by Andrew Beckett | Sep 25, 2012
Residents across the state are being reminded to safely dispose of old and unwanted medications. The Department of Natural Resources is helping with a push for unused or expired medications to be turned in at special collection sites. Medical waste coordinator Barb...
by Bill Scott | Sep 25, 2012
The first men’s college hockey poll of the year is out and Wisconsin will open the season ranked 15th, according to the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men’s College Hockey Preseason Poll. The Badgers, who spent the entire 2011-12 season outside the top 15,...
by Bob Hague | Sep 25, 2012
More elk may be headed to Wisconsin. The Department of Natural Resources has been considering increasing the size of the current Clam Lake elk herd – and establishing a second herd in the Black River State Forest. The DNR’s Kevin Wallenfang explained that...
by Bill Scott | Sep 24, 2012
The Washington Nationals earned a split of their 4-game series with the Milwaukee, blasting the Brewers 12-2 in the series finale on Monday afternoon at Nationals Park. With the loss, the Brewers fell 3-games behind the St. Louis Cardinals for the final NL Wildcard...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 24, 2012
In their honor of Tuesday’s National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims, the Racine County Victim Witness program sponsored an event to remember them. Racine County Board Supervisor Monty Osterman, whose cousin was killed, told an audience of a few dozen...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 24, 2012
The parents of a three-year-old Burnett County girl who was found dead in a canal near her home last month have turned themselves in to police. Criminal neglect charges were filed Friday against 33-year-old Jenna Danish and 42-year-old Thomas Williams. Burnett County...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 24, 2012
Several teenagers received varying degrees of burns early Monday morning, after a firework ignited inside the car they were in. Sparta Police are not sure where or when it happened exactly, but five 17-year-olds drove to the hospital after they apparently tried to...
by Brian Moon | Sep 24, 2012
The economic downturn in recent years has more people unable to afford an attorney. Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee lawyer with extensive pro bono experience, says additionally non-profit legal help has fewer dollars to help out. Meanwhile, she says Wisconsin provides no...
by Bill Scott | Sep 24, 2012
Wisconsin Junior linebacker Chris Borland has been named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for the 4th time in his career. Borland recorded a team-high 12 tackles, tying a career-best with 3.5 tackles for loss and recording a career-high two sacks in the...
by Andrew Beckett | Sep 24, 2012
Wisconsinites living abroad will face a much easier process when they go to request an absentee ballot for the upcoming November elections. Reid Magney with the state Government Accountability Board says that’s thanks to the agency’s new “My Vote...
by Bill Scott | Sep 24, 2012
After opening with a 3-under par 67 on Thursday, Madison’s Steve Stricker followed with three straight rounds of 73 to finish 6-over par and never really contend for the PGA’s Tour Championship crown. Brandt Snedeker closed with a 2-under 68 to earn a...
by Bill Scott | Sep 24, 2012
If the Wisconsin Badgers have to play their Big Ten opener at Nebraska this week without Montee Ball, there’s plenty of help at running back in Madison. Ball rushed for 40 yards and a touchdown on 9 carries before he suffered a concussion. Melvin Gordon came on...
by Bill Scott | Sep 24, 2012
Jonathan Lucroy had a pair of run-scoring singles, Rickie Weeks had 3-hits and Aramis Ramirez added a pair of doubles to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 6-2 win over the Washington Nationals on Sunday. The win kept the Brewers within 2 1/2 games of the first place...
by Jackie Johnson | Sep 24, 2012
Considering political polls’ methodology. Among recently-released polls in Wisconsin in the state’s U.S. Senate race and the presidential race, some surveys are automated while others have individuals conducting the interviews. Also, those using recorded...
by Bill Scott | Sep 23, 2012
22-year-old Jordan Williams went into his second Marathon thinking he had no chance to win. Then, at about the 21 mile mark, Williams passed the leader and things changed. Williams had to come up with a plan to get him to the finish line without running out of gas....
by Bob Hague | Sep 22, 2012
President Barack Obama met with supporters at a fundraiser at the Milwaukee Theatre, and addressed a campaign rally on the lakefront, during a stop Saturday in Milwaukee. Obama, accompanied by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, made an unscheduled stop at Usinger’s...
by Bob Hague | Sep 21, 2012
A state Senate hearing on health care exchanges was a Democrats-only affair on Friday. State Senator Jon Erpenbach, the committee chair, said that was disappointing. “The exchange is designed to give people who don’t have access to that, the exact same...
by Brian Moon | Sep 21, 2012
State officials host experts to talk about ways Wisconsin wood exporters can take advantage of other markets. Keynote speaker Michael Snow, executive director of the Virginia-based American Hardwood Export Council, says although globalization is often portrayed as...
