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Cyndi Greening has a distinct memory of when Donald Trump won the presidency last November. It’s from her living room floor. The former college professor from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, said she cried there for days until her 37-year-old son interjected: “Get up and do something. What’s the matter with you?” That’s when the Chippewa Valley Indivisible group was created. At the first meeting in January, 28 people showed up. At the next, it was 68. It then grew to 124. Today, membership is nearing 1,900. On Saturday, they’ll be among the millions of people marching in nationwide “No Kings” protests,...

A northcentral Wisconsin school district has come under fire after failing to notify parents and families of a recently revealed police report containing details of a bomb threat by a student last fall. The report was first made public by the conservative news podcast Louder with Crowder, who was the first to release copies of the manifesto belonging to the Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale last year, as well as Crisis in the Classroom (CITC) after they obtained a copy of a police report that contained details behind a manifesto that was written by a Chippewa Falls student actively looking...

Democrats appeared to have assumed control of the state Senate with results posted early Wednesday showing former Sen. John Lehman (D-Racine) defeating incumbent Van Wanggaard in a tight race. Republicans held on to three other state Senate seats in Tuesday's recall voting. Democratic challengers lost recalls bids against Sens. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) and Terry Moulton (R-Chippewa Falls.). Rep. Jerry Petrowski (R-Stettin) was elected to fill the vacancy left by Sen. Pam Galloway (R-Wausau), who resigned earlier this year after opponents gathered enough signatures to initiate a recall election. All eyes Wednesday will be on the 21st District. Results posted early...

Superheated July matches whole summer's 90-degree days By JESSE GARZA and TOM HELDof the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: July 31, 2002 Much of Wisconsin remained in the grip of sweltering heat Wednesday, ending a month in which Milwaukee saw the mercury reach 90 degrees nine different days, about the same number of days above 90 the state's largest city sees during a typical summer. Even upstate, in Chippewa Falls, it got so hot Tuesday that a traveling load of yeast-filled pizza dough expanded, breaking out the back of a semitrailer truck and creating a 25- to 35-mile oozing, intermittent...