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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a 14-year-old boy on a Lake Superior Chippewa reservation in northern Wisconsin, its tribal chairman said Thursday. Source: LacrosseTribune.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

Following the adoption of several Rural Wisconsin Initiative health care bills in the budget, legislators have introduced four bills to boost the state’s workforce. One of the bills proposed is authored by 50th Assembly District Representative Ed Brooks. LRB 2330 would have the creation of rural opportunity zone, which would include a repayment incentive of up to $25,000 or 40% of a new resident’s student loans, provided the new resident maintains a full time job, avoids public assistance, has a post-secondary degree, and settles in a county that fits the Federal OMB’s definition of rural. Brooks said maintaining the current population alone is not enough to reverse the population stagnation

U.S. House Democrat Mark Pocan of Madison is recovering after he had triple bypass heart surgery on Wednesday. The Congressman’s office called it a preemptive measure designed to prevent a future cardiac issue. The 53-year-old Pocan had the operation at a hospital in Madison. His spokesman said the operation went well, but it’s not known […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

A 14-year-old boy has died following an officer-involved shooting on a northern Wisconsin reservation. According to a release from the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office, officers were called to the Odanah community on the Bad River Chippewa Reservation shortly after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday for a report of a male walking around carrying a knife. Shots were […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding eligible Private NonProfit (PNP) organizations in Wisconsin of the Dec. 6 deadline to submit disaster loan applications for physical damages caused by severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides, and mudslides on July 19 – 23, 2017. PNPs located in the following counties are eligible to apply: Buffalo, Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Jackson, La Crosse, Lafayette, Monroe, Richland, Trempealeau and Vernon in Wisconsin are eligible to apply. Certain Private NonProfit organizations (PNP) that do not provide critical services of a governmental nature may be eligible to apply for low-interest rate disaster loans. Examples of eligible non-critical PNP organizations include, but are not limited to, food