Category Archives: State News
Wisconsin Governor Still Not Over His Anger About Ag Secretary Rejection
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers was pretty mad when the Republican-dominated Senate rejected his agriculture secretary nominee last week. He's still not over it and earlier statements about civility in ...
Nov 13, 2019
Former Executive Director Of NAMI-Wisconsin Charged With Theft
The former executive director of the Wisconsin chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness is being charged with theft. Forty-year-old Jessica Gruneich is accused of using a NAMI-Wisconsin cred...
Nov 13, 2019
Dodge County Sheriff’s Office: Road Conditions Factor In School Bus Accident
Accident investigators with the Dodge County Sheriff's Office say a 16-year-old driver lost control on a snow-and-ice-covered road Tuesday morning before his vehicle slammed into a school bus. None of...
Nov 13, 2019 Ian Dick / CC
16-Year-Old Girl Accused Of Attacking School Resource Officer
A 16-year-old girl is being held at the Juvenile Reception Center after attacking a school resource officer at Madison West High School. The girl came to that campus to confront another student. As sh...
Nov 13, 2019 cdogstar / CC
China Trade War Helping Wisconsin Food Banks
Wisconsin Health Department officials say food pantries in the state have taken in twice as much food from a federal distribution program. The ongoing U-S-China trade war is hurting farmers, but it is...
Nov 12, 2019 joeannenah / CC
ACLU of Wisconsin Calls on Menomonee Falls to Retire 'Indians' Mascot Name
The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin is urging the Menomonee Falls School Board to retire the high school's "Indians" mascot name. A-C-L-U Wisconsin executive director Chris Ott said, "our ...
Nov 12, 2019
Milwaukee Couple Apparently Died Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Milwaukee police say they don't suspect foul play in the deaths of two people who were found dead in a car last Friday. Investigators say Zahnya Hunter and Seveon James were both 20 years old and both...
Nov 12, 2019
Fired Ag Secretary Gets New Job Quickly
No unemployment checks for fired Wisconsin Agriculture Secretary Brad Pfaff. He's still a part of the Governor Tony Evers administration after assuming the position of director of business and rural d...
Nov 12, 2019
Third Suspect Sentenced For Waupaca County Fatal Explosion
A New London man will be on probation for a year, but won't have to serve jail time if he doesn't get in trouble. 38 year old Robert Mattes entered a guilty plea to charges of endagering safety with t...
Nov 12, 2019 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Homicide Suspect Returned To Madison From Mississippi, Has Hearing Thursday
A Thursday preliminary hearing is scheduled for a 37-year-old homicide suspect who was arrested in Mississippi and returned to Madison last week. Larence Thomas and another man are accused of being in...
Nov 12, 2019 cdogstar / CC
