BROWN DEER, Wis. (AP) — Police in a Milwaukee suburb say the suspect in the stabbing of two teens is their mother. Officers were called to a home in Brown Deer early Friday morning on a 911 call that two people had been stabbed. The Journal Sentinel reports two brothers had been stabbed in a domestic dispute. An 18-year-old suffered a leg wound and a 16-year-old had cuts to his […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived a lead paint lawsuit in Wisconsin, which could also reactivate more than 170 other lead poisoning cases. The appeals court reversed a ruling by a federal judge who in 2010 threw out a case involving a Milwaukee boy who suffered lead poisoning and sued six paint manufacturers. The appeals court's ruling sends the case back to federal court in Milwaukee for […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin continues to lead the nation in the production of mink pelts. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Wisconsin produced 1.13 million mink pelts last year. That's up almost 8 percent from 2011. Two-thirds of Wisconsin's mink pelts were black and another 10 percent were blue iris.
A quick thinking construction worker helped a fire from spreading in Fond du Lac. Firefighters were called to the scene Friday morning for a report of a commercial building fire at 1674 Fox Ridge Drive. Upon arrival the fire was extinguished. Nearby construction workers observed the fire from down the road, rushed over to the building, and extinguished the fire. The painting contractor had cardboard and painting supplies stored […]
Two teenage girls have been arrested for vandalizing the shelter area near the Fond du Lac Junior Football League practice field. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says it didn’t take long for detectives to identify the girls on the surveillance video seen smashing commemorative brick pavers. "In fairly short order we were able to quickly identify the individuals involved. Surveillance video before the actual vandalism took place showed two girls […]
Fond du Lac police are continuing to look for a suspect in connection with a home invasion this week and similar incident a couple of weeks before a homeowner in the area of Dewberry Drive and Primrose Lane chased a naked man out of his home early Wednesday morning. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says detectives are already following up on a couple of leads. "We have started getting […]
The director of the Marquette University Law School poll says the latest numbers show that with the election a little less than four months out the race for governor is a coin flip. Charles Franklin says for the first time since she announced, Democrat Mary Burke is a point ahead of Governor Walker…but within the margin of error. Franklin says the biggest news to come out of this new […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorney general hopeful Ismael Ozanne failed to supply a reason for spending $33,000 in campaign cash on state reports. Ozanne is one of three Democrats vying for that party's nomination in an Aug. 12 primary. His campaign has been floundering financially; the latest finance reports filed Monday with state elections officials show he had only $3,405 on hand. A review of the reports shows Ozanne gave […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has sided with police in two separate cases where cellphone data was used to track suspects. The court's rulings Thursday came in a pair of homicide cases in Milwaukee and Kenosha counties. Police in both cases used data from the suspects' cellphone providers to track them down. They arrested the suspect in the Milwaukee case, Bobby Tate, in his mother's apartment. They […]