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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City judge says a harassment case against the sister of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects can proceed.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Ann Scherzer said Thursday that another judge denied the motion to dismiss Ailina Tsarnaeva’s telephone threat case.

Prosecutors say the North Bergen, New Jersey, resident claimed to know people who could bomb the home of a woman who was previously involved with her husband.

Jury selection is underway in the case against her brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He’s pleaded not guilty in the April 2013 marathon explosions, which killed three people.

Her other brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a gunfight with police.

Tsarnaeva’s attorney also sought to challenge a search warrant for her cellphone. A decision on that motion was set for May 4.

 

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) – With his old team about to play in the Super Bowl, former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez went on trial on murder charges Thursday, watching from the defense table as prosecutors showed the jury security-camera footage from his own home to tie him to the crime.

Hernandez’s lawyer countered by arguing that police and prosecutors “locked” in on the NFL player as a suspect from the very beginning, ignored evidence and conducted a “sloppy and unprofessional” investigation.

Hernandez, 25, is charged in the 2013 shooting death of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old semiprofessional football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee. Lloyd’s bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park near Hernandez’s North Attleborough home, not far from Gillette Stadium.

Hernandez – who had a $40 million contract as a tight end with the Patriots but was cut by the team just hours after his 2013 arrest – could get life in prison if convicted. On Sunday, the Patriots will meet the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl.

In a separate murder case that has yet to come to trial, Hernandez was charged last year in Boston with killing two men in 2012 after someone spilled a drink on him at a nightclub.

Prosecutors in this trial have suggested that Lloyd may have been killed because he knew too much about that crime. But the judge has ruled that prosecutors cannot tell the jury about those slayings.

In opening statements Thursday, District Attorney Patrick Bomberg took jurors through what he said was the sequence of events that led to Lloyd’s killing.

He played before-and-after footage that he said showed Lloyd getting into a car driven by Hernandez, then video taken shortly afterward at the NFL player’s home, without Lloyd in the car.

The prosecutor also presented an image taken off Hernandez’s video surveillance system that showed Hernandez standing outside his basement, holding what Bomberg said was a gun.

As the prosecutor showed jurors a photo of Lloyd’s body, his mother was overcome and had to leave the courtroom briefly.

Defense attorney Michael Fee told the jury that Hernandez is an innocent man.

“Aaron never had a chance,” Fee said. “They locked on Aaron and they targeted him.”

He said the evidence would show that Hernandez did not kill Lloyd and did not ask anyone to do so. He said authorities could offer no motive for the killing.

“The investigation was sloppy and unprofessional. What about the facts that showed Aaron’s innocence?” he said. “The evidence will show that they were ignored.”

Noting that Hernandez had long-term football contract, a new house, a fiancee and a 7-month-old baby, the defense attorney said Hernandez “was planning a future, not a murder.

Prosecutors say Hernandez and two friends, Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace, picked Lloyd up at his home in Boston, drove him to the industrial park and shot him. Ortiz and Wallace will be tried separately.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A measles outbreak whose spread originated at Disneyland has grown to 95 cases.

The California Department of Public Health tells the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday that 79 of those in infections are in California and 52 of them can be linked directly to Disney Parks.

The rest are in Michigan, Arizona, Utah, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska and Mexico.

The new overall figure shows eight more cases than the 87 confirmed earlier this week.

Measles has been spreading since an outbreak linked to Southern California’s Disney parks last month. Most of those infected were not vaccinated officials have urged people to get the measles shot.

The U.S. experienced a record number of measles cases last year, with 644 infections from 27 states despite being largely eliminated in 2000.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Injured and bleeding, mothers carrying infants fled from a maternity hospital shattered by a powerful gas explosion on Thursday, and rescuers swung sledgehammers to break through fallen concrete in hunt for others who may have been trapped.

At least two people were killed and 56 injured, said Claudia Dominguez, spokeswoman for Mexico City’s civil defense agency. Officials earlier said at least four had been killed.

