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LOCAL NEWS
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SUPERIOR - An explosion with multiple injuries was reported at the Calumet Oil Refinery in Superior Thursday morning, according to the Superior Fire Department.
Smoke was seen billowing from the refinery just after 10 a.m.
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MERRILL - It appears a Merrill man accused of killing his father might not go to trial.
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EAGLE RIVER - An Eagle River man pleaded not guilty to multiple drug related charges.
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PORTAGE COUNTY - UPDATE 3:05PM: Police arrested a shooting suspect in Plover this afternoon.
The Portage County Sheriff's Office sent out an alert for Alec Varny, 18, early this morning. Police says Varney shot two people and stabbed a third.
Varney was found driving in Plover. He was taken into custody with incident after he was pulled over.
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REGIONAL NEWS
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NORRISTOWN, PA - Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
A jury outside Philadelphia convicted the "Cosby Show" star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday. The guilty verdict came less than a year after another jury deadlocked on the charges.
Cosby was charged with violating Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. His lawyer called Constand a "con artist" who leveled false accusations against Cosby so she could sue him.
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NORMAL, IL - Over the last year, the Red Cross responded to a record number of hurricanes, floods, mudslides, and other natural disasters.
But the organization says it's helped more people from single-family house fires than all other disasters combined.
Red cross supporters got together in Illinois last night for the 25th annual Evening of Stars.
Aaron Rodgers headlined the event.
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MACKINAW CITY, MI - Officials say underwater photos show two electric cables were severed in what Michigan's attorney general says was a tugboat anchor strike in the waterway that connects Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
An investigative team led by the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday a remotely controlled vehicle had obtained images of the damage site beneath the Straits of Mackinac. The two severed cables were among six owned by American Transmission Co. that are stretched along the lake floor.
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MILWAUKEE - Vice President Mike Pence plans to talk about the Republican tax overhaul during a visit to Milwaukee Wednesday afternoon.
The event is sponsored by a group created to promote President Donald Trump's policies.
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