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MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled today on whether a prior sexual relationship can be considered in rape cases.
A Milwaukee man found guilty of rape challenged his conviction.
That's because the trial court refused to allow evidence that the man previously had consenual sex with the woman.
The Supreme Court decided it was proper to exclude that information at his trial under Wisconsin's rape shield law.
The court on Tuesday reversed an appeals court ruling that found in favor of the Milwaukee man.
The Supreme Court sent the case back to the appeals court to rule on other issues raised in the case.
The man is serving a 10 year sentence for second degree sexual assault.
(Copyright 2014 Associated Press - All Rights Reserved)
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GREEN BAY - A federal judge in Green Bay throws out a lawsuit challenging Obamacare.
U. S. Senator Ron Johnson filed the lawsuit in January.
The Wisconsin republican argued members of congress received special treatment under the affordable care act -- in the form of subsidies.
Johnson claimed those regulations forced him to participate in something he believed was illegal.
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MUNISING, MI - State police are asking for public help in their investigation of the shooting death of a 47-year-old man following a police chase in the Upper Peninsula.
First Lt. Gregory Cunningham said Monday that investigators want to talk with anyone who came into contact with Timothy Mitchell on July 14, the day he died.
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MINOCQUA - One person is in the hospital after getting hit by a car on Highway 51 in Minocqua Tuesday.
The person was eventually airlifted to St Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield.
It happened around 3 p.m. just north of the north loop in Minocqua.
50-year-old Pennae Biersach from Forest, Wisconsin was originally sent to Howard Young Medical Center after the crash.
There is no word on Biersach's condition.
Police are still investigating the crash.
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MERRILL - The Merrill Police Department wants you to keep your car doors locked. That's because a number of cars were broken into this weekend. There were also a few attempted burglaries.
All of the break ins happened in the neighborhoods north and east of the middle school in Merrill.
The Merrill Police Chief says this isn't unusual for this time of the year.
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WAUSAU - Wausau police say a drunken 12-year-old boy was taken to a hospital and kept overnight.
Lt. Mark Pankow says police were called to a Wausau home Saturday night after a neighbor of the boy reported he was intoxicated.
Pankow says a blood test at the hospital determined the boy's blood-alcohol level was ``well over'' the legal limit to drive, which is 0.08 percent in Wisconsin.
Pankow says the boy admitted drinking vodka, and told police he drinks alcohol ``about every three days or so.''
Investigators found empty alcohol containers in the boy's room. The boy was taken to a juvenile shelter after being released from the hospital.
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EAGLE RIVER - One in four Americans will need to perform CPR on someone. But 70% of those people feel helpless because they don't know what to do, according to the American Heart Association. Joe Hanson, a man who spends his summers in Eagle River, spent more than 45 years in the cardiovascular medical device industry. Over time he saw devices improve. But one thing that didn't was the survival rate of people who suffer from sudden cardiac arrest.
"2005, 2010 area, the American Heart Association and others started to look at the reason for that low survivability. And what they found was that people really hesitated to do CPR," Hanson explained.
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