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  1. Fire Department to review procedures after Halloween night beating Fire Department to review procedures after Halloween night beating
    Paramedics didn't know the man they were responding to had been assaulted.
    Nov 27, 2009 | 7:00 pm | Loading…
  2. Record number of new Dane County judges took bench this year Record number of new Dane County judges took bench this year
    Since 2007, eight of Dane County's 17 judicial branches have changed hands as a generation of judges has retired. The five who took the bench this year were the highest number in a single year in Dane County history.
    Nov 27, 2009 | 7:30 am
  3. After Supreme Court clerkship, UW grad returns to teach at law school After Supreme Court clerkship, UW grad returns to teach at law school
    Cecelia Klingele was the first UW-Madison Law School graduate in more than 60 years to make it to the U.S. high court's inner chambers.
    Nov 27, 2009 | 7:00 am | Loading…
Planned Parenthood to open new Madison location
Planned Parenthood will open its newest Madison location Tuesday at a site one official said will give it a much-higher profile.The center, on the city's South Side at 2222 S. Park St., will be housed in the new Urban League of Greater Madison building that is part of the redevelopment of Vi…
Air quality up, but water quality down, report says
Air quality up, but water quality down, report says
Dane County and Madison residents are breathing easier, but muddying the waters, according to a new report from the local public health department.
Milwaukee police arrest man for 2 homicides
Milwaukee police have arrested a 26-year-old man for two homicides. In a news release, Milwaukee police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz says two masked suspects robbed a Burger King at about 5 p.m. Friday. Officers Shawn Burger and William Feely attempted to talk to a 26-year-old who was runnin…

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Odd Wisconsin: Profanities considered worse than artillery in Appleton's past
Odd Wisconsin: Profanities considered worse than artillery in Appleton's past
Many communities once had laws that strike us today as odd. In Appleton's case, it isn't the city ordinances that seem strange so much as the relative consequences of breaking them. Every 10 years the common council revised the town's laws. They paid special attention to morality in the 1877…

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