MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker has signed a $3 billion incentive package designed to lure a Foxconn Technology Group flat-screen plant to southeastern Wisconsin. Walker signed the bill Monday afternoon during a packed ceremony at a technical college in Sturtevant in Racine County, the most likely location for the plant. The bill provides nearly $3 billion in cash to Foxconn if it invests $10 billion in a new […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State Superintendent Tony Evers is defending a statewide school accountability plan his department submitted to the federal government over objections from Gov. Scott Walker. Evers is running for governor as a Democrat. He issued a statement through his campaign Monday saying that Walker's criticism of the plan shows he is putting his own political interests ahead of what is best for the state's school children. Walker's […]
The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victims of a fatal wrong-way collision on state Highway 60. The Sheriff’s Office says 64 year old Beverly Vincent of Iron Ridge was killed when her SUV was struck by an SUV traveling the wrong way on Highway 60 near Jefferson Road Sunday. A passenger in her vehicle, 65 year old Bryan Vincent received life-threatening injuries. The wrong way driver, 46 year […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin police chief says he believes a man accused of fatally shooting his wife and blowing up their house will say she asked him to kill her. Madison police Chief Mike Koval says 50-year-old Lee Anne Pirus may have been dead for weeks or months before being found in the rubble of their house Friday. Her 59-year-old husband, Steven Pirus, is jailed on possible charges […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A photographer from Wisconsin believed to be the first female American journalist killed in a war has become an honorary Marine. Dickey Chapelle was 47 when she was killed by shrapnel from an exploding land while covering the Vietnam War in 1965. She'd also covered the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa during World War II. Chapelle was recently declared an honorary Marine at the Marine […]
An open house will be held this weekend for a major expansion at Waupun Memorial Hospital. Hospital chief operating officer DeAnn Thurmer says the $23 million addition will open on September 26. Thurmer says the two story, nearly 53,000 square foot addition will house medical-surgical patient rooms, intensive care, labor-delivery and postpartum rooms. Thurmer says the new rooms are larger. The public is invited to an open house from 11am […]
Gov. Scott Walker has signed a $3 billion incentive package designed to lure a Foxconn Technology Group flat-screen plant to southeastern Wisconsin. Walker signed the bill Monday afternoon during a packed ceremony at a technical college in Sturtevant in Racine County, the most likely location for the plant. The bill provides nearly $3 billion in cash to Foxconn if it invests $10 billion in a new flat-screen factory in southeastern […]
The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victims of a fatal wrong-way collision on state Highway 60. The Sheriff’s Office says 64 year old Beverly Vincent of Iron Ridge was killed when her SUV was struck by an SUV traveling the wrong way on Highway 60 near Jefferson Road Sunday. A passenger in her vehicle, 65 year old Bryan Vincent received life-threatening injuries. The wrong way driver, 46 […]
A suspect is in custody in connection with reports of multiple sexual assault incidents near the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh campus. UW Oshkosh police say a 27 year old male non-student is being held in the Winnebago County Jail facing multiple charges including sexual assault, burglary, battery and auto theft. Police say early Sunday morning the suspect attempted to sexually assault a female victim. Police say the attack was thwarted […]