Gretchen Ehlke, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Healthcare workers administer nasal swabs to drivers and passengers at a drive-through COVID-19 testing site at Zoo Miami, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Omicron upends return to US schools, workplaces

by Jennifer Peltz The Associated Press, Gretchen Ehlke The Associated Press, and Terry Tang The Associated PressJanuary 3, 2022

Some school systems around the U.S. extended their holiday break Monday or switched back to online instruction because of the explosion in COVID-19 cases, while others pressed ahead with in-person classes amid a seemingly growing sense that Americans…

Law enforcement personnel walk toward the Allina Health clinic, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, Minn. Authorities say multiple people were shot at the Minnesota health clinic on Tuesday and someone was taken into custody afterward. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)

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Five wounded in Minn. clinic attack

by Mohamed Ibrahim Associated Press, and Gretchen Ehlke Associated PressFebruary 9, 2021

The Molson Coors facility is seen Thursday Feb. 27, 2020, in Milwaukee. An employee at the historic Molson Coors facility shot and killed five co-workers Wednesday afternoon and then turned the gun on himself. Six people, including the shooter, were killed on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020 at the facility. The brewery remained closed Thursday. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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Neighbors: Shooter built guns from mail-order parts

by Gretchen Ehlke Associated Press, and Todd Richmond Associated PressFebruary 27, 2020

Milwaukee Police and Milwaukee Fire Dept. personnel respond to reports of an active shooting at the Molson Coors Brewing Co. campus in Milwaukee, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

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Gunman kills 5 at Milwaukee brewery

by Carrie Antlfinger Associated Press, and Gretchen Ehlke Associated PressFebruary 26, 2020

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2018, file photo, Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald speaks during a news conference about 13-year-old Jayme Closs who has been missing since her parents were found dead in their home in Barron, Wis. The northwest Wisconsin girl who went missing in October after her parents were killed has been found alive, authorities said Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP, File)

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Wisconsin man arrested in teen’s abduction, parents’ deaths

by Jeff Baenen Associated Press, and Gretchen Ehlke Associated PressJanuary 11, 2019

Medicaid recipient Thomas J. Penister, of Milwaukee, responds to a question during an interview Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, in Milwaukee. Penister does not favor a work requirement in order to receive Medicaid because of the varying circumstances of the individuals receiving the health insurance.

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Medicaid work mandate will create uncertainty in some states

by Andrew DeMillo Associated Press, and Gretchen Ehlke Associated PressJanuary 14, 2018

The casket containing the remains of Sister Paula Merrill leads the processional to her final resting place, following her funeral service, Friday, Sep. 2, 2016, in Bardstown, Ky. Sister Merrill, with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and another nun were found murdered in their home on Aug. 25 n Durant, Miss. .(AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

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Slain nuns honored in funerals in Kentucky, Wisconsin

by Bruce Schreiner Associated Press, and Gretchen Ehlke Associated PressSeptember 2, 2016

Authorities respond near a burning gas station as dozens of people protest following the fatal shooting of a man in Milwaukee, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. A crowd of protesters skirmished with police Saturday night in the Milwaukee neighborhood where an officer shot and killed a man after a traffic stop and foot chase earlier in the day, setting fire to a police car and torching a gas station. (AP Photo/Gretchen Ehlke)

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Rioting erupts after Milwaukee police shoot man

by Gretchen Ehlke Associated Press, and Todd Richmond Associated PressAugust 14, 2016