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Car Rolls Into Ditch, Driver Goes To Hospital

A Sun Prairie car accident sends one person to the hospital after the car sunk into about three feet of freezing water. Two cars collided Saturday afternoon shortly before 2:00 p-m. Witnesses say the ...

Firefighter Working Fatal Crash Hit By Passing Car

Sauk County authorities say a Lake Delton firefighter was working at the scene of a fatal accident on Interstate 90-94 when he was hit by a passing car. The firefighter's name hasn't been released, bu...

Lawmakers Offer Plan To Partially Fund Milwaukee I-94 Project

Legislation proposed last week would dedicate 25-million dollars toward rebuilding Interstate 94 in the Milwaukee area. Governor Scott Walker abandoned the billion-dollar project when the Legislature ...

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...