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(CNN) -- Eighty years after Hoovervilles sprung up around the country, and four months after tens of thousands descended on the Wisconsin state capitol, progressives have a new home in what they're calling Walkerville. The Madison tent city is named in honor -- or, more accurately, in defiance...

Laurie Bambi Bembenek, flanked by her lawyers, is shown in this 1992 photo following her return from Canada, where she was captured in 1990 after escaping from a Wisconsin prison. Former Playboy Club bunny and Milwaukee police officer Laurie (Bambi) Bembenek, whose prison escape to Canada 20...

- A Wisconsin man was recovering Friday after being bit by a 7-year-old Siberian tiger, the local sheriff's office said. The tiger, "Khan," grabbed the arm of 38-year-old volunteer John Meeker and pulled the arm into his cage at the Wisconsin Big Cat Rescue and Educational Center in Rock...

Wisconsin Smarts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two Wisconsin natives are sitting in a boat. So Ole asks Sven, "Why do scuba divers always fall backwards off 'der boats?" To which Sven replies,"Well, you know, if they fell forwards they'd...