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Weird Wisconsin

"Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin." - Willem Dafoe

Is it the long cold nights, their affinity for beer, cheese and the Packers, or are residents of the Badger State just a little unusual?  You be the judge. On Wisconsin!

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  • August 2008

    • The Hardest-Drinking US Cities

      Forbes  |  Aug 11, 08 2:45 PM CDT

      The Hardest-Drinking US Cities

      (Newser) - Famous for its arts festivals and home to a large college population, Austin, Texas, takes top honors as America’s hardest-drinking city, reports Forbes in its distillation of behavioral data from the CDC. Here are the top 5: Austin—1 in 5 admit to binge drinking, and 9% of men have two drinks a day. More »

    • Green Bay, Uncertain Future Await Reinstated Favre

      ESPN  |  Aug 3, 08 2:32 PM CDT

      Green Bay, Uncertain Future Await Reinstated Favre

      (Newser) - On-again-off-again NFL retiree Brett Favre will report to Packers camp tomorrow, when the team is expected to decide whether to welcome him back, trade him, or pay him to go away, ESPN reports. The NFL will reinstate the indecisive QB, who will go on Green Bay's active roster, but commissioner Roger Goodell has washed his hands of the situation: "I'm not interjecting myself into it," he said. More »

    • Killer of 3 Captured After Wisc. Manhunt

      Associated Press  |  Aug 1, 08 10:15 AM CDT

      Killer of 3 Captured After Wisc. Manhunt

      (AP) - A man dressed in camouflage clothing walked out of the woods in northern Wisconsin woods yesterday and opened fire on four young people who had gathered at a river to go swimming, killing three of them, the AP reports. Authorities made an arrest this morming, after a dragnet that included more than 100 law enforcement officers around the town of Niagara. More »

    • Moonshine festival held in northern Wisconsin

      Chicago Tribune  |  Aug 1, 08

      A toast to Prohibition will made this weekend in northern Wisconsin.Area moonshiners from the 1920s and 1930s are expected to share stories of stills, bootleggers, rum runners and federal agents during Saturday's Moonshine Daze, a one-day event paying homage to Prohibition.

    • Mille's Italian Sausage Launches Retail Distribution - After 77 Years at the Wisc.State Fair

      VirtualTourist  |  Aug 1, 08

      Since 1932 the Mille family of Milwaukee Wisconsin has sold their Italian sausage by the tons - but only for eleven days each August and only in the form of a sandwich, at the annual Wisconsin State Fair. After ever-increasing customer requests, the Mille family announces the year-round availability.

  • July 2008

    • Sources: Retired Favre Itching to Play ... Again

      ESPN  |  Jul 3, 08 12:07 PM CDT

      Sources: Retired Favre Itching to Play ... Again

      (Newser) - Though Brett Favre referred to recent rumblings as "all rumor," multiple sources close to the retired QB say the Green Bay legend has "got the itch" to play again, reports ESPN. His brother, who noted that Favre has been working out, put a return at "50-50." Wisconsin-based news outlets, citing an NFL source, are reporting that Favre has asked for his release from the Packers. More »

  • June 2008

    • Rain-Wrecked Dam Destroys Wis. Homes

      Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  |  Jun 10, 08 4:10 AM CDT

      Rain-Wrecked Dam Destroys Wis. Homes

      (Newser) - Luxury homes around a Wisconsin lake were torn apart after heavy rain cut a channel through an earthen dam and drained the water. Lake Delton is a tourist center, and businesses that depend on it face ruin, reports the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel . The region was one of several pummeled by days of heavy rains that have caused widespread flooding in three states. More »

  • May 2008

    • Teen Busted for Posting Ex's Nude Pix on MySpace

      The Smoking Gun  |  May 22, 08 5:25 AM CDT

      Teen Busted for Posting Ex's Nude Pix on MySpace

      (Newser) - A Wisconsin teen didn't take it too well when his relationship turned sour, so he posted graphic nude photographs of his 16-year-old ex on his MySpace page with equally graphic captions, reports the Smoking Gun. The cops got a foul-mouthed refusal when they asked him to remove the photos. That's when they busted him on child porn charges. He's in jail until his hearing next week. More »

