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Ryan backs Trump on ending health insurance subsidiesSubmitted: 10/16/2017
MADISON - House Speaker Paul Ryan says he does not want to "shovel more money at a failing program" to replace federal subsidies that President Donald Trump is eliminating that help make health insurance more affordable.

Ryan told reporters Monday that he supports the president's decision last week to end the subsidies. In Ryan's home state of Wisconsin the loss of the subsidies is projected to result in premiums increasing 36 percent for the average insurance plan sold through the federal exchange.

Ryan says the answer is to pass comprehensive health care reform, something Republicans in Congress have not been able to do despite promising they would during the 2016 campaign.

Ryan says the subsidies Trump is eliminating were unconstitutional and he's glad Trump is ending them.

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Student leaders want input on UW merger plansSubmitted: 10/16/2017

EAU CLAIRE - Student leaders at the University of Wisconsin's 26 campuses are pressing regents to include their input on plans to merge two-year schools with four-year campuses.

The UW System Student Representatives released a statement requesting more student inclusion in announcements like the merger plans.

The statewide group is composed of student body presidents and vice presidents from each of the system's campuses.The Board of Regents has proposed merging University of Wisconsin Colleges with four-year University of Wisconsin institutions.

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One killed when car plunges into water at marina in Door CountySubmitted: 10/16/2017

DOOR COUNTY - One woman died and another survived after their car landed in the water at the Sister Bay Marina.

Door County sheriff's deputies say they got a call about 10 p.m. Saturday about a vehicle that was in the water near the boat launch. Deputies arrived and found a Hyundai submerged in the water.

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Burial sites bill due for committee voteSubmitted: 10/16/2017

MADISON - A Wisconsin legislative committee is set to vote on a bill that would require the state historical director to consider evidence for adding land to the state's burial sites catalog.

Catalog inclusion means developers need a permit from the Wisconsin Historical Society director.

Republicans introduced a bill in 2015 that would have allowed quarry owners to excavate Ho-Chunk Nation burial mounds to prove human remains are buried there.

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UW Alumni are oldest victims of California wildfiresSubmitted: 10/13/2017

NAPA, CA - Charles Rippey, 100, and his wife, Sara, 98, are the oldest victims of the wine country wildfires identified so far.

Their bodies were found by one of their sons who had made his way past security and found the home in Napa where they had lived for 35 years completely gone. Only two blackened metal chairs, a porcelain tea set of white and soft washes of blue and other small remnants remained to testify to the couple's long life together.

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Daughter of state lawmaker accused of providing drugs to pregnant woman who diedSubmitted: 10/12/2017

GREEN BAY - Investigators say the daughter of a Wisconsin legislator who's worked to stem the opioid epidemic provided the drugs that caused the death of a pregnant woman.

Brown County sheriff's officials said Thursday they are recommending a long list of charges against 28 year old Cassandra Nygren and her boyfriend, Shawn Gray, including first-degree reckless homicide by delivering drugs.

The two could appear in court later Thursday. They've not yet been formally charged.

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Hearing planned on bill to forbid sanctuary citiesSubmitted: 10/12/2017

MADISON - A Republican proposal would prohibit sanctuary cities for immigrants in Wisconsin.

Opponents of the plan headed for the state capitol.

That's because a Senate committee holds a hearing on the measure Thursday.

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Judge in Dane County blocks permits for eight high-capacity wellsSubmitted: 10/12/2017

MADISON - A judge in Dane County blocks permits issued to businesses for eight high-capacity wells.

She made the decision based on the constitutional protection of Wisconsin waterways.

The judge issued a decision Wednesday in a case brought by the conservation group Clean Wisconsin.

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