(2008/08/07)
MADISON (AP) — Three months before the November election, state officials say Wisconsin residents are registering to vote in record numbers.
(2008/08/07)
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors anticipate a man accused of killing three teenagers at a northern Wisconsin swimming hole will plead insanity.
(2008/08/07)
MADISON (AP) — State workers plan to begin surveys of southeastern Wisconsin trees late this week to determine how far the emerald ash borer may have spread.
(2008/08/07)
MADISON (AP) — A judge has disqualified a lawyer from representing a woman suing former state Sen. Gary George, saying his law firm has a potential conflict of interest.
(2008/08/07)
MADISON (AP) — The state has spent nearly 30 percent more to fuel its fleet of vehicles so far this year compared with 2007.
(2008/08/07)
MADISON (AP) — Jurors from outside Juneau County will decide whether a self-styled bishop helped hide a corpse on a toilet at a follower's Necedah, Wis., home.
(2008/08/07)
SHAWANO, Wis. (AP) — A former Wausau police officer who tried to kill his wife by crashing his truck into a rural bridge was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison.
(2008/08/07)
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Attendance dropped at this year’s Experimental Aviation Association’s AirVenture.
(2008/08/07)
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A 21-year-old Manitowoc man suspected of leading police on a high-speed chase that ended with him injuring four people faces more than 46 years in prison if convicted.
(2008/08/07)
MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — Bond has been set at $250,000 for a Marinette man charged with killing his estranged wife.
(2008/08/07)
CEDARBURG, Wis. (AP) — Cedarburg's police chief claims managers of a Waupaca company that ran carnival booths at the Ozaukee County Fair lied about the identity of an employee who is a registered sex offender.
(2008/08/07)
MADISON (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison is getting an $8.9 million federal grant to continue its human embryonic stem cell research.
(2008/08/07)
MADISON (AP) — A 34-year law enforcement veteran is taking over as chief of the state Capitol police force.
(2008/08/07)
MEQUON, Wis. (AP) — An associate professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin plans to open what is thought to be the state's first "concierge" medical office.
(2008/08/05)
MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — At least two of the three teens killed by a gunman last week on the Michigan-Wisconsin border died from single gunshot wounds to the head, a Wisconsin coroner said Monday.
(2008/08/05)
KINGSFORD, Mich. (AP) — When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation.
(2008/08/05)
MADISON (AP) — Officials confirmed the first appearance of the emerald ash borer in Wisconsin, a finding that could put about 740 million trees in the state in jeopardy.
(2008/08/05)
MARENGO, Wis. (AP) — Two Marengo teens are dead after a fireworks explosion.
(2008/08/05)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said Monday he plans to help a man who lost his house due to foreclosure for failing to pay a $50 city parking ticket.
(2008/08/05)
TOWN OF MENASHA, Wis. (AP) — A sport utility vehicle smashed through the brick wall of a Town of Menasha apartment building, narrowly missing one tenant and causing eight families to find housing elsewhere.
(2008/08/05)
MADISON (AP) — Foreclosure filings in Wisconsin continue at a record pace in July.
(2008/08/05)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 30-year-old man has been hurt by a dead cow that fell off a hook at a Milwaukee slaughter house and landed on top of him.
(2008/08/05)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The high price of fuel is affecting nearly everything — including garbage removal.
(2008/08/05)
MADISON (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will not revisit a case in which an attorney was ordered to pay more than $87,000 for bringing a frivolous lawsuit against a gay rights group.
(2008/08/05)
MADISON (AP) — Governor Doyle has preliminary plans to talk trade in the United Arab Emirates, Scandinavia and possibly South Africa and Israel.
(2008/08/04)
KINGSFORD, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan man suspected of ambushing a group of young revelers at a swimming hangout last week might have snapped after police began investigating him for sexual assault, the man’s mother said Sunday.
(2008/08/04)
WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — After a spate of useless tickets were presented, Wisconsin State Fair officials are warning people to only buy tickets from authorized sources.
(2008/08/04)
MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — What once was a mammoth distribution center of Mirro kitchen products now is a factory producing energy efficient lighting systems — with nearly four times the employees and more hiring planned.
(2008/08/04)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s minimum wage would increase to $7.25 per hour next July to match the federal rate under a proposal subject to a public hearing this week.
(2008/08/04)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison will welcome its new chancellor this month with a newly renovated home.
(2008/08/04)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Justice is expected to release 20,000 more documents related to its investigation of Governor Jim Doyle’s fundraising this week.
(2008/08/03)
NIAGARA, Wis. — A gunman suspected of opening fire on a group of young swimmers gathered along a riverbank was arrested Friday after he emerged from woods near the scene where three teenagers were slain and a fourth person was wounded.
(2008/08/03)
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police say the third man charged in the July 4 shooting that left four people dead and two others wounded has been taken into custody.
(2008/08/03)
OSHKOSH, Wis. — Pilot and actor John Travolta said Friday that he loves flying planes as much as making movies.
(2008/08/03)
MADISON, Wis. — Some of the nation’s worst sex offenders will no longer receive generous financial aid packages while they are confined in treatment centers under a bill approved by Congress.
(2008/08/03)
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Jim Doyle’s announcement Friday that Wisconsin will stop using coal at its power plants in Madison was hailed as a pivotal victory for the environment that makes the state a leader in seeking clean energy alternatives.
(2008/08/03)
BROOKFIELD, Wis. — A Pewaukee man suspected of driving drunk in a fatal crash in Brookfield early Friday had six prior arrests for drunken driving.
(2008/08/03)
MADISON, Wis. — A Dane County judge has ordered further mental competency testing for a Madison woman accused of killing her infant daughter.
(2008/08/03)
MADISON, Wis. — State Department of Justice officials decided to demote a top investigator before she questioned sending state agents to protect Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen at the Republican National Convention, according to an agency brief filed with employment officials Friday.