    • Mom, Kids Lived With Corpse of Woman, 90

      The Wisconsin State Journal  |  May 10, 08 10:09 AM CDT

      Mom, Kids Lived With Corpse of Woman, 90

      (Newser) - A  woman and her self-proclaimed "bishop" have been arrested after cops found the decomposing corpse of a 90-year-old woman on a toilet in the house she shared with her two kids, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. The woman said the bishop of her tiny religious group told her her God would bring the corpse back to life if she prayed hard enough. More »

    • Cougar's Long Trek to Chicago May Tell Tale

      Chicago Tribune  |  May 1, 08 11:03 AM CDT

      Cougar's Long Trek to Chicago May Tell Tale

      (Newser) - A cougar shot April 14 in Chicago was spotted earlier in Wisconsin, DNA tests show, suggesting an epic trek. Now, scientists are eager to study the animal, hoping to learn more about how and why it migrated; they aim to pin down its ancestry in an effort to better understand how animals like it adjust to human populations, the Chicago Tribune reports. More »

  • April 2008

    • Wisconsin man starts Web site devoted to roadkill

      Associated Press  |  Apr 29, 08

      Richard Sanders hadn't given much thought to roadkill until a buddy came across a very large bear on the roadside near Hudson. The animal was bigger than any trophy bear the friends had bagged over the years, and they thought it deserved a better fate than rotting by the road."It is not their fault they were hit by a car or truck," Sanders said. "They shouldn't go unnoticed."Recognized big game record books, such as those kept by the Pope & Young and Boone and Crockett clubs, won't list roadkill animals because they weren't taken by bullet or bow.To remedy that, Sanders created an alternative...

    • Daily Paper Dumps Print Edition for Web

      New York Times  |  Apr 28, 08 4:56 AM CDT

      Daily Paper Dumps Print Edition for Web

      (Newser) - In an ominous sign of the times for printed news, a struggling 90-year-old Wisconsin daily newspaper is shutting down its daily print operation, but will continue to exist online, the New York Times reports. Most of the 18,000 current subscribers of Madison's afternoon Capital Times are switching to the city's bigger daily. More »

    • 1 in 6 Drink and Drive: Survey

      Reuters  |  Apr 23, 08 12:48 PM CDT

      1 in 6 Drink and Drive: Survey

      (Newser) - About 15% of Americans drove under the influence of alcohol in the past year, and another 4.7% drove while on drugs, according to a new government survey. Wisconsinites were particularly hammered, with 26.4% driving drunk, followed closely by North Dakota (24.9%) and Minnesota (23.4%). Utah had the national low at 9.5%, Reuters reports. More »

    • House Could Be Dead Giveaway

      Minneapolis Star Tribune  |  Apr 6, 08 11:20 AM CDT

      House Could Be Dead Giveaway

      (Newser) - If Bob Fanning dies in the next decade, the buyer of his Wisconsin home—listed at $498,900—will get a half-million dollar payday. That’s because the 69-year-old plans to make the new owner the beneficiary of a 10-year life-insurance policy, a carrot he hopes will sweeten the deal in a tough real-estate market, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. More »

    • Coed Killer Loose on Midwest Campus

      The Wisconsin State Journal  |  Apr 4, 08 10:49 AM CDT

      Coed Killer Loose on Midwest Campus

      (Newser) - Police have stepped up campus patrols after a University of Wisconsin-Madison student was found apparently stabbed to death in her apartment Wednesday. The 21-year-old pre-med junior is the first Madison student murdered since 1996, reports ABC News. But police are investigating possible links to an unsolved murder in the city earlier this year, according to the Capital Times . More »

  • March 2008

    • Bowling association's move to Texas is a strike to Wisconsin's culture

      Austin American-Statesman  |  Mar 21, 08

      I think this move by Gov. Rick Perry's office to bring the United States Bowling Congress from Greendale, Wis. to Arlington by throwing $693,000 at it is just plain nuts. Sure, the money from the Texas Enterprise Fund is supposed to bring $13 million in capital investment and nearly 200 jobs to Texas. There's even talk of a bowling museum. Who wouldn't want to plan their vacation around the Bowling Shirts Th