Category Archives: State News
Racine County Judge Rules City’s Coronavirus Ordinance Is Unconstitutional
A Racine County Circuit judge has ruled the city's coronavirus ordinance is unconstitutional. Judge Jon Fredrickson determined the plan violates Wisconsin's Constitution because it interferes with the...
Jul 2, 2020 Rumble Press / CC
Person Of Interest Taken Into Custody For Fire-Bombing Attack On City-County Building
Madison police say a 26-year-old man is in the Dane County Jail on a probation hold after his Tuesday arrest. Marquon M. Clark is being called a "person of interest" in the fire-bombing of the City-Co...
Jul 2, 2020
Activist Charged With Extortion Makes First Federal Court Appearance
The Madison activist charged with extortion has made his first federal court appearance. Prosecutors say Devonere Johnson threatened two businesses on State Street with destruction if they didn't give...
Jul 2, 2020 Allen Allen / CC
Wounded Man Faces Charge Of Attempted First-Degree Intentional Homicide
A man wounded in his parent's house has been charged with two counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide. Investigators say 37-year-old Gary W. Dickson of Reedsburg shot his way into that h...
Jul 2, 2020 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Marshfield Clinic Gets $22.5M Federal Grant To Work With CDC On COVID-19
A $22.5 million federal grant will be used by scientists at the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute while it works with the C-D-C on COVID-19 studies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention i...
Jul 2, 2020 Pictures of Money / CC
Former Staff Member Accused Of Using School Money To Pay Her Bills
A former worker at Colby High School has been sentenced to community service for using a school credit card to pay her bills. Lisa Steen will have to repay the seven thousand dollars she stole and wri...
Jul 1, 2020
Senate Majority Leader: Governor Has More Questions To Answer
Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he has more questions for the governor about the March conversation that was secretly recorded. The governor's office has said there is no writte...
Jul 1, 2020
Supreme Court To Hear Voter Purge Case In September
The Wisconsin Supreme Court says it won't hear arguments in the controversial voter purge case until September. That seems to indicate that questions about which names remain on the state's voter roll...
Jul 1, 2020
COVID-19 Wisconsin Statistics
Positive test results: 28,659 (+601) Negative test results: 539,539 (+12,180) Patients hospitalized: 3,446 (+39) Deaths: 784 (+7)
Jul 1, 2020 sergio santos / CC
Milwaukee Bucks Owners Could Wind Up In Court With Democratic Party
The owners of the Milwaukee Bucks could wind up in court with the Democratic Party - and not a basketball court. The trouble started in May when the Milwaukee 2020 Host Committee didn't make its $1 mi...
Jul 1, 2020
