by Bob Hague | Apr 27, 2022
Horrific details emerged as the suspect in the murder of 10-year-old Iliana “Lily” Peters of Chippewa Falls made an initial court appearance. District Attorney Wade Newell described the assault in Chippewa County Court on Wednesday. The suspect “punched the...
by Raymond Neupert | Apr 26, 2022
Chippewa Falls police say a juvenile male has been taken into custody in connection with the death of Lily Peters. That arrest was made Tuesday evening. Police Chief Matthew Kelm couldn’t elaborate much further. “The suspect was not a stranger, the...
by Raymond Neupert | Apr 25, 2022
Police officers in Neenah are trying to figure out who left a plastic tub full of puppies on a sidewalk Sunday night. Community officer Joe Benoit says the dogs were located in a residential area. “There was no food or water available to the puppies. So the...
by Raymond Neupert | Apr 25, 2022
A ten-year-old girl is dead, and police in Chippewa Falls are calling the incident a homicide. Iliana M. Peters, who goes by the name Lily, had taken her bicycle to visit her Aunt on Sunday. Her family was expecting her to be home early in the evening, but when she...
by Raymond Neupert | Apr 19, 2022
It’s been a year since the State Department of Justice started an effort to find victims of clergy and faith leader abuse in Wisconsin. Attorney General Josh Kaul says the state has started charges against one person, but that a lot of cases are outside the...
by Raymond Neupert | Mar 23, 2022
A ruling by the US Supreme Court means that Wisconsin’s Supreme Court will have to take another look at state legislative maps. In a 7 to 2 decision on Wednesday, the US Justices rules that State Justices didn’t properly address the requirements of the...
by Raymond Neupert | Jan 24, 2022
The death toll has risen after police discovered bodies inside a home in Milwaukee. Milwaukee police are investigating after six people were found dead inside a home. Five of those bodies were discovered on Sunday, while another was found on Monday. The names and ages...
by Raymond Neupert | Nov 1, 2021
The head of the State Senate elections committee says she doesn’t agree with a claim that the Wisconsin elections commission committed a crime in Racine County. State Senator Kathleen Bernier tells Capital City Sunday that she does think the elections commission...
by Bob Hague | Sep 24, 2021
At the Capitol, bipartisan legislation to end the practice of charging youth under the age of 18 with prostitution had a public hearing on Thursday. State Senator Alberta Darling (R-Rivers Hills) said it’s a recognition of the fact that those young people are victims...
by Bob Hague | Sep 14, 2021
Four people found dead in a western Wisconsin cornfield over the weekend were all from Minnesota. The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office has identified them as 26-year-old Matthew Pettus, 30-year-old Jasmine Sturm and 35-year-old Loyace Foreman III, all of St. Paul, and...
by Bob Hague | Apr 28, 2021
A new statewide initiative, led by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, will review reports of clergy and faith leader abuse. Victim advocates including Peter Isely of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, were on hand for a press conference Tuesday. “I...
by Raymond Neupert | Apr 22, 2021
The State Assembly’s Task Force on Racial Disparities has released its final report after 7 months of work. That panel was formed in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, and Madison Assemblywoman Sheila Stubbs says it’s a good start at...
by Raymond Neupert | Apr 22, 2021
The Wisconsin Department of Justice is launching an investigation into clergy abuse at Wisconsin’s Catholic Dioceses. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel obtained a letter from Attorney General Josh Kaul that was sent to the state’s five dioceses laying out his...
by Raymond Neupert | Feb 24, 2021
At Tuesday’s Senate Homeland Security hearing on the January 6th riots at the US Capitol, Senator Ron Johnson claimed that the attack was carried out not by Trump supporters but by leftists and anarchists. Johnson said that the people who attended President...
by Raymond Neupert | Feb 23, 2021
Last week in Milwaukee, President Biden said he’d like to increase the funding available to public defenders across the country. John Patrick Gross with the UW-Madison Public Defender Project says it will take more than just more money to help balance criminal...
by Raymond Neupert | Feb 12, 2021
The man in charge of the state’s sturgeon fishery is being accused of obstructing an investigation into DNR staffers illegally selling eggs to caviar processors. The DNR and staff from the US Fish and Wildlife Service say that staff in the fisheries department...
by Raymond Neupert | Feb 12, 2021
A judge will not be punishing accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse for an apparent bond violation. Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder on Thursday denied requests from prosecutors to either issue an arrest warrant or raise the bond of 18-year-old...
by Raymond Neupert | Feb 2, 2021
The State Supreme Court has denied an appeal from one of the girls convicted in the Slenderman stabbings. Attorneys for Morgan Geyser argued that the original judges in the case made a mistake by allowing Geyser and Anissa Weier to be brought immediately into adult...
by Raymond Neupert | Jan 25, 2021
A judge has increased restrictions on the bond of accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. Photos posted to social media earlier this month showed Rittenhouse drinking at a bar in Kenosha and flashing white supremacist signs. Rittenhouse is now barred from drinking...
by Raymond Neupert | Jan 19, 2021
The state’s consumer protection division has been getting reports of scammers trying to trick people into paying to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Administrator Lara Sutherlin says those scams have come in various forms, from spam emails to robocalls to text...
