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Packers shareholders meeting at Lambeau FieldSubmitted: 07/24/2014
GREEN BAY - The only publicly owned team in U.S. professional sports is holding its annual shareholders meeting.

The Green Bay Packers are expecting more than 12,000 shareholders Thursday for the meeting at Lambeau Field. The Packers have about 364,000 owners.

The meeting is held in the open bowl of Lambeau. Shareholders will vote for three nominees to the board of directors, Associated Banc-Corp CEO Philip Flynn, Schreiber Foods CEO Michael Haddad and University of Wisconsin-Madison's Dr. Elizabeth Trowbridge.

Shareholders can tour the new Packers Pro Shop and the re-landscaped Harlan Plaza.


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Wisconsin Supreme Court rules cell phones can be used to track suspectsSubmitted: 07/24/2014

MADISON - Many people carry a tracking device everywhere they go, without realizing it.

Now the Wisconsin Supreme Court has sided with police in two separate cases where cellphone data was used to track suspects.

The court's rulings Thursday came in a pair of homicide cases in Milwaukee and Kenosha counties.

Police in both cases used data from the suspects' cellphone providers to find them.

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Supreme Court rules against convicted conspirator of shooting in Stevens PointSubmitted: 07/24/2014

MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled against a man convicted for his role in plotting to kill his lover's husband.

The court said Thursday that Carlos Cummings did not invoke his right to remain silent when he told police during an interrogation to ``take me to my cell.''

A state appeals court last year upheld Cummings' conviction, saying his comment about wanting to be put in a cell was unclear.

The Supreme Court agreed. It also ruled that Cummings' 24-year prison sentence was not unduly harsh.

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50 immigrant children placed in WisconsinSubmitted: 07/24/2014

MILWAUKEE - The federal office that helps refugees settle in the United States has placed 50 unaccompanied children in Wisconsin.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement released a state-by-state breakdown Thursday showing where children had been placed. It did not provide specifics on their locations.

The office says it tries to place children with a parent, relative or family friend when possible.

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Unemployment up in Wisconsin's largest citiesSubmitted: 07/23/2014

MADISON - Unemployment is up in all of Wisconsin's largest cities and most counties.

The state Department of Workforce Development reported Wednesday that unemployment rates in June increased in all of the state's 32 largest cities. Unemployment rates went up in 61 of 72 counties and remained unchanged in the other 11.

Wisconsin's monthly unemployment rate in June was 5.7 percent, unchanged from May.

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Fourth suspect at large in interstate shootingSubmitted: 07/23/2014

MILWAUKEE - Authorities are looking for a fourth suspect in a shooting on an interstate in Milwaukee County.

Sheriff David Clarke says people in a minivan and another vehicle were shooting at each other in a ``running gun battle'' on Interstate 43 Tuesday afternoon. One vehicle struck the other and the minivan spun into the ditch near Fox Point. Three people in the van were arrested. Authorities say a fourth person left the scene.

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Packers coach gets special recognitionSubmitted: 07/23/2014

ASHWAUBENON - The Lambeau Field area boasts Lombardi Avenue, Brett Favre Pass and Donald Driver Way.

Now, Packers coach Mike McCarthy will get his own street name near Lambeau Field.

The Ashwaubenon Village Board voted last night to change part of Potts Avenue to Mike McCarthy Way.

The village will work with the Packers to cover the costs of the address changes.

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Man claims he robbed bank to pay off court obligationsSubmitted: 07/23/2014

RICE LAKE - A northern Wisconsin man probably could have found a better way to pay his court obligations.

The 19-year-old Rice Lake man told police he robbed a local bank to get money for court obligations...so he wouldn't go to jail.

The man was arrested last week.

He had been spotted running from the Sterling Bank in Rice Lake.

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