Month: June 2022

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The cost of Wisconsin Republicans' investigation of the 2020 presidential election results has risen to nearly $900,000, about $220,000 more than initially budgeted. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos hired retired state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman in 2021 to investigate whether Joe Biden had somehow stolen Wisconsin from Donald Trump. Multiple reviews and court decisions have found no widespread fraud but Trump pressured Vos to take action […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin circuit court judge has ruled that it was legal for private grants from a group funded by Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg to be sent to the Democratic stronghold of Madison to help it run the 2020 election during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke's ruling Wednesday affirmed an earlier decision by the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission rejecting complaints challenging the grant […]

A California man has been arrested for allegedly making threats to a staff member at the Kiel Area School District.  The FBI says the 34 year old man is from Oceanside, California.  Officers say this arrest was not related to a series of bomb threats that have been made to the school district and the city.  The FBI and Wisconsin DOJ/DCI are continuing to investigate  five bomb threats that have been emailed to […]