Thirty-five-year-old Felicitas Hernandez wept as she frantically questioned people outside the mostly collapsed building, hoping for word of her month-old baby, who had been hospitalized since birth with respiratory problems.

“They wouldn’t let me sleep with him,” said Hernandez, who said she had come to the city-run Maternity and Children’s Hospital of Cuajimalpa because she had no money.

The explosion occurred when the tanker was making a routine, early morning delivery of gas to the hospital kitchen and gas started to leak. Witnesses said the tanker workers struggled frantically for 15 or 20 minutes to repair the leak while a large cloud of gas formed.

“The hose broke. The two gas workers tried to stop it, but they were very nervous. They yelled for people to get out,” said Laura Diaz Pacheco, a laboratory technician.

“Everyone’s initial reaction was to go inside, away from the gas,” she added. “Maybe as many as 10 of us were able to get out … The rest stayed inside.”

Workers on the truck yelled: “Call the firefighters, call the firefighters!” said 66-year-old anesthesiologist Agustin Herrera. People started to evacuate the hospital, and then came the massive explosion that sent up an enormous fireball and plumes of dust and smoke.

Herrera saw injured mothers walking out under their own power carrying babies. He said there had been nine babies in the 35-bed hospital’s nursery, one in very serious condition before the explosion.

“We avoided a much bigger tragedy because the oxygen tanks are right beside (the area) and they didn’t explode,” Herrera said. The most affected parts of the hospital were the neonatology, reception and emergency reception units, he added.

Miguel Angel Garcia, smoked a cigarette outside Hospital ABC-Santa Fe, trying to calm his nerves while he waited to see his wife and new baby daughter, who had been moved there.

Garcia, 22, had been driving a bus when he heard about the explosion at the hospital where his wife had given birth to their second child just the day before. He dropped off his passengers, then his bus and took off for the hospital.

“When I arrived and saw it in pieces, I thought the worst,” Garcia said. He waited for an hour before authorities told him his wife and daughter had been taken to the Santa Fe hospital. A nurse there told him both were fine, but he hadn’t been allowed to see them yet.

As the day wore on, people arrived to offer diapers and baby formula. There was an hour-long wait to donate blood.

The driver and two employees were hospitalized but are also in custody, said a Mexico City government spokesman, who could not be named because she was not authorized to speak to the press.

Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera earlier told the Televisa network that at least 54 people were injured, 22 of them children. Most of the injuries were relatively minor, he said, many caused by flying glass.

The explosion sent a column of smoke billowing over the area on the western edge of Mexico’s capital and television images showed much of the hospital collapsed, with firefighters trying to extinguish fires.

“The truck must have had some failure, the hose and that’s what caused the explosion,” Mancera said. He said that fire continued burning because firefighters recommended that they allow the truck’s remaining gas to burn off. He said there was no risk of another explosion.

Ismael Garcia, 27, who lives a block from the hospital, said “there was a super explosion and everything caught on fire.”

Garcia ran to the hospital and said he and others made their way to the nursery. “Fortunately, we were able to get eight babies out,” he said.

Rafael Gonzalez of the Red Cross said one 27-year-old man arrived at the agency’s hospital with burns over 90 percent of his body, and he was transferred to another hospital.

President Enrique Pena Nieto expressed his sadness and support for the victims through his official Twitter account.

The hospital, located in a middle class neighborhood, is next to a school.

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Associated Press writers Peter Orsi and Katherine Corcoran in Mexico City contributed to this report.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will ask Congress to boost government spending by roughly 7 percent above current limits, the White House said Thursday, setting up a certain clash with Republicans who insist that federal spending must be held in check.

The proposal from the president, two months after his fellow Democrats were routed in November elections that gave Republicans control of both houses of Congress, reflects the White House’s newfound confidence in the economy.

Obama’s aides believe that improving conditions give Obama credibility to push his spending priorities unabashedly — despite the fact that Republicans still believe government spends far too much.

Federal deficits, gas prices and unemployment are all falling, while Obama’s poll numbers have crept upward. The president has been newly combative as he argues it’s time to ease the harsh measures that were taken to help pull the economy out of recession.

