A woman killed in a hit and run in Madison last weekend had been a victim of a high profile crash more than 20 years ago.

Forty-year-old Nicole McDougal died from the injuries she sustained in the hit-and-run crash last Saturday night. The driver has been charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle.

McDougal had survived a crash in Janesville in the spring of 1999. McDougal was one of 14 young people who were members of a traveling magazine sales crew. The van they were riding in crashed on Interstate 90/39 near Janesville. Seven were killed. McDougal suffered a traumatic brain injury in that crash, 24 years ago.

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Chippewa Falls police are asking for an end to illegal dumping at the city’s senior center. In a Facebook post, the police department implores people to stop illegal dumping during the annual Chippewa Falls Area Senior Center scrap metal drive.

The event raises between $7,000 and $9,000, but part of the funds will be used this year to install security cameras and haul away old furniture, appliances and garbage that have been left at the drop-off site.

The post noted that the drive is intended to take items that are all metal — not TVs, computers or household appliances.

A man accused of fatally shooting a co-worker at a Janesville workplace has taken a plea deal. Judge Barbara McCrory laid out the terms for 24-year-old Kevin Todd Tuesday in Rock County Court, reducing the original charge of first degree intentional homicide to second degree intentional homicide and dismissing related counts.  

Todd was charged in the gun death of 30-year-old Devon Hills at Precision Drawn Metals in April 2022. He clamed Hills bullied him in the week they worked together. 

Todd faces a minimum of 30 years in prison at his sentencing in August.

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Funeral services for slain St. Croix County Sheriff’s Deputy Kaitie Leising will be Friday at Hudson High School. Sheriff Scott Knudson said the 29-year-old was killed last weekend on what should have been a routine impaired driver call 

“For reasons that we’ll probably never know, this morally bankrupt and ethically challenged criminal decides to turn and murder Kaitie,” Knudson said Tuesday.

Knudson said he’s saddened by the loss to Leising’s family. “Her wife is at home. She’s got a three month old baby. And they’ll never get to see Kaitie again.”

Liesing’s fatal shooting by an intoxicated driver who also killed himself came just over a month after the gun deaths of two police officers in Barron County during a traffic stop.          

“Our office, our deputies, our law enforcement community is hurting, again, in this region,” Knudson said.

Knudson thanked law enforcement and communities in both Wisconsin and Minnesota. Alleged shooter Jeremiah Johnson took his own life. He had an extensive criminal record in Minnesota.

Governor Tony Evers signed Executive Order #199 ordering the flags of the United States and the state of Wisconsin to be flown at half-staff on Friday in honor of Deputy Leising.

Another Wisconsin man has been arrested and charged in connection with the January 6 insurrection at the U.S Capitol. Jonathan Bonney, of Hayward, is charged with four misdemeanors.

He’s the tenth Wisconsin man to be charged for taking part in the 2021 insurrection. Bonney made an initial appearance Thursday in U.S. District Court in Madison.

According to the criminal complaint Bonney, who was apparently then living in Colorado Springs, told a fellow airline passenger that he’d taken part. The FBI used his driver license photo to identify him breaking into the Capitol Building. Video records show Bonney was in the building for a total of 12 minutes.
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A former Roman Catholic cardinal has been charged with fourth-degree sexual assault for an incident in Wisconsin over 45 years ago. Attorney General Josh Kaul and Walworth County District Attorney Zeke Wiedenfeld announced the charge for former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who is 92 years old.

In a press release, the specific charge comes from an accusation that McCarrick fondled a victim’s genitals while staying in Lake Geneva in the spring of 1977. That same year, Mc Carrick was elevated to serve as Auxiliary Bishop of New York.

McCarrick has also pleaded not guilty to a charge in Massachusetts, where authorities accuse him of sexually abusing a boy at a wedding reception in the summer 1974. His attorneys have filed a motion to dismiss that case saying Mc Carrick, who now lives in Missouri, has dementia and isn’t competent to stand trial.