Category Archives: Learfield Staff Writer

The man accused of killing the mother of his child is being held in the Oneida County Jail on a $1 million bond. Christopher T. Anderson was extradited from Illinois to Rhinelander on Wednesday. He ha...

The Minnesota Timberwolves outlasted to Milwaukee Bucks 113-108 last night at the Fiserv Forum. The Wolves scored 44 points in the first quarter and never trailed. The Bucks did pull to within one poi...

Deputies are credited with stopping a suicide attempt in the Dane County jail Tuesday afternoon. The sheriff's office says a 31-year-old man was found with a ligature around his neck tied to the bars ...

Bond is set at $100,000 dollars for a Chippewa Falls woman accused of stabbing her husband. Police say Ashley Dietrich stabbed her husband in the chest with an eight-inch kitchen knife on October 15th...

Wisconsin agricultural groups are applauding the unanimous Assembly passage of a bill that uses $5 million to increase the state's exports. The goal of the legislation is to boost exports of dairy, me...

Wisconsin students in kindergarten through second grade would be screened for literacy skills at least three times each school year under a bill headed to the governor's desk. Assembly Democrat and ed...

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly blames Democrats for dragging out his investigation into the November 2020 election. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says his review of last year's vote could s...

The third-ranked Wisconsin volleyball team plays a Big Ten road match this evening (October 27th) at number-six Nebraska. The Badgers are on a nine-match winning streak after last weekend's home victo...

The Wisconsin Department of Justice says a man tased by officers in Altoona on October 8th did not survive. Eau Claire police say 43-year-old Demetrio Jackson died in the hospital last Friday. Investi...

Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz knows it won't be easy to run the ball against Wisconsin's defense Saturday. The tenth-ranked Hawkeyes are averaging just 116 yards per game on the ground and the Badgers only ...