Gov. Jim Doyle made three appointments to the UW System Board of Regents, including a new student regent.
The three appointees are Beth Ann Richlen, a UW-Stevens Point senior; Eileen Connolly-Keesler, executive director of the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation; and Chuck Pruitt, a partner and co-managing director of A.B. Data Ltd. who served as Doyle's campaign chairman.
Doyle also asked Regent Gerard Randall to continue serving on the board until May 2004. Doyle previously withdrew Randall's appointment, but Randall refused to leave until his replacement was confirmed.
UW senior football center Al Johnson will go to trial in early July for his second drunk driving charge before his training for the Dallas Cowboys begins.
Johnson's attorney requested that Dane County Circuit Judge Patrick Fieldler dismiss the charges altogether, or at least set a court date that would not conflict with the National Football League second round draft's training.
Though Fieldler initially failed to recognize Johnson's rare job situation, he responded to clarification with, \That explains everything,"" and granted Johnson his desired court date.
Johnson was arrested Oct. 6 for driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.11. If convicted, he will face a minimum of five days in jail.
Virtually all of sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo's detailed statement to investigators in Fairfax County, Va., may be used against him, a judge ruled Tuesday, concluding that Malvo willingly agreed to discuss the October shootings even after he was advised of his rights.
Fairfax prosecutors said the ruling will allow them to play for the jury an audio tape of Malvo's statement, during which, authorities say, Malvo laughed and remorselessly discussed the shootings of 13 people, 10 fatally, during a three-week period.
Malvo, now 18, is charged with the Oct. 14 killing of Linda Franklin, 47, outside a Home Depot store. He was arrested Oct. 24 with John Allen Muhammad, 42.
Three more suspected cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome have emerged in Wisconsin, according to the Associated Press.
State health officials are monitoring the cases, but they would not release details other than that the victims are not seriously ill or even in the hospital.
Wisconsin previously had two suspected cases and one probable case of SARS. In a suspected case, the victim exhibits symptoms after visiting a country infected with the outbreak or after coming in contact with someone who has. In a probable case, the victim meets that criteria but also has pneumonia or acute respiratory distress.
A suspected mobile biological weapons lab has been recovered in northern Iraq, a development that senior U.S. officials said Tuesday would lend support to Bush administration claims of a banned weapons program by the government of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
A senior administration official said the Pentagon will Wednesday announce the results of a two-week investigation into a tractor-trailer truck stolen from a government depot in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul and later handed over to U.S. forces. He said equipment found on the truck included a fermenter bolted to the floor that could be used for the production of biological agents.
