Category Archives: State News

Former Milwaukee school board member Aisha Carr faces charges of fraud and misconduct. Prosecutors allege Carr falsely claimed to live in her school board district after her election three years ago. ...

Four teens involved in a carjacking that led to a police chase on I-41 have been formally charged. The Milwaukee County D.A.'s Office filed charges against 18-year-old Ashley Patterson, 17-year-old Ca...

A suspect in a Milwaukee arson fire, Breonteze Little, has been charged. Prosecutors filed charges for the fire at Ralph's Coffee Bar, where firefighters found paper towels soaked in a flammable subst...

An Eau Claire middle school student is set to represent Wisconsin in the national civics bee in Washington, D.C. Rya Mousavi won the Wisconsin Civics Bee last week with her essay on public school refo...

The fate of the historic John the Baptist Catholic Church in Jefferson is uncertain after it was struck by lightning last night (June 25th). The lightning hit the church's steeple, igniting a fire. Fi...

Waukesha police have arrested a man involved in a standoff yesterday (June 24th), who was found with a realistic-looking BB gun. Officers responded to a report of an armed man at a residence on Dixie ...

Oak Creek police arrested thirteen men during a weekend prostitution sting operation. The "prostitution demand suppression operation" was conducted on Sunday. Two of the men arrested have prior prosti...

The search is ongoing for Robert Hanson, a 35-year-old man from Eau Claire, who was last seen in the Eau Claire River. The Eau Claire County Sheriff's Office reports that Hanson disappeared Saturday a...

Northern Wisconsin faces a day of clean-up after a series of strong thunderstorms swept through the region overnight. The National Weather Service issued a variety of watches and warnings for areas fr...

Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is advising the public not to take cicadas from state parks. Reports have surfaced of people collecting cicadas from Big Foot Beach State Park in Walw...