(2009/07/06)
MADISON (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle’s travel records show the governor and his staff failed to properly account for 145 travel expenses over two years, according to a newspaper report published Sunday.
(2009/07/06)
RHINELANDER, Wis. (AP) — Ernie Paulson, a 32-year-old home designer and lumberyard salesman who lost his left leg below the knee to cancer as a teenager, is a rare breed of athlete. He fights mixed martial arts — the combat sport of punching, kneeing, kicking and choke holds — when he can find an opponent.
(2009/07/06)
TOWN OF FARMINGTON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a 12-year-old southeastern Wisconsin boy suffered a head injury when he was hit by one of the fireworks being discharged at a home during a Fourth of July party.
(2009/07/06)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature is expected to take up bills to strengthen the state’s drunken driving laws in September.
(2009/07/06)
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — It’s been nearly 70 years since the first plane landed at the Racine airport, but its future is uncertain.
(2009/07/06)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tony Evers’ inauguration ceremony as state superintendent Monday will include a lot of involvement from school children.
(2009/07/06)
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A company that hopes to create up to 500 jobs in Janesville is scaling back its plans for the short term.
(2009/07/06)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A second University of Wisconsin campus is adding a program designed to get kids from low-income families interested in college.
(2009/07/05)
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — John Hoffland, who was news director at WEAU-TV in Eau Claire for 25 years, has died. He was 64 years old.
(2009/07/05)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee had 39 homicides in the first six months of this year, an increase over the first half of 2008.
(2009/07/05)
PESHTIGO, Wis. (AP) — The funeral for a Peshtigo soldier killed last week in Afghanistan will be held Tuesday at the high school where he graduated last year.
(2009/07/05)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee’s music festival is honoring members of the military and their families on Sunday.
(2009/07/05)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A design featuring two silhouetted children splashing on a swimming beach is the winner of 2010 Wisconsin State Park admission sticker contest.
(2009/07/05)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wardens are watching this weekend to make sure anglers and boaters don’t spread a gruesome fish disease.
(2009/07/05)
WADSWORTH, Ill. (AP) — A 24-year-old Wisconsin mother and her 1-year-old son have died in a head-on collision in northern Illinois that authorities believe was alcohol-related.
(2009/07/05)
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Authorities are looking for a Milwaukee man and felony murder convict who escaped from a minimum security facility in Kenosha.
(2009/07/05)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — As lawmakers in cash-strapped states wrestled this year with revenues that kept on falling, both campaign promises and long-standing reform efforts got pushed to the side. There just wasn’t enough time or money to expand health care or improve education — or, in Rhode Island, finally get around to banning indoor prostitution — while also passing a budget.
(2009/07/04)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, the agency that runs state elections, has a new logo that some say resembles the classic symbol for anarchy.
(2009/07/04)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Tuition would increase about $300 at most of the four-year schools in the University of Wisconsin System and remain unchanged at the system’s 13 two-year colleges under a proposal released Friday.
(2009/07/04)
STOUGHTON, Wis. (AP) — Five motorcycles in a group driving on Interstate 90 crashed near Stoughton Friday. The Wisconsin State Patrol said five people were injured, one of them critically, in the crash that developed when traffic in front of the cyclists slowed down.
(2009/07/04)
SILVER LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Flu cases have forced the temporary shut down of a summer camp operated by the Salvation Army in southeastern Wisconsin, including one confirmed as swine flu, officials said Friday.
(2009/07/04)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — An 18-year-old Milwaukee man convicted of raping three women last summer has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
(2009/07/04)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A company that ferries riders across Lake Michigan is cutting some prices by 40 percent for the next two months.
(2009/07/04)
SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) — Superior Mayor Dave Ross is running for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.
(2009/07/04)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin State Patrol says a Greyhound bus with 80 passengers left Interstate 39-90-94 northeast of Madison and plowed through a fence Friday afternoon.
(2009/07/04)
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — A man crossing the highway was hit and killed in one of two accidents on northbound U.S. Highway 41 in Oshkosh within less than an hour Friday afternoon.
(2009/07/04)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Word up! Forty teachers from nine states are gathering next week for a program to discuss the merits of using hip hop in the classroom.
(2009/07/03)
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Kelly Wiltrout is more forgiving than a lot of people would be. Having survived a terrifying attack by a black bear outside her Siren home, which the bear had invaded before, the former Chippewa Falls woman is quick to defend the bear.
(2009/07/03)
RHINELANDER, Wis. (AP) — A Rhinelander father whose baby died of a morphine overdose has been ordered to stand trial.
(2009/07/03)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer people died on the nation’s highways during the first three months of 2009 as motor vehicle fatalities continued to fall to levels not seen in nearly a half-century.
(2009/07/03)
EAGLE RIVER, Wis. (AP) — A man suspected of killing his wife in Rockford, Ill. has been arrested in northern Wisconsin.
(2009/07/03)
MADISON (AP) — A Madison-area baby sitter has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for causing the death of an infant in her care.
(2009/07/03)
MONTELLO, Wis. (AP) — A charge of first-degree reckless homicide has been filed against a town of Neshkoro man in the death of his 6-month-old son.
(2009/07/03)
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — An Eau Claire man accused of storing naked pictures of a 15-year-old girl on a cell phone faces 13 months in jail.
(2009/07/03)
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A New Berlin student accused of blackmailing boys for sex in a scam that started on Facebook is asking for lower bail.
(2009/07/03)
MADISON (AP) — Disabled hunters can start signing up for Wisconsin's annual disabled deer hunt.
(2009/07/03)
MADISON (AP) — A state appeals court has asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to clarify a judge's role in accepting or denying plea agreements.
(2009/07/03)
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Some fireworks retailers in central Wisconsin say the sour economy is affecting their sales heading into the Fourth of July weekend.
(2009/07/03)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Two days after Oshkosh Corp. scored a billion-dollar defense contract, one of its subsidiaries has landed its own $10 million military contract.
(2009/07/02)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a 20-year-old Hortonville woman accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy who fathered her baby is pregnant again by the same boy.
(2009/07/02)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Pilot error caused a helicopter to slam into a Kenosha house last year, killing the pilot and passenger but sparing the family of five inside, according to a federal report.
(2009/07/02)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Oshkosh Corp. said Wednesday that it’s too early to know how many jobs its new billion-dollar military contract will create but stressed that the number will be “significant.”
(2009/07/02)
HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) — A rural Dakota County man faces a charge of unintentional second-degree murder in the death of his 17-month-old stepson in Wisconsin June 23.
(2009/07/02)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle says a veto he made that’s contrary to a constitutional ban is a “very little, minor point.”
(2009/07/02)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has stopped taking most freshman applications but is still offering to make room for students from 11 counties in the region.
(2009/07/02)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle stood in front of a 106-year-old circus wagon on Wednesday to tout the return of the Great Circus Parade to Milwaukee on July 12.
(2009/07/02)
MADISON, Wis. — A Racine man must give a deer head he took from a roadside carcass to wildlife officials, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
(2009/07/02)
MADISON, Wis. — A state appeals court has asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide whether viewing child pornography amounts to possession.
(2009/07/02)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Briggs & Stratton will eliminate 430 jobs and close its Jefferson facility that makes pressure washers and portable generators by mid next year.
(2009/07/02)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Roundy’s Supermarkets Inc. is recalling some of its beef because of possible E. coli contamination.
(2009/07/02)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Former Congressman Mark Neumann announced his candidacy for governor Wednesday.
(2009/07/02)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State wildlife officials are going on a bear hunt.
(2009/07/01)
MADISON (AP) — Many promises were made and broken during the nearly five-month process of passing Wisconsin’s new two-year budget.
(2009/07/01)
MADISON (AP) — One of Gov. Jim Doyle’s budget vetoes combines parts of three sentences to create a new one, which is an apparent violation of a voter-approved constitutional ban on what critics call the “Frankenstein veto.”
(2009/07/01)
MADISON (AP) — Detectives who kept a woman’s lawyer from seeing her during questioning about her infant nephew’s death may have manipulated her, but their actions don’t warrant discarding statements she made that helped convict her, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
(2009/07/01)
MADISON (AP) — The number of abortions performed in Wisconsin dropped slightly last year to its lowest level since the state began keeping records three decades ago, according to a state report released Tuesday.
(2009/07/01)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee holds onto its spot as the nation's 23rd largest city in the latest census data from the federal government.
(2009/07/01)
MADISON (AP) — With 2009 nearly half over, Wisconsin is continuing a downward trend of traffic fatalities.
(2009/07/01)
DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan says it’s working with France to take new steps to finally determine if a northern Lake Michigan shipwreck is the Griffin, which sank while loaded with furs 330 years ago.
