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Sanders campaigns here for Democrats

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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders campaigned for Wisconsin Democrats on Monday, just more than two weeks ahead of crucial midterm elections. The Vermont Independent’s events here start off a week in which President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama have both scheduled to host their own rallies in Wisconsin

Sanders appeared at UW Milwaukee with Democratic candidate for Governor Tony Evers, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and other Democrats on the ticket. He urged young people to participate in the midterms, noting that they “stayed home” four years ago. “Not this time,” a person in the crowd shouted. “Not this time is exactly right,” Sanders responded.

Sheriff requests 2,000 volunteers for search in Jayme Closs disappearance

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Two-thousand volunteers are being sought for a ground search on Tuesday, as investigators in Barron County continune to seek clues in the disappearance of a girl whose parents were shot to death in their home. Jayme Closs has been the focus of search efforts since deputies responded to a 911 call early on Monday, October 15, finding the bodies of 46-year-old Denise and 56-year-old James Closs

Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald requested the volunteers in a post to the department Facebook page on Monday, for “an expanded routine search for articles of evidentiary value that may be related to the incident.” The ground search is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.

Investigators are also looking for two vehicles of interest.

Jayme’s classmates planned a “Gathering of Hope” which will take place Monday evening at Riverview Middle School in Barron.

Report: Evers plagiarized sections of budget request

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Plagiarism by the Democrat running for governor. The Journal Sentinel reports that state schools Superintendent Tony Evers submitted a budget request last month included sections plagiarized from several sources, including Wikipedia.

A spokesman for Republican Governor Scott Walker’s campaign accused Evers of “peddling empty promises but also stolen ideas.”

A spokesman for Evers’ Department of Public Instruction acknowledged that “proper citation use was missed in certain places” of the budget request. Staff will be retrained but Evers does not plan to discipline anyone, according to DPI’s Thomas McCarthy.

The story broke just hours before Evers and Walker meet in their first debate Friday night.

Appleton Police: couple used heroin before standoff

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Police in Appleton believe the suspects in a hours long overnight standoff on the city’s north side were involved with selling drugs. Police Chief Todd Thomas says 25-year-old Sebastian Endres of Appleton was hiding in the attic of a home in the 800 block of W. Frances Street.

Thomas said an officer saw Endres go into the house Thursday afternoon, and it’s believed Endres and his girlfriend, 28-year-old Courtney Vera, injected heroin just before the SWAT team arrived Thursday night.

The standoff lasted for nearly 11 hours. Thomas said it took time to search the home for Endres. He said Vera surrendered several hours earlier, after officers used gas in the house. She had two warrants for her arrest.

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Man killed in Walworth County officer-involved shooting

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A man was killed Thursday night, in an officer-involved shooting in Elkhorn. According to Walworth the County Sheriff’s Department, the man was driving a vehicle which had been called in as a reckless driver originating out of Waukesha County.

Deputies spotted the vehicle at Highway 12/67 and Potter Road near the city limits of Elkhorn and and pursued it after attempting a traffic stop. When the vehicle came to a stop, a deputy exited his marked squad car.

The driver then allegedly drove toward the deputy, who fired his gun, striking the driver, who died at the scene. The involved deputy has been placed on administrative duty, which is standard practice following an officer-involved shooting.

‘Little Free Library’ originator dies

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An originator of “Little Free Libraries” has died. Todd Bol built the first Little Free Library in Hudson, Wisconsin in 2009. It was a dollhouse-sized replica of a one-room school house.

Bol filled it with books and set it up at the end of his driveway. Since then, more than 75,000 Little Free Libraries have been placed in nearly 90 countries around the world. Bol was 62. He died Thursday of cancer.

Jayme Closs case: 911 call came from mother’s cell phone

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There’s a new development in the Jayme Closs case. A Barron County Sheriff’s Department dispatch log released on Friday shows that a call made shortly before 1:00 a.m. Monday came from a cellphone belonging to Jayme’s mother.

