Lawmakers on edge as statehouse security tightens after Minnesota shootings

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Anxious lawmakers convened Wednesday under heightened security in Wisconsin's state Capitol, one of the most publicly accessible statehouses in the country, days after a legislator and her husband in neighboring Minnesota were shot and killed at their home and others were targeted.

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