(2009/07/01)
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — A groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday marked the first step toward construction of a new Great Lakes shipping lock on the St. Marys River, which supporters have sought for more than two decades.
(2009/07/01)
GREEN BAY (AP) — A judge and two others in his courtroom at the Brown County Courthouse were checked for possible contamination after a letter addressed to him was found with a suspicious substance inside.
(2009/07/01)
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Sheboygan police report a 10-month-old girl suffered broken bones in both legs while at home with her mother's boyfriend.
(2009/07/01)
MADISON (AP) — The state Department of Health Services has a warning for boaters and others who may be out on lakes and ponds across Wisconsin this coming holiday weekend.
(2009/07/01)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The city government in Milwaukee will shut down most services Thursday and Sept. 8 in a money-saving move.
(2009/07/01)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A new Milwaukee County witness protection program has been dedicated to a man who was killed in 2007 after testifying against the criminal who shot him.
(2009/07/01)
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The Kenosha County medical examiner has determined the death of a standout athlete was caused by a virus that attacked his heart.
(2009/07/01)
MADISON (AP) — Two of eight legislators or political challengers who failed to file campaign finance reports on time have turned in their paperwork after state election officials threatened to sue them all.
(2009/06/30)
MADISON (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle on Monday vetoed 81 items worth $10 million out of the two-year $62 billion state budget.
(2009/06/30)
Highlights of the 81 vetoes issued Monday by Gov. Jim Doyle to the two-year, $62 billion state budget passed last week by the Legislature:
(2009/06/30)
PESHTIGO, Wis. (AP) — A 19-year-old northern Wisconsin soldier wounded in Afghanistan has died in Germany, his family said Monday.
(2009/06/30)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The federal government on Monday agreed to put gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region back on the endangered species list — at least temporarily.
(2009/06/30)
MADISON (AP) — State elections officials Monday threatened to sue four Assembly members and four failed candidates for not turning in finance reports from last year’s campaign.
(2009/06/30)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A conservative college group is threatening to sue the University of Wisconsin-Madison, claiming the school wiped out its funding as retaliation against its stance on global warming and other issues.
(2009/06/30)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A southeastern Minnesota milk processor is voluntarily recalling some products it sells to food companies because they might be contaminated with salmonella.
(2009/06/30)
WAUPACA, Wis. (AP) — A judge Monday dismissed felony animal cruelty charges against the second of three men accused of running down deer with snowmobiles last January, killing four of the animals. A fifth deer had to be euthanized.
(2009/06/30)
MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — A Manitowoc County man sentenced to life in prison for killing a young photographer in 2005 is seeking a new trial.
(2009/06/30)
MAPLE BLUFF, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle said he "fully expects" to finish out his current term in office which runs through the end of next year.
(2009/06/30)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Authorities say a collision at a Milwaukee intersection sent one of the cars into the crosswalk, killing a pedestrian.
(2009/06/30)
MADISON (AP) — A Madison man has been apprehended in a hit-run pedestrian death in Madison.
(2009/06/30)
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — It's the oldest excuse in the book, but this time it was absolutely true — the dog did it.
(2009/06/30)
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A 21-year-old man convicted in the 2007 stabbing death of a teen at a central Wisconsin party has been sentenced to 28 years in prison.
(2009/06/30)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Newt Gingrich is calling on federal officials to overhaul the nation's prison system, an issue he knows isn't a typical Republican hot-button topic.
(2009/06/30)
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A former Kenosha high school scholarship athlete has died after a 10-day illness.
(2009/06/29)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle will sign Wisconsin’s two-year budget today, two days before the new fiscal year begins.
(2009/06/29)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich is scheduled to appear at a fundraiser Monday for Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker.
(2009/06/29)
SPOONER, Wis. (AP) — State wildlife officials say animals face a new danger this summer: bird feeders.
(2009/06/29)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison, which saw some of the fiercest Vietnam War protests in the nation, is shedding its long-standing antimilitary image by hiring a military historian and teaching a new course for military officers.
(2009/06/29)
BELOIT, Wis. (AP) — Police say two men who crashed their car in Beloit had been wounded in a shooting before the crash.
(2009/06/29)
MADISON, Wis., (AP) — A massive redevelopment has been proposed for a well-known Madison hotel that sits on Lake Mendota.
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