Wisconsin
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Minocqua man to be sentenced in wife's killingOct 19, 2011 12:00 am - RHINELANDER, Wis. — An Oneida County man convicted of killing his wife last year is due to be sentenced. Forty-one-year-old William Schmidt of Minocqua pleaded guilty in...
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Wisconsin residents get chance to speak out on MedicaidOct 19, 2011 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — Opponents of the plan by Gov. Scott Walker’s administration to cut more than half a billion dollars from Medicaid will get a chance to speak out at a pub...
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Study predicts less severe Great Lakes water lossOct 19, 2011 12:00 am - TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Climate change probably won’t reduce Great Lakes water levels as much as experts have predicted and might even cause them to rise slightly, federa...
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Army Corps turns down power on Asian carp barrierOct 19, 2011 12:00 am - TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Power is being reduced on an electric barrier network designed to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes because it might be interfering with oper...
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Wisconsin fighter jet crash attributed to engine failureOct 19, 2011 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — U.S. Air Force investigators have attributed last summer’s jet fighter crash in central Wisconsin to engine failure. The Air Combat Command Accident Inv...
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Wisconsin legislature votes to repeal earn a buck programOct 18, 2011 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin law requiring hunters in certain areas to kill an antlerless deer before they bag a buck would be repealed under a bill passed by the state...
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Police arrest former Wisconsin legislatorOct 18, 2011 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — Police say they’ve cited a former state senator for drunken driving. Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Mark Strand says his agency go...
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Wisconsin man may have set record with black bearOct 18, 2011 12:00 am - HUDSON, Wis. — A northwestern Wisconsin man may have set a state record with a 648-pound black bear killed last week. The Star Tribune reports that Lon Feia had been hu...
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Wis. State Fair to keep youth admission policy Wis. State Fair to keep youth admission policyOct 18, 2011 12:00 am - MILWAUKEE — The Wisconsin State Fair Park Board has decided to keep a youth admission policy imposed after last summer’s disturbances on the first night of the fair. Und...
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Wisconsin court denies challenge to rogue cop’s hiringOct 18, 2011 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — The families of six young people gunned down by a rogue sheriff’s deputy in one of the most horrific mass shootings in Wisconsin history can’t challenge ...