Category Archives: State News
Wisconsin Republicans Pressing Governor To Decide On Special Election Date
Seventeen Republicans have signed a letter pressing the governor to decide on a special election date for the Seventh Congressional District. The seat has been vacant for almost a month since Sean Duf...
Oct 16, 2019
Hit-And-Run Suspect Enters Stranger’s Home To Hide From Police
Wauwatosa police say a mother and her child were inside their home Tuesday afternoon when a man came in. The mother called 9-1-1 and officers quickly took the 26-year-old hit-and-run suspect into cust...
Oct 16, 2019
Lawyer From Wisconsin Shot To Death In Micronesia
Friends say a lawyer from Wisconsin was planning to return to the United States when she was shot to death outside her home on the island of Yap in Micronesia. Rachelle Bergeron had been serving as ac...
Oct 16, 2019 Tony Webster / CC
Cross Plains Man Charged With Disorderly Conduct, Battery After Attack
A 19-year-old bicycle rider says he shouted profanities at the driver of a pickup when the vehicle turned in front of him last month, cutting him off. He says that driver got out, grabbed his bicycle ...
Oct 16, 2019
7-Year-Old Caught Vaping CBD At Franklin School
A seven-year-old boy caught vaping at a school in Franklin tells his teachers he got the device from his mother's purse. A teacher says the second-grader was vaping in class at Country Dale Elementary...
Oct 16, 2019 Sodanie Chea / CC
Upper Peninsula Twitter Account Changes To Upper Peninsula Of Wisconsin
Whoever runs the Upper Peninsula's Twitter account is having some fun following a tweet by the University of Wisconsin football team demanding the deed to the land. The Badgers have beaten Central Mic...
Oct 16, 2019 keiyac / CC
Democratic National Convention Could Make It Tough For Downtown Residents, Businesses
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says he is confident no businesses will be forced to close while thousands of delegates, press and others attend the Democratic National Convention next summer. Democratic ...
Oct 15, 2019 David Lofink / CC
Marinette County Man Sentenced to 40 Years in Wife's Shooting Death
The sentence is 40 years in prison for a Marinette County accused in the January shooting death of his wife. Fifty-six-year-old Gary Rogge of Pembine pleaded no contest to first-degree reckless homici...
Oct 15, 2019
Survey Shows 1-in-4 Female UW Students Report Being Sexually Assaulted
A new survey finds one-in-four female undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin reported being sexually assaulted. The students said the perpetrators were most often a male friend or acqua...
Oct 15, 2019
Texas Authorities Arrest Former Wisconsin Resident In Double Murder
A former Wisconsin resident has been taken into custody in Texas for allegedly killing his girlfriend and their infant daughter. Authorities say Cody Edmund Dixon of Abilene left the bodies in front o...
Oct 15, 2019 cdogstar / CC
