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Wisconsin

# wisconsin - Monday 27 May, 2013

Man on a scooter wearing a thong and cape ‘breaking no law’

Complaints were raised in Madison, Wisconsin after ‘Thong Cape Scooter Man’ (as he’s become known) rode past a school,

# wisconsin - Wednesday 7 November, 2012

Paul Ryan to remain as chair of House Budget committee

The defeated vice-presidential nominee intends to stay on as the Republicans’ leading fiscal spokesman.

Wisconsin Democrat to become first openly gay member of Senate

Tammy Baldwin is projected to defeat her Republican rival Tommy Thompson, becoming the Senate’s first openly gay member.

# wisconsin - Monday 5 November, 2012

The final countdown: Obama and Romney in last push for votes

The candidates are criss-crossing the key battleground states with just hours to go before the US decides on Obama or Romney.

# wisconsin - Monday 22 October, 2012

Wisconsin man opens fire at salon, killing three

Radcliffe Franklin Haughton’s wife worked at the salon. Four people were injured during the rampage.

# wisconsin - Sunday 21 October, 2012

Seven people wounded in shooting at Milwaukee shopping mall

Authorities are still looking for the gunman responsible for morning shootings that injured at least seven people.

# wisconsin - Thursday 11 October, 2012

US politician criticised for saying “some girls rape easy”

Republican representative for Wisconsin Roger Rivard said his father had warned him that women could agree to sex but then later claim it was not consensual.

# wisconsin - Friday 17 August, 2012

Mitt Romney says he paid 13 per cent tax rate

The average effective federal tax rate for American taxpayers is 11 per cent.

# wisconsin - Monday 13 August, 2012

Obama: Paul Ryan is the “ideological leader” of Republicans

Speaking about Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick for the first time, Obama praised Ryan as a decent family man.

# wisconsin - Saturday 11 August, 2012

Romney announces Irish-American congressman Ryan as VP pick

Wisconsin representative Paul Ryan, 42, led the Republican charge in last year’s talks on raising the US’s legal debt ceiling.

# wisconsin - Monday 6 August, 2012

Gunman in Sikh temple attack was a white supremacist

Wade Michael Page has been described as a “frustrated neo-Nazi”.

Sikhs express shock after six killed in shooting at Wisconsin temple Temple Shooting This post contains images

Sikhs express shock after six killed in shooting at Wisconsin temple

Sikh leaders have suggested that American Muslims may have been the intended target of the mass shooting.

The 9 at 9: Monday

The nine stories you need to know this morning.

# wisconsin - Sunday 5 August, 2012

The Evening Fix: Sunday

Things we learned, loved and shared today.

7 people dead in shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin

The suspected gunman is among the dead at the mass shooting at the temple.

# wisconsin - Tuesday 29 May, 2012

From The Daily Edge Lucky cow gets a full spinal massage Laughing Cow This post contains videos

Lucky cow gets a full spinal massage

Massages, concerts and water beds are the latest innovations to hit the dairy industry. For the cows… not the farmers.

# wisconsin - Friday 11 May, 2012

From The Daily Edge In photos: Pier collapses under teenagers before school prom Early Bath This post contains images

In photos: Pier collapses under teenagers before school prom

Nobody was hurt – but they got very, very wet.

# wisconsin - Wednesday 4 April, 2012

Woman, 80, lands plane after pilot husband suffers fatal heart attack

Helen Collins, 80, landed the plane on one engine in Wisconsin after her husband died from a sudden heart attack while flying.

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Romney sweeps three more primaries in US presidential race

The Republican frontrunner has been ignoring his opponent Rick Santorum to focus on the battle with President Barack Obama.

# wisconsin - Wednesday 8 February, 2012

From The Daily Edge Meet the 12-year-old boy who saved his granny from losing her house… Boy Wonder

Meet the 12-year-old boy who saved his granny from losing her house…

Janice Sparhawk, 72, had fallen behind on her mortgage. So her grandson Noah sprang into action.

# wisconsin - Monday 9 January, 2012

From The Daily Edge Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop arrested in Wisconsin Bizarre

# wisconsin - Monday 28 March, 2011

‘Fleeing’ Democratic politicians to return to suspended Indiana House

Dozens of members of Indiana’s state congress return to duty, ending a weeks-long standoff over Republican anti-union bills.

# wisconsin - Thursday 17 February, 2011

Police called in after 14 Democrat state senators dodge vote

Republicans in Wisconsin’s state senate wanted to stop workers from having collective bargaining rights. Democrats fled.

# wisconsin - Tuesday 30 November, 2010

High school siege ends after student shoots himself

A Wisconsin student (15) held 23 classmates and a teacher hostage for hours before turning his gun on himself.