Articles filed under Wisconsin

• Report card: Great Lakes still have big problems May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasive species, but the freshwater seas continue to face serious threats, a U.S.-Canadian agency said Tuesday.
  

   
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  Dalai Lama tells Wisconsin legislature to be compassionate May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Dalai Lama, speaking on the floor of the Wisconsin Assembly where lawmakers just two years ago hurled expletives at each other while angry protesters screamed insults, said Tuesday that the key to a happy life isn't power or money but compassion.
  

   

• Fond du Lac professor helps study Marine suicides May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  A Fond du Lac professor will help study the rising suicide rate among U.S. Marines. Janet McCord is an associate professor of thanatology in Marian University's School of Nursing and Health Professions. She has been trained by the American Association of Suicidology to study the psychological aspect of suicide.
  

   

• Indiana slayings evoke memories of ‘98 crime May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  Residents in a small Indiana town where four people were found fatally shot Saturday say their deaths are bringing up memories of a previous case. Associate pastor Justin Ackeret of the Waynesville Chapel Mercy Missionary Baptist Church tells The Republic that the shootings of 53-year-old Katheryn Burton, her boyfriend, 39-year-old Thomas Smith, and two friends are hitting too close to home.
  

   

• Wisconsin panel votes to prohibit bans on sugary drinks May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  No Wisconsin city could prohibit the sale of large, sugary drinks as was recently done in New York City under a provision added to the state budget Thursday. Republicans on the legislature's Joint Finance Committee succeeded in putting the prohibition in the budget, despite objections from Democrats who said it was infringement of local control.
  

   
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  Monk charged in Antioch child abduction held on $150,000 bondMay 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  Authorities say they believe a Benedictine monk charged with attempting to lure a 14-year-old girl into his car in Antioch suffers from mental health problems. Bail was increased to $150,000 Thursday for Thomas J. Chmura, 57, who faces four counts of child abduction.
  

   

• Fond du Lac police involved in standoff May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  SWAT team officers have surrounded an apartment building in Fond du Lac. Police say a despondent man is believed to be armed in an apartment with an 18-year-old woman. Authorities were called to the apartment building about 5:30 a.m. Thursday.
  

   

• Wisconsin authorities urge water testing near buried horses May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  Police in Pleasant Prairie are urging neighbors of a couple charged with animal neglect to test their drinking water. Kenosha County sheriff's investigators say nearly 70 animal carcasses were found buried on the couple's property in Pleasant Prairie. David and Paula White face a number of animal neglect charges after five dead horses were found in stalls at their farm last month. Nearly two dozen horses, some malnourished, were seized.
  

   
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  Soggy spring keeping Midwest farmers out of their corn fields May 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  A soggy spring has kept many Wisconsin farmers out of their corn fields. The National Agriculture Statistics Service says about 4 percent of corn fields in Wisconsin have been planted, well behind the normal pace of about 26 percent by this time.
  

   

• Missing dog found safe after fatal crash on I-94May 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  A missing German shepherd has been found safe after its owner died in crash on Interstate 94 near Menomonie during Thursday's snowstorm.
  

   

• Parents of Wisconsin man held in triple homicide speak out May 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  The parents of a man suspected of killing three retired farmers in southwestern Wisconsin say they warned authorities just before the killings that their son was delusional and potentially dangerous.
  

   

• Woman charged with threatening governor’s family May 3, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Ryan, Walker headline Wisconsin GOP convention May 3, 2013 12:00 AM
  Last year's Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and Gov. Scott Walker are among those speaking at this weekend's Wisconsin GOP convention. The two potential 2016 presidential candidates will be joined by a host of other Republican office holders for the annual state convention in Rothschild.
  

   

• Wisconsin school hopes Curly Lambeau plaque inspires May 3, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Swiss ‘Jetman’ to visit AirVenture in Oshkosh May 3, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Chicago fugitive arrested in Wisconsin May 2, 2013 12:00 AM
  A Chicago fugitive was arrested Thursday evening on a Madison highway after a daylong manhunt in south-central Wisconsin that drove several local schools to lock down for hours and left neighbors on edge, police said. A SWAT team arrested Paris Poe, 33, in a vehicle on state Highway 30 shortly after 7 p.m.
  

   
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  Wisconsin dad makes daughter a camouflage prom dress May 2, 2013 12:00 AM
  A Wisconsin man used sewing skills he learned in the military to make his daughter's dream prom dress — in camouflage. Mariah Herron, 17, of Marshfield, said she hunts and works on construction projects and she wanted a dress that fit her personality.
  

   
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  Woman charged with robbing 14-year-old who contacted her for sexMay 2, 2013 12:00 AM
  A 22-year-old Milwaukee woman who authorities say agreed to have sex with a Prospect Heights 14-year-old faces felony charges after she pepper sprayed him and stole a piggy bank containing cash and his iPad, authorities said.
  

   

• Selig to give commencement address at St. Norbert May 2, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Wisconsin officials warn of fake parking tickets May 2, 2013 12:00 AM