Category Archives: State News
Consultant's Report Finds Expanding Medicaid Would Lower Premiums
A report prepared for the Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner's Office finds expanding Medicaid would lower premiums on the individual health insurance market. Wakely Consulting Group says the premiums c...
May 8, 2019 Pictures of Money / CC
Driver Says He Fell Asleep But Police Say He Was Drunk
Madison police say two children were in the car when a 34-year-old driver lost control and rolled his vehicle. Nobody was injured in the accident which happened Sunday at about 11:15 A-M. Seth R. Coll...
May 8, 2019 Tony Webster / CC
Woman Could Go To Prison If She's Convicted Of Bringing Drugs Into Courtroom
A Reeseville woman could be sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison if she is found guilty of smuggling drugs into a courtroom. Thirty-seven-year-old Katie Gamboeck appeared in court last Septem...
May 8, 2019
Toddler Injured by Gunfire in Brown County
Authorities in Brown County are investigating after a toddler was injured by gunfire. Sheriff's deputies were called to Bellin Hospital last night for a report of a two-year-old with a gunshot wound. ...
May 7, 2019
Foxconn Technologies Given Approval For Racine County Work
Electronics giant Foxconn has received the first of many construction permits for work on its massive factory in southeastern Wisconsin. State officials have given approval for "footings and foundatio...
May 7, 2019
Brown County Sheriff’s Deputies Investigating Incident Involving Two Year Old with Gunshot Wound
The Brown County Sheriff's Office was called to Bellin Hospital last night, on a report of a two year old child who had suffered a gunshot wound. Details of the investigation have not yet been release...
May 7, 2019
34-Year-Old Man Arrested In Tomah In Fatal Child Abuse Case
A 34-year-old Tomah man has been charged with reckless homicide after an autopsy of a child who died last week. Emergency responders rushed the three-year-old to Tomah Memorial Hospital Friday, but th...
May 7, 2019
Sun Prairie Fire Victim Identified
Sun Prairie investigators are working to determine how a fatal apartment fire started Sunday night. The body of 40-year-old Charles D. Cobb was found after the flames had been extinguished. The first ...
May 7, 2019 Ian D. Keating / CC
Man Accused Of Killing His Wife, Then Living With Her Body, Apparently Kills Himself
The Columbia County Sheriff's Office says a deputy spotted a 31-year-old inmate hanging in his cell during a routine check Sunday night. Fuad Pashayev was facing charges he killed his wife last month ...
May 7, 2019 Patrick Feller / CC
Detectives: Sexual Assault Suspect Recorded Crimes On Video
Dodge County authorities say a man sentenced to 45 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child had recorded his crimes on video. Thirty-one-year-old Benjamin Marx was found guilty of first-degree ...
May 7, 2019 michael scott / CC
