Category Archives: State News

Most UW students say they're free to say what they want in their classrooms and on campus. However, the university's new free speech survey also says most students are too afraid to say what they want...

Edward Smith is going to spend a lot of time in court in Dane County over the next couple of weeks. He's already the main suspect in his stepbrother's killing in November of last year and now he's als...

The sheriff in Dodge County is looking for a pair of home invasion suspects who posed as cops. It happened Saturday morning in Hustisford. The sheriff says two men forced their way into the home, told...

Mark Jensen's second trial for killing his wife ended the same as his first, with a guilty verdict. A jury yesterday convicted him of the 1998 crime. Investigators say he poisoned his wife with antifr...

Senator Andre Jacque is taking aim at human trafficking with his latest bill. The measure is known as the Human Trafficking Prevention Act, and is co-sponsored by members of both political parties. Th...

There's now a lawsuit over Wisconsin's bail reform amendment and welfare-to-work ballot question. Two groups that represent former prison inmates filed the suit yesterday. The groups are not challengi...

It's 30 years in prison for a northwestern Wisconsin man who beat another man to death with a hammer last year. A judge in Polk County yesterday sentenced Joseph Hadro to three decades in prison for t...

There are now formal charges in last week's armed robbery in Chippewa Falls. Prosecutors filed the charges yesterday against Elijah Johnson and Jeremiah Maki. Police say they burst into an apartment o...

A jury has the case against a Kenosha man on trial for the second time for his wife's death back in 1998. Both the prosecution and defense ended their arguments yesterday in Mark Jensen's trial. Polic...

A couple thousand people got a reminder about Milwaukee's winter parking rules over the weekend. A DPW spokesman says the city issued 2,000 tickets during last weekend's snow emergency. A snow emergen...