The Wisconsin Supreme Court was asked Tuesday to throw out the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage and civil unions. 59 percent of voters agreed to ban both in a single referendum in 2006. But UW-Oshkosh professor Bill McConkey said the state broke the law by asking more than ...
Taxpayers would cover the costs of State Supreme Court campaigns under a bill endorsed Tuesday by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee. The vote was 11 to 4, with Democrats voting yes and Republicans in opposition. Income tax filers would contribute through a voluntary check off on their returns, and ...
A U.S. Senate Democrat from North Dakota plans to introduce a bill next week to ban the use of laptop computers in airplane cockpits. Byron Dorgan wants to avoid a repeat of last month – when a Northwest Airlines plane overflew the Twin Cities airport by 150 miles into Wisconsin ...
Republican lawmakers are trying to get Wisconsin’s auto insurance premiums back to where they were before Democrats raised minimum coverage levels. Senate Republican Mike Ellis of Neenah is among several GOP lawmakers trying to round up support for repealing the higher coverage levels which took effect November 1st. The ...
A suburban Milwaukee man charged in the drug overdose death of a 15-year-old girl had his bond raised by ten fold today to $100,000. 23-year-old Matthew Laughrin of Whitefish Bay was charged last month with second-degree reckless homicide. Police said Maddie Kiefer went to Laughrin’s home February 28th ...
Call it “Cash for Candy.” Dentists in Wisconsin and elsewhere are paying $1 a pound for the Halloween candy that kids bring into their offices. The candy is then donated to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chris Kammer of Middleton is among the dentists taking part. He says ...
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 ...