Category Archives: State News

A Greenfield man is dead after being hit by a bus over the weekend. Police were called out to 56th Street and West Forest Home Avenue on Saturday for a welfare check when the man was found on the grou...

Morgan Geyser is expected to be extradited back to Wisconsin after being arrested in Illinois. She's the woman who was just 12 years old when she and a friend stabbed another girl nearly to death in a...

A woman hit and killed in a Madison parking lot last week is being identified. The Dane County Medical Examiner says Tricia Ploessl, from Ridgeway, died Friday in the hospital, one day after she was s...

Milwaukee police are looking for suspects in the shooting death of a teenager. Investigators say Azari Reed-Irish was shot and killed Friday evening near Darien and Green Tree. The 15-year-old was pro...

Senator Devin LeMahieu wants to hear from you. The 9th District State Senator, who also serves as the Senate Majority Leader in Madison, has opened up his 2025 Fall Survey, which allows constituents t...

A bill to legalize online sports betting is delayed in the state legislature. It was pulled from the Assembly's calendar after opposition from some conservative lawmakers, who are concerned about addi...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is speaking out against what it calls false information on a CDC website linking vaccines to autism. Department officials called the update "a fundamental d...

A former EMS Chief for the Wausau Fire Department is pleading not guilty to theft and misconduct charges. Officials say Jared Thompson allegedly stole hundreds of vials of fentanyl and hydromorphone b...

New details in the arrest of two brothers accused of revenge killings in Madison are linking them to multiple shootings dating back to 2016. Officials say Justin and Jordan Sharlow are facing charges ...

One of the people who stabbed her friend to appease the fictional "Slender Man" character is back in custody. The Madison Police Department said Morgan Geyser, now 22, left her group home in Wisconsin...