Category Archives: State News
Federal Disaster Team Sets Up Operations At Marshfield Clinic
The Federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team's Delta-1 squad has set up operations inside the Marshfield Clinic. Members of the squad normally are deployed after tornadoes and hurricanes. This time th...
Dec 14, 2020 NIAID / CC
Argument Over HS Basketball Leads To Shooting Death, Charges
What started as an argument over whose high school basketball team was better led to a shooting death and now a charge of first-degree reckless homicide. Twenty-three-year-old Caesar Fuentes turned hi...
Dec 14, 2020
Witnesses Rescue Driver When Car Slides Into Retention Pond
Madison police say two witnesses quickly jumped into action Saturday morning when they saw a car go out of control on a snow-covered ramp off HWY 12 to S Park St, bounce over an embankment, and into a...
Dec 14, 2020 Daniel / CC
Wauwatosa Police Shoot Woman For Hitting Squad Car With Wooden Post
Wauwatosa police say a 35-year-old woman shot by a police officer last week is in stable condition. Her name hasn't been released. Police say she was using a wooden post to damage a squad, then advanc...
Dec 14, 2020
Wisconsin Democrats Say They Won’t Participate In “Sham Hearing” On Election
Five Democratic legislators have signed a letter saying they have heard enough and won't be participating in an Assembly hearing looking into claims of voter fraud. About halfway through a Friday hear...
Dec 14, 2020
Wisconsin Supreme Court Expected To Rule Today On Election Challenges
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is expected to rule today (Monday) on election challenges filed by lawyers for the Trump campaign. The court heard arguments Saturday. The three liberal justices on the ben...
Dec 14, 2020 Allen Allen / CC
First Shipments Of COVID-19 Vaccine Headed For Distribution Centers
The first shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine left a Michigan distribution center Monday - to start the biggest vaccination effort in American history. The first shots will be given this week to health ca...
Dec 14, 2020 sergio santos / CC
DNR And DHS Publish 2020-2021 Fish Consumption Advisory
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced the release of the 2020-2021 Choose Wisely booklet, which identifies Wisconsin water...
Dec 13, 2020 Ryosuke Hosoi / CC
Ag, Conservation Groups Set Up Drive to Tackle Climate Change
Wisconsin is among the states where a number of farmers have adopted conservation practices to help tackle climate change issues and improve the health of their land. A new national alliance aims to b...
Dec 13, 2020 Puddles on a country road, green field, trees on the horizon and white clouds on blue sky
WI Lawmaker Joins Nonpartisan Push for Climate-Change Action
A Wisconsin lawmaker is part of a network of state and local elected officials calling for serious action on climate change, right away. The nonpartisan group Elected Officials to Protect America said...
Dec 12, 2020
