Category Archives: Local News
70 more hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wisconsin; 13 new deaths confirmed
MADISON, Wis. — After two consecutive days without COVID-19 deaths in Wisconsin, health officials confirmed 13 new deaths Tuesday. As many as 6,917 COVID-related deaths have been recorded since ...
May 11, 2021
Brewers, Bucks get approval to increase fan capacity to 50%
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — The Milwaukee Brewers are expanding capacity at American Family Field up to 50 percent starting this weekend. The team announced the increase from 25 percent capacity Tuesday a...
May 11, 2021
Man damaged driver’s vehicle with hatchet, injured driver in the process
REEDSBURG, Wis. — Reedsburg police arrested a man Monday after he allegedly hurt a driver while damaging their vehicle with a hatchet. According to a news release, the suspect caused a disturban...
May 11, 2021
Wisconsin GOP leader cites bogus COVID info to nix request
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly last month rejected an immunocompromised Democratic lawmaker’s request to be allowed to work virtually because the spe...
May 11, 2021
Wisconsin receiving less than expected from federal stimulus
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin will receive $700 million less than initially expected in federal coronavirus relief money and it will arrive in two payments a year apart. Gov. Tony Evers and U.S...
May 11, 2021
Timmothy Pitzen: Age progression photo released 10 years after boy’s disappearance
AURORA, Ill. — Authorities have released new age-progressed photos of an Illinois boy last seen a decade ago leaving a resort in Wisconsin Dells. Timmothy Pitzen would be 16 years old today. He ...
May 11, 2021
Madison police respond to north side after man shoots self in leg
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police say they were called to the city’s north side Monday night after a man apparently shot himself in the leg. Officers were called to the 3000 block of Webb Ave...
May 11, 2021
Wisconsin Republicans to vote on election law changes
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature is scheduled to vote on bills that would make it more difficult to vote absentee. The proposals up Tuesday are all but certai...
May 11, 2021
‘My revenge has come’: Madison police, school district officials investigating threat aimed at West High School
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police and school district officials are investigating a threat targeted at West High School after it was posted on social media this week. Madison Metropolitan School Di...
May 11, 2021
Madison man sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing Williamson Street coffee shop
MADISON, Wis. — A Madison man was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison for robbing a Williamson Street coffee shop last summer. Federal court officials said 29-year-old Nathaniel Homestead ...
May 11, 2021
