Wisconsin News and Sports
The economy continues to take its toll on Wisconsin’s unemployment compensation fund.
The projected deficit is in the billions of dollars, and options range from more borrowing from the feds, decreasing benefits, or raising taxes on employers. [Read more...]
A Dane County man who had enough ingenuity to grow millions of dollars in marijuana in his basement, but not enough to prevent law enforcement from finding out, will serve two and a half years in prison. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb sentenced 23 year-old Curtis Faustich on Wednesday in Madison. Officers who executed a search warrant at Faustich’s McFarland home on April 13, 2010 found hundreds of marijuana plants, some between five and six feet tall, growing in the basement. The plants had a street value of between $1 million and $3 million. [Read more...]
Dozens of people crammed into a town hall in Clark County Wednesday night to learn more about a convicted murderer and rapist who is set to move into their neighborhood next week. Those that couldn’t find room in the building listened through the windows as information was presented about Gary Thiede. Thiede was 18 when he committed a grisly murder in Hatfield 1988. He is a Level 3 sex offender. Probation officers have found a landlord willing to rent him a home on a dead end road south of Neillsville. [Read more...]
A UW-Madison political scientist says all three Republican debates in the race for governor did little to set the candidates apart on their proposals.
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and former Congressman Mark Neumann candidates met last night in their final debate before the primary. [Read more...]
The Dodge County Sheriff’s Department has released the name of a four-year-old Hustisford girl killed Wednesday when she was attacked by a dog. Sheriff Todd Nehls says it happened in the backyard of a Town of Hubbard home where the family of Taylor Becker was visiting friends. A neighbor passing by around 12:45 p.m. witnessed the end of the attack and alerted the adults inside the home, but it was too late. Emergency responders found Taylor unresponsive with multiple wounds. She was taken to Beaver Dam Hospital and later pronounced dead.
The Sheriff’s Department says it’s believed the dog slipped out of its collar during the incident but that was of no consequence because the dog had free reign of the backyard even while on a leash. The dog, a boxer, did not have any history of violence and it’s been taken to the Dodge County Humane Society while the investigation continues.
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