(2008/08/03)
JENNINGS, Wis. — A toast to Prohibition will made this weekend in northern Wisconsin.
(2008/08/01)
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. — In calm, steady voices, two young men testified Thursday how after separate nights of drinking they were abducted by a paper mill worker posing as a police officer, handcuffed, blindfolded and taken to a home where they were bound in chains and sexually assaulted.
(2008/08/01)
OSHKOSH, Wis. — Two Pennsylvania residents are dead after their small plane crashed at the EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh.
(2008/08/01)
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police have arrested the second of three men charged in connection with a July Fourth shooting that killed four people and injured two.
(2008/08/01)
MILWAUKEE — MillerCoors says it’s ending testing of its trio of craft styles of top-seller Miller Lite.
(2008/08/01)
RACINE, Wis. — He’ll talk about the Iraq war, gas prices and terrorism. But don’t look to John McCain to weigh in on the Brett Favre saga.
(2008/08/01)
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers are planning a Lambeau Field renovation project team officials say will improve security and fan convenience.
(2008/08/01)
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Jim Doyle’s campaign declined to give criminal investigators fundraising records until after his November 2006 re-election, according to documents released Thursday.
(2008/08/01)
MAUSTON, Wis. — A woman accused of hiding a rotting corpse on her toilet for weeks is looking for a plea deal.
(2008/08/01)
PEWAUKEE, Wis. — Pewaukee police have searched the home of a man arrested following a standoff earlier this week for bomb-making materials.
(2008/08/01)
MADISON, Wis. — The man arrested Wednesday after two bomb scares near the state Capitol was found mentally incompetent after an arrest earlier this summer.
(2008/08/01)
MILWAUKEE — SABMiller saw North American sales of key brands like Miller Lite fall 2 percent in its first quarter and worldwide consumption drop as consumers pulled back on spending in some countries, the brewer said Thursday.
(2008/08/01)
RACINE, Wis. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain expressed pride Thursday in a new campaign ad that compares Barack Obama to a pair of Hollywood celebrities, but defended his Democratic opponent after a voter said Obama “terrifies me.”
(2008/07/31)
MADISON, Wis. — Six out of Wisconsin’s 20 busiest structurally deficient bridges have been fixed since last year’s Minneapolis bridge collapse, according to an Associated Press review.
(2008/07/31)
MADISON, Wis. — Two eagle-eyed construction workers are being credited with helping police nab a man suspected of leaving a homemade bomb near the state Capitol.
(2008/07/31)
MILWAUKEE — The paper mill where an explosion killed three workers Tuesday received three citations for safety violations in the past 10 years, including one that was serious, according to a federal Web site.
(2008/07/31)
LADYSMITH, Wis. — A judge decided Wednesday to have a Douglas County jury hear the Rusk County trial of a Ladysmith man accused of killing another man in 1979.
(2008/07/31)
WAUSAU, Wis. — The three surviving children of parents accused of letting their 11-year-old daughter die of diabetes will have to get medical check ups every other week.
(2008/07/31)
MILWAUKEE — Financial problems are causing the museum started by lynching survivor James Cameron — America’s Black Holocaust Museum — to close its doors Friday after 20 years.
(2008/07/31)
MADISON, Wis. — Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says sheriffs can’t use service fees to bolster their salaries.
(2008/07/31)
KIMBERLY, Wis. — NewPage Corp. said Wednesday it will close its Kimberly mill next month.
(2008/07/31)
MADISON, Wis. — Nearly half the money spent recently on television advertising in the presidential race has gone to Wisconsin and three other states in the Upper Midwest, according to a report issued Wednesday.
(2008/07/30)
ASHWAUBENON, Wis. — More than two dozen Army reservists from an Ashwaubenon unit will soon be headed for Iraq.
(2008/07/30)
TOMAHAWK, Wis. — A storage tank explosion at a paper mill has killed multiple people, Tomahawk Fire Chief Don Peters said Tuesday.
(2008/07/30)
ROTHSCHILD, Wis. — Wedding guests had a memorable time at a recent reception in Rothschild.
(2008/07/30)
MADISON, Wis. — A Chicago man accused of threatening a woman with a gun led authorities in Dane County on a chase with his 7-year-old son in the vehicle before crashing into a tree.
(2008/07/30)
WAUSAU, Wis. — A judge Tuesday gave prosecutors one day to develop a new plan to make sure three teenagers are safe after their parents prayed instead of seeking medical help as their sister died.
(2008/07/30)
MADISON, Wis. — If John McCain wants to overcome Barack Obama’s lead in Wisconsin, he will need the support of undecided voters in heavily populated areas such as Racine County.
(2008/07/30)
PEWAUKEE, Wis. — A man who holed up in a Pewaukee City Hall restroom and claimed to have a bomb has been charged with armed robbery and causing a bomb scare.
(2008/07/30)
MADISON, Wis. — Three radical environmentalists have been indicted for their roles in a 2000 attack at a federal forestry research station in northern Wisconsin, prosecutors said Tuesday.
(2008/07/30)
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities have closed off an area near the Wisconsin Capitol as they investigate whether a backpack contains an explosive device.
(2008/07/29)
PEWAUKEE, Wis. — A bomb squad and other law enforcement officers were involved in a standoff Monday with a man who holed up in a restroom at Pewaukee City Hall and claimed to have an explosive device.
(2008/07/29)
BROOKFIELD, Wis. — A Brookfield-based recruiter says one in six executives applying for new jobs misrepresents their education.
(2008/07/29)
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Jim Doyle interviewed the four finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor job in May, days before Biddy Martin was selected, his calendar shows.
(2008/07/29)
MILWAUKEE — A driver pulled from a truck that went into a Milwaukee river has died.
(2008/07/29)
MADISON, Wis. — An Indonesian national trembled and wept as a federal judge sentenced him Monday to four years in prison for trying to smuggle dozens of assault rifle scopes out of the United States.
