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Seven unions representing teachers and other public workers in Wisconsin have filed a lawsuit attempting to end the state’s near-total ban on collective bargaining for most public employees. Known as Act 10, the 2011 law was the signature accomplishment of… Source: LacrosseTribune.com

Vernon County Sheriff Roy Torgerson reports that early Sunday morning, November 26,2023, at approximately 4:30 AM, the Sheriff’s Office 9-1-1 Dispatch Center received areport of vandalism in the village of Readstown. Deputies responded and found recentgraffiti spray-painted on the Church of Christ building and the US Highway 14 bridgeover the Kickapoo River. A small window was also broken at the Church of Christ.Damage was later discovered at the Town of Kickapoo and Village of ReadstownAdvancement Association building, in Readstown’s Tourist Park.At approximately 5:30 AM, deputies located two male juveniles believed responsible forthe damage on the east side of the village. The investigation continued and bothjuveniles, a 13-year-old from rural Viola,

Vernon County Sheriff Roy Torgerson reports the Sheriff’s Office 9-1-1 Dispatch Centerreceived a report of a missing person early Friday morning, November 24, 2023, atapproximately 1:30 AM, in rural Hillsboro, WI.At approximately 1:00 AM, a 65-year-old male with a memory-related medicalcondition, that would meet the criteria of a Silver Alert, had wandered away from aresidence on Pacl Lane, in the town of Greenwood, where he was visiting family forThanksgiving.The deputy sheriff who arrived at the scene noted a temperature of eighteen degreesFahrenheit and it was unknown if the missing person’s clothing was adequate for theweather. The Hillsboro Fire Department and Hillsboro Area Ambulance were dispatchedto the scene to assist with

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University of Minnesota Duluth senior defensive lineman Reed Ryan has died of a genetic heart condition. Ryan died Tuesday at a Duluth hospital. His obituary said the 22-year-old went into cardiac arrest one week earlier following a football team workout… Source: LacrosseTribune.com