| January 27, 2009 | - A Wisconsin judge ruled that cheerleading is a contact sport.
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ESPN
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| November 22, 2007 | - Teams of biologists in Japan and Wisconsin discovered new methods for transforming human skin cells into “induced pluripotent stem cells.” Both techniques employ a retrovirus to inject the cells with four “master regulator” genes that reprogram the cells' function. The Wisconsin team, directed by James A. Thompson, who pioneered the harvesting of embryonic stem cells, culled its skin cells from foreskins. The Japanese team conducted their preliminary research on mice, with a cancer gene among the regulators, and created in the process a mischief of clone mice, 20 percent of which developed cancer. President George W. Bush was said to be “very pleased” that the innovation might render the use of embryonic stem cells obsolete, but critics said it was too soon to tell whether the synthesized stem cells would prove as versatile as those from embryos.
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New York Times
Source 2:
Seattle Times
Source 3:
New York Times
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| July 23, 2007 | -
Wisconsin inmates brawled over Woody Allen's marriage to Sun Yi Previn.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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| July 23, 2007 | - Two Wisconsinites who had locked a seven-year-old boy in his room while they watched a Green Bay Packers game were each sentenced to several months in jail. The couple claimed to have left the boy peanut butter and jelly, bread, and a bucket for a toilet. “What do you do?” the defense attorney asked the judge. “Maybe this coming football season,” he continued, “lock them in a room with a bucket and make them watch Bears games.”
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| December 15, 2006 | - A hunter in Wisconsin shot a seven-legged deer.
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Yahoo News
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| October 28, 2006 | - The city of Madison, Wisconsin, announced that its Halloween festivities will be a success if the police are not compelled to pepper-spray angry mobs of drunken residents.
| Source:
CNN
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| September 15, 2006 | - Police in Green Bay, Wisconsin, chased a pig around a highway for more than an hour.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 5, 2006 | - Three men in Lancaster, Wisconsin, were arrested after attempting to steal a corpse from a cemetery in order to have sex with it.
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WCCO.com
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| August 4, 2006 | - Racer Cristiano da Matta's Champ Car collided with a deer in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
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cnnsi.com
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| June 1, 2006 | - The United States declared a moratorium on wind farms in Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
| Source:
PhysOrg.com
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| March 23, 2006 | - Scientists in Wisconsin announced that they could convert cheese waste into ethanol.
| Source:
Wisconsin Ag Connection
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| November 28, 2005 | - A Wausau, Wisconsin, hunter shot and killed a buck that lacked testicles.
| Source:
Wausau Daily Herald
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| November 12, 2005 | - A Milwaukee, Wisconsin, man was in trouble for drunken
ice-cream-truck driving.
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GMToday.com
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| October 12, 2005 | - A Wisconsin man was arrested for putting an electric dog collar on his eight-year-old stepdaughter and zapping her for not eating fast enough.
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WorldNetDaily.com
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| August 10, 2005 | -
Cream puffs with 560 calories and 47 grams of fat were selling briskly at the Wisconsin
State Fair.
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AZCentral.com
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| August 2, 2005 | -
Wisconsin opened a school for children who had been bullied.
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Local6.com
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| April 12, 2005 | - The Governor of Wisconsin announced that he opposed cat
hunting.
| Source:
The Charlotte Observer
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| April 1, 2005 | - A former policeman was arrested for flying to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in order to molest
boys.
| Source:
Sign On San Diego
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| April 1, 2005 | - Ms. Wheelchair
Wisconsin was stripped of her title after she was caught standing up.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| March 29, 2005 | - A huge naked screaming Wisconsin man was shot as he threatened his equally naked children with scissors.
| Source:
JSOnline
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| March 14, 2005 | - A Wisconsin woman rammed her car into a Catholic church after deciding that God does not exist; her car was destroyed, but the church was unharmed.
| Source:
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
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| October 30, 2004 | -
Wisconsin Republicans were trying to challenge about 37,000 voter registrations in Milwaukee.
| Source:
Journal Sentinel
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