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Bipartisan bill would require restaurants offering maple syrup serve the real thing

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Menomonie City Council approves a summer full of events

An employee, left, checks on necessary documents as people line up to apply for Real ID at a Real ID Supercenter in downtown Chicago, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Homeland Security chief says travelers with no REAL ID can fly for now, but with likely extra steps

FILE - This 2009 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a large group of Gram-negative Salmonella typhimurium bacteria that had been isolated from a pure culture. (Janice Haney Carr/CDC via AP, File)

New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says

A bird flies above Alcatraz Island on Sunday, May 4, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

The Latest: Trump orders crumbling Alcatraz prison to be rebuilt and reopened

Donovan Paddock speaks during an observance of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples Day (MMIP) at the Indigenous Cultural Center at Scottsdale Community College, Friday, May 2, 2025, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Indigenous people raise awareness about their missing and murdered

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs

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School Crossings: Support Schools in the State Budget

Republican county leader Josh Schoemann enters Wisconsin governor's race

President Donald Trump arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Judge blocks Trump executive order targeting elite law firm, a blow to his retribution campaign

FILE - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers gives the annual State of the State address Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin governor says he's not afraid after Trump official suggests possible arrest

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Name released in fatal Dunn County motorcycle accident

President Donald Trump waves after speaking about investing in America in the Cross Hall of the White House, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz is out in first major shakeup

FILE - A white mother walks with her son past a group of African American students arriving for classes at formerly all-white Boothville Venice High School on Monday, Sept. 12, 1966 as racial barriers fell in Plaquemines Parish. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, file)

The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall

FILE - A pair of shoppers arrive at a Kohl's, Nov. 26, 2021, in Everett, Mass. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, file)

Kohl's ousts CEO Buchanan after investigation into some vendor transactions

President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Lovefest or Cabinet meeting? For Donald Trump, it's both

A sign is posted outside Judge Hannah Dugan courtroom at the Milwaukee County courthouse, on Friday, April 25, 2025 in Milwaukee. (Scott Bauer via AP)

Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2012, file photo, a man walks by the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Same candidate, two parties. A Wisconsin lawsuit aims to bring back fusion voting

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Californian connected to Wisconsin school shooter barred from owning guns for 3 years

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Menomonie School Board reorganization and special meeting for 4/28/2025

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