Category Archives: State News
Man Arrested For OWI Names Famous Actor As The Driver
A man accused of his seventh operating while intoxicated offense last week says he wasn't the driver. A witness called the Marathon County Sheriff's Office to report a vehicle had crashed into a snowb...
Mar 11, 2019 Chris Jackson / CC
Royal Caribbean To Appeal $3.4M Court Award To Passenger's Family
Royal Caribbean Cruises says it will appeal a federal court decision involving a Wisconsin man in Miami. The jury determined the cruise line should pay three-point-four million dollars to the family o...
Mar 11, 2019 allenran 917 / CC
University of Wisconsin Student Accused of Assaulting UWPD Officer
A University of Wisconsin student is facing several charges for the alleged assault of U-W-P-D officers. Police were called to Witte Hall early Sunday for a person urinating in a hallway and they say ...
Mar 11, 2019
Wisconsin Democrats Celebrate Milwaukee's Selection to Host 2020 DNC
Wisconsin Democrats are celebrating today's announcement that Milwaukee is the site of the 2020 Democratic National Convention (Monday). They will pick their nominee for president at the new Fiserv Fo...
Mar 11, 2019 Steve Bott / CC
Waunakee Man Committed To Mental Hospital For Rest Of His Life
A 75-year-old Waunakee man will spend the rest of his life at a state mental hospital after pleading no contest to charges he killed his neighbor. Ronald Jenne was found not guilty by reason of mental...
Mar 11, 2019 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Possible Chlorine Leak Draws Huge Emergency Response
A Franklin hotel says its pool area will remain closed until a problem which made several people sick is cleared up. The Franklin Fire Department was the first to send a crew when 20 people in the swi...
Mar 11, 2019 Basheer Tome / CC
Superior Man Faces 9 Felony Charges For Trying To Have Sex With 14
Investigators say a 57-year-old Superior man spent a month planning a meeting with what he thought was going to be an under-age girl for sex. Robert Louis Carlson is charged with nine felonies. Carlso...
Mar 11, 2019
Hemp Application Numbers Rise Dramatically
Nearly 2,100 individuals and businesses have applied to grow or process industrial hemp in 2019, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection reports, with more applications expected i...
Mar 10, 2019
Great Lakes Advocacy Group Wants Water Quality Funding Tripled
Great Lakes advocacy groups are in Washington this week lobbying Congress for more money. The coalition of organizations in the Great Lakes region is asking for eight-point-six-billion dollars in fede...
Mar 09, 2019
Bayfield County Man Faces Possible Life Sentence For Killing His Uncle
A 33-year-old homicide suspect is being held in the Carlton County Jail for allegedly shooting his uncle to death last year. James Francis Montano would face a mandatory life sentence without the poss...
Mar 08, 2019
