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The election was held to replace former Rep. Mary Panzer, R-West Bend, who won a special election to the Senate in September. Teen gets maximum sentence in slaying MILWAUKEE (AP)-A 15-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to first-degree intentional homicide but insists he is not a killer faces nine years in state custody for the slaying of a Milwaukee woman outside a restaurant. The boy admitted he supplied and loaded the sawed-off shotgun used Nov. 16 to kill Christine Schweiger, 35, Schweiger, a county employee, was slain in front of her 10-year-old daughter.

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(AP)-Two Alabama investors in Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha are challenging a Wisconsin rule requiring that 51 percent of a dog track be owned by state residents. Harold Ripps and Herbert Meisler asked the state Gaming Commission to declare the park's parent company a Wisconsin resident. Ripps and Meisler together own 37.5 percent of Dairyland Greyhound Park Inc. stock. The pair asked the commission to make the declaration because they want to clarify the law before Dairyland next year seeks to renew its state license to own a racetrack in Wisconsin, said Michael Hall-man, an aide to Ripps.

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