Category Archives: State News
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 9, 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 8, 2019
Former Nursing Home Workers Rally, Demanding Final Paychecks
About a dozen people who used to work at a closed Milwaukee nursing home say they are not only out of a job, they're still waiting for their final paychecks. The group rallied outside the former locat...
Mar 8, 2019 Medisave UK / CC
Explosion And Fire Leaves Madeline Island Without Fire Protection
Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion and fire at the building housing the only fire station and ambulance service on Madeline Island. No one was injured in Wednesday's early morning...
Mar 8, 2019 Chovee / CC
Wisconsin Senator Says States Should Decide Their Own Wolf Policy
U-S Senator Ron Johnson says it should be up to state lawmakers to decide the policy on wolf populations. The Wisconsin Republican says the decision by the U-S Fish and Wildlife Service to remove prot...
Mar 8, 2019 Orest Ukrainsky / CC
Jayme Closs' Alleged Kidnapper Says He Will Plead Guilty
The Wisconsin man charged with kidnapping teenager Jayme Closs and killing her parents says he will enter a guilty plea to all charges later this month. Jake Patterson is scheduled for arraignment in ...
Mar 8, 2019
