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Alec J. Varney, charged with shooting of two people and stabbing of a third, pleaded not guilty in Portage County Circuit Court on Tuesday.        Source: WisconsinRapidsDailyTribune.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities are looking for two people suspected in a shooting in northwestern Wisconsin. Source: LacrosseTribune.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

Wisconsin’s backlog of untested sexual assault kits is no more. Attorney General Brad Schimel says the remaining kits were sent for testing on Tuesday. “When I took office in 2015, I inherited more than 6,000 sexual assault evidence kits that had never been submitted for testing, some of them dating back to the 1980s.” Schimel […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

Two years ago Owen Hamilton helped lead Prescott to a sectional championship victory over Mauston.  Now he will look to help the Wisconsin Badgers.  Hamilton is transfering from Northern Illinois to play for the Badgers.  Hamilton averaged only 1.9 points per game as a freshman for the Huskies but will have 3 years of eligibility for the Badgers.  Malik Osborne (formerly of Rice) turned down the Badgers to play for Florida State. Source: WRJC.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

Rep. Ed Brooks will be giving his time as well as his endorsement to Tony Kurtz’s campaign for the State Assembly this year. The outgoing representative announced this week that he will be serving as the campaign’s treasurer. “My commitment to the 50th district isn’t ending just because I’m stepping aside;” said Brooks. “I’ve worked hard over the last ten years to give my neighbors a strong voice in the legislature, and Tony has my full support because I know that he’ll be an active, engaged voice for the people in Madison.” Kurtz, an organic farmer who served 20 years in the Army as a helicopter pilot, was grateful to