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- Tonight on Newswatch 12:
We'll update you on a major explosion and fire at an oil refinery in Superior which has caused multiple injuries and forced evacuations.
We follow the tour of a possible sulfur mine site in the Town of Lynne with concerned citizens in the area.
And we'll take you live to Lambeau Field in Green Bay where the Packers await tonight's draft along with all the other NFL teams.
We'll bring you all this and more tonight on Newswatch 12 - news from where you live.
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EAGLE RIVER - An Eagle River man pleaded not guilty to multiple drug related charges.
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NORRISTOWN, PA - Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
A jury outside Philadelphia convicted the "Cosby Show" star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday. The guilty verdict came less than a year after another jury deadlocked on the charges.
Cosby was charged with violating Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. His lawyer called Constand a "con artist" who leveled false accusations against Cosby so she could sue him.
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MERRILL - It appears a Merrill man accused of killing his father might not go to trial.
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SUPERIOR - An explosion with multiple injuries was reported at the Calumet Oil Refinery in Superior Thursday morning, according to the Superior Fire Department.
Smoke was seen billowing from the refinery just after 10 a.m.
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RHINELANDER - DNA evidence from a pair of sweatpants could link a Northwoods man to a violent sexual assault. Prosecutors offered up some of that evidence against Richard Loppnow in Oneida County court on Wednesday morning.
The victim accuses Loppnow, 38, of forcing her into several sexual activities twice on his property south of Eagle River back on October 28 and 29th of 2017.
The criminal complaint shows the first assault happened in a building on Loppnow's property. Testimony revealed claims that Loppnow held a gun to the victim's head.
"[Loppnow was] advising that she could either be humiliated or shot in the head," Oneida County Detective Sergeant Ryan Rossing testified. "She chose to be humiliated due to not wanting to be harmed."
After later moving to a mobile home trailer on the property, the victim claims Loppnow pointed a sawed-off shotgun or handgun to her head and gave her several options.
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RHINELANDER - Interim Rhinelander City Administrator Keith Kost turned in his resignation Wednesday to take effect immediately.
Kost took over the position in February 2017 after former administrator Kristina Aschenbrenner was fired in August 2016.
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