Obama’s budget, to be formally released Monday, will call for $74 billion more than the levels frozen in place by across-the-board cuts agreed to by both Democrats and Republicans and signed by Obama into law. The White House said his new budget proposals will “fully reverse” the so-called sequestration cuts by increasing spending on both the domestic and military sides by similar amounts.

Under Obama’s proposal, national security programs would see an increase of $38 billion over current spending limits, raising the defense budget to $561 billion. On the domestic side, Obama is calling for $530 billion in spending — an increase of $37 billion.

“If Congress rejects my plan and refuses to undo these arbitrary cuts, it will threaten our economy and our military,” Obama warned in an op-ed article Thursday in The Huffington Post.

Obama was to promote his proposed spending levels to House Democrats at their annual retreat in Philadelphia on Thursday evening. The White House said his budget will be “fully paid for with cuts to inefficient spending programs and closing tax loopholes,” but taxpayers will have to wait until the budget is made public to find out exactly how.

While the proposal to spend more on things like education, sick leave and health care was sure to delight many members of Obama’s own party, the Republicans now fully control Congress.

“This is not a surprise,” said Don Stewart, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s deputy chief of staff. “Previous budgets submitted by the president have purported to reverse the bipartisan spending limits through tax increases that the Congress — even under Democrats — could never accept.”

Yet Obama’s move also puts Republicans in a precarious position.

Many Republicans want to spend more on defense, especially in light of threats from terrorism and extremist groups. But Republicans are divided about how to pay. While some have argued for ignoring the spending limits, others want to offset the hikes with cuts to either domestic programs or so-called mandatory programs like Social Security and Medicare.

By proposing to raise defense spending by about the same amount as domestic programs, Obama is putting the Republicans on notice that he won’t accept cuts to his own priorities just to make way for more spending on national security programs that both parties are in the mood to support.

The Pentagon’s base budget is currently $496 billion, plus another $64 billion for overseas missions. Obama’s increases would allow for next-generation F-35 fighter jets, for ships and submarines and for long-range Air Force tankers. Military leaders have also said the earlier cuts forced reductions in pilots’ flying hours, training and equipment maintenance.

On the domestic side, Obama has proposed two free years of community college and creating new or expanded tax credits for child care and spouses who both work. He’s called for raising the top capital gains rate on some wealthy couples and consolidating education tax breaks, although some of those ideas have already faced intense opposition.

“Until he gets serious about solving our long-term spending problem, it’s hard to take him seriously,” said Cory Fritz, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.

The president’s budget proposal is just that — a proposal— and will not become law.

The budget frames Obama’s opening offer as Democrats and Republicans head toward an inevitable clash. It’s an agenda that Obama started selling in the run-up to his State of the Union address this month, and that House Democrats have sought to echo as they regroup after losing more members in the midterms.

In his meeting Thursday with House Democrats, Obama was also to insist that House Republicans not use a funding bill for the Homeland Security Department to try to quash the executive actions he took late last year on immigration and deportations. The White House called that a “dangerous view” by the Republicans that would risk the country’s national security.

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Associated Press writers Jim Kuhnhenn and Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.

 

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks-New England Patriots Super Bowl matchup is bringing cross-country donations into the food banks of each team’s home state.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan announced Thursday morning they’re each sending win-or-lose donations to food pantries to help celebrate the game.

For Inslee, that means sending 1,000 cups of chowder donated by Seattle restaurant chain Ivar’s across the country to food pantries in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Washington food banks will get Boston cream pie cupcakes from the Koffee Kup Bakery in Springfield, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire bacon.

The lieutenant governors of each team’s home state have also announced a wager. If the Seahawks win, Washington Lt. Gov. Brad Owen will collect beer and cannoli from Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito. If the Patriots win, Owen will send east a magnum of wine, smoked salmon, apples and Quinault Indian Nation souvenirs.

 

ASHWAUBENON – Officers are investigating a report of a police impersonator.

