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  • Wisconsin residents slower to file tax returns this year

    UNDATED (WSAU) Tax-Day is five weeks from tomorrow – and Wisconsinites are slower to file this year. State Revenue Secretary Roger Ervin says about 30-thousand fewer income tax returns have been filed than this time a year ago. And despite the recession, Ervin still expects about ... More

  • Public hearing on sex-offender release rules

    UNDATED (WSAU) A public hearing will be held tomorrow on a bill to create statewide limits on where sex offenders can live. It would wipe out tough local ordinances with restrictions so tight, offenders are driven elsewhere. The bill would let the Corrections Department come ... More

  • Crackdown on hmong gang

    UNDATED(WSAU) Seventeen members of a Hmong gang have been indicted in federal court in Milwaukee for selling drugs and shooting rival gang members. Federal, state, and local authorities had investigated the Menace of Destruction gang since September of 2007. Officers said they had a ... More

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  • U.S. herpes rates remain high: CDC

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday. Black women had the highest rate of infection at ... More

  • U.S. says hikers detained in Iran call families

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three American detained in Iran last year and accused of spying have been allowed to telephone their families, although formal consular access has not been granted, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley repeated U.S ... More

  • Michigan court delays Toyota executive testimony

    DETROIT (Reuters) - A Michigan appeals court on Wednesday granted a stay requested by Toyota Motor Corp that delays testimony by two top U.S. company executives in a case about a crash that killed a woman driving a Camry in 2008. The Michigan Court of ... More

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  • U.S. says hikers detained in Iran call families

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three American detained in Iran last year and accused of spying have been allowed to telephone their families, although formal consular access has not been granted, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley repeated U.S ... More

  • Another runaway Toyota Prius reported

    DETROIT (Reuters) - Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall. The 56-year-old ... More

  • "JihadJane" accused of terror plot in Sweden

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with plotting to kill a Swedish man and trying to recruit fighters via the Internet to commit violent attacks overseas, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Colleen LaRose, who also went by the pseudonym of ... More

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  • Senator Brown snags deal for memoirs

    BOSTON (Reuters) - Scott Brown, the Republican whose surprise victory in the Senate race in Massachusetts rocked the political landscape, has signed a deal to write his memoirs, the publisher HarperCollins said on Wednesday. Brown, 50, became in January the first Republican to represent Massachusetts in ... More

  • House to vote on pullout from Afghanistan

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a test of congressional support for President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan strategy, lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would direct him to pull U.S. forces out of the war. The resolution by liberal Democratic Representative ... More

  • Health secretary piles pressure on insurers

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ratcheted up the pressure on health insurance companies on Wednesday, urging them to forgo short-term profits and stop fighting President Barack Obama's health reform plans. "You can choose to take the millions of dollars you have ... More

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  • Private sector eyes opportunity in Haiti rebuilding

    MIAMI (Reuters) - Rebuilding Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake should generate major contracts for private companies specializing in construction, logistics, transport and security, but U.S. executives say they need a clear reconstruction strategy to shape their business plans. Private sector firms that focus on post-conflict ... More

  • Walmart returns items to shelves after lost sales

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc <WMT.N> has put roughly 300 items back on its U.S. store shelves after the retailer said it "disappointed" customers by not stocking certain products. "We did discontinue some things that people didn't buy very often, but ... More

  • Senate passes $149 bln for jobless aid, tax breaks

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday passed a $149 billion package of jobless aid and tax breaks, as Democrats continued efforts to lower the 9.7 percent unemployment rate before congressional elections in November. The measure, approved by a vote of 62 to 36, now ... More

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  • Ralph Fiennes filming "Coriolanus" in Serbia

    BELGRADE (Reuters) - After two years struggling to win funding amid the global financial crisis, actor Ralph Fiennes said on Wednesday he would start filming his directorial debut of a Shakespeare tragedy next week in Serbia. Filming of "Coriolanus" will start in Belgrade on March 17 ... More

  • Corey Haim dies of overdose

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles of an apparent drug overdose, police said on Wednesday. He was 38. Haim, who rose to ... More

  • Phantom sequel a "shadow of the original"

    By Mike Collett-White and Nickie Omer LONDON (Reuters) - Comparisons with the original were inevitable when Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to write a sequel to his record-breaking musical "Phantom of the Opera." After Tuesday night's world premiere at the Adelphi Theater in London's West ... More

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  • Smoking years key factor in lower Parkinson's risk

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease. A new study shows that it's how many years of smoking a person has under their belt -- rather than how much they smoke every day ... More

  • U.S. says "drugged driving" growing threat

    VIENNA (Reuters) - Motorists under the influence of drugs are a growing threat on U.S. roads, while the number who drink and drive has fallen thanks to education and law enforcement, a top U.S. drug control official said on Tuesday. The United States is ... More

  • U.S. herpes rates remain high: CDC

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday. Black women had the highest rate of infection at ... More

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  • SpaceX aborts rocket engine test

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International Space Station. The test was aborted two ... More

  • Scientists say UK risks losing innovation edge

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain risks decades of slow economic decline unless it invests heavily in research, which at the moment is one of the country's few genuine areas of economic competitive advantage, leading scientists said on Tuesday. The Royal Society, an influential science academy whose ... More

  • Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN

    GENEVA (Reuters) - Dark matter, which scientists believe makes up 25 percent of the universe but whose existence has never been proven, could be detected by the giant particle collider at CERN, the research center's head said Monday. Rolf-Dieter Heuer told a news conference some ... More

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  • Cloud video game service OnLive to launch in June

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - OnLive is set to launch its "cloud-based" video game service in June, as the closely watched start-up looks to challenge home console heavyweights with the promise of on-demand gaming. OnLive will roll out to PC and Mac users in the United States ... More

  • Google stands behind plan to stop China censorship

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google has not changed its decision to stop censoring its Chinese search site even if it means leaving that market, a senior executive told a U.S. Congressional panel on Wednesday. Nicole Wong, the firm's vice president and deputy general counsel, told ... More

  • IBM, universities target easy-to-use cellphones

    HELSINKI (Reuters) - IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate. As growth in developed markets such as Europe, Japan and United States has stalled, the wireless industry is looking especially ... More

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  • Sidney Crosby's golden goal stick found

    VANCOUVER (Reuters) - An Olympic mystery was solved on Wednesday when officials said they had located the stick Sidney Crosby used to win the men's hockey gold medal for Canada at the Vancouver Games. The stick, along with one of Crosby's gloves, disappeared during ... More

  • Chelios, 48, returns as league's oldest player

    ATLANTA (Reuters) - The Atlanta Thrashers recalled 48-year-old defenseman Chris Chelios from the minors on Wednesday, adding veteran leadership to their line-up for a playoff push. Chelios, who is 11 years older than the next oldest Atlanta player, is the National Hockey League's oldest active ... More

  • Marion Jones to play in WNBA

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Disgraced Olympic sprinter Marion Jones signed a contract Wednesday to play with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock in a bid to revive her athletic career. The WNBA marks a second chance for Jones, who was stripped of five Olympic medals for using ... More

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