Month: December 2019

Authorities have released the names of the Wisconsin police officers who injured students in back-to-back high school shootings this week. The state Department of Justice said Oshkosh Police Officer Mike Wissink wounded a 16-year-old Oshkosh West High School student Tuesday after the boy stabbed him. Wissink has 21 years of experience with the Oshkosh department. Waukesha Police Sgt. Brady Esser shot a 17-year-old student at Waukesha South High School on […]

A retired Ripon College political science professor  says he anticipates the House will vote on impeachment following House Judiciary Committee hearings that started Wednesday.   Political scientist, Marty Farrell says the one thing he is looking to see is if the committee brings forward material from the Mueller report.  "There were two basic things in the Mueller report, one was obstruction of justice.  Mueller himself said he wouldn't rule out an […]

The DNR’s Chief Warden says he hopes the conviction and stiff sentences handed down in a large deer poaching case sends a strong message.  Five men were recently convicted of poaching as many as 40 deer in southwestern Wisconsin.  DNR Chief Warden Todd Schaller says the men were not hunting for food, but says it was a “game” for them.  "This is not a circumstance where they were in need of food […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has a personal connection to the high school where a 16-year-old student was shot by a resource officer after stabbing him. Evers said Tuesday that two of his children graduated from Oshkosh West High School. The shooting in Oshkosh came a day after a 17-year-old student pointed a pellet gun at another student's head in a confrontation that led to a police […]

Investigators believe a Waupun man killed his grandmother because he was upset she spoke to police about his drug use causing him to lose custody of his children.  Gregory Spittel made his initial Fond du Lac court appearance Tuesday on 12 additional charges including first degree intentional homicide in the death of  75 year old Carol Foreman.   According to a criminal complaint on August 23 Spittel assaulted Foreman in the basement of his Waupun home, […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A key Republican state lawmaker says a bipartisan bill with broad support designed to prevent future backlogs in testing of evidence collected following a sexual assault will likely pass the Legislature sometime next year. The comments from Rep. Joe Sanfelippo Tuesday come after Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul and advocates pressed for action. Sanfelippo says he planned to hold a hearing on the bill and expected […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — New data from the state Department of Natural Resources shows hunters killed dramatically fewer deer during Wisconsin’s nine-day gun season than last year. Preliminary figures show hunters killed 160,769 deer over the season that ended Sunday. That’s down 25% from 213,972 deer last year.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire have found microplastics in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota. The researchers say they found microplastics _ particularly fibers _ in water, soil and worms collected this summer. Microplastic fibers can shed from synthetic clothing and fabrics. But they also can spread by wind, rain and snow.