(2008/07/29)
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Jim Doyle interviewed the four finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor job in May, days before Biddy Martin was selected, his calendar shows.
(2008/07/29)
JANESVILLE, Wis. — Federal workplace regulators are proposing $127,000 in fines against a Janesville computer monitor recycler.
(2008/07/29)
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee this week takes up a compact to prevent the diversion of water from the Great Lakes, one of the world’s largest sources of fresh water.
(2008/07/29)
WASHBURN, Wis. — The death of an Ashland man run over on a highway in Bayfield County is under investigation.
(2008/07/28)
MADISON, Wis. — A new report ranks Wisconsin 10th in the nation in volunteer participation rate.
(2008/07/28)
MADISON, Wis. — An internal investigation was launched after five state correctional officers took 22 inmates from a boot camp for alcoholics and drug addicts to a presentation at a bar where alcohol was served to other patrons.
(2008/07/28)
MADISON, Wis. — Republicans hoping to keep control of the Wisconsin Assembly are expected to raise a lot of money on Monday.
(2008/07/28)
MONROE, Wis. — The trials for a man charged with beating to death one of his twin infant sons and injuring the other have been delayed.
(2008/07/27)
MADISON — It might look like Wisconsin’s Legislature did next to nothing the past two years.
(2008/07/27)
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. - The paper mill worker accused of abducting and sexually assaulting two young men that were kept chained at his home before one escaped is returning to court.
(2008/07/27)
WATERTOWN, Wis. (AP) — A light plane landing at the Watertown Municipal Airport crashed Saturday, setting off an explosion as it came down at the end of a hangar while other aviation enthusiasts ducked for cover.
(2008/07/27)
MILWAUKEE — A man who was homeless before being taken in recently by a Milwaukee woman is accused of beating and stabbing her to death after she told him he had to leave.
(2008/07/27)
MILWAUKEE — The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has hired a married Roman Catholic priest with children — a first in the archdiocese’s history.
(2008/07/27)
MADISON — Japanese beetles are barraging the state capital.
(2008/07/27)
IRON RIVER, Wis. — This is the weekend for Wisconsin blueberry lovers.
(2008/07/27)
MADISON — A Chicago woman who took credit cards in University of Wisconsin buildings in Madison and Milwaukee has been sentenced to five years in prison and 10 years probation.
(2008/07/27)
JANESVILLE, Wis. — A gruesome triple homicide case is due back in court next week.
(2008/07/25)
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. — Investigators plan an “exhaustive” investigation into the background of a mill worker accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two young men to see if he is connected to other cases, the Wood County sheriff said Thursday.
(2008/07/25)
RAYMOND, Wis. (AP) — An avid bicyclist who took part in a cross-country ultra-endurance event last month was fatally injured when she and another biker were hit by a car driven by a suspected drunken driver.
(2008/07/25)
MADISON — The University of Wisconsin-Madison will pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a former power plant employee who claimed she faced rampant discrimination and sexual harassment.
(2008/07/25)
MADISON — A possible running mate for John McCain heaped praise on Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign Thursday and said polls showing him way ahead in Wisconsin are “worrisome.”
(2008/07/25)
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s women’s week on the presidential campaign trail, judging from the attention that Barack Obama and John McCain are lavishing on female voters and issues especially important to them.
(2008/07/25)
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — Authorities said the man found dead in the back seat of a car during a traffic stop accidentally shot himself.
(2008/07/25)
MILWAUKEE — In a bid to offset slumping ad sales and rising costs, The Daily Telegram in Superior, Wis., said Thursday it will publish the majority of its 118-year-old paper on the Internet starting this fall.
(2008/07/25)
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain says Michigan and other Great Lakes states are right to protect their water from dry regions such as his home state of Arizona.
(2008/07/25)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A liberal group has filed a complaint against Supreme Court Justice-elect Michael Gableman, requesting an investigation into possible fundraising calls he made as Ashland County's district attorney in 2002.
(2008/07/25)
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — The Stillwater Lift Bridge will be closed next week for repairs.
(2008/07/25)
WASHINGTON — The AFL-CIO is mobilizing union members who are military veterans to work against Republican presidential candidate John McCain and other office seekers it opposes, officials said Thursday.
(2008/07/25)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Clear Channel Outdoor is donating six billboards around Milwaukee to help police investigating last week's quadruple homicide.
(2008/07/25)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Outagamie County Executive Toby Paltzer has asked his staff to create a plan for closing the county's main administration building one day a week.
(2008/07/25)
MADISON (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison has given seven liquor stores and a grocery in the city electronic scanners to help them spot fake IDs.
(2008/07/25)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Severe storms that pushed through Wisconsin on Thursday blew down tents at the Jefferson County Fair while blasting the state with gusts up to 70 mph.
(2008/07/24)
MADISON (AP) — Tattoo parlors and religious camps, hotels and restaurants, body piercers, and bed and breakfasts would have to pay new and higher fees to the state under a proposal to help plug a budget hole.
(2008/07/24)
MADISON (AP) — In a case closely watched by public employees unions, a Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday upheld the firing of a teacher who briefly looked at pornography on his work computer.
(2008/07/24)
MADISON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama continues to pummel Republican challenger Sen. John McCain when it comes to raising money in Wisconsin.
(2008/07/24)
PULASKI, Wis. (AP) — Pulaski Tri-County Fire Chief Frank Wichlacz died Wednesday after an out-of-control pickup crushed him between a garage door and a parked water tanker as firefighters returned from a fire, police said.
(2008/07/24)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An appeals court Wednesday upheld a ruling ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the water discharged from ships as a way to protect local ecosystems from invasive species.
(2008/07/24)
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — A compact to prevent the diversion of water from the Great Lakes has widespread support in Congress and a strong chance of winning approval by the end of the year, lawmakers said Wednesday.
