Category Archives: State News
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
Ohio Teen Charged For Dodge County "Swatting" Incident
A teenager from Ohio faces more than 70 charges in what is called a "swatting" incident from last year in Dodge County. Forty of the charges against the suspect are felonies. Swatting occurs when a ca...
Mar 19, 2019 sinisterbluebox / CC
Madison Zoo Workers Don't Know If They Will Have A Job Next Month
Dozens of workers at Madison's Henry Vilas Zoo don't know if they will have a job April 1st. Dane County is severing its partnership with the nonprofit organization which has been running the zoo. Neg...
Mar 19, 2019
St. Croix County Man Caught Up In Sex Sting Operation
A man caught in a Barron County sex sting operation worried at one point that he might get caught, but he wrote in an online message that he would "risk it." Joshua Studer is charged with attempted se...
Mar 19, 2019
Foxconn Holds First Of Several Informational Meets With Public
People attending the first of several Foxconn informational meetings didn't get all of their questions answered Monday night. The gathering at the village hall came on the same day the Taiwan-based el...
Mar 19, 2019
Dane County Judge Promises Ruling Over Lame Duck Laws, But Doesn't Say When
Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess has promised a decision on the law passed during the Legislature's lame-duck session, but he hasn't said when. Niess heard two hours of oral arguments Monday. L...
Mar 19, 2019 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Arrest Of Wanted Man In Richland County Turns Up Illegal Drugs
When Richland Center police arrested a man after he left a Walmart store last weekend, they discovered drugs and some needles. An off-duty deputy had spotted 27-year-old Kiefer J. Beran inside the sto...
Mar 19, 2019
