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Buyer beware: Father’s Day shopping tips

If you’re like me, you’ve probably got a dad with more tools and yard equipment than he could use in a lifetime. That always makes shopping for your Father’s Day gift a little tricky.
Also like me, you’ll probably wimp out and charge up a Gander Mountain or Fleet Farm gift card and let the old [...]

Inmates scam tax credit system

Hiding more than 700 “roommates” from the state may seem like a tall order, but a small group in a Wisconsin women’s prison tried to pull it off to get unearned housing tax refunds.
Some got away with it too, for a while. Wendy Nelsen, 44, in prison for soliciting a child for prostitution, was convicted [...]

Backlog keeps Wisconsin immigrants waiting

New data released last week from a research center at Syracuse University says immigrants facing deportation or seeking asylum, including individuals detained in Wisconsin, are waiting more than a year to have their day in court.
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse reports that nationwide, the number of cases awaiting trial reached 242,776 at the end of March, [...]

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