(2008/07/24)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A man convicted for the killing and robbery of a Miller Brewing Co. executive last winter was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without possibility of parole.
(2008/07/24)
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — A motorist was impaired by a mix of beer and a prescription drug when she hit two bicycle riders from behind on a Racine County road, killing one of them, according to charges filed Wednesday.
(2008/07/24)
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — A 28-year-old man was killed after two masked men kicked in the front door of his home, rousted him from bed and demanded money, Racine police said Wednesday.
(2008/07/24)
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Waukesha woman who sued her son's former fiancee over $1,100 in expenses for a wedding that never took place has dropped her complaint.
(2008/07/24)
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Minnesota-based Pentair Inc. said it will close its Sheboygan plant by June and eliminate about 350 jobs.
(2008/07/24)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — AirTran Airways said it will expand service at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee by offering nonstop flights to eight cities.
(2008/07/24)
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — John McCain can be a Berliner, too.
(2008/07/24)
WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — West Allis Central High School officials say five varsity baseball players have been suspended indefinitely for recent vandalism.
(2008/07/24)
BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) — It's something of a dog fight in Brookfield, where residents are arguing over a proposal to limit the number of pets per household.
(2008/07/24)
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kenosha County officials are considering asking former County Executive Allan Kehl to pay for the special election held to replace him.
(2008/07/24)
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A car chased in Sheboygan at speeds up to 80 mph had an infant in the back seat.
(2008/07/23)
MADISON (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison waited more than one year to formally reprimand a power plant superintendent who asked a subordinate to have sex with him, a school official said Monday.
(2008/07/23)
LADYSMITH, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys were trying to pick a jury in the first day of a trial for a northern Wisconsin man accused of fatally shooting a college student nearly 30 years ago, authorities said Monday.
(2008/07/23)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee teenager is accused of strangling his girlfriend after the two watched a movie about a murder spree.
(2008/07/23)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Wisconsin Humane Society says it had a near-record number of adoptions Sunday as dog lovers lined up for puppies rescued from one of the nation's largest dog breeding facilities.
(2008/07/23)
MADISON (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle has more than $1 million in his campaign fund that can be used if he decides to seek a third term in 2010, his campaign said Monday.
(2008/07/23)
MADISON (AP) — A Northwest Airlines jetliner made a safe emergency landing in Madison on Monday after the pilot reported a pressurization problem, an airline spokesman said.
(2008/07/23)
LAKE DELTON, Wis. (AP) — Crews are beginning to repair the dam damaged when Lake Delton overflowed and emptied during last month's flooding in southern Wisconsin.
(2008/07/23)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — High fuel costs and a slumping economy has forced Midwest Airlines to reduce service 30 percent to 40 percent, including cutting flights from Kansas City to two cities and nonstop flights to two others, the airline announced Sunday.
(2008/07/23)
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A Sheboygan Falls teenager is dead and a sheriff's deputy injured after a Sheboygan County crash.
(2008/07/23)
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — A 42-year-old Plover man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint.
(2008/07/23)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee-area medical helicopter service Flight for Life plans to open an air base in Fond du Lac next month.
(2008/07/23)
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Another woman has died following a head-on crash near the town of Clayton earlier this month.
(2008/07/23)
MADISON (AP) — Six Dane County school districts are working together to create a new school that will offer both high school and college vocational classes.
(2008/07/23)
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — The mayor of Chippewa Falls is resigning.
(2008/07/21)
LAKE DELTON, Wis. — It’s a snow cone kind of day, with not a cloud in the sky and the mercury flirting with 90.
(2008/07/21)
WAUSAU, Wis. — If you like whitewater canoe racing, mark a trip to Wausau on your 2012 calendar.
(2008/07/21)
MADISON, Wis. — Candidates for political office in Wisconsin have until the close of business today to report how much money they’ve raised in the first half of this year.
(2008/07/21)
ASHLAND, Wis. — Wisconsin has proposed new regulations to govern commercial fishing on the Great Lakes, giving the state new tools to make sure the fishery is protected while reducing burdensome paperwork for fishermen, a state expert says.
(2008/07/21)
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee will soon have two lions guarding the Zeidler Municipal Building downtown.
(2008/07/21)
MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin continues to lead the nation in mink production.
(2008/07/20)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police are looking for two teens they believe robbed one man and shot other.
(2008/07/20)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold says nothing should be off the table when it comes to saving the Great Lakes, even closing the St. Lawrence Seaway to oceangoing ships.
(2008/07/20)
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) — Wauwatosa police are looking for a driver who struck two 17-year-old girls, seriously injuring one of them.
(2008/07/20)
YORKVILLE, Wis. (AP) — More than 800 acres once used for duck farming in Racine County are about to go on the auction block.
(2008/07/20)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Green Bay wildlife sanctuary will soon have two otter pups on exhibit.
(2008/07/20)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — National forest planners may close more than half of the roads in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest to cars and other motorized vehicles.
(2008/07/20)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Dalai Lama is making his seventh visit to Madison, a six-day trip that begins with a public talk Saturday afternoon.
(2008/07/20)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin farmers are planting and producing more winter wheat this year as prices continue to rise.
(2008/07/20)
WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) — A married Texas software consultant who traveled to Wisconsin to have sex with a teen he met over the Internet has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
(2008/07/20)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Two major cranberry companies are pushing Wisconsin farmers to grow more, but they say that can’t happen unless the state speeds the permit process.
(2008/07/20)
AMBERG, Wis. (AP) — The victim of a car-tanker truck crash was identified Saturday as a Michigan man.
(2008/07/20)
RHINELANDER, Wis. (AP) — Anyone who’s enjoyed an ice cream bar or Popsicle on a warm summer day likely used a product of Solon Manufacturing in Rhinelander.
(2008/07/20)
HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — Lumberjacks from around the world will soon be gathering in northwestern Wisconsin for their annual international competition.
