish Match also wants the FDA to certify new language that its snus have “substantially lower risks to health than cigarettes.” The company points to studies showing that snus are not associated with lung cancer, lung disease and other ailments tied to cigarettes.

But panelists said the company’s language oversimplifies the issue, since some snus users also smoke, exposing themselves to negative health effects from both products. Panelists voted unanimously that the company’s language does not adequately describe the health risks of snus, including pregnancy complications such as early delivery and stillbirth.

“I did not think the warning was clear, it did not adequately convey the health risks that are relevant,” said Dr. Philip Huang, committee chair and an official with the health department of Travis County, Texas.

The FDA is not required to follow the advice of the panel, which is composed of experts specializing in tobacco control, public health and cancer care.

A day earlier Swedish Match representatives presented findings suggesting that Swedish uptake of snus has helped reduce diseases linked to cigarettes there.

But panelists pointed to key differences between the U.S. and Sweden, including Sweden’s ban on tobacco advertising and a population that is less diverse racially, economically and culturally than the U.S.

The advisory panel meeting and FDA’s ultimate action on the application are being closely watched by both the public health community and tobacco companies, which are looking for new products to sell as they face declining cigarette demand due to tax increases, health concerns, smoking bans and social stigma.

Under a 2009 law, the FDA was given authority to evaluate tobacco products for their health risks and approve ones that could be marketed as safer than others. The agency has received 17 applications for such products, according to an agency spokeswoman, but none have been given the OK yet. Agency officials have previously noted that some tobacco products could pose less of a health risk to users than smoking.

KOHLER, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin-based Kohler Co. has scored wins in a legal battle over property taxes with the small village of the same name where it’s headquartered.

Sheboygan Press Media reports Kohler Co. filed lawsuits against the village of Kohler saying the company overpaid in property taxes. The company disputes valuations on its American Club, Blackwolf Run, Riverbend and the Inn on Woodlake properties.

A judge ruled in one lawsuit that the village must pay back Kohler Co. more than $605,000 in property taxes for the 2012 tax year, while another judge in a separate suit said the village must reassess property for the 2011 tax year.

A third lawsuit is pending over the 2013 tax year. Kohler Co. has asked the judge in that case to consider the $605,000 ruling and issue a summary judgment its favor. Village attorneys objected to that idea, saying it could still appeal that decision.

The main issue in the lawsuits is over the addition of “business value” to property valuations. Kohler Co. says value added based on its management and operations should have been deducted from valuations, while the village says it can’t separate the business value added to the properties.

Kristina Somers, an attorney for Kohler Co., said the company hopes the lawsuits will be resolved in a “timely manner.”

“The company is willing and prepared to pay its fair share of property taxes to the village of Kohler, and is committed to positively contributing to and fairly supporting all communities where it conducts its business operations,” Somers said in an email.

An attorney for the village declined to comment on “ongoing litigation.”

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jordan Spieth has set a 36-hole scoring record at the Masters.

The 21-year-old Texan turned in another dazzling round Friday, going to the weekend with a 14-under 130 total. That broke the record of 131, set by Raymond Floyd in 1976.

Spieth shot a 6-under 66 in the second round, essentially blowing away everyone in the field except Charley Hoffman. He was four strokes behind and still on the course, turning in the sort of performance that would normally be good enough for the lead.

Not the way Spieth is playing. He has 15 birdies and only one bogey through the first two days.

Ernie Els, at 139, was the only player with a single-digit deficit when Spieth finished his round.