Category Archives: State News

The first try was squashed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Milwaukee is going for it again. Mayor Tom Barrett says his city is bidding to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention. He tweeted Wednesday t...

Authorities in Sauk County want to talk to the two people who drove up to the entrance of St. Clare Hospital early Saturday morning and dropped off a seriously injured man. Those people have been iden...

A Democratic candidate for U-S Senate has entered a not guilty plea to one of the five theft by fraud charges she faces. Chantia Lewis is also a Milwaukee Alderwoman. Wednesday's plea was to a misdeme...

Beloit police haven't specified the number of students who were detained during a disturbance Tuesday morning at Memorial High School. One police officer had to seek medical treatment at a hospital. O...

Officials at Rufus King High School are notifying parents about a Monday incident where a group of students waiting for a school bus were robbed and threatened with a gun. The suspects left the scene ...

A Wisconsin couple is headed home to Markesan after experiencing the Amtrak derailment last weekend in Montana. Carrie and Keith Schoeffling were on the Empire Builder when it jumped the tracks. Three...

A Marathon County judge has ruled a 25-year-old murder suspect is competent to stand trial. Umberto Lo is being held on a $1,000,000 cash bond. Investigators say Lo shot 30-year-old Mai Rue Vang to de...

On a party-line vote, the Wisconsin Assembly has prohibited the teaching of Critical Race Theory. That's a concept that systemic racism and implicit bias exist in the country's institutions and it mai...

Shortages caused by a lack of truck drivers and employees are leaving some stores with spaces on their shelves. The president and co-owner of Metcalfe's Markets in Wauwatosa, Tim Metcalfe, says the sh...

Sentencing dates are set for two northeast Wisconsin smoke shop owners in the Southern District of New York for their roles in a federal drug investigation. Tracy Lynn Sheldon and Chad Allen Zeske ple...