Category Archives: State News
Marshfield High Students Plead Not Guilty To Bomb Threats
Two Marshfield High School students accused of making bomb threats are pleading not guilty. Reports say 17-year-olds Alyssa Portz and Simone Rootellis entered their pleas to making terroristic threats...
Feb 19, 2020 Patrick Feller / CC
Wisconsin Assembly Passes Holocaust Education Bill
The Wisconsin Assembly is giving bi-partisan approval to a Holocaust education bill. It would require instruction on the Holocaust and other genocides are part of the social studies curriculum at leas...
Feb 19, 2020
Report Dings Milwaukee Police Over Stop And Frisk
A new report says most stop and frisk encounters in Milwaukee do not turn-up a weapon or drugs. The report from the Crime and Justice Institute says Milwaukee Police are not living up to a settlement ...
Feb 19, 2020
Wisconsin Dells High School on High Alert for Bed Bugs
Students and parents at Wisconsin Dells High School are on the look-out for bed bugs. School administrators say they are being extra vigilant after finding a live bed bug in the school library last we...
Feb 19, 2020 Medill DC / CC
Update: Amber Alert Canceled For Missing Baraboo Teen
Update: Amber Alert Canceled. Kiera was located safely. Austin J. Dailey is still in the stolen vehicle and believed to be headed to the Rockford, Illinois area. Authorities have issued an Amber Alert...
Feb 19, 2020
Kelly, Karofsky Advance in Wisconsin Supreme Court Primary
Dane County Circuit Judge Jill Karofsky and incumbent Dan Kelly will face off in the Wisconsin Supreme Court general election on April 7th. Karofsky and Kelly were the top vote-getters in Tuesday's pr...
Feb 19, 2020
Tiffany, Zunker Win Primaries in Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District
State Senator Tom Tiffany is the winner of the Republican primary in Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District. Tiffany edged retired Army Captain and Ron Johnson aide Jason Church with 57 percent of the...
Feb 19, 2020
Milwaukee Health Department Confirms First Pediatric Flu Death
The Milwaukee Health Department is confirming the first pediatric flu death of the season. Commissioner of Health Doctor Jeanette Kowalik said, "we are incredibly saddened to learn that a child has di...
Feb 19, 2020 Presidencia de la República Mexicana / CC
Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bipartisan $10 Million Water Quality Package
The state Assembly approved a 13 bill, 10-million-dollar plan to address water quality in Wisconsin. Dodgeville Republican Todd Novak headed up the task force that developed the package. Novak said, "...
Feb 19, 2020
Pottawatomi Leader Gives State Of Tribes Speech
The leader of the Forest County Potawatomi Community used the annual State of the Tribes speech today (Tuesday) to call for everyone to work together to cut opioid abuse. Chairman Ned Daniels Junior s...
Feb 18, 2020
