A Milwaukee man was sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years for a tavern robbery in which a bartender was killed by an axe. Circuit Judge Patricia McMahon refused to give 38-year-old Joel Cain any chance Monday for a supervised release. Cain was a regular at the Tiny Tap ...
U.S. House Democrat Tammy Baldwin of Madison might have to campaign for 2 elections next year. Dane County board member Dave de Felice says he’s forming an exploratory committee to see if he should run against Baldwin in next September’s Democratic primary. He says he wants Democratic ...
Some people say legislators might be overreacting as they try to stop fraud in the Wisconsin Shares child care program for the working poor. The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a series of reforms. That was after state auditors found that providers falsely claimed ...
Federal officials said a plane had almost no fuel when it crashed in Iowa in June, killing 3 men from southeast Wisconsin. The National Transportation Safety Board said the single engine Piper had 2 fuel tanks of 25 gallons each – but the tank under the left wing had only one ...
One of 2 pilots who disappeared with a U.S. Navy plane in the Gulf of Mexico was from southeast Wisconsin. The Navy identified him as 30-year-old Lieutenant Bret Miller of East Troy. His body was found on Friday, after it was spotted by the crew of a floating oil ...
Wisconsin’s utility regulators have agreed to let a company use dead trees and logging chips to make electricity. The state Public Service Commission gave Xcel Energy the okay to burn biomass instead of coal in its third operating unit at the Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland. The other ...
One man is dead, another in custody, after an overnight shooting in the Town of Scott. Brown County Sheriff's deputies are called to a home in the 3800 block of Conard Road around 10:40 p.m. Sunday. Sheriff David Kocken says a 29-year-old man is found with gunshot ...
Green Bay Police say somebody tried to steal the temporarily-named "Aaron Rodgers Drive" street sign early Saturday morning. An officer reportedly saw the sign in a man's car while patrolling the neighborhood. Cops say he took it as a joke and had planned to give it to charity. The ...
The lawyer for a murder defendant in Appleton wants the judge to replace the district attorney with a special prosecutor. Attorney Greg Petit is alleging misconduct in the case. Petit says he hired a university professor to survey potential jurors to see if pretrial publicity means his client can't ...
The search is on for an escaped federal prisoner. Authorities say Wayne Wheelock, Jr was being held in the Menoninee Tribal Jail on charges of sexual assault and registration violations when he was being escorted out of the jail to a medical appointment. Authorities say an associated confronted the correctional ...