MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police say five people were shot and wounded outside a Milwaukee high school following a fight over a social media post. Police Chief Jeffrey Norman said Wednesday that four teenage girls and a woman were shot about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday outside Rufus King High School where a basketball game was taking place. Police say the suspect is a man known to them who remained at large. Norman […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge is allowing an immigrants rights group to join a pending lawsuit challenging subpoenas issued by a Republican-hired attorney investigating President Joe Biden's 2020 election win in the battleground state. The move expands the legal challenge to subpoenas issued by Michael Gableman, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired in June with $676,000 in taxpayer money to lead the investigation. Gableman subpoenaed Milwaukee-based Voces […]
The executive director of the government watchdog group Common Cause in Wisconsin says he is pleased the state Supreme Court is allowing unmanned drop boxes for this month's primary election. Jay Heck says considering the process for the primary election has already begun it was a sound decision. Heck says the bigger decision will be what the court decides to do about drop boxes for the April and November elections. Heck says […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry has released an economic plan calling for raising the minimum wage, encouraging unionization, making tuition free for the first two years of public community college or technical school and increasing apprenticeships. Lasry is one of several Democrats seeking to take on Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson. Others in the race include Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, state Treasurer Sarah Godlewski and […]
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — There will be six more weeks of winter. That's the prediction made Wednesday by Punxsutawney Phil after he emerged from his burrow in Pennsylvania to perform his Groundhog Day duties. Thousands of people gathered at Gobbler’s Knob as members of Punxsutawney Phil’s “inner circle” summoned him from his tree stump at dawn to learn if he'd seen his shadow. After Phil’s prediction was announced, the crowd […]
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — A man convicted in a fatal shooting at a suburban Appleton mall was sentenced to 40 years in prison. The sentencing Tuesday in Outagamie County Circuit Court came a year after 18-year-old Dezman Ellis shot and killed Jovanni Frausto during a dispute about a girlfriend at the Fox River Mall’s food court. A bystander, Colt Lemmers, was injured. Ellis, of Oshkosh, fled the mall in a […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Hartland woman who tangled with police in Cambridge before investigators found a body inside her car was charged Tuesday in Dane County with hiding a corpse. Angelina Ruesch is facing five other charges for the Jan. 17 incident that led authorities to find the body of 34-year-old Adam McCormick, of Kaukauna. The 28-year-old Ruesch was arrested after displaying a gun and ignoring commands from law […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former lottery computer technician serving a 25-year prison sentence for ongoing criminal conduct by rigging computers to win lottery jackpots for himself, friends and family will be released from an Iowa prison on parole after serving nearly five years. Eddie Tipton was granted release by the Iowa Board of Parole on Jan. 20 and will be allowed to live in Texas, a board document […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin state Senate's top Democrat says she won't seek reelection. Minority Leader Janet Bewley announced Tuesday she won't run this November. She says she wants to spend more time with her recently retired husband and grandchildren. Bewley, of Mason, represents a section of far northern Wisconsin that includes Superior and Ashland. She was first elected to the Assembly in 2010 and won election to the […]