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Police investigating headless chickens in county parks

Submitted: 01/30/2015

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MILWAUKEE - Authorities are investigating reports of beheaded chickens and roosters found in Milwaukee County parks.

The South Milwaukee Police Department investigated a report of a headless rooster found near tea candles at Grant Park.

The station says the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office investigated another chicken that was found with its head cut off at Bender Park, but the scene did not include candles there, just the beheaded chicken.

Investigators believe whoever is chopping the heads off of fowl may be conducting some kind of a sacrificial ritual.

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New EPA power plant plan sparks controversy

Submitted: 01/30/2015

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WISCONSIN - A new study from a conservative-leaning Madison-based think tank predicts the EPA carbon emission proposal would lead to higher energy prices. Opponents of the proposal will use the study to show how much the plan could cost Wisconsinites, but clean air advocates disagree.

Submitted: 01/30/2015

JANESVILLE - Mitt Romney is scheduled to return to Wisconsin this spring, but he won't come back as a Republican candidate for president.

Romney said Friday he will not run for president in 2016.

The business group Forward Janesville says Romney will keynote its annual dinner on April 7 in Janesville, hometown of his former running mate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan.

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MADISON - The flu gets the blame for the deaths of three more children in Wisconsin.

That brings the total number of pediatric deaths to five.

The latest report from the state Department of Health Services shows this flu season is second only to 2009, when the swine flu caused the deaths of six children.

In the U.S. this season, Wisconsin is behind only Texas with seven pediatric deaths.

Submitted: 01/30/2015

DETROIT - A judge has dismissed the last charge against a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a raid and says she's willing to be the ``scapegoat'' if critics don't like the result.

Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway granted the prosecutor's request Friday to drop a misdemeanor against Joseph Weekley.

Submitted: 01/29/2015

MADISON - U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is asking that the lead investigator probing allegations of opiate over prescription and retaliatory practices at a VA hospital in Tomah take into account the testimony of whistleblowers.

In a letter Thursday, Baldwin asked that VA Under Secretary Carolyn Clancy consider concerns not addressed in an earlier report. Baldwin says an investigation published in March was not thorough in its reporting of opiate-prescribing practices.

Baldwin had recieved the report in 2014, but did not start advocating for the issue until an investigative journalism piece showed a 35-year-old Marine died of an overdose in the inpatient care unit.

Submitted: 01/29/2015

MADISON - Members of the Menominee Tribe, southeastern Wisconsin union workers and a bipartisan group of state lawmakers are urging Gov. Scott Walker to reconsider his rejection of a new casino in Kenosha.

Walker rejected the tribe's proposal last week and reiterated on Wednesday that he would not change his mind.

But advocates for the project gathered at the Capitol Thursday to say Walker can still change his mind by the Feb. 19 deadline.

Walker says he can't reverse his decision even if he wanted to.

But Kenosha casino backers say the Bureau of Indian Affairs would be willing to let Walker change his mind. A spokeswoman for BIA did not immediately return a message asking if Walker could reverse course.

Submitted: 01/29/2015

MADISON - The Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Senate is renewing his call for passage of a right-to-work bill.

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