Category Archives: State News
Joint Finance Committee Budget Includes $322-Million Tax Cut
The Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines today (Thursday) to approve a two-year budget that includes a 322-million-dollar tax cut. The G-O-P plan would cut taxes on ...
Jun 13, 2019
St. Croix County Man Found Guilty of Son's Shooting Death in New Richmond
A western Wisconsin father is guilty of second-degree reckless homicide in the deadly shooting of his son in New Richmond. Forty-three-year-old Kayle Fleischauer was convicted by a St. Croix County ju...
Jun 13, 2019
Wood County Judge Rules There Is Enough Evidence For A Trial For Couple In Baby's Death
Two people charged in the death of a newborn baby will be going to trial. Twenty-two-year-old Marylinn Feher and 19-year-old Allen Rice entered not guilty pleas during a Wednesday appearance in Wood C...
Jun 13, 2019 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Man Accused Of Hospital Attack In Northwoods Sentenced To 8 Years
An Oneida County judge has sentenced a man to eight years in prison for an attack inside a Northwoods hospital. Seventy-year-old Joseph Buza was found guilty of holding a medical worker against her wi...
Jun 13, 2019 michael scott / CC
Former Janitor Charged With Bringing Loaded Gun Into A School
A janitor says he was using his work tools to fix the slide on his semi-automatic pistol when the weapon fired. Fifty-nine-year-old Heriberto Martin has been charged with possessing a gun on school gr...
Jun 13, 2019 MIKI Yoshihito / CC
Commercial Barges On Mississippi Still Stopped By High Water
Barge traffic on the Mississippi River is usually heavy this time of year, but not this year. It's at a standstill because high river water levels have closed 10 lock and dams downstream from La Cross...
Jun 13, 2019 Chris M Morris / CC
Rockets For Next Generation Of Spacecraft Are Being Built In Wisconsin
It might not be too long until the next generation of spacecraft is powered by the "Vortex" rocket engines built in central Wisconsin. The Vortex will be used to push the S-N-C Dream Chaser, a spacecr...
Jun 13, 2019 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / CC
Federal Study Finds Wisconsin Has Most Cost-Efficient Energy Program
Wisconsin's Focus on Energy Design Assistance Program has been designated the most cost-effective program of its kind in the U-S. The Berkeley National Laboratory analyzed energy efficient program in ...
Jun 12, 2019
Corn and Soybean Planting Way Behind in Wisconsin
Wisconsin farmers are way behind schedule for planting crops. The latest U-S Agriculture Department crop report for Wisconsin shows farmers are at least two weeks behind where they normally are by thi...
Jun 12, 2019 Mark Bonica / CC
Fight Outside Madison Middle School Involves Up To 20 Students, Parents
Madison authorities are reviewing surveillance video to determine if charges should be filed against 15-to-20 people who were fighting outside a middle school graduation ceremony. Police say parents a...
Jun 12, 2019
