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Though many small police departments across Wisconsin have been using body cameras to record police interactions for months, bigger cities have yet to get programs off the ground. Police departments in cities like Whitewater and Janesville have been outfitting officers with body cameras for a least a year, but

Federal appeals judges bristled on Tuesday at arguments defending gay marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin, with one Republican appointee comparing them to now-defunct laws that once outlawed weddings between blacks and whites.

CHICAGO — Federal appeals judges bristled on Tuesday at arguments defending bans on same-sex marriage in Indiana and Wisconsin, with one Republican appointee comparing them to laws, now defunct, that once outlawed weddings between blacks and whites.

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal appeals judges bristled Tuesday at arguments defending gay marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin, with one Republican appointee comparing them to now-defunct laws that once outlawed weddings between blacks and whites.

Today is a crucial milestone in Wisconsin’s same-sex marriage debate. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago hears arguments from the state, that a decision by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb against Wisconsin’s ban on gay marriage should be overturned.

A federal appeals court panel in Chicago heard oral arguments on Tuesday morning in separate lawsuits challenging Wisconsin’s and Indiana’s gay marriage bans. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb overturned Wisconsin’s ban on same-sex marriage in early June, and for about a week hun

MILWAUKEE (WITI) — Battling the same-sex marriage ban…by the busload! Hundreds of same-sex marriage supporters are headed to Chicago to take part in a key hearing in the legal fight over same-sex marriages in Indiana and Wisconsin.

CHICAGO (AP) - Federal appeals judges bristled on Tuesday at arguments defending gay marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin, with one Republican appointee comparing them to now-defunct laws that once outlawed weddings between blacks and whites.

CHICAGO — Lawyers for Indiana and Wisconsin on Tuesday tried, with little success, to explain to three judges why their laws banning same-sex couples from marrying were constitutional. In the most lopsided arguments over marriage bans at a federal appeals court this year, the 7th Circuit Court of