Category Archives: Local News
Audit: UW System paid out $68.5 million in student refunds
MADISON, Wis. — A new report shows the University of Wisconsin System paid out nearly $70 million in coronavirus-related refunds to students last year. The Legislative Audit Bureau released a re...
Dec 22, 2020
Baraboo man arrested on suspicion of 4th-offense OWI following crash
WEST BARABOO, Wis. — A Baraboo man was arrested on suspicion of operating while intoxicated fourth-offense following a Sunday night crash in Sauk County. Deputies were notified of a crash near t...
Dec 22, 2020
A Wisconsin hospital promised to stop suing most patients during the pandemic. Then it filed 200 lawsuits.
By Bram Sable-SmithWisconsin Watch/WPR Alysa Gummow didn’t know what to think in October when the letters from bankruptcy law firms arrived in the mail. She had filed for bankruptcy in 2017 to r...
Dec 22, 2020
‘I just kind of panicked’: Patients confused as hospitals file liens to recoup costs of treating injured uninsured
By Bram Sable-SmithWisconsin Watch/WPR Maneisha Gaston was driving west on Milwaukee’s Brown Street with her 15-year-old son when another driver blew through a stop sign, crashed into the passen...
Dec 22, 2020
DHS now providing free, at-home COVID-19 testing kits
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced Tuesday that at-home COVID-19 saliva collection testing kits will be available to all Wisconsin resident...
Dec 22, 2020
Man rescued after falling through ice on Beaver Dam Lake
BEAVER DAM, Wis. — First responders rescued a man Tuesday morning after he fell through the ice on Beaver Dam Lake. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office Communication Center got a call at 5:3...
Dec 22, 2020
News 3 Now Presents: Names Behind the Numbers
MADISON, Wis. — The last nine months have generated a flurry of numbers: more than 450,000 COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin alone, thousands of people hospitalized, and — the most sobering numb...
Dec 22, 2020
Wisconsin county spent nearly $730K on presidential recount
MADISON, Wis. — One of two Wisconsin counties that conducted recounts of their presidential votes spent nearly $730,000 on the effort. Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell released final figures Tue...
Dec 22, 2020
Convicted bank robber sentenced to 8 years, 4 months in prison
MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge sentenced a man Friday to 8 years and 4 months in prison in connection with three bank robberies that happened in 2019. In September 2019, 31-year-old Antonio Row...
Dec 22, 2020
Streets Division will not pick up trash, recycling on Christmas Day
MADISON, Wis. — The Streets Division will not perform refