(2008/05/13)
STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Two people died when their light plane crashed and burned at the Stevens Point Municipal Airport.
(2008/05/13)
ASHWAUBENON, Wis. — A man got inside Green Bay’s Resch Center, commandeered a forklift and used it to steal an automated teller machine.
(2008/05/13)
MAUSTON, Wis. — Someone continued to write checks on an account belonging to a 90-year-old woman whose remains were found on the toilet in a Necedah home two months after she died, according to court documents released Monday.
(2008/05/13)
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Jim Doyle has signed a memorandum of understanding between the United Kingdom and Wisconsin on global warming.
(2008/05/13)
MADISON, Wis. — U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner is angry about state lawmakers’ plan for balancing Wisconsin’s budget.
(2008/05/13)
MILWAUKEE — An additional 700 potential victims nationwide, ranging from food companies to newspapers, have been named in a massive fraud scheme involving the nation’s largest coupon company.
(2008/05/13)
OSHKOSH, Wis. — A part-time worker with Winnebago County’s Child Welfare Division has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of her son.
(2008/05/13)
ARCADIA, Wis. — An elderly couple from Kenosha died in a highway crash while visiting in Trempealeau County for Mother’s Day weekend.
(2008/05/13)
MANITOWOC, Wis. — A 14-year-old boy suffered burns to more than a quarter of his body after playing what authorities describe as a blowtorch game.
(2008/05/12)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Cheeseheads don’t need to be bleu: Experts say predictions that California will soon overtake Wisconsin as the nation’s top cheese producer are unlikely to come true.
(2008/05/12)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Philanthropist Joseph Zilber plans to commit $50 million during the next 10 years to improve life in Milwaukee’s low-income neighborhoods, according to a draft of a speech by him obtained by a newspaper.
(2008/05/12)
HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — The Sawyer County Sheriff Department says remains that were found in the Flambeau River State Forest are human.
(2008/05/12)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Oneida tribal members have approved an increase in annual per capita payment to themselves to $1,200 from $800, and authorized creation of an endowment fund to help with future payments.
(2008/05/12)
KAUKAUNA, Wis. (AP) — Outagamie County authorities are looking for two men after three people were shot and wounded early Sunday at a supper club north of Kaukauna.
(2008/05/11)
MADISON, Wis. — The state’s Revenue Department has sent out more than 1,000 letters this year to smokers who bought cigarettes online telling them to stop buying cigarettes that way or to pay the $1.77-per-pack state tax that’s now in effect.
(2008/05/11)
MADISON, Wis. — A 29-year-old man was sentenced to 24 years in prison on allegations he provided heroin that killed two people in Madison.
(2008/05/11)
MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee police officer shot and wounded a man during the weekend, authorities said.
(2008/05/11)
MADISON, Wis. — About 1,200 Wisconsin taxpayers are affected by computer glitches involving out-of-state taxes, a state Department of Revenue spokeswoman says.
(2008/05/11)
BARABOO, Wis. — The attorney for a Baraboo father accused of killing his 5-week-old sons has won the right to search his client’s rented condo.
(2008/05/11)
MADISON, Wis. — There was a significant increase in the number of reported Lyme disease cases in Wisconsin last year, state health officials say.
(2008/05/11)
MILWAUKEE — Leisure travelers spent slightly less in the state last year while there was a slight gain in business travel and a larger increase in convention spending, according to the Wisconsin Department of Tourism.
(2008/05/11)
WEST BEND, Wis. — The teenage girl critically wounded last weekend in a vehicle in the town of Addison is not believed to have been a target of the shooter, the Washington County Sheriff says.
(2008/05/11)
FRIENDSHIP, Wis. — Trial for the driver of a semi-truck that struck a school bus and killed one student is delayed.
(2008/05/10)
MADISON, Wis. — Former Gov. Tony Earl acknowledged Friday he helped a longtime acquaintance land a state job but said he was unaware the tainted hiring process cost taxpayers $346,000.
(2008/05/10)
SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. — At first glance, it seems like it was a very good quarter at Sun Prairie High School: About 80 percent of the students made the honor roll.
(2008/05/10)
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Jim Doyle refused to discuss the state’s budget Friday as lawmakers appeared to be closing in on a deal to solve a $527 million shortfall.
(2008/05/10)
GREEN BAY, Wis. — A rare albino alligator is now on display at NEW Zoo in Green Bay.
(2008/05/10)
MADISON, Wis. — A Stoughton woman is sentenced to four years in prison for fracturing her toddler’s skull by repeatedly slamming the child’s head on the floor.
(2008/05/10)
MILWAUKEE — One of the nation’s largest trucking companies is capping its drivers’ speeds at 60 mph, a move designed to save fuel and protect the environment.
(2008/05/10)
APPLETON, Wis. — An official says a Neenah woman accused of killing her 2-year-old son has been a part-time worker with Winnebago County’s Child Welfare Division.
(2008/05/09)
PORTAGE, Wis. — A woman’s statements to police investigating a torture and death case in Portage may be used at her murder trial.
(2008/05/09)
WAUKESHA, Wis. — A Waukesha County woman says she thought she was going to be killed when an SUV driver started ramming her car.
(2008/05/09)
RACINE, Wis. — A state agency reissued a water pollution permit Thursday for a power plant that environmental groups contend would harm Lake Michigan by using vast amounts of lake water for cooling.
(2008/05/09)
FENNIMORE, Wis. — A southwestern Wisconsin technical college closed because of a gun threat, but students were told the closure was due to maintenance.
(2008/05/09)
MADISON, Wis. — “Everybody’s dead.”
(2008/05/09)
OSHKOSH, Wis. — A man suspected of being mentally unstable killed himself by slitting his neck while authorities were taking him to a mental hospital Thursday, deputies said.
(2008/05/09)
RACINE, Wis. — Racine police who raided a half-dozen homes on drug-related suspicions found eight children in one home that had no electricity, heat or running water.
(2008/05/09)
MILWAUKEE — Residents in two Wisconsin counties will soon be able to send their unused drugs for safe disposal by a Milwaukee company.
(2008/05/09)
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Newly released video shows a toddler appearing to smoke marijuana in the presence of his mother and her two male friends.
(2008/05/09)
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Jim Doyle has appointed two new members to the state board in charge of rooting out government corruption and enforcing election, campaign finance and ethics laws.
(2008/05/09)
MADISON, Wis. — State Assembly Rep. Sue Jeskewitz will not run for a seventh term representing Washington and Waukesha counties.
(2008/05/08)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — FBI statistics show the number of hate crimes nearly doubled in Wisconsin from 1996 to 2006.
(2008/05/08)
MADISON, Wis. — A new poll shows that 63 percent of Wisconsin residents support a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.
(2008/05/08)
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin officials say they will propose a new regulation requiring the inspection of all new permanent thrill rides before they open to the public.
(2008/05/08)
MADISON, Wis. — Assembly Democrats should be ready to vote on a bill fixing the state’s $527 million budget shortfall next week, Minority Leader Rep. Jim Kreuser said in an e-mail sent to colleagues Wednesday.
(2008/05/08)
MILWAUKEE — There’s a better way to select Wisconsin justices than by allowing voters to pick them, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said Wednesday.
(2008/05/08)
MADISON, Wis. — An Indonesian national faces up to a decade in prison after a jury in Wisconsin convicted him of trying to ship scores of assault rifle scopes overseas.
(2008/05/08)
TOWN of NEW DENMARK, Wis. — A 15-year-old boy is credited with rescuing a woman after she drove off a road in the Brown County town of New Denmark and went into the Neshota (Nesh-OH’-tuh) River.
(2008/05/08)
GREEN BAY, Wis. — A former Wisconsin man accused of illegally selling Green Bay Packers tickets — and failing to come up with tickets fans thought they bought — has agreed to state sanctions, including no longer using the same Internet Web site, officials said Wednesday.
(2008/05/08)
MADISON, Wis. — None of the five remaining undecided superdelegates from Wisconsin committed to supporting Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday.
(2008/05/08)
MILWAUKEE — Gov. Jim Doyle says a third conviction for intoxicated use of vehicle should be made a felony, carrying prison time, as a way to protect the public from those who repeatedly drive under the influence.
(2008/05/08)
MILWAUKEE — An independent organization says more Wisconsin residents over 65 die from accidental falls than do seniors in almost any other state.
(2008/05/07)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A dispatcher missed significant sounds on a 911 call from a college student before she was murdered and a second error caused investigators to spend days searching for two innocent men, authorities said Tuesday.
(2008/05/07)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — In the weeks after Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration ordered state employees to curb unnecessary travel, those same workers charged the state more than $900,000 for hundreds of trips around the world.
(2008/05/07)
NEENAH, Wis. (AP) — A woman accused of suffocating her 2-year-old son told police she heard voices telling her to sacrifice him while she was reading the Bible, according to court documents.
(2008/05/07)
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Police say they arrested a 15-year-old Sheboygan girl after she made up a story about being attacked by a knife-wielding suspect on her way to school.
(2008/05/07)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A majority of Wisconsin residents say in a new poll that they favor a universal health care system run by the state government.
(2008/05/07)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — An Appleton-based unit of the Wisconsin National Guard is planning a series of meetings in preparation for its possible deployment overseas.
(2008/05/07)
SHAWANO, Wis. (AP) — State prosecutors failed Tuesday to get evidence previously banned back into their case against a former Wausau police officer accused of trying to kill his wife.
(2008/05/07)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Assembly Minority Leader Jim Kreuser says lawmakers can fix the state’s budget shortfall within hours.
(2008/05/07)
MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) — A Middleton sculptor has been chosen to create a statue of Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro.
(2008/05/07)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Door County fruit growers say last year’s drought combined with an unusually large crop could result in fewer cherries this year.
(2008/05/06)
MOSINEE, Wis. — The Marathon County medical examiner says the body found in the Wisconsin River over the weekend near Mosinee is of a missing 17-year-old boy who went fishing.
(2008/05/06)
BRODHEAD, Wis. (AP) — An amateur-built, single-engine plane crashed in rural Green County, killing the pilot, authorities said Monday.
(2008/05/06)
MILWAUKEE — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has dropped one of four citations against the Racine construction company involved in a December trench collapse that killed a Racine man.
(2008/05/06)
GREEN BAY, Wis. — David Witthoft finally shunned his Brett Favre jersey for a red shirt for the first time in 1,581 days.
(2008/05/06)
ORFORDVILLE, Wis. — A fire truck overturned en route to a barn fire Monday, pinning two volunteer firefighters inside.
(2008/05/06)
MADISON, Wis. — A highly touted program to walk University of Wisconsin-Madison students home safely has been understaffed while services are in high demand after a student’s murder, employees complain.
(2008/05/06)
MILWAUKEE — A man convicted of killing the son of a talk show co-host was sentenced Monday to life in prison with eligibility for parole in 48 years.
(2008/05/06)
KENOSHA, Wis. — Hundreds of Harley-Davidson owners gathered at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church for the 19th annual bike blessing.
(2008/05/06)
WEST BEND, Wis. — A teenage girl remained in critical condition Monday after being shot in the head by someone in another vehicle over the weekend, Washington County authorities said.
(2008/05/06)
NEENAH, Wis. — A Neenah woman has been arrested following the death of her 2-year-old son.
(2008/05/06)
MILWAUKEE — Home improvement retailer Menards is creating need for its drills, saws and toilet seats in a way that’s unique to its industry.
(2008/05/06)
MADISON, Wis. — Some nonprofit and anti-crime organizations could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars under a new law limiting how courts impose fines.
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