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State officials recommend school districts track COVID-19 vaccinations, but not all are
School districts can’t require eligible students to get the COVID-19 vaccine because it’s not a mandatory immunization like several others in the state -- but they track student and staff vaccinations.
Update: State lawmaker calling for DWD transparency, 'culture change' as reports rise of unemployment debt
In multiple reports, News 3 Investigates and other media outlets have reported people receiving tens of thousands in bills, due to filing mistakes the state blames on the claimants.
For Wisconsinites facing thousands in unemployment debt, monthly payments could cost hundreds
Steve Vignali of Appleton is weighing retirement. But first, he has to deal with about $12,000 in debt from overpaid unemployment benefits that Wisconsin's Department of Workforce Development says he owes.
'It's disconcerting': In southcentral Wisconsin jails, few inmates are vaccinated
At the City-County Building in Madison, where two floors house some of Dane County's highest security inmates, a row of narrow isolation cells stands mostly empty.
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East Washington Avenue: A deadly problem
After the deadliest year in at least a decade, the city of Madison says it's planning new solutions for East Washington Avenue.
‘Lost in your own hell’: As pandemic recedes, worsened opioid epidemic persists
The COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed and worsened a deadly epidemic that touches so many in the country.
She quit her job to care for her children during COVID. Now, Wisconsin demands $30K repayment for unemployment benefits.
When Dominique Aldridge quit her job as a certified nursing assistant in Green Bay last March, it was because her three young children--two of them school-aged--suddenly had no daytime childcare when schools closed as COVID-19 first spread in Wisconsin.
'Needlessly exposed': Few inspections, hundreds of complaints about unsafe workplaces in Wisconsin as COVID cases spiked
New records show just how many of those who never left their job sites felt like they didn't have the luxury of the barest safety necessities at the workplaces where they were touted as essential.
Platteville dog breeder named in 'Horrible Hundred' report
Debbie Sweeney knew exactly what type of dog she wanted to replace her late Callie.
Four years after deadly explosion, Didion's $1.8M in OSHA fines remain unpaid
It's been four years this week since an explosion at the Didion Milling Inc. grain mill in Cambria killed five people and injured fourteen more, but almost $2 million in fines have gone unpaid in the years since.
Failing classes, declining grades: Whether virtual or in-person, pandemic learning has been a hurdle
Grant, finishing up second grade, had a rough go of it for most of the school year until his class transitioned back into mostly-in-person learning later in the spring semester.
Nearly half of Wisconsin's counties never used the hate penalty in the last five years. Dane County stands out.
Nearly half of Wisconsin's county-level prosecutors never used the hate crime penalty in criminal cases from 2016 to 2020, a News 3 Investigation found.
Wisconsin’s official hate crime reporting plagued by missing cases, errors corrected too late
Toshiana Northington says David Lythjohan kicked and punched her and her children in the East Madison Woodman’s parking lot last summer, using racial slurs after he became angry when her shopping cart temporarily blocked his car. But Madison police did not include the incident in their hate crime reports.
'At some point you have to confront it:' The state of hate in Wisconsin's workplaces, homes and public places
News 3 Now Investigates found nearly 200 investigations based either partly or completely on hate in the last three years.
Reasonable or proportional: Where Wisconsin policing stalls on use of force reform
Police reform has been part of the national conversation for years, but police killings haven't declined along with it. For years, police have killed three people a day on average nationwide--a rate that has remained fairly steady. In Wisconsin, in an eight-year period from 2013 to 2020, police killed an average of about one person every three weeks--or 130 people during that time frame.
For months, she's battled long COVID symptoms. Now, diagnoses shed light on how COVID affects teens
Sometimes, it's a daily battle. Other times, it's hour by hour. "I can't expect to have a good day tomorrow--or the next week." It's been nine months…
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