(2008/07/20)
SHOREWOOD, Wis. (AP) — Thousands of suburban Milwaukee residents have a new way to carry items home from the store.
(2008/07/20)
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A 15-month-old girl has drowned in her family’s swimming pool in Fond du Lac County.
(2008/07/20)
TOMAHAWK, Wis. (AP) — They lost their daughter to murder and now have lost most of their mementos of the 25-year-old woman in a fire that destroyed their home.
(2008/07/19)
MADISON (AP) — Multiple confessions and a DNA match were enough for a judge to order a college dropout to stand trial Friday in a murder that left Wisconsin’s capital city on edge for weeks.
(2008/07/19)
MADISON (AP) — A former top state Justice Department investigator has filed a complaint saying her bosses demoted her because she questioned using state agents to protect Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen at the Republican National Convention.
(2008/07/19)
PARK FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Forest planners want to close motorized access to more than half of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.
(2008/07/19)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — A man who won a new trial in the death of his 2-year-old stepson received a prison sentence five years longer than his original one Friday.
(2008/07/19)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Wisconsin Humane Society says it will buy and close one of the largest dog breeding facilities in the nation.
(2008/07/19)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Just hours after a convicted robber finished his sentence and was released from the Oshkosh Correctional Institution, he hopped a Greyhound bus to Milwaukee and robbed another bank, authorities said.
(2008/07/19)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Manpower Inc. reported a 33 percent drop in second-quarter profit Friday due to a hefty legal reserve, but adjusted results topped Wall Street expectations.
(2008/07/19)
AMBERG, Wis. (AP) — Residents of a Marinette County community were told to stay in their homes and take precautions Friday after a car collided with a tanker truck believed to be carrying methanol, killing the motorist.
(2008/07/19)
WALDO, Wis. (AP) — About 150 anarchists from the United States and Canada are in Wisconsin this week training for demonstrations at the Democratic and Republican conventions.
(2008/07/19)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Court officials said the trial of a teenager charged with killing his sister has been moved to Bismarck.
(2008/07/19)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee police sergeant tried to prevent the suicide of an off-duty officer by shooting him in the leg.
(2008/07/19)
MARSHFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Northern Wisconsin residents are getting a new alternative when it comes to transportation.
(2008/07/19)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former lawmaker John Ford was convicted Friday on public corruption charges for taking money from government contractors and lobbying for them while he served in the Tennessee Senate.
(2008/07/17)
MADISON — Three incumbent legislators survived challenges to their nomination papers Wednesday.
(2008/07/17)
MADISON — A couple’s homeowner’s policy does not cover alleged negligence by the wife for not preventing her husband from sexually abusing a child, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday.
(2008/07/17)
MADISON — A lawsuit brought against two Roman Catholic dioceses by five men sexually abused by a Catholic school teacher was dismissed Wednesday by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
(2008/07/17)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge has approved an $18.2 million settlement from the government for a Milwaukee family whose daughter suffered brain damage during birth at a federally funded clinic.
(2008/07/17)
MILWAUKEE — Seeing movie star Johnny Depp was enough of a reward for many. But the movie “Public Enemies” also provided millions of dollars for the state’s economy at a time communities greatly needed it.
(2008/07/17)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Foreign species that slipped into the Great Lakes in ballast tanks of oceangoing cargo ships cost the regional economy at least $200 million a year, said a University of Notre Dame study released Wednesday.
(2008/07/17)
MADISON — Wisconsin’s Commerce Secretary Jack Fischer announced his resignation Wednesday, just 10 days after a newspaper reported he billed taxpayers for more than $21,000 on international trips over a short period.
(2008/07/17)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — In a mini-replay of early June, severe weather across parts of Wisconsin on Wednesday produced a tornado near Sheboygan, severe winds that knocked down trees and power lines and heavy downpours that raised the threat of flooding.
(2008/07/17)
ST. LOUIS — Debbie Halcomb unpacked boxes and worried that her damp carpet harbored mold as she moved back into her flood-damaged home on Wednesday.
(2008/07/17)
MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) — Middleton has become the latest Wisconsin municipality to ban workplace smoking.
(2008/07/17)
MADISON (AP) — Madison police are investigating another homicide in a South Side neighborhood that's been riddled with violence, drug dealing and prostitution.
(2008/07/17)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — A pizza-delivery driver accused of shooting a man with a BB gun in retaliation for a taunt has been charged with two felony counts of recklessly endangering safety.
(2008/07/17)
HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — The St. Croix County sheriff said the deaths of two brothers in May involved drugs.
(2008/07/17)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Chicago man has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for raping a woman and three girls in Milwaukee.
(2008/07/17)
WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. (AP) — Her license plate said it all.
(2008/07/17)
ASHLAND, Wis. (AP) — Two Ashland High School golf coaches have been dismissed after they were accused of leaving their team unchaperoned in a hotel while they went out drinking.
(2008/07/17)
SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) — Parents of a soldier from South Dakota have confirmed their son was killed in Iraq.
(2008/07/17)
MADISON (AP) — A new state initiative coordinates volunteers to help with emergencies such as this year's flooding.
(2008/07/17)
HOLLAND, Wis. (AP) — Rising fuel prices have farmers worrying about efficiency just like everyone else.
(2008/07/16)
DEE-ANN DURBIN | Associated Press DETROIT — General Motors Corp., struggling to survive, will slash jobs, cut production, sell assets and suspend its dividend for the first time in 86 years as it tries to ride out an unprecedented collapse of its core U.S. market.
(2008/07/16)
MADISON (AP) — It doesn’t appear likely that Wisconsin will recoup most of the $10 million awarded to General Motors for worker training and other improvements at its Janesville plant.
(2008/07/16)
MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — Three college students who died in a house fire in April had blood-alcohol levels from two to almost four times the legal limit in Wisconsin drunken driving cases, authorities said Tuesday.
