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Milwaukee Common Council Considers Ending Gag Orders

The recent controversy over failing to notify Milwaukee families about lead levels in their children has brought another issue into the public debate. Employees in the city's health department were pl...

Watertown Man Gets 6 Years In Prison For Child Sexual Assault Charges

A Watertown man gets six years behind bars for child sexual assault. Twenty-year-old Stephen Buske was sentenced today (Friday) for sexual assault of a child under the age of 16, exposing a child to h...

Parents Jailed After Child Suffers Seizures Due To Cocaine Exposure

The parents of an 11-month-old girl are in jail after their child suffered seizures from ingesting cocaine. The incident happened last October. Dartavious Spencer admits the bag of crack cocaine had f...

Madison Bank Robbery Given 20-Year Prison Sentence

A federal judge has sentenced a Madison man to 20 years in a federal prison for robbing People's Community Bank in Plain in October 2014. Forty-year-old Julian Thomas pepper-sprayed three bank employe...

Defense Attorneys Try To Get Cell Phone Evidence Excluded

Attorneys for an accused killed say evidence from his cell phone shouldn't be admitted at his Brown County trial. George Burch is charged with murdering Nicole VanderHeyden in May 2016. Weeks after Va...

Milwaukee County Deputy Narrowly Avoids Serious Injury

The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office says one of its deputies had just made a traffic stop Thursday morning, when he was almost seriously injured. The deputy's name hasn't been released. He told supe...

Woman's Family Frustrated By Pace Of Death Investigation

The family of a 37-year-old woman struck and killed along Highway 151 last summer is frustrated it is taking so long to file charges. Kayla Davis had stopped and gotten out of her car to see if she co...

Court Clerk Granted TRO Against Fox Crossing Municipal Judge

A temporary restraining order against a municipal judge has been granted to the court clerk in Fox Crossing. Judge Len Kachinsky is accused of harassing the clerk since last spring. She says he sat ne...

U.S. Forest Service Still Hasn't Reopened Boulder Lake Campground

Anxious campers are waiting for word that the popular Boulder Lake Campground in Oconto County will reopen for the summer. It had been closed last month by the U-S Forest Service over safety concerns....

Two Killed in Manitowoc Crane Accident

Two men were killed and a third was critically injured in a crane accident this morning outside the Manitowoc Crane plant in Shady Grove Pennsylvania. Reports are that two other men were transported t...