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As if the situation in Wisconsin wasn't tense enough, it appears that one county in particular is going to a new extreme. This comes after word that there may have been voter fraud in the nonpartisan State Supreme Court election yesterday between incumbent David Prosser and JoAnne Kloppenburg. For some reason one of the counties in the state is destroying ballots that 'were not counted' yesterday. Apparently this is a very bizarre and egregious move. There is now a call for an injunction to preserve the 'discarded' ballots: I have filed a Wisconsin Open records request with the City of...

Mequon - Voters overwhelmingly rejected a referendum Tuesday that would have raised taxes in the Mequon-Thiensville School District by $2.5 million for each of the next three years. Fifty-seven percent of those who cast votes opposed the measure, which sparked one of the highest turnouts - 37% - among Tuesday's primaries in the metro area,3 according to unofficial results. Officials had said the referendum was necessary to offset a $6.5 million budget shortfall the district faces in the next three years. It would also have funded $1 million in technology upgrades and maintenance repairs. "It's a simple yes or no...

Inquest testimony in death of man while in Mequon police custodyAssociated Press PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. - A police officer told an inquest jury Monday how he mistakenly placed a hazardous-materials hood on a prisoner, not realizing that it could suffocate him. The testimony came at an inquest in Ozaukee County Circuit Court into the death June 19 of 20-year-old Matthew Sheridan of Mequon. Sheridan was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia after Bayside police stopped a vehicle in which he was riding and found a pipe used to smoke drugs near where he was seated, authorities said. According to testimony,...