Category Archives: State News
Tornado Count Reaches 16, Time Now For Cleanup Work
A dry weather spell is giving Wisconsin residents a chance to clean up the damage from a series of storms which swept the state. The National Weather Service spent Thursday surveying the damage done i...
Aug 31, 2018 NOAA Photo Library / CC
Youth Prison Nurse Fired For Failing To Provide Adequate Care To Inmate
One of four nurses who failed to realize a 14-year-old inmate's appendix was about to burst has been fired. The incident happened at the state's youth prison two-and-a-half years ago. The Wisconsin De...
Aug 31, 2018 Yusuke Umezawa / CC
Wauwatosa Considers Fee To Pay For Fixing Roads
Wauwatosa city leaders are considering a 30-dollar wheel tax as a way to pay for needed repairs on local roads. Car owners already pay a $75 state registration fee and a 30-dollar Milwaukee County reg...
Aug 31, 2018 Duncan Hull 🐝 / CC
Assisted Living Facility Where Resident Froze To Death Could Lose License
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says new violations at a Sun Prairie assisted-living facility could result in its license being revoked. Faith Gardens was already in trouble for the death ...
Aug 30, 2018
Registered Sex Offender Faces Life Sentence If Convicted Of New Crime
A 58-year-old registered sex offender will spend the rest of his life in prison if he is convicted of a sexual assault earlier this month. Brian Wickersham has been indicted by a federal grand jury. B...
Aug 30, 2018
Former Inmate Sues Milwaukee County Jail For Keeping Her In Shackles While Giving Birth
A former inmate has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Milwaukee County Jail and Acting Sheriff Richard Schmidt. Sandra Robles says deputies forced her to wear leg shackles while she was...
Aug 30, 2018 meesh / CC
Drunken Driver Involved In Fatal Crash Ordered To Pay Restitution
A Portage County Circuit Court judge has ordered a 30-year-old woman to pay 100-thousand dollars in restitution for causing a fatal crash. The money would be paid to Badgercare Plus Managed Care. Thir...
Aug 30, 2018 Allen Allen / CC
U.S. Postal Service Being Evicted From Downtown Milwaukee Building
The landlord is alleging the U-S Postal Service has failed to keep the Milwaukee building it occupies in acceptable condition - so it has to go. Chicago-based investor and developer Matt Garrison has ...
Aug 30, 2018 Jeremy Tenenbaum / CC
Green Bay Native Connected to Jacksonville Shooting
A Green Bay native is home after he survived the shooting at a gaming competition in Jacksonville Florida. Kyle Riederer, known as "Drag" in the gaming community was in the middle of a game, when the ...
Aug 30, 2018 John Seb Barber / CC
UW Green Bay Looking for New Signature & Cultural Events Coordinator
UW Green Bay is looking to add a new person to their staff. The position they are looking to fill is the Signature & Cultural Events Coordinator. This position reports to the Director of Student L...
Aug 30, 2018 Cofrin Library / CC
