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A Kenosha County jury is hearing opening statements on Tuesday, Feb. 28 in the homicide trial of a man accused of killing his ex's new boyfriend.

Republican legislators have crafted a bill that would limit increases in University of Wisconsin System tuition rates and fees.

Wisconsin DNR officials won't say when wolf management plan public comments will be released. A draft plan was released last year.

Sandhill cranes are slowly returning to the state as they prepare for mating season. Wisconsin is one of the states they routinely stay into the fall.

Wisconsin Republicans are unlikely to include their plan for a flat 3.25% income tax rate in the state budget, heads of the Republican-controlled Legislature's powerful budget committee said.

Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday, Feb. 28 proposed spending $3.8 billion on building projects across the state, with nearly half directed toward work across the University of Wisconsin System.

The Kenosha County Sheriff's Department said drug searches in Salem Lakes and Twin Lakes led to two arrests. A third person is facing charges.

A 37-year-old Plymouth man was arrested for OWI Sunday after striking a pedestrian in Sheboygan.

Family of Cilivea Thyrion, a woman who died in custody at the Milwaukee County Jail last year, hopes to address "ongoing concerns."

Wisconsin lawmakers are proposing a pair of bills that could create harsher penalties for reckless driving and more leeway for police to fight it.