by Bill Scott | Feb 24, 2016
St. Norbert College senior forward Erik Cooper was named the 2016 Northern Collegiate Hockey Association Player of the Year to pace the Green Knights’ league honors announced by the conference office on Tuesday night. Cooper became the ninth different St....
by WRN Contributor | Feb 24, 2016
Pulaski High School is doing whatever it can to help the children of the couple killed Friday night in Green Bay, when police say a drunk driver plowed into their car. James and Wendy Rush leave behind two teens, both students at Pulaski High School. “We want to...
by Andrew Beckett | Feb 23, 2016
A Wisconsin Congressman says he has some concerns about President Barack Obama’s proposed plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The president’s plan, announced Tuesday morning would move detainees to other countries and to U.S. prisons. U.S....
by WRN Contributor | Feb 23, 2016
A Denmark man has been arrested for his 12th drunk driving offense. Green Bay police say they pulled over a suspicious vehicle around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. An officer discovered that 59-year-old Patrick Moore had been drinking, and was driving with a revoked...
by WRN Contributor | Feb 23, 2016
Investigators have released the names of a Presque Isle couple killed in a Friday afternoon Vilas County crash. Eighty-six year-old Ronald Barnes and his 83 year-old wife Amy Barnes died after crashing with another car occupied by a couple from Sayner. Sheriff Joseph...
by Andrew Beckett | Feb 23, 2016
State Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg is picking up a key endorsement from one of her former election opponents. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Joe Donald announced Tuesday that he’s putting his support behind Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg,...
by WRN Contributor | Feb 23, 2016
The Columbia County Sheriff’s Department has identified the three people killed as the result of a single vehicle crash on Sunday night. The victims. 18 year-old Zia Rowan of Oxford, 19 year-old Jack Stalker of Montello and 26 year-old Donald Pangburn of...
by Bob Hague | Feb 23, 2016
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources staff will be available over the noon hour today, to answer the public’s questions about coyotes. The dog-like predators have been in the news lately, particularly in urban southern Wisconsin. Milwaukee County wildlife...
by Andrew Beckett | Feb 23, 2016
New numbers from the Wisconsin Realtors Association show the average price of a home in Wisconsin took a big jump to start off the new year. Figures released by the WRA show the median price was 10.1 percent higher than January of last year – coming in at almost...
by Bill Scott | Feb 23, 2016
Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell said he plays to give veteran infielder Aaron Hill plenty of opportunity to win the teams third base job. The 33-year-old Hill has spent most of his career as a second baseman. Over eleven seasons in the majors, Hill has 1,148...
by Bill Scott | Feb 23, 2016
Jordan Johnson had a triple-double to lead the Milwaukee Panthers to a 87-51 win over Youngstown State in Horizon League action. The 5’9 junior guard had ten points, ten rebounds and ten assists as the Panthers improved to 9-7 in Horizon League play. Milwaukee...
by Bill Scott | Feb 23, 2016
Menomonie’s Alex Fenton and Kimberly’s Logan Bruss became the second and third high school offensive linemen to commit to the University of Wisconsin football program on Monday. Both were offered scholarships at the Badgers’ Junior Day on Jan. 23. ...
by Bill Scott | Feb 23, 2016
There’s no doubt that Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant has star power. There’s not a lot of players that have the ability to sell out the BMO Harris Bradley Center on a Monday night, but that’s what happened. The sellout crowd of 18,717 fans...
by Bill Scott | Feb 23, 2016
Former Green Bay Packers’ corner Mike C. McCoy passed away after suffering from dementia. The 62-year-old McCoy played for eight NFL seasons, all with Green Bay after he was drafted in the third round in 1976. McCoy started at corner for seven years and had 13...
by Andrew Beckett | Feb 22, 2016
A retired high school history teacher is mounting a Democratic primary challenge against Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind. Myron Buchholz of Eau Claire says he’s worried about growing poverty rates in the Third Congressional District and statewide, which are...
by WRN Contributor | Feb 22, 2016
A Janesville man is facing a charge of felony 10th-offense intoxicated driving. According to Janesville police, 53-year-old Scott Ross was arrested a little before 2:00 a.m Sunday. Officers who made a traffic stop at the intersection of West Milwaukee Street and South...
by WRN Contributor | Feb 22, 2016
An arrest has been made in connection with a double fatality crash in Green Bay on Friday night. Daniel R. Boucher, 27, was booked into the Brown County Jail Sunday morning on two counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle and one count of injury by...
by Bob Hague | Feb 22, 2016
A bill that would expand the circumstances under which someone in police custody can be strip searched is headed to Governor Scott Walker’s desk. Under current law a person has to be facing detainment of at least 12 hours before police can conduct a strip...
by Andrew Beckett | Feb 22, 2016
Some Republican state lawmakers say the Senate should schedule a vote on a controversial bill targeting so-called sanctuary cities. The legislation is aimed at ending policies that prevent local law enforcement and other agencies from asking someone charged with a...
by WRN Contributor | Feb 22, 2016
Wisconsin consumer protection officials have had some success in nabbing tele-marketing and Internet scammers in the past year, but the fight has not be an easy one. Sandy Chalmers, Deputy Secretary of the state Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer...
