Category Archives: State News
Sex Offender In Trouble For Failing To Keep Residence Updated
A convicted sex offender will be on probation for three years for failing to register his new address when he moved. Brandon Dougall of Altoona was sentenced in Eau Claire County Circuit Court. For si...
Feb 15, 2019 cdogstar / CC
Elementary Student Fights Off Would-Be Abductor With Bag Of Candy
An elementary student was walking to school Thursday morning in West Allis when she says a man asked her for directions. When she kept walking without speaking to him, he followed for a short distance...
Feb 15, 2019 Kim Woodbridge / CC
Port Washington Schools Suspend Student In "Blackface" Controversy
The father of the Port Washington High School student who was suspended in the latest "blackface" controversy says the images weren't racially-motivated. He printed pictures of Nicolet basketball star...
Feb 15, 2019 Karl Baron / CC
Truckers Losing Billions Of Dollars At Traffic Bottlenecks
A national report indicates two of the worst traffic bottlenecks in the nation are slowing truck drivers in Milwaukee. Traffic delays cost truckers 74-billion dollars a year. The Marquette Interchange...
Feb 14, 2019 dave_7 / CC
Man Charged in Fatal Shooting of Milwaukee Police Officer Pleads Not Guilty
The man accused in the shooting death of Milwaukee Police Officer Matt Rittner is pleading not guilty. Twenty-six-year-old Jordan Fricke entered not guilty pleas at a hearing this morning to first-deg...
Feb 14, 2019
Woman Who Said She Was Held Hostage Now Arrested For Faking It
Authorities in the Rhinelander area say it cost them thousands of dollars to respond to what they thought was a hostage incident Tuesday night. Twenty-year-old Alyah Wayman told police she had been as...
Feb 14, 2019
Not Everybody Hates 35 Inches Of Snow
If your car wound up in a ditch or you had to spend hours shoveling a driveway, you may not be a fan of nearly three feet of snow. There are a lot of business owners in central Wisconsin who like it. ...
Feb 14, 2019 Jules Morgan / CC
Two-Mile Stretch Of I-39/90 Has 1 Lane Closed To Traffic Due To Extreme Road Failure
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says a two-mile stretch of Interstate 39-90 will be repaved Thursday after it was closed Wednesday night. The Wisconsin State Patrol says emergency repairs b...
Feb 14, 2019
Long Procession Honors Fallen Milwaukee Police Officer Rittner
People from all over Milwaukee have stepped forward to support the police department and honor fallen, Officer Matthew Rittner. He was shot to death while serving a search warrant last week. Wednesday...
Feb 14, 2019
Republican Tax Cut Bill Approved, Headed For Governor's Desk
The Wisconsin Senate has passed the Republican version of a middle-class tax cut and sent the measure on to Governor Tony Evers' desk. Evers strongly hinted he will veto the proposal. It passed the Se...
Feb 14, 2019
