December 2 2021

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CHRISTMAS PARADE-SUV

Suspect in Waukesha parade carnage says he feels ‘demonized’

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The person accused of driving his SUV by way of a suburban Milwaukee parade, killing six folks and injuring dozens, says he appears like he is being “demonized.” Darrell Brooks did not talk about a motive throughout his interview from jail with Fox Information. However he instructed the outlet Wednesday that he appears like he is being portrayed as a monster. Brooks’ mom, Daybreak Woods, launched a letter Wednesday providing the household’s condolences to the victims and saying that Brooks suffers from psychological well being points. She mentioned after he turned an grownup he lacked the insurance coverage or monetary means to proceed his medicine.

AP-US-ELECTION-2020-AUDITS-WISCONSIN

Wisconsin mayors focused amid GOP-ordered election probe

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-hired legal professional investigating the 2020 election has instructed Wisconsin lawmakers throughout a typically testy listening to he has filed a lawsuit to power officers in Inexperienced Bay and Madison to undergo a deposition. Additionally on Wednesday, Wisconsin’s embattled elections fee debated whether or not to comply with key suggestions made in a latest nonpartisan audit. The simultaneous conferences come as Republicans in Wisconsin are growing the strain on election officers. Lawmakers have known as for the resignation of the state’s nonpartisan prime election administrator and a sheriff who helps Donald Trump known as for prosecuting 5 of the fee’s six members.

ELECTION 2022-WISCONSIN-SECRETARY OF STATE

Republican needs to empower Wisconsin secretary of state

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker says she’s operating to be Wisconsin’s subsequent secretary of state, saying she needs to show the principally powerless workplace right into a verify on the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Fee. State Rep. Amy Loudenbeck’s announcement Wednesday is the Republicans’ newest effort to weaken the company that oversees the state’s elections. The 81-year-old Democratic incumbent, Doug La Follette, has held the workplace since 1978 however mentioned Wednesday that he was “nonetheless occupied with” whether or not to run once more. The secretary of state has not been in command of operating elections in Wisconsin since 1974.

STEPS TOWARD SAINTHOOD

Bishops help 3 for sainthood; 2 are from Louisiana

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman typically known as “The Little Cajun Saint” has been moved a second step towards precise sainthood. So have a instructor who evangelized door to door in Louisiana’s Cajun nation and a person who labored for many years at a Hansen’s illness colony in Hawaii. Throughout its November assembly in Baltimore, the U.S. Convention of Bishops held voice votes to advance the reason for beatification and canonization of three candidates. They’re Charlene Richard of Richard, August Pelafigue of Arnaudville, and Ira Barnes Dutton or Joseph Dutton, who grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin. Richard was 12 when she died of leukemia in 1959. Pelafigue died in 1977 at age 89. Dutton died in 1931 at age 87.

DEER HUNT

DNR: 9-day gun season deer kill drops 8% from 2020

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — New state knowledge reveals hunters killed virtually 8% fewer deer throughout this yr’s nine-day gun season than in 2020. The Division of Pure Assets launched preliminary numbers Tuesday exhibiting hunters killed 175,667 deer, down from 190,646 final yr. The variety of buck’s killed declined 1.3% whereas the antlerless numbers dropped 13%. The northern forest was the one one of many state’s 4 administration zones the place hunters killed extra deer than in 2020, up 9.3%. The DNR had bought 564,440 licenses authorizing hunters to kill a deer with a gun throughout any of the state’s 2021 deer seasons as of Sunday. That is down about 0.8% from final yr.

SPORTS BETTING

Oneida Nation set to supply sports activities betting at principal on line casino

ONEIDA, Wis. (AP) — The Oneida Nation will legally supply sports activities betting starting this week, the primary time such wagering has been allowed in Wisconsin. Sports activities betting is the results of a brand new gaming compact modification with the state that enables “occasion wagering.” That may embrace betting on sports activities and occasions comparable to nationally televised award reveals, skilled sports activities league drafts {and professional} video games, together with soccer, basketball and baseball. Wagering on Wisconsin school athletics or occasions involving youngsters isn’t allowed. The Oneida Nation will maintain a ceremony Tuesday at its principal on line casino close to Inexperienced Bay Austin Straubel Worldwide Airport to mark the event.

CHRISTMAS PARADE-SUV

Prosecutors add sixth murder depend in Wisconsin parade crash

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have added a sixth murder depend towards a Wisconsin man accused of driving his SUV by way of a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee. Investigators allege Darrell Brooks Jr. injured dozens of individuals and killed six when he turned his automobile into the parade in Waukesha on Nov. 21. He was charged Nov. 23 with 5 counts of first-degree intentional murder for victims ranging in age from 52 to 81. The added cost is for an 8-year-old boy who died the day the primary fees have been introduced. The state public defender’s workplace is representing Brooks. A spokesman for the workplace declined remark.

GAS STATION SHOOTING

Man fatally shot in suburban Madison fuel station, 1 arrested

BLOOMING GROVE, Wis. (AP) — Dane County sheriff’s officers say a person has been fatally shot inside a suburban Madison fuel station and one individual has been arrested. Regulation enforcement officers responded to a report of a taking pictures Sunday morning on the Kwik Journey within the city of Blooming Grove. The taking pictures sufferer died on the scene. Sheriff Kalvin Barrett says witnesses gave police an outline of an SUV that will have been concerned within the taking pictures. Maple Bluff police situated the SUV, however the driver fled. Officers gave chase and used highway spikes to cease the automobile. The driving force was arrested about two hours later in Madison.