Month: December 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a former Fitchburg City Council candidate in connection with the July death of Wisconsin Public Media Director Gene Purcell. The Wisconsin State Journal reports Shawnicia Youmas was charged Tuesday with homicide by negligent driving. According to a criminal complaint, Youmas' vehicle collided with Purcell's motorcycle near the Wisconsin Public Broadcasting building in Madison on July 27. Data from the air bag control module […]

VERONA, Wis. (AP) — A pharmaceutical company plans to open a new quarter-billion-dollar campus outside Madison.  Arrowhead Pharmaceutical announced plans Tuesday for a new 13-acre campus in Verona. The campus will include a 140,000-square-foot drug manufacturing facility, a 115,000-square-foot laboratory and an office complex. The project is expected to ring in at between $200 million and $250 million and employ between 200 and 250 people. Arrowhead currently operates research and […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of a committee searching for a new chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison says she wants to pick someone by May. The Wisconsin State Journal reported the committee's chairperson, Karen Walsh, laid out the group's timeline on Tuesday. The plan calls for an application deadline in mid-March, semifinalist interviews in mid-April, finalist campus visits in early May and a hiring recommendation to the full […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Almost a quarter of the jobs within the state Department of Corrections are unfilled. Wisconsin Public Radio reports about 1,100 jobs remain open and maximum-security facilities in Portage and Waupun are operating with only half their staffs. Corrections officials are now sending almost two dozen officers from other facilities each pay period to that prison. Corrections Secretary Kevin Carr says low pay and fears of COVID-19 […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' administration has signed a deal allowing gambling on sports and other events at St. Croix Chippewa tribal casinos. Evers' administration announced Monday that it has amended the state's gambling compact with the tribe to offer event wagering. The St. Croix Tribal Council approved the amendment on Nov. 30. The U.S. Department of the Interior still must approve the amendment but the tribe […]

The outgoing leader of minority Democrats in the state assembly says he always strived to work across the aisle when possible, while holding Republican lawmakers accountable.  Gordon Hintz announced last week he would be stepping down as minority leader January 10 to have more time for his family and for his legislative district.   Democrats hold 38 of the assembly's 99 seats, unable to stop Republicans from passing whatever bills they want. "Understand what […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor has received a complaint seeking the removal of Milwaukee County’s district attorney because one his prosecutors recommended $1,000 bail for a man who authorities say later drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in a nearby county, killing six people. Darrell Brooks is being held on a $5 million bail for the six homicide charges he faces in the Nov. 21 parade deaths in nearby […]