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Veteran Wisconsin GOP Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner says he’ll retire

WASHINGTON — Veteran Wisconsin Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner announced his retirement from Congress on Wednesday, making the former House Judiciary Committee chairman the 15th GOP lawmaker to say he will step aside before next year’s elections. Sensenbrenner, 76, was first elected in 1978 and is the second-longest serving current member...
Mt. Pleasant woman helped organize girls softball

As Title IX was leveling the playing field for girls in athletics, Florence DeSimone was doing her part for equality in athletics in Mt. Pleasant by helping to organize a softball league for girls in the 1970s. “She played softball, and so did her sister and her daughters,” said her...
Trump administration switches off rule for thriftier light bulbs

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration turned its deregulatory focus Wednesday to light bulbs, scrapping a rule that would have phased out less energy efficient incandescent bulbs. The move slows a years-long push by Congress and past administrations to switch Americans to LED bulbs and other lighting using less electricity. President...
State prison at Retreat could close

Pennsylvania, which has shuttered state prisons in Hempfield, Pittsburgh and Cresson over the last six years, may be on the verge of closing yet another massive state lock-up. Faced with a $140 million budget deficit and declining prison population, Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel has proposed closing the State...
Ohio students accused of serving crepes tainted with body fluids face charges

POWELL, Ohio — Seven Ohio middle school students accused of being involved in serving teachers crepes tainted with bodily fluids face juvenile felony charges. The Columbus Dispatch reports several teachers at Olentangy Hyatts Middle School in Powell ate crepes reportedly laced with semen and urine during a cooking class May...
Trump offers altered hurricane chart, appearing to double down on ‘Alabama’ warningVideo

President Trump presented a doctored Hurricane Dorian map to possibly justify the fact he had warned that the state of Alabama was in direct path of the storm. The President of the United States altered a National Hurricane Center map with a sharpie to falsely extend the official forecast toward...
Woman sexually assaulted at Stanford reveals her identityVideo

SAN FRANCISCO — The woman who read a searing statement at the sentencing of the college swimmer who sexually assaulted her at Stanford University— causing a public outcry that led to the judge in the case being recalled— has revealed her identity. For years, Chanel Miller was known in legal...
Local, state entities raising money ahead of 2020 census

Organizations across the state are ramping up efforts to ensure a complete count during the 2020 census, and a $1 million award could help outreach efforts toward hard-to-reach populations. The William Penn Foundation, a Philadelphia-based group focused on improving education for low-income children and creating a sustainable environment, awarded the...
Feds: Man sold rapper Mac Miller drugs before overdose death

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sold counterfeit opioid pills to Mac Miller two days before the rapper died of an overdose. A Drug Enforcement Agency affidavit unsealed after the arrest of Cameron James Pettit alleges that Miller asked him for oxycodone...
Roller coaster stolen from Ohio fair

Crime certainly has its ups and downs. And a recent theft in Ohio just goes to prove it. Police in Marysville, Ohio, were called to investigate the theft of a roller coaster from the Union County Fairgrounds. The stolen ride — the Go-Gator — is a kiddie coaster, described as...
Brexit turmoil continues as lawmakers defy U.K.’s Johnson

LONDON — British lawmakers battling Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to leave the European Union without a divorce deal cleared their first big hurdle Wednesday, approving in principle a bill to block his actions and sending it on for further debate. In a second straight day of parliamentary turmoil, the...
Woman pecked to death by her own rooster

A woman in Australia was killed in a freak rooster attack. And experts say it should be a warning to us all. As published in the journal Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, a 76-year-old Australian woman was gathering eggs on her rural property when her own rooster attacked her, pecking...
Here’s how the Outer Banks wild horses survive hurricanes like Dorian

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The mass evacuation of North Carolina’s Outer Banks for Hurricane Dorian will not include the herds of wild horses roaming freely on the fragile barrier islands. The herds, which include awkward foals born in the spring, are destined to fend for themselves as the Category 2 hurricane...
Pope on critics: It’s ‘an honor if the Americans attack me’

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis has acknowledged his growing opposition within the conservative right-wing of the U.S. Catholic Church and says it is “an honor if the Americans attack me.” Francis made off-hand comments about critics of his papacy as he received a copy of a new book...
Florida man parks Smart car in kitchen so it won’t blow away in DorianVideo

A man in Jacksonville, Florida, is keeping his car safe from the ravages of Hurricane Dorian by parking it in his kitchen. Jessica Eldridge posted on Facebook that her husband, Patrick Eldridge, was “afraid his car might blow away” so he moved it indoors. She explained that there are double...
Moscow protesters sent to prison for using force on police

MOSCOW — A Moscow court has convicted two people of using force on police at a July 27 protest rally and given them multi-year prison sentences. The court ruled on Wednesday that 28-year-old Kirill Zhukov used illegal force by pulling up a riot police officer’s visor. Zhukov received a three-year...

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