Ashwaubenon Public Safety says a 16-year-old girl reports that she was pulled over around 9:45 p.m. Jan. 20 while driving east on Hwy. 172 near Oneida St. The girl said car that pulled her over appeared to be similar to a Ford Crown Victoria police car and had small red and blue lights in the windshield only.

According to the girl, the man got out of the car, walked up to her driver’s-side window and looked at her for what she felt like was a long time. She asked if she had done something wrong and he replied that he was just checking to make sure she had her seat belt on and he wanted to make sure she was OK. She said she was fine and the man said she could go. He did not ask for a driver’s license or proof of insurance and he did not give her any paperwork. When she pulled away, the car did not follow her and she said she did not know where it went.

Ashwaubenon officers contacted other agencies around the area, and no one has a record of a stop being made at that time and location or any request for information on the girl’s license plate.

The girl described the man as white, around 40 years old, between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-10, between 200 and 220 pounds, with short hair. The girl said the man had a badge pinned to his shirt, but she did not see any other patches or signs of identification.

Anyone with information is asked to call Ashwaubenon Public Safety at (920) 492-2995. Anonymous tips can be left with Crime Stoppers at (920) 432-7867 or online.

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A young Jordanian fighter pilot, a female al-Qaida recruit who tried to blow up a hotel ballroom in Amman and a veteran Japanese war correspondent are at the center of a life-and-death standoff with the Islamic State group.

The militants, who hold the pilot and the journalist, have purportedly threatened to kill the airman at sundown Thursday, Iraq time, if the would-be suicide bomber is not released from death row in Jordan. The deadline passed without word on the two hostages. This is a look at the three people whose fate hangs in the balance.

THE PRISONER

Sajida al-Rishawi has close family ties to the Iraqi branch of the al-Qaida terror network that was the forerunner of the Islamic State group.

Still, she never explained why she strapped an explosives belt to her waist and, along with her husband, who also wore a bomb, walked into a luxury hotel in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Nov. 9, 2005.

This combination of two photographs shows the detail of a poster of an undated photograph of Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, left, used during a demonstration calling for his release from the Islamic State group and a still image from video, right, of Sajida al-Rishawi, an Iraqi woman sentenced to death in Jordan for her involvement in a 2005 terrorist attack on a hotel that killed 60 people. Jordan said Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 it is willing to swap the woman held on death row in Jordan for the Jordanian pilot captured in December by extremists from the Islamic State group. (AP Photo)

Her husband set off his bomb, ripping through a wedding party with 300 guests, but al-Rishawi’s explosives failed to go off.

The bombing was one of three near-simultaneous attacks on Amman hotels on that day and killed 60 people in Jordan’s worst-ever terror attack. The Iraq branch of al-Qaida claimed responsibility.

Al-Rishawi fled, but was arrested four days later at a safe house. In a three-minute confession broadcast on Jordan TV shortly after her arrest, she displayed the explosives belt and appeared anxious, but offered no motive. She suggested she was simply following her husband’s lead, saying he had told her what to do.

Al-Rishawi later recanted, saying she was an unwilling participant.

A military court sentenced her to death by hanging. Her appeal was rejected and she became the first woman sent to death row in Jordan on terrorism charges.

The 44-year-old is from the city of Ramadi in Iraq’s Anbar province. Three of her brothers were al-Qaida operatives, including one who served as a top aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late al-Qaida in Iraq chief whose followers form the core of the Islamic State group. Her three brothers and al-Zarqawi were killed in Iraq.

THE JOURNALIST

Kenji Goto is not a thrill seeker, his friends and relatives say. He has been covering wars because he is committed to social justice and wants to tell the world about the suffering of people in conflict zones.

His wife Rinko made a desperate plea for his life Thursday, as the deadline for a swap set by the militants passed without word on the captives. The couple’s two young daughters, a newborn and a 2-year-old, must “grow up knowing their father,” she wrote.

The 47-year-old Goto set up his own video news company, Independent Press, in 1996, mainly covering refugees, children and poverty in war-torn countries. He has contributed reports to major Japanese networks and has worked with U.N. organizations and nonprofit groups. He has also written books about children in conflict zones and lectured at Japanese schools.

