Category Archives: Local News
Medical examiner identifies 20-year-old killed in Labor Day shooting
MADISON, Wis. — The Dane County Medical Examiner is identifying the person killed earlier this week on Madison’s east side as 20-year-old Nicholas T. Cooke. Police were called to the 4600 ...
Sep 08, 2021
Beloit homicide victim likely killed 2 days before body was found, police chief says
BELOIT, Wis. — Beloit police believe the victim of a Labor Day weekend homicide was killed two days before their body was found. Officers with the Beloit Police Department responded Sunday to th...
Sep 08, 2021
Madison man sentenced to 5 years in prison for attempted arson during August protests
MADISON, Wis. — A Madison man is being sent to federal prison for 5 years for trying to set fire to two buildings during last summer’s protests of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. The U...
Sep 08, 2021
Milwaukee man wanted for double homicide, attempted murder added to FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list
MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee man wanted for killing two people and shooting several others in a park more than 15 years ago has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives list. The FBI a...
Sep 08, 2021
COVID, HIV/AIDS, what next? Researchers warn future pandemics are not a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘when’
MADISON, Wis.– Before COVID, the possibility of a new disease emerging seemingly out of nowhere and spreading around the world in a matter of days sounded like the plot of a science fiction movi...
Sep 08, 2021
Grant County Man Tased After Resisting Arrest
Grant County Sheriff Deputies and the Wisconsin State Patrol responded to a physical domestic dispute last Thursday around 7:30pm at a residence along Highway 61 in Marion Township. Upon arrival, depu...
Sep 08, 2021
Shullsburg Woman Arrested For Drug Possession
A woman from Shullsburg was arrested by Darlington Police on drug possession charges. According to the Darlington Police Department, 53 year old Laura Gundlach was arrested September 2nd for possessio...
Sep 08, 2021
Milk Truck Overturns in Northern Grant County
Authorities with the Grant County Sheriff's Office received a report of a milk truck that overturned onto its side Monday on Highway 133 north of Blue River around 1:15pm. A report says Lawrence Buck,...
Sep 08, 2021
Republicans, elections experts say Wisconsin probe is flawed
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Republican officeholders and elections experts said Wednesday that the GOP-ordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin lacks cred...
Sep 08, 2021
Vehicle Rear-ends Amish Buggy
Two people suffered minor injuries when a vehicle struck an Amish buggy on Highway 81 Tuesday. Belmont Fire and EMS responded to Elk Grove Township shortly before 9am for a vehicle vs Amish buggy acci...
Sep 08, 2021