(2008/07/16)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The new MillerCoors joint venture will be based in downtown Chicago, company officials said Tuesday, opting for a neutral site over the home city of either individual brewer.
(2008/07/16)
RAPID CITY, S.D. — The United States will have trouble competing in the world economy if it doesn’t spend what’s needed to maintain a first-class highway system, according to a member of a national commission that studied transportation funding.
(2008/07/16)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has refused to stay a civil lawsuit claiming the Green Bay Roman Catholic Diocese knowingly gave a priest with a history of abusing children unsupervised access to two brothers he molested in the late 1970s.
(2008/07/16)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of pounds of household garbage has washed onto Lake Michigan shores in the past couple of days, leading to an investigation by the Coast Guard and the temporary closure of a public beach.
(2008/07/16)
TOWN OF HOLLAND, Wis. (AP) — A Brown County parks employee has been killed in a tractor rollover while mowing along the Fox River State Recreational Trail in northeast Wisconsin.
(2008/07/16)
MADISON (AP) — Madison police are investigating whether a Saratoga man accused of kidnapping two young men is connected to a college student's unsolved murder.
(2008/07/16)
MADISON (AP) — The board that governs elections in Wisconsin said a state Senate candidate was wrong to hand out $128 at a recent campaign event.
(2008/07/16)
MADISON (AP) — A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court said a sheriff's deputy acted legally when he searched a suspect and found heroin in his pockets.
(2008/07/16)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 37-year-old Milwaukee man has been convicted of homicide, kidnapping and drug dealing in a case involving a group known as the Body Snatchers.
(2008/07/16)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police now have the help of billboards showing the photos of two suspects connected to a July 4 shooting that killed four people and injured two.
(2008/07/16)
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — A former Eau Claire County district attorney accused of identity theft and forgery wants a different judge to hear his case.
(2008/07/16)
PARK FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A northern Wisconsin paper mill has won a $30 million federal grant to help construct and operate a biorefinery to make ethanol and biodiesel from wood products.
(2008/07/16)
MADISON (AP) — Alliant Energy Corp. has lowered its earnings outlook, blaming last month's flooding in Iowa for lost sales and heavy cleanup costs.
(2008/07/16)
SHOREWOOD, Wis. (AP) — A conservation group plans to hand out free reusable shopping bags to every home in the Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood on Saturday.
(2008/07/16)
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Federal Aviation Administration officials have unveiled a new, taller tower at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.
(2008/07/16)
BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — A Canadian couple who saved a uniquely marked pig from the butcher hope she will end up at the happiest place on earth.
(2008/07/15)
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A second man faces charges stemming from the 2006 drug-overdose death of a Chippewa Falls woman.
(2008/07/15)
LADYSMITH, Wis. (AP) — Vehicles hitting bear are a growing problem in at least one northern Wisconsin county.
(2008/07/15)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man has been charged for his alleged role in a shooting that left four people dead and two injured.
(2008/07/15)
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (AP) — Wood County authorities say the pilot of a crop-dusting helicopter crashed after a bee got sucked into the cockpit and stung him.
(2008/07/15)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson Inc. is due to release its earnings this week.
(2008/07/15)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Potential abuses in Wisconsin state employees working overtime will be examined by a legislative committee this week.
(2008/07/15)
SHAWANO, Wis. (AP) — Shawano city officials are looking into a plan that might help them convert landfill gases into a source of vehicle fuel.
(2008/07/15)
PLYMOUTH, Wis. (AP) — A Fond du Lac County teenager with a form of autism has been found, after he apparently wandered about 20 miles from home.
(2008/07/13)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Appleton police have arrested a woman for allegedly bringing a rat into an upscale restaurant, claiming it was in her meal and then seeking $500,000 to keep quiet.
(2008/07/13)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Police say an Appleton man who was trying to clear debris from a highway has died after he was hit by a vehicle.
(2008/07/13)
PARDEEVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A former Pardeeville man accused of being a deadbeat dad for five years has been arrested after he came back to town for his mother’s funeral.
(2008/07/13)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Torah scroll valued at about $30,000 reported stolen from a St. Louis-area synagogue is one of a handful of Torah scrolls stolen in the past year in the United States, mystifying police and the Jewish community.
(2008/07/13)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dane County authorities say a man has been found dead in a home that was destroyed by a fire.
(2008/07/13)
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Utility crews have restored power to a Sheboygan neighborhood, where a driver knocked down a utility pole when he swerved to avoid a raccoon.
(2008/07/13)
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A teen formerly of Janesville whose drunken-driving crash left a friend dead has been sentenced to one year in jail.
(2008/07/13)
SUAMICO, Wis. (AP) — A Green Bay man who helped an acquaintance attack and rob her grandmother has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(2008/07/13)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — An Appleton man convicted of charges stemming from an alleged cockfighting operation has been sentenced to 30 days in jail.
(2008/07/12)
HUDSON, Wis. — Republican John McCain told a mostly female audience Friday that his plans to cut income, business and estate taxes would help women while Democrat Barack Obama’s proposals would only erect new economic obstacles for them.
(2008/07/12)
MADISON — Dealing another blow to an already fragile budget, the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday said the state has wrongly collected sales tax on some computer software sales.
(2008/07/12)
MADISON — Economic development groups must abide by Wisconsin’s open meetings and records laws if they closely resemble government bodies, the state Supreme Court held Friday in one of two rulings dealing with public information.
(2008/07/12)
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. — A paper mill worker accused of abducting and sexually assaulting two young men told an investigator “he knew what he did was wrong,” according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.
(2008/07/12)
MADISON (AP) — A dozen candidates for state or congressional office face challenges to their nomination papers.
(2008/07/12)
MADISON (AP) — Dane County prosecutors won’t retry a woman imprisoned for shaking an infant to death after an appeals court freed her and said new research cast doubt on her guilt.
(2008/07/12)
MILWAUKEE — A banker held beloved motorcycle-maker Harley-Davidson’s fate in 1984.
(2008/07/12)
Harley-Davidson is opening a museum that takes a look at the company’s history and culture — from Knuckleheads to Sportsters to Fat Boys.
(2008/07/12)
AMERY, Wis. (AP) — A former teacher’s aide who had sex with her daughter’s high school classmate has been banished from her hometown in western Wisconsin.
(2008/07/12)
WASHINGTON — Five young lives have been ended by lightning in less than a week, a deadly reminder of one of summer’s leading hazards.
(2008/07/12)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The head of the Midwest Airlines pilots union claims the company has refused to budge in talks on wage and benefits concessions and appears to be headed toward bankruptcy reorganization.
(2008/07/12)
MADISON — Just last year, the views of Wisconsin Right to Life and Sen. John McCain clashed in the Supreme Court — over McCain’s signature campaign finance law, not abortion.
(2008/07/12)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — As foreign species such as quagga mussels and a killer fish virus continue assaulting the Great Lakes, federal policymakers are taking long-delayed steps to slam the door on other invaders.
(2008/07/12)
MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin's Veterans Affairs Secretary John Scocos is returning to Iraq.
(2008/07/12)
LAKE DELTON, Wis. (AP) — Some employees of the Tommy Bartlett Show in Lake Delton are dealing with another setback after the water emptied from the lake they used for their ski show.
(2008/07/12)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Former NBA star Latrell Sprewell is getting his home back.
(2008/07/12)
TOWN OF BRISTOL, Wis. (AP) — Two women were killed when the cars they were driving collided head-on in Kenosha County.
(2008/07/10)
MADISON — Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in reinstating charges against three men accused of digging up a corpse to have sex with it.
(2008/07/10)
MADISON — Police in Wisconsin can legally run drug-sniffing dogs around cars during traffic stops, a divided state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
(2008/07/10)
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (AP) — Two young men who went missing in northern Wisconsin were abducted by another man, chained up at his rural house and sexually assaulted before one managed to escape and get help, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
(2008/07/10)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard searched Lake Michigan after a 911 report of a plane crash Wednesday afternoon but suspended the search four hours later after finding nothing to substantiate the report.
(2008/07/10)
MADISON — Republican presidential candidate John McCain is going after the female vote by hosting a women-only town hall meeting Friday in Wisconsin.
(2008/07/10)
GREEN BAY (AP) — The new bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay said Wednesday he intends to bring a sense of hope as he takes over a Roman Catholic congregation seven times larger than the one he has led in Wyoming for nearly a decade.
(2008/07/10)
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — A man found dead in the back seat of a car pulled over for suspected drunken driving was fatally shot inside the vehicle, a detective said Wednesday.
(2008/07/10)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Michigan has become the last of the eight Great Lakes states to join a compact designed to protect the region’s water.
(2008/07/10)
MEDFORD, Wis. (AP) — The body of a 17-year-old swimmer has been recovered from a Taylor County lake.
(2008/07/10)
MADISON (AP) — A ruling that could blow a $265 million hole in the Wisconsin budget is coming Friday from the state Supreme Court.
(2008/07/10)
MADISON (AP) — University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh provost Lane Earns likely will be UW-Parkside's interim chancellor while the school conducts a second search for a leader.
(2008/07/10)
BEAVER DAM, Wis. (AP) — A bicyclist died after being hit by a semi-trailer truck on a rural Dodge County highway.
(2008/07/10)
MADISON (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle said the state of Wisconsin has bought more than 92,000 megawatt hours of renewable electrical energy.
(2008/07/10)
TOWN OF SUMMIT, Wis. (AP) — Many property owners suffered large losses in last month's flooding in southern Wisconsin.
(2008/07/10)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — The woman whose fugitive ex-boyfriend is accused of slipping an abortion pill into her drink said their relationship was abusive for a decade.
(2008/07/09)
MADISON — Everyone and his brother, sister and uncle apparently think they’ve got a shot at winning office this campaign season.
(2008/07/09)
Wisconsin candidates who filed nomination papers to run for Congress and the Legislature this fall by the deadline of 5 p.m. Tuesday:
(2008/07/09)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — For the first time in more than 20 years, the organizers of the Harbor Fest musical festival in Racine, Wis., were forced to cancel their seminal summertime event on the shores of Lake Michigan.
(2008/07/09)
MADISON (AP) — Sales of state lottery tickets dipped about 3 percent in fiscal year 2006-07, according to a state audit released Tuesday.
(2008/07/09)
ST. LOUIS — Duffels of police riot gear. Thousands of pens. Toys, water heaters and even dog houses. As floodwaters retreat across the Midwest, remnants of washed-out households are turning up in the muddy ooze miles from the families who lost them.
(2008/07/09)
MADISON — A longtime aide to state Sen. Bob Jauch will lead Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign in Wisconsin, the campaign announced Tuesday.
(2008/07/09)
MILWAUKEE — The Hebior mammoth, a 14,500-year-old skeleton dug up in Kenosha County in 1994, was unveiled Tuesday at the Milwaukee Public Museum, giving locals a glimpse of perhaps the most intact specimen discovered in North America.
(2008/07/09)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nuclear weapons? No way. But there are plenty of items on Iran’s shopping list the United States is more than happy to supply: cigarettes, brassieres, bull semen and more.
(2008/07/09)
RED WING, Minn. (AP) — The Mississippi River has reopened to commercial navigation near Red Wing after the channel was dredged.
(2008/07/09)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A $10,000 reward is being offered for information on the weapon and shooter or shooters involved in the killings of four people in a crowd of people on a Milwaukee street in the early morning hours of the Fourth of July.
(2008/07/09)
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A Republican legislator said he'll run as an independent this fall.
(2008/07/09)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 34-year-old woman is charged with stealing credit card and bank information from customers she while working at Journal Communications Inc. in Milwaukee.
(2008/07/09)
MADISON (AP) — A new study finds many senior citizens in Wisconsin doesn't earn enough money to meet their basic living expenses.
(2008/07/09)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee ranks second in the country in the percentage of married women in the labor force, and it’s because of the area’s short commute times, according to a new study.
(2008/07/09)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Law enforcement officials said a spike in addiction to prescription painkillers has led to another alarming trend: greater use of heroin.
(2008/07/09)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Severe storms produced at least one tornado and a lightning strike that killed a teenager as they swept across southeastern Wisconsin on Monday.
(2008/07/09)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Three Wisconsin organizations are among those alleging the nation's largest dairy cooperative has engaged in unfair business practices.
(2008/07/08)
MADISON — A new panel of state lawmakers, relief workers and emergency directors will start meeting this month to streamline Wisconsin’s disaster statutes and clarify how the Legislature should work if a crisis forces it to meet outside Madison.
(2008/07/08)
DES MOINES, Iowa — The federal government will allow livestock to graze on thousands of acres of land set aside for conservation as a part of its response to record flooding in the Midwest.
(2008/07/08)
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Work should begin by Thursday on repairing about 15 gusset plates on the Highway 43 bridge over the Mississippi River at Winona, the Minnesota Department of Transportation said.
(2008/07/08)
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — Portage County authorities are investigating a traffic stop of a suspected drunken driver that turned up a back-seat passenger who had been fatally shot.
(2008/07/08)
NECEDAH, Wis. (AP) — The body of a 50-year-old fisherman reported missing in the Petenwell Flowage has been recovered.
(2008/07/08)
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — The Stillwater Lift Bridge over the St. Croix River has reopened to cars and pickup trucks.
(2008/07/08)
HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — Sen. John McCain plans a campaign stop in western Wisconsin Friday in his campaign for the presidency.
(2008/07/08)
MADISON (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle said a new Republican ad that rips Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's stance on energy conservation distorts reality.
(2008/07/08)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An autistic man who was rescued in the Wisconsin woods has been discharged from the Minneapolis hospital where he's been treated since June 22.
(2008/07/08)
PEWAUKEE (AP) — A lightning strike started a fire that did $30,000 in damage to a Pewaukee condominium.
(2008/07/08)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee County deputies closed several lanes of eastbound Interstate 894 after a semi-trailer truck crashed and damaged a 7-foot chunk of the road's median.
(2008/07/08)
WONDER LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in northern Illinois have charged a Wonder Lake man in a boat crash that left a Wisconsin woman dead and injured another person.
(2008/07/08)
MADISON (AP) — A pair of extremely rare Kirtland's warblers has been spotted in northern Wisconsin's Bayfield County.
(2008/07/07)
MADISON, Wis. — Hydrologists will visit several Wisconsin counties to try to figure out how to get rid of standing water, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(2008/07/07)
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued an air quality watch for the eight lakeshore counties on Sunday.
(2008/07/07)
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police are still interviewing witnesses to a shooting this weekend that killed four people.
(2008/07/07)
MILWAUKEE — Expect food prices to keep going up. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says milk is costing more across the nation. It sold for an average of $19.40 per 100 pounds in June, up $1 from just the month before.
(2008/07/07)
MILWAUKEE — Looking for something to do on this holiday weekend? All of Wisconsin’s state parks are open after last month’s flooding.
(2008/07/07)
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Sheboygan police say reports of an early morning fight led them to an underage drinking party where three people were arrested and 15 cited.
(2008/07/07)
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Milwaukee-area authorities say the careless use of fireworks has led to a house fire that caused $100,000 in damages and killed a pet dog.
(2008/07/07)
BARRON, Wis. — A Cameron man convicting of causing a brain injury to an 8-month-old boy has been sentenced to six months in jail.
(2008/07/07)
WAUSAU — Two Wausau residents are among the 48 people named Carnegie Medal winners this year, after the couple pulled a teen from his truck before it was engulfed in flames.
(2008/07/07)
OSHKOSH, Wis. — The federal government is providing workshops throughout Wisconsin to provide advice on trying to make homes disaster resistant.
(2008/07/07)
GREEN VALLEY, Wis. — A 62-year-old man suffered cuts and burns after a firecracker discharged prematurely in his face in Marathon County.
(2008/07/07)
WAUSAUKEE, Wis. — The Wausaukee School Board has decided to go back to taxpayers a third time to ask for more money, instead of dissolving the school district.
(2008/07/05)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — At least one person fired a gun into a crowd in a street early Friday, killing four people and sending panicked revelers running for cover, police said.
(2008/07/05)
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man is accused of repeatedly faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.
(2008/07/05)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Officials from the Chicago-based office of the Mexican Consulate will set up their temporary office in Madison for five days next week.
(2008/07/05)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered an insurance company to pay nearly $1 million in a medical malpractice case.
(2008/07/04)
CHICAGO (AP) — Federal marshals armed with a search warrant on Thursday visited the Joliet distribution center of PETCO Animal Supplies Inc. and seized animal food products that were allegedly contaminated.
(2008/07/04)
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A central Wisconsin cranberry grower needs more honey bees to pollinate his emerging crop and he’s thankful he could get them despite a mysterious disorder that imperils the state and nation’s bee industry.
(2008/07/04)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Investigators mismanaged an inquiry into whether Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration improperly influenced the award of a major building contract, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s spokesman said.
(2008/07/04)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 550-foot freighter on a Milwaukee river veered “just a bit outside” — and into a docked yacht owned by Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer Bob Uecker.
(2008/07/04)
WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) — A former restaurant cook has pleaded guilty to a food-tampering charge alleging he inserted hairs in a steak before giving it to a dissatisfied customer.
(2008/07/04)
GREEN LAKE, Wis. (AP) — The organization that governs high school sports in Wisconsin won’t force students to keep their shirts on.
(2008/07/04)
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A supervisor at a church day care will face trial in connection with the assault of a 10-month-old girl last year.
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