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• As Madison impasse continues, schools eye layoffs Feb 25, 2022 06:37 PM
  
  • MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin school districts are warning teachers, each one on the payroll in some cases, that their contracts might not be renewed as Gov. Scott Walker's plan to cut nearly all public employees' collective bargaining rights remains in limbo.
  • The proposal took a concrete step forward Friday when Republicans in the state Assembly abruptly approved the bill and sent it to the Senate after three straight days of punishing debate and amid confusion among Democrats.
  • But with all 14 Democratic state senators still out of state, another stalemate awaits the measure that Walker insists will help solve a looming budget deficit and avoid mass layoffs.

  • Have TV viewers seen last of Charlie Sheen? Feb 25, 2022 06:32 PM
    
    • NEW YORK - As Charlie Sheen continued to rant on, his bosses at "Two and a Half Men" seemed prepared Friday to move on.
    • The network's decision to stop production of television's most popular sitcom this season - and maybe for good - has multimillion-dollar implications for CBS and producer Warner Bros. Television, but it's hardly fatal.
    • The remaining four episodes were scrapped Thursday after Sheen called the show's executive producer Chuck Lorre a "contaminated little maggot."

    • Actor Kelsey Grammer gets hitched on Broadway Feb 25, 2022 06:24 PM
      
      • NEW YORK - Kelsey Grammer has tied the knot for the fourth time in a familiar place.
      • The "Cheers" and "Frasier" star married 29-year-old flight attendant Kayte Walsh on Friday at Broadway's Longacre Theatre - the same place where the actor had been headlining "La Cage aux Folles" with Douglas Hodge until earlier this month.
      • Stan Rosenfield, a Grammer representative, called the event "a private ceremony for family and friends."

      • US closes embassy in Libya, prepares sanctions Feb 25, 2022 06:08 PM
        
        • WASHINGTON - The United States shuttered its embassy in Libya on Friday and readied stiff financial and other penalties against Moammar Gadhafi and his loyalists, ending days of cautious condemnation by all but calling for the unpredictable leader's immediate ouster.
        • As they left, fighting raged on in Tripoli and elsewhere in Libya as Gadhafi vowed to crush the rebellion that now controls large parts of the country.
        • Shortly after the chartered plane left Libyan airspace, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. had been constrained in moving against Gadhafi and his loyalists due to concerns over the safety of Americans but was now ready to bring more pressure on the government to halt its attacks on opponents.

        • Sheriff: Suspect says bodies of Ohio couple in Ga. Feb 25, 2022 06:02 PM
          
          • COLUMBUS, Ohio - Authorities say investigators believe a missing elderly Ohio couple was killed in their home and that a murder suspect being questioned in West Virginia has told police their bodies are in Georgia.
          • The couple has been missing for nine days, and Bellefontaine police Chief Brad Kunze said Friday that authorities believe they were killed in their home.
          • A statement from the Lowndes County, Ga., sheriff's office posted on the website of WSYX-TV in Columbus, Ohio, says Littleton told police he discarded the bodies while driving to Florida.

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