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A new University of Wisconsin System analysis shows system President Jay Rothman's plan to increase tuition, fees and room and board costs would drive up student expenses as much as 5.4% next year. The system released a campus-by-campus breakdown Friday of the plan's impact. The analysis shows resident undergraduates at UW-River Falls would see the biggest cost increase at 5.4%. UW-Madison resident undergraduates would see the smallest increase at 3%. The Board of Regents is expected to vote on the cost increases at meetings March 30 and March 31 at UW-Stout.

The Republican-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court has announced his first television ad buy, just over two weeks before the election and after his Democratic-supported opponent has dominated the airwaves for weeks. Conservative candidate Dan Kelly’s first ad released Friday faults sentences handed down by opponent Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz. According to AdImpact, which tracks TV spending, the ad buy is $70,000. According to the group's tallies, that is less than 1% of the $9.3 million that Protasiewicz has spent on TV ads since the primary. The candidates meet Tuesday for their only debate before the April 4 election.

Authorities say a police officer in northeastern Wisconsin shot and wounded a suspect early Friday as that person drove a vehicle toward officers. The Wisconsin Department of Justice and the Oshkosh Police Department say Oshkosh officers were responding to a “threats complaint” about 1:30 a.m. when the suspect was spotted in a nearby vehicle. Authorities say the suspect drove the vehicle at the police officers, one of whom fired their weapon, injuring the suspect. That person was hospitalized but no information of the person's condition was immediately released. Oshkosh police Capt. Rebecca Kaiser tells the Oshkosh Northwestern the vehicle got close enough to the officers that they “felt threatened for their life.”

Wisconsin Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette resigns, governor appoints former Treasurer Sarah Godlewski.

Wisconsin Republicans are circulating a bill that would designate an official state rifle. The legislation would designate the Henry All-Weather .45-70 as Wisconsin's official state rifle. The rifle's manufacturer, Henry Repeating Arms, is based in Rice Lake. The company's Big Boy All-Weather Rifle won the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce's “Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin” contest in 2019. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce is the state's largest business association and a staunch Republican ally. According to the National Rifle Association, at least nine states have designated an official firearm.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Annette Ziegler has been reelected by her fellow justices to a second two-year term leading the state’s highest court. The court announced Thursday that justices had voted in private to keep Ziegler in the post she first assumed in 2021. The court did not announce the vote breakdown. The chief justice has no additional voting power on the Supreme Court. However, the person who holds the title is the administrative head of the state’s judicial system and has administrative authority over to procedures adopted by the Supreme Court. Ziegler has served on the court since 2007. She is part of the four-justice conservative majority.

DODGEVILLE, Wis. (AP) — DODGEVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Lands' End Inc. (LE) on Thursday reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss of $3.3 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.