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For the second straight season, Wisconsin big man Ethan Happ was among 20 members named to the watch list for the 2018 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award.  He was named to the final five candidates for last year’s award. The Milan, Illinois, native looks to expand on his All-America sophomore campaign, during which […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

The Green Bay Packers are teaming with Microsoft in hopes of growing the economy in northeast Wisconsin. They’re creating TitletownTech, a three-part initiative to help entrepreneurs and existing companies. They’ll be setting up an accelerator program, innovation lab, and venture capital fund. They’ll be run out of new building that will be going up in […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

Formal charges have been filed against the daughter of a state Representative in the drug overdose death of 31-year-old Jennifer Skeen, who was pregnant at the time. Cassandra Nygren, daughter of State Representative John Nygren, made her court appearance in Brown County court Thursday, and was charged with 10 counts, which included two felony counts […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A retired soldier has announced a bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Ron Kind next year. Republican Steve Toft of Osseo announced his candidacy in a news release on Friday. He planned news conferences in Eau Claire and La Crosse later in the day to discuss his plans with reporters. Toft served 32 years in the U.S. Army. He retired last year. Kind, a La Crosse Democrat, has represented western Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District since 1997. A voicemail left at Kind’s campaign headquarters on Friday wasn’t immediately returned. Source: WRJC.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Julian Thomas, 41, Madison, Wis., was found guilty today of armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during that crime of violence.  The jury reached its verdict after 10 hours of deliberation following two days of testimony in federal court in Madison. The evidence presented at trial showed that Thomas and James Thompson robbed People’s Community Bank in Plain, Wis., on October 7, 2014.  Thompson, 29, also of Madison, pleaded guilty in federal court on October 6 to committing the bank robbery and doing so by brandishing a firearm.  He testified during the trial about