Category Archives: State News
Policy Reforms Announced After Murder Suspect's Release
The Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services is updating its procedures. This is following the unexpected release of murder suspect Amando Lang. Lang, who had been committed to a menta...
Jul 11, 2025
Explosion at Manufacturing Plant Tied to Suspected Drug Impairment
Police are looking into whether drug use played a role in a recent explosion in Hartford. Witnesses reported that the worker operating the smelting pot at Signicast Manufacturing appeared intoxicated ...
Jul 11, 2025 Tony Webster / CC
Man Dies After Being Hit by Car in Milwaukee
A 62-year-old man has died after being struck by a vehicle while crossing the street in Milwaukee. Gregory Skaar was transported to the hospital on Wednesday with critical injuries and later passed aw...
Jul 11, 2025
Man Gets 32-Year Sentence for Fatal Crash Involving Bus
A man has been sentenced to 32 years behind bars for a deadly crash involving a stolen SUV and a city bus. Prosecutors say Danny Romero ran a red light, slamming into the bus and killing one of his pa...
Jul 10, 2025
MCTS Union Members Vote to Approve Potential Strike
Workers with the Milwaukee County Transit System have voted to authorize a strike. The union says its members are upset with MCTS leadership after learning about an $11 million budget shortfall last m...
Jul 10, 2025
Woman Accused of Bomb Threat at Grocery Store
Authorities have charged a woman with making a bomb threat at a local Pick 'n Save. According to a criminal complaint, Andrea Cloud-Jones allegedly told employees she had planted a bomb inside the sto...
Jul 10, 2025
Victims in Middleton Double Homicide Identified
A couple killed in a double homicide this week have been identified as David and Teresa Pabst. According to Channel 3000, the couple was found dead in their home on Tuesday. David was head of the Wisc...
Jul 10, 2025 CC / Kat Wilcox
Milwaukee Police to Hold Procession Set for Slain Officer
A public procession to honor fallen Milwaukee Police Officer Kendall Corder is scheduled for Friday. Corder was fatally shot in what investigators described as an ambush late last month. The processio...
Jul 09, 2025 Courtesy of the Milwaukee Police Department
Governor Evers Signs Tax Exemption Bill for Future Data Centers
Governor Tony Evers has signed legislation that grants tax exemptions aimed at attracting future data centers to Wisconsin. Assembly Bill 40 creates exemptions within Tax Increment Districts in Beaver...
Jul 09, 2025 Governor Tony Evers Official Portrait
Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Conversion Therapy Ban
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has paved the way for the state to move forward with banning conversion therapy. The controversial practice, aimed at changing LGBTQ individuals' sexual orientation or gend...
Jul 09, 2025
