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Kyle Rittenhouse listens during his pretrial hearing Friday, May 21, 2021 at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis. Rittenhouse's attorneys and prosecutors are expected to iron out deadlines and other housekeeping matters ahead of his trial in November. Rittenhouse is charged with killing two men and wounding a third during the August protests. (Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, Pool)
Attorneys: Rittenhouse trial in November could take 2 weeks

By Todd Richmond May. 21, 2021 01:06 PM EDT

Lisa Robinson of Washington, reacts on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Washington, as the guilty verdict in Minneapolis, in the murder trial against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was announced. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Following verdict in Floyd case, USC football reflects

By Tim Reynolds Apr. 20, 2021 08:17 PM EDT

Wisconsin lawmakers introduce police reform package

By Todd Richmond Jan. 20, 2021 12:47 PM EST
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group of Wisconsin lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday designed to reform police use-of-force policies and investigations,...

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials

By The Associated Press Jan. 07, 2021 06:55 PM EST
Kenosha News, Kenosha, Jan. 6 Continue to come together, work hard The day arrived. Kenosha County District Attorney...

FILE - Naomi Osaka, of Japan, wears a protective mask due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, featuring the name "George Floyd", while arriving on court to face Shelby Rogers, of the United States, during the quarterfinal round of the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York, in this Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, file photo. In a most unusual year already thrown into chaos by the coronavirus pandemic, many athletes took unprecedented steps when a nationwide reckoning on race spilled into the streets of American cities after the killing of Floyd, a Black man, while in Minneapolis police custody. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
Athletes act: Stars rise up against racial injustice in 2020

By Cliff Brunt Dec. 29, 2020 01:41 PM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2020, file photo, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver does an interview before Game 3 of basketball's NBA Finals in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Sports got taken down a notch in 2020. The lights went out in mid-March, soon after Silver flipped a circuit-breaker on the season. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Sports in 2020: Disruptions aplenty, only constant was loss

By Jim Litke Dec. 28, 2020 12:30 PM EST

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2020 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis. Evers says he’ll likely include criminal justice reforms in the next state budget as Wisconsin emerges from a tumultuous year of protests over police brutality and racism. The governor told The Associated Press in a year-end interview that the executive budget will “hopefully” include proposals to resolve criminal justice disparities. He declined to offer specifics. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via AP, File)
Evers: Criminal justice reforms likely in next state budget

By Todd Richmond Dec. 27, 2020 01:01 AM EST

Roberts unsure if Turner, Price to play with Dodgers in 2021

By Beth Harris Dec. 17, 2020 07:08 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dave Roberts isn’t sure whether third baseman Justin Turner or former All-Star pitcher David Price will play with the Los Angeles Dodgers in...

The cover of Let us Dream, the book, due out Dec. 1, that was ghost-written by Francis’ English-language biographer, Austen Ivereigh. Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and the media that spread their conspiracies in a new book penned during the Vatican’s coronavirus lockdown. In “Let Us Dream,” Francis also criticizes populist politicians who whip up rallies in ways reminiscent of the 1930s, and the hypocrisy of “rigid” conservative Catholics who support them. (Simon & Schuster via AP)
NBA players hailed by pope at Vatican for demanding justice

By Tim Reynolds Nov. 23, 2020 04:06 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials

By The Associated Press Nov. 18, 2020 11:29 AM EST
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Nov. 15 Downtown project will be needed after pandemic What will Madison look like...

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Kenosha Regional Airport, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
How Biden navigated pandemic politics to win the White House

By Steve Peoples, Bill Barrow, Zeke Miller And Meg Kinnard Nov. 07, 2020 05:09 PM EST

The windows of a shop front are boarded up with plywood which has a mural that reads "Kenosha Strong and BLM!" painted on it, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, in downtown Kenosha, Wis. Two months after street violence shook the little lakeside city of Kenosha dozens of businesses are still boarded. Many of these businesses are open, but with divisive elections just days away some are also hedging their bets, covering up windows and sometimes building outer sets of plywood doors that can be easily shut, like castles pulling up their drawbridges, if trouble returns. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
AP VoteCast: Wisconsin voters sour on state of nation

By Bernard Condon Nov. 04, 2020 12:08 PM EST

Voters wait in line outside a polling center on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
AP VoteCast: Wisconsin voters sour on state of nation

By Bernard Condon Nov. 03, 2020 06:42 PM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2020, file photo, Evelio Mancera and his daughter, Jennifer Mancera, both residents of Madison, fill out their ballots on the first day of the state's in-person absentee voting window for the Nov. 3 election outside the city's City-County Building in Madison, Wis. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
Wisconsin braces for Election Day, Trump plans final stop

By Scott Bauer Nov. 02, 2020 10:23 AM EST

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Kenosha Regional Airport, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The Latest: Trump predicts he'll 'so easily' win Michigan

Nov. 02, 2020 08:56 AM EST

FILE - Eddie Hall Jr. and his wife Candace stand in front of the broken front window of their Warren, Mich., home, on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. Some experts say political and social unrest as well as the coronavirus pandemic has taken a disproportionate physical and financial tolls on Black people, resulting in increased anxiety levels among African Americans. (David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP, File)
Experts: Police brutality, racism pushing Black anxiety

By Corey Williams Nov. 01, 2020 10:34 AM EST

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2020, file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks during a news conference in Kenosha, Wis. An effort to gather enough signatures to force a recall election of Evers has failed, the recall's organizer told supporters on Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Organizer: Not enough signatures for Evers recall effort

By Scott Bauer Oct. 26, 2020 10:43 AM EDT

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Michigan State Fairgrounds in Novi, Mich., Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Biden's lessons learned: spending time, money in Midwest

By Thomas Beaumont Oct. 21, 2020 11:35 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 30, 2020, file photo, protesters demonstrate as a Salt Lake City police vehicle burns, in Salt Lake City. Investigators studied video footage to find Jackson Stuart Tamowski Patton, 26, who is accused of tossing a combustible substance into the patrol car, feeding the flames that destroyed it, prosecutors said in court documents. The Department of Justice is using aggressive tactics against those it has charged in the civil unrest over racism. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
AP finds most arrested in protests aren't leftist radicals

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Colleen Long And Michael Balsamo Oct. 20, 2020 05:39 AM EDT

Milwaukee scraps early voting plans at Fiserv, Miller Park

By Todd Richmond Oct. 06, 2020 12:50 PM EDT
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Election officials said Tuesday that they scrapped their plans to use the Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers' stadiums as early voting sites in...