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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.

One man was caught in his mother's apartment in Milwaukee.

The other was in Arkansas.

Both men argued there were problems with how the police used their phones to find them.

The Supreme Court in each case said police were within their rights.

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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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The man was arrested last week.

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A spokeswoman for Trek Bicycles says its full page newspaper advertisement complies with Wisconsin law and is constitutionally protected free speech.

The Wisconsin Republican Party on Tuesday filed a complaint with the state elections board saying the ad that ran Sunday in Madison and Milwaukee newspapers was an illegal campaign contribution to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke.

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He escaped on foot with the money.

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The man is described as being six feet tall with short blond hair.

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