MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Teenagers would be allowed to work longer hours over the busy summer tourism months in Wisconsin under a bill up for approval in the state Senate. The measure up for a vote Wednesday is backed by Republicans and the state’s hotel, restaurant and grocery industries, but opposed by Democrats and the Wisconsin AFL-CIO. Current law does not allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work later than 7 […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An environmental advocacy group has filed a lawsuit seeking the Department of Natural Resources policy board chairman's text messages. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Midwest Environmental Advocates filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Dane County against Fred Prehn, the board and the DNR. The lawsuit demands Prehn turn over texts sent and received about his term on the board. Prehn's term ended in May and Democratic […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is defending not releasing documents related to an ongoing investigation he ordered into the 2020 election, saying he believes the election was “tainted” but that President Joe Biden won. A judge earlier this month ordered Vos to release records requested by a liberal group under the state’s open records law. The group, American Oversight, filed a second lawsuit on Tuesday […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Madison man suspected of speeding and driving drunk before a crash that killed three high school seniors earlier this month is facing numerous criminal charges in Dane County, including reckless homicide. A criminal complaint says 30-year-old Eric Mehring told a sheriff’s deputy investigating the Oct. 2 crash in the town of Middleton that it happened because of “too much speed and more drinks that I […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge related to his role in the breach of the U.S. Capitol last January. Kevin Loftus entered the plea to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. The 53-year-old Eau Claire man appeared by video in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Tuesday after earlier reaching a plea deal with prosecutors. The misdemeanor carries up to […]
A Chilton man was seriously injured in an ATV rollover crash in Fond du Lac County. The crash happened Tuesday morning in a field near St. Paul Road in the town of Calumet. A preliminary investigation shows the 51 year old operator was checking a line that was used in a farm field to pump fertilizer when he looked over his shoulder, travelled across the line and lost control of the […]
The Dodge County Sheriff's Office has identified the victim of a fatal motorcycle crash over the weekend. The victim has been identified as 34 year old Daniel Chase of rural Beaver Dam. The crash happened early Sunday morning when Chase failed to negotiate a curve on South Center Road near Jackson Road and entered a ditch. He was not wearing a helmet. The Sheriff's Office says speed and alcohol appear to be factors in the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources policy board has taken no action after meeting in a closed session for more than an hour to discuss hiring its own attorneys in a lawsuit seeking to block the fall wolf hunt. Board Chairman Fred Prehn previously said that he wasn’t sure if Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul’s Department of Justice will represent board members’ pro-wolf management position in […]
A lawsuit filed by a group of wildlife advocates to halt a fall wolf hunt is taking a multi-pronged approach. Executive director of the Friends of Wisconsin Wolf and Wildlife Melissa Smith says the suit questions whether Natural Resources Board chairman Frederick Prehn, whose term expired in May, should be on the Board in the first place. Smith says the suit also argues that state statutes don’t give state wildlife officials any leeway […]