A former head of a Wisconsin Rapids credit union has committed suicide, 3-and-a-half months after he was charged with embezzling $634,000. 50-year-old David Henke missed a federal court appearance Monday in Madison. So Judge Barbara Crabb issued a warrant for Henke’s arrest. And Wood County sheriff’s deputies ...
A murder victim found in a burned out home in northwest Wisconsin has been tentatively identified as 43-year-old David Palm of Birchwood in Sawyer County. Authorities believe Palm was killed Saturday night by a man who was found dead Sunday in a smoldering fire next to an abandoned mobile home ...
Boxers and briefs were not good enough for 2 underwear models to win people over at a Halloween party. So they went to a store to get something better – and they got arrested for shoplifting. It happened last Thursday in the Milwaukee suburbs. According to the Journal Sentinel’s “Wauwatosa ...
Wisconsin’s Capital City is getting ready to host President Obama Wednesday – the first anniversary of his election. He’ll talk about education at Wright Middle School in Madison. It’s a charter school with the largest percentage of poor and minority students in the city. Local officials have not ...
U.S. House Democrat Tammy Baldwin of Madison is trying to make it easier for nurses who want to teach to get loans for their training. Nurses are expected to be in short supply once the economy gets better – and one reason is there are fewer people to teach them ...
The economy might be recovering, but the job market is not. And among other things, it’s putting a squeeze on high school kids who find themselves competing with young adults for entry level jobs. The U.S. Labor Department says the unemployment rate for 16 to 19-year-olds is around ...
A suburban Milwaukee woman was looking for love in at least one wrong place – and it cost her $7,400. The Journal Sentinel’s “Muskego Now” Web site said the 31-year-old woman courted a man for months on an online dating service – and she thought they were going to get ...
Milwaukee has no shortage of water – and there’s a new proposal to give free H2O to prospective industries for providing jobs, the same way other cities and state provide tax breaks. The idea was discussed Monday at a conference at Marquette University on the economics of water. Mayor Tom ...
Things are looking up a little bit for Wisconsin dairy farmers. That’s because their milk checks will be a tad bigger this month. The October price for the state’s milk producers is expected to average $14.40 for every 100 pounds. That’s 90 cents more than a ...
35 refrigerated trucks will leave from Madison Tuesday, as part of a major effort to help stock food banks around the country. The Transport Refrigeration company is supplying the trucks to the Walmart Foundation, which will give them to a group that delivers food to 35 communities including New Orleans ...