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>>Regents Committee Discusses UW-Whitewater Faculty Dismissal (Madison, WI)  —  A committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is meeting today (Tuesday) to discuss firing a faculty member.  The instructor’s name hasn’t been released, but he or she teachers at U-W-Whitewater.  No details about the alleged offense have been made public.  Spokespersons for the school and the U-W System offered no immediate comment Monday.  The discussion will be conducted behind closed doors.   >>Driver Hurt In Crash Involved In Additional Altercations (Brodhead, WI)  —  Brodhead Police say a 21-year-old man hospitalized with life-threatening injuries may have been involved in several altercations before a Monday traffic accident.  Witnesses say

>> (Viroqua, WI)  —  A Vernon County judge has sentenced a Readstown man to 30 years in prison for repeatedly stabbing a woman.  A Sheriff’s Department investigator says Shayne Swadley told them he stabbed the 45-year-old victim because he “wanted to see what it felt like to kill someone.”  Christine Mazilauskas suffered stab wounds in her De Soto home in the May 2016 incident.  Investigators say alcohol and meth use were possible factors in the crime.  The Vernon County prosecutor had actually suggested a shorter prison sentence than the judge ordered. Source: WRJC.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

The proposed Foxconn plant in Racine County could pump up to seven million gallons of water from Lake Michigan each day for operations at a plant it plans to build in Mount Pleasant. Racine city officials have filed what is called a “straddling community water diversion” application on behalf of the village of Mount Pleasant. […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

Find out what Wisconsin Rapids-area residents are reporting in their neighborhoods.        Source: WisconsinRapidsDailyTribune.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

One person is dead and two are behind bars in a heroin overdose death in Forest County, according to a press release from the sheriff’s department.  Source: WAOW.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]