State News | Seehafer News

Skip to Content

Domestic Related Shooting in Appleton

Appleton Police this morning were investigating a domestic related shooting on the city's Southeast side. Early reports indicated a woman was shot several times at a home in the 3300 block of East Can...

De Pere Businessman Charged In $9 Million Fraud Case

A De Pere businessman faces 14 federal charges that he defrauded more than nine-million dollars in loans and investments, some of which came from the state's job creation agency. A grand jury in Milwa...

Budget Vetoes Eliminate Judicial Council, Education Board

Governor Scott Walker has eliminated state funds for the advisory Judicial Council, a board that regulates profit making colleges, and a new panel for state prosecutors. Those are some of the 99 vetoe...

Free Speech Or Child Abuse? Court To Rule On Mother's Tirade

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide whether a mother's verbal tirade against her 14-year-old son was criminal abuse, or free speech. The court heard arguments Wednesday in the case of 44-year-old ...

Baldwin Calls On Congress To Renew Perkins Student Loans

U-S Senate Democrat Tammy Baldwin is calling on Congress to renew the Perkins student loan program by the end of this month. Baldwin tells the Wisconsin State Journal there's a good chance the program...

Pay Raise Proposed for Manitowoc County Supervisors

On a 14 to 10 vote the Manitowoc County Board of Supervisors last night passed an amended "pay raise" resolution that would give supervisors about an eleven-and-a half percent bump in pay. The origina...

Half-Percent Sales Tax Approved for Calumet County

The Calumet County Board of Supervisors voted 11 to 7 last evening to approve a half-percent sales tax. Supporters say restrictions from the state on property tax rates and a growth spurt in the north...

August Unemployment in Manitowoc County

August's unemployment rate rose slightly in Manitowoc. Numbers released this afternoon by the State Department of Workforce Development show the city's jobless rate at four percent. That's up from thr...

Police Chief: Wild Shootouts Not Uncommon In Milwaukee

Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn says a wild shootout captured on surveillance video is not that uncommon for Wisconsin's largest city. The video showed several men shooting at each other with rifle le...

Affadavit: Man Said Wife Asked Him To Kill Her

A Madison man claims that his wife asked him to kill her, so he shot her before blowing up his house with her body inside. That's according to a "probable cause affidavit" from investigators in the ca...