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Gibraltar Student Arrested For Making Threat Against School

The Door County Sheriff's Office says a 17-year-old student has been arrested for making a threat against Gibraltar School in Fish creek. Television station W-B-A-Y reports that investigators were not...

Baby Escapes Injury As Woman Dies In Crash Near Beloit

A 27-year-old southern Wisconsin woman has died in a two vehicle crash in which her five-month-old baby escaped injury. Melissa Whitten of Orfordville died at the scene of Thursday evening's mishap we...

Avery's Lawyer Asks Judge Again For New Trial

Steven Avery's lawyer says she will appeal a judge's refusal to grant a new trial for her client, if the judge refuses to review her decision as requested again Thursday. Circuit Judge Angela Sutkiewi...

Dozens Of UW Madison Students Report Being Targeted By Bias

U-W Madison says it received more than 90 complaints from students who said they were targeted by bias this past spring. The university said Thursday that 74 incidents were reported in which people fe...

Report: Lincoln Hills Teen Inmates Taunt Women Sexually

Female employees at Lincoln Hills say teen inmates routinely give sexual taunts to them -- and they expose their genitals and masturbate in front of them. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says records a...

Milwaukee Unveils "Blueprint For Peace"

Wisconsin's largest city has come up with its first comprehensive plan to reduce violence. Milwaukee's Office of Violence Prevention has drafed a 100 page "Blueprint for Peace," which describes how ea...

Democrats Kept Off Study Panel Propose Bill To Prevent A Repeat

Wisconsin Assembly Democrats say it was wrong for the Republican speaker to appoint only members of his party to a study task force on a future prison. And the Democrats have introduced a bill to prev...

Northern Wisconsin Hunters Should Get A Little Tracking Snow

Wisconsin deer hunters have had a difficult time keeping track of their prey in recent years, because of a lack of snow to follow their tracks. But today (Friday), about the northern third of the Badg...

Dr Szyman Trial Update

A federal jury has found a former Manitowoc doctor not guilty on 19 counts of violating the Controlled Substance Act by prescribing painkillers "outside of the usual course of professional medical pra...

GOP Leader On Sex Claims: "We May Have A Much Smaller Congress"

Wisconsin Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke says "we have may have a much smaller Congress" if everybody guilty of sex abuse resigns. The Kaukauna Republican tweeted Thursday that U-S Senator Al F...