by Jackie Johnson | Sep 30, 2014
UPDATE: WMC has taken taken down the graphic in question from their website.* A handful of Democrats criticize Wisconsin’s largest business group for its recent fundraising effort which includes a graphic on its website describing a pay-equity demonstrator as...
by Andrew Beckett | Sep 30, 2014
State election officials are asking the Legislature for funding, to help inform the public about the reinstatement of Wisconsin’s Voter ID requirement. The Government Accountability Board is asking lawmakers to release $460,800 in already-appropriated state...
by Andrew Beckett | Sep 30, 2014
The House Ethics Committee has voted to carry on with a probe targeting Wisconsin Congressman Tom Petri (R-WI). The committee voted unanimously to continue looking into allegations that the Fond du Lac Republican took actions benefitting companies he owned stock in,...
by Andrew Beckett | Sep 30, 2014
Democratic candidate for governor Mary Burke is getting a second round of help on the campaign trail from the First Lady. Just a day after Michelle Obama campaigned for Burke in Milwaukee, Burke’s campaign announced the First Lady will be in Madison next Tuesday...
by Jackie Johnson | Sep 30, 2014
Milwaukee Police use a woman’s iPhone to find her stolen car and arrest the two alleged thieves. The victim left what proved to be a very “smart phone” in her vehicle. Officers found it — and the thieves — by using the woman’s...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 30, 2014
Assembly Republican John Nygren (Marinette), who proposed anti-heroin laws following his daughter’s addiction, says he’s disappointed that she has succumbed to the drug again. Cassandra Nygren, 25, was one of three people arrested at a home in Green Bay....
by Bill Scott | Sep 30, 2014
The Wisconsin Badger men’s hockey team will open the 2014-15 season ranked No. 10 in the USCHO.com Preseason Poll and No. 12 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Preseason Poll. The Badgers finished the 2013-14 season ranked No. 7 in the nation in both polls. ...
by Bill Scott | Sep 30, 2014
The Milwaukee Bucks kicked off their 47th NBA season with the official start of training camp this morning. The Bucks are holding a pair of workouts both today and tomorrow. Following a league-worst fifteen wins last season, the Bucks landed the second pick in the...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 30, 2014
Wisconsin’s Silver Alert program is already successful in its first two months of operation. That’s according to Joseph Libowsky from the Wisconsin Department of Justice, which administers the program. Libowsky says the Silver alert program helps find...
by Bob Hague | Sep 30, 2014
There was high-profile help, for the candidates for Governor in Wisconsin on Monday. First Lady Michelle Obama took to the stump for Democrat Mary Burke during an afternoon rally in Milwaukee, while earlier in the day, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie joined...
by Andrew Beckett | Sep 29, 2014
Domestic violence claimed 55 lives in Wisconsin last year, according to a new report. End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin found 39 people were murdered, while 12 domestic violence perpetrators committed suicide and four were killed by police. Public Policy Coordinator Tony...
by Andrew Beckett | Sep 29, 2014
State Capitol Police moved quickly to take a naked man into custody, after he had stripped down and walked into the rotunda of the Capitol building late Monday afternoon. A spokeswoman for the state says the man started shouting at the top of his lungs that he was...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 29, 2014
Madison will become the center of the dairy universe this week, as the World Dairy Expo begins its five-day run. State Agriculture Secretary Ben Brancel calls the event a “gem” for Dane County and Wisconsin, attracting up to 70,000 people to various...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 29, 2014
A suburban Chicago man is dead, after a freak accident early Monday morning near Madison on Interstate 39/90. The Wisconsin State Patrol says a tire came off of an eastbound vehicle and was then thrown into the westbound lanes, crashing through the windshield of a car...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 29, 2014
Cool fall weather also means more pests are trying to get indoors. Randy Allen from Wil-Kil Pest Control says it’s not just the bugs that are looking for a warm place to spend the winter. “It includes bugs and rodents, mice in particular, but right now,...
by Andrew Beckett | Sep 29, 2014
With the election just a little over a month away, the candidates for governor in Wisconsin will be calling on a little star power today to help give their campaigns a boost. Republican incumbent Scott Walker has a late morning rally scheduled in Hudson with New...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 29, 2014
A Unity man is in the Marathon County jail after an early Saturday morning standoff with deputies. Deputies were sent to the scene around 4:15 in the morning after the man barricaded himself into a second story bedroom with two juvenile girls and refused to come out....
by WRN Contributor | Sep 29, 2014
Police find a man and a woman dead in Berlin over the weekend. At last word, police were questioning the woman’s husband, who was later found with the couple’s eight-year-old daughter after an Amber Alert was issued. Police said Justin Daniels and Melissa...
by Bill Scott | Sep 29, 2014
The Milwaukee Brewers closed their season with yet another loss, 5-2 to the Chicago Cubs at Miller Park on Sunday. The Brewers dropped 22 of their last 31 games to finish 82-80. General Manager Doug Melvin has already been told he’ll be around for the 2015...
by Bill Scott | Sep 29, 2014
Auburndale, Wisconsin native and former UW-Stevens Point standout Jordan Zimmermann tossed his first no-hitter and the first for the Washington Nationals. The no-no was preserved when defensive replacement Steven Souza Jr. made a diving catch in left field for the...
