Category Archives: State News

A man charged following a stabbing incident at a Tomah group home is pleading guilty. Investigators say that Jorge Luis Santos-Martinez stabbed someone with a knife in May of 2024 at a group home in T...

In Clark County, Neillsville Police say they recovered a firearm and illegal drugs during a Thursday traffic stop. Driver Michael Strader and passenger James Cooley were pulled over for an equipment v...

A youth soccer club director in Franklin is facing charges, accused of trying to fly overseas for sex with a child. Justin Kagerbauer was ordered to be detained pending trial on Tuesday, following his...

More than four months after the body of 22-year-old Viterbo University graduate student Eliotte Heinz was recovered from the Mississippi River, authorities are releasing results of her autopsy. Heinz ...

A Madison man is in trouble with the law again, arrested for an 8th offense of operating while intoxicated. The 68-year-old was arrested Tuesday in the Town of Blooming Grove by the Dane County Sherif...

A Wausau man is sentenced to seven years in federal prison for fentanyl trafficking. Christopher Harter pleaded guilty to possessing 40-grams or more of fentanyl with the intent to distribute. He was ...

Sentencing is being ordered for a Western Wisconsin man convicted following an officer-involved shooting in Eau Claire. Thomas Burback was shot on May 25th of 2024 when an officer responding to a dist...

A Reedsburg man is heading to prison for setting fire to the home of his ex-girlfriend's family. Christopher Steinmetz was recently sentenced to 30 years behind bars for the 2022 fire at the home in L...

A suspect is at large after a hit-and-run incident in Southeast Wisconsin. Investigators say a 64-year-old man and woman were hit by a driver who took off after impact at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night nea...

A missing four-year-old Milwaukee child has been found. Nevin Powell was reported missing on Tuesday and said to be traveling with his 12-year-old sister, Sanuya Wooten-Powell. Police had described he...