Wisconsin

"The bottom line is that I have an obligation to keep people safe, and that's why I signed this executive order today," Governor Evers said Monday.

All ballots already cast will remain valid and tallied, the Wisconsin governor said. A federal judge has determined that absentee ballots will be accepted until April 13 at 4 p.m.

The state has called in National Guard troops to staff polling sites, as thousands of workers are expected to not show up because of the coronavirus outbreak.

"We should not be allowing poll workers and voters to congregate on April 7," U.S. District Judge William Conley said.

The state recorded more than 21,000 initial claims on Monday, almost 20,000 more than the same day last year.

A Wisconsin woman allegedly stared down a grocery store manager as she licked a freezer door handle in "protest" of the coronavirus, behavior that police described as "uncalled for."

Austin Schroeder, 26, of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, and his girlfriend, Kaitlin Geiger, 21, are accused of selling drugs from their apartment.

The president has criticized past administrations for not keeping control of valuable Iraqi oil fields conquered by the military.

Bloomberg campaign manager Kevin Sheekey told CNN on Monday that both Democratic and Republican pollsters agree Trump will win Iowa, so Democrats should campaign elsewhere.

A girl and boy, aged 12 and 13 respectively, suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

The Pac-12 champions and the Big Ten runner-up collide in the Rose Bowl for the first time since 2012, both looking to end the season on a high.

Other states affected include Wisconsin, Nebraska, Vermont and Maine.

The resolution proposed to honor 10 Wisconsinites during Black History Month, six of whom were white.

"Like every innocent person giving up is never an option," Avery's lawyer, Kathleen Zellner tweeted on Christmas Eve.

"Maybe it's worth giving a look to see if that list could be amended, to mitigate that odd news story that keeps coming up like a bad penny," Lisa Rasmussen, president of the Wausau City Council, said of the 1962 ordinance.

Senior Trump adviser Justin Clark told a group of Wisconsin Republicans that the Republican party had "traditionally" engaged in the suppression of voters.

"It has not been at least five (5) years since you completed your entire sentence for the conviction you want to be pardoned," the letter denying Dassey's request for clemency read.

Dozens of people have been hospitalized and many more reported ill with food poisoning after eating romaine lettuce contaminated with E. coli. The FDA continues to investigate.

Janelle Gericke, 29, who worked at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office between February 2016 and July this year, has been charged with felony burglary and will appear in court later this month.

Students from Madison East High School in Wisconsin found "several" hidden cameras in their rooms during their stay at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Minneapolis.

Heavy winter weather is also affecting Minnesota, Wisconsin and the U.S. East Coast.

The body has advised consumers, restaurants and retailers not to eat, sell or serve kits with a best-before date up to and including December 7, 2019.

Shipping vessels are at risk from heavy snow spray according to the National Weather Service.

The Buckeyes can clinch a third consecutive Big Ten Championship with a win over Wisconsin in Indianapolis on Saturday.

"It's really in the interest of public safety. A lot of it is just consideration and common sense," said Wausau Mayor Robert Mielke.

"To think that it's OK to get that close to somebody having not warned them of what's coming, he's probably lucky he wasn't assault himself," said police detective Chris Buescher.

Robert Olson, 44, a lieutenant with the Milwaukee Fire Department, has been charged with second-degree sexual assault of a child.

A Wisconsin man has been discovered living in an underground bunker beside the Milwaukee River, and it's possible that he's been living there for years, say authorities.

Richard Tobin allegedly recruited people using a neo-Nazi social network called "The Base" to vandalize synagogues with spray paint in Michigan and Wisconsin.

"It was just out of control," the customer who filmed the incident said.