In late October, just two weeks after his wife gave birth to their child, Goto left for Syria to try to rescue his assistant, 42-year-old Haruna Yukawa, who had been captured by Islamic State militants. Goto was also seized by the militants, with his Twitter feed ending Oct. 23.

Yukawa has reportedly been killed by his captors.

Goto seems to have been a mentor to Yukawa, a weapons geek who wanted to set up a private security service despite having few language skills and scant experience. Goto rescued Yukawa from an anti-government militant group in Syria early last year, and since then the two had traveled together in Syria a few times before the younger man was taken hostage last summer.

THE PILOT

Since childhood, Muath al-Kaseasbeh had dreamed of becoming a pilot, but in recent months refused to share his feelings about Jordan’s bombing missions against Islamic State militants, his family says.

Jordan’s participation in the U.S.-led military coalition against the Islamic State group is unpopular in the pilot’s home village of Ay and the nearby provincial town of Karak, said his brother, Jawdat. “People here believe our boys shouldn’t fight outside the country,” he said. “They should fight only in defending the soil of the country.”

Al-Kaseasbeh, 26, is one of eight siblings — four boys and four girls. After high school he attended flight college. In 2009, after graduation, he joined the military and began flying F-16s and other warplanes, earning the rank of lieutenant.

“Since his childhood, he wanted to be a pilot,” Jawdat, 30, said of his brother.

Al-Kaseasbeh got married last year to a woman from a nearby village, a university graduate, and the young couple moved to Karak. Jawdat said his brother is a devout Muslim and had joined his parents on a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The pilot’s F-16 went down over northern Syria in December, near the Islamic State group’s de facto capital of Raqqa, and he ejected. Militants pulled him out of the Euphrates River.

He became the first foreign military pilot to fall into the extremists’ hands since the international coalition began its air strikes in more than four months ago, making him a valuable bargaining chip.

Jordan has offered to swap al-Rishawi for al-Kaseasbeh, a sign of its desperation to win his freedom, even though this could set a precedent for dealings with Islamic State hostage-takers and could encourage more kidnappings.

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Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo. Associated Press writers Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah, West Bank, and Sinan Salaheddin in Baghdad contributed to this report.

 

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SHEBOYGAN – A Lakeshore-based insurance company is adding jobs.

Acuity says it plans to hire 150 employees this year at its Sheboygan headquarters and in the 23 states where it does business.

The company says its revenue increased 13 percent to $1.24 billion from 2013 to 2014. It is also working on a 240,000-square-foot addition to its headquarters.

“We are increasing our staff not only to respond to our strong growth, but as an investment in our future,” president and CEO Ben Salzmann said in a news release. “We need to be certain to have the people and resources in place to maintain our level of world-class service to a growing number of families, individuals, and businesses.”

Jobs the company is hiring for include processors and underwriters, software developers and technical support staff, business analysts, claims staff, customer service representatives and premium auditors.

MADISON (AP) – The Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Senate is renewing his call for passage of a right-to-work bill.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald issued a statement Thursday saying debate of right-to-work needs to occur along with consideration of the state budget. Walker will release his budget plan on Tuesday.

Walker has repeatedly said he doesn’t want the Legislature to act early in the session on right-to-work, but he also is a longtime supporter of the idea. Walker has also never said he would veto such a bill should it pass.

Right-to-work laws prevent private-sector employers from forcing workers to join a union or pay dues as a condition of employment.

Supporters say it’s about worker freedom while opponents argue it will drive down wages and it’s bad for the economy.

BROWN COUNTY – A Green Bay-area driving school has closed.

The state Division of Motor Vehicles says Excel Driving Center has shut down.

DMV officials say they are working with other driving schools in the area to figure out ways students can finish their training. The DMV says it will contact students within the next two weeks with information on how to complete their training and how to recoup lost tuition payments through Excel’s state-required bond.

The DMV also offers these tips on choosing a driving school:

• Use accredited driver training schools. Check http://wisconsindmv.gov and search Driver Training Schools for a list of accredited independent driving schools in Wisconsin.
• Contact local schools as some public and private high schools still offer driver education programs.
• Explore online training options through South West Technical College’s accredited online course.

BROWN COUNTY – A chase and crash involving a suspected five-time drunken driver ended with two people being arrested.

The Wisconsin State Patrol says around 5 p.m. Wednesday, a trooper saw a vehicle headed south on Hwy. 41 in the Hwy. 29 area. Neither the driver nor the passenger was wearing a seat belt. When the trooper tried to pull the vehicle over, it sped up. Just north of Glory Rd., the driver lost control and the vehicle hit the left median wall and skidded into the ditch on the right side. The driver and passenger both got out and ran away. Officers eventually found the driver walking on the exit ramp to Hwy. G.

The driver, a 31-year-old Crivitz man, was arrested on suspicion of his fifth OWI offense, as well as having a prohibited alcohol concentration, driving after his license was revoked, felony fleeing and obstructing.

The female passenger was arrested on suspicion of obstructing an officer, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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MADISON (AP) – University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has ordered immediate cost-saving moves after Gov. Scott Walker announced he wants to slash the system’s funding.

The Republican governor is grappling with a $2 billion deficit in the next state budget. He said the spending plan he’ll present next week will cut $300 million from the system but hand it more independence.

Cross sent a memo Wednesday to all employees involved in system administration ordering immediate moratoriums on hiring non-essential state-funded positions, out-of-state travel, raises and promotions.

He told Wisconsin Public Radio on Thursday he doesn’t see how the campuses can absorb the cut without layoffs. Cross also said he’s frustrated with Walker’s comments that UW faculty should do more work, saying no one realizes the time professors put in.

MADISON (AP) – U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is asking that the lead investigator probing allegations of opiate over prescription and retaliatory practices at a VA hospital in Tomah take into account the testimony of whistleblowers.

In a letter Thursday, Baldwin asked that VA Under Secretary Carolyn Clancy consider concerns not addressed in an earlier report. Baldwin says an investigation published in March did not mention opiate prescribing practices or the death of a 35-year-old Marine who died of an overdose in the inpatient care unit.

Baldwin also suggests that Clancy implement a national system for VA hospitals that prescribe opiates. Baldwin says the Tomah VA Chief of Staff David Houlihan has been suspended pending further investigation.

She further suggests Clancy consider a criminal investigation into those involved in the Marine’s death.

MADISON (AP) – A Wisconsin appeals court says a state requirement that singers in the state Capitol obtain a permit was unconstitutional.

The case involves Michael Crute, who was cited for joining in a daily sing-along protest in the Capitol rotunda in July 2013. State rules then prohibited anyone from participating in or watching an unpermitted event in state buildings.

Crute argued the regulations violated his free speech rights. A Madison judge tossed out his ticket in February. The 4th District Court of Appeals upheld that decision on Thursday, ruling the regulations weren’t narrowly written to further a significant state interest.

The state and the American Civil Liberties Union reached a settlement in October 2013 allowing unpermitted events at the Capitol.

A state Justice Department spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to an email message.

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MADISON – Ten state lawmakers – both Republicans and Democrats – will hold a press conference Thursday morning at the state capitol to ask Gov. Scott Walker to reconsider his rejection of the Kenosha casino project.

The legislators, including Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca and State Rep. Jeff Mursau, R-Crivitz, made the same request in a letter to the governor Wednesday. But Walker says he can’t and won’t reconsider his decision unless the Menominee tribe submits a new proposal.

The Menominee wanted to partner with Hard Rock International to build an $800 million casino on an old race track in Kenosha. The governor rejected the plans last Friday after about a year and a half of consideration.

Walker says the project could significantly impact the state budget, but some state lawmakers and the Menominee tribe have another view.

FOX 11’s Andrew LaCombe is in Madison today and will have balanced coverage tonight on FOX 11 News at Five.