Category Archives: State News
New Food Options Coming To Miller Park
Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks -- and Elote en Vaso? New food options are coming to Miller Park when the Milwaukee Brewers 2019 season opens next week. Along with hot dogs and hamburgers, fans c...
Mar 21, 2019 Bryce Edwards / CC
Wisconsin Unemployment Rate Drops Slightly to 2.9 Percent in February
Wisconsin's unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a point in February to two-point-nine percent. The Department of Workforce Development says the data show Wisconsin added 11-thousand-400 total non-far...
Mar 21, 2019 Tax Credits / CC
Wisconsin Building Commission Refuses To Endorse Governor's Plan
Governor Tony Evers' two-and-a-half-billion dollar capital budget won't make it to the Wisconsin Legislature. The state's Building Commission refused to endorse it Wednesday in what is being called an...
Mar 21, 2019
Roommate Of 2016 Murder Victim Pleads Guilty To Some Charges, Not All
The roommate of a 2016 murder victim has reached a plea deal with prosecutors which has him entering a guilty plea to charges of robbery with use of force and battery. A felony murder charge against D...
Mar 21, 2019 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
57-Year-Old Woman Accused Of Handing Out Pot Cookies On St. Patrick's Day
A witness tells Portage County deputies a woman in a green St. Patrick's Day hat gave her a cookie with pot in it. When deputies tracked down 57-year-old Cathleen K. Krause they say she looked intoxic...
Mar 21, 2019 SWARE. / CC
Assembly Speaker Vos Refuses To Testify At Gerrymandering Trial
Attorneys for Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos argue their client is immune from civil legal action. The powerful Republican politician is refusing to testify in the federal lawsuit over the drawi...
Mar 21, 2019 Blogtrepreneur / CC
GREEN ALERT: Be on the Look Out for Green Bay Veteran Yuri Burrows
Update: The Green Alert for Yuri Burrows has been cancelled. He has been found safe. A Green Alert has been issued for Yuri Burrows of Green Bay. The 38 year old Burrows was last seen Monday evening a...
Mar 20, 2019
Man Shot By Campus Police Officer Reported In Stable Condition
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee reports it was a campus police officer who shot a man during a fight near the Fine Arts building Tuesday morning. Oak Creek police will lead the investigation of ...
Mar 20, 2019 Till Krech / CC
3 Construction Workers Injured When Buildings Collapses In NE Wisconsin
Three construction workers were injured Tuesday afternoon when the trusses on a building collapsed. Work was being done on a strip mall in the Town of Lawrence when the accident happened. One worker h...
Mar 20, 2019 Steven Damron / CC
Madison Police Say "Prolific Shoplifter" Arrested With $650 Worth Of Clothes
Madison police say a woman they call a "prolific shoplifter" was carrying an armload of clothes to a van outside East Towne Mall when she was arrested. Fifty-two-year-old Marilyn P. Simmons was taken ...
Mar 20, 2019