According to the log, no one spoke to the 911 dispatcher, but it was determined there was a disturbance in the background. After the call was disconnected, the dispatcher tried to call the number back several times, but did not receive an answer.

Deputies arrived at the Closs home less than four minutes later and found 46-year-old Denise and 56-year-old James Closs shot to death.

On Thursday, a ground search involving a hundred volunteers turned up nothing useful. Investigators believe the 13-year-old is in danger, and a nationwide Amber Alert remains in place.

Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said Friday that the case has generated over 1000 tips. Investigators including the FBI and Wisconsin DCI want information to continue to come in using the tip line (1-855-744-3879). An email address – jaymetips@co.barron.wi.us – will accept any photos or videos related to possible sightings.

Walker shrugs off criticism by former cabinet members

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Governor Scott Walker on Thursday shrugged off criticism from former cabinet secretaries. Former Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation CEO Paul Jadin co-signed a letter with former Corrections Secretary Ed Wall and former Financial Institutions Secretary Peter Bildsten, sharply criticizing Walker, and supporting Democrat Tony Evers.

But the governor said the criticism just shows he welcomed differences of opinion in his cabinet. “One of them advocated for a gas tax increase,” Walker said. “I didn’t have a problem with people serving on my cabinet having different viewpoints on issues.”

Walker was referring to former Department of Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb. Gottlieb has not endorsed Evers but said that Walker was “not truthful” and “increasingly inaccurate” in comments about transportation funding.

The tone of the letter from Jadin, Wall and Bildsten goes well beyond different views on issues. The letter accuses the governor of “micromanagement, manipulation and mischief.” The three men are supporting Walker’s opponent in his reelection, Democrat Tony Evers.

“It’s not surprising to me that their politics aren’t as aligned with me,” Walker said. “That’s part of leadership. You bring people with different backgrounds, different experiences out there. But I think what voters should look at ultimately is our track record and what our plans are for the future.”

Soglin back in Madison mayoral race

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Madison’s mayor is back in the running. Paul Soglin has announced that he will seek reelection next spring. Over the summer, when Soglin was running for governor, he announced that he would not run again for mayor, adding that he did not think he would be up for another campaign.

But now, Soglin says he made a miscalculation. Soglin said in an email “it turns out that I was wrong about being up for another campaign. I am.”

Soglin has served as Madison mayor for more than twenty years on and off, since the 70’s.  He finished seventh in the eight-candidate Democratic governor’s primary with about 5 percent of the statewide vote.

He enters a now crowded field of six mayoral candidates. The election is April 2, 2019, with a primary scheduled for February 19.

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Debates aplenty – and plenty of eyes on Brewers

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Set your DVR, because the timing is — awkward. The first debate between Republican Governor Scott Walker and Democrat Tony Evers is at 8:00 p.m. Friday. That’s 20 minutes after the opening pitch in the Brewers must-win Game 6 with the Dodgers, in their National League Championship Series.

It’s just one of three campaign debates scheduled on a night when the attention of a majority of Wisconsin residents is likely to be focused on a team that’s is making a bid to return to the World Series for the first time since 1982.

The Walker-Evers debate is sponsored by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association. It will be produced at WMTV-TV in Madison and be carried by radio and TV stations around Wisconsin.

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The final U.S. Senate debate between incumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin and GOP challenger Leah Vukmir is at 7:00 p.m. from Marquette University Law School. Mike Gousha will moderate and WISN-TV carry the debate live.

And in the 1st Congressional District race, Republican Bryan Steil and Democrat Randy Bryce will debate, beginning at 7:30, from the at Oak Creek City Hall. Mary Spicuzza of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Steve Walters of WisconsinEye will moderate and the debate will be live streamed at wiseye.org/live.

The Brewers are not the only sports competition for politics – the Milwaukee Bucks tip-off at 7:30 p.m. in their first-ever home opener at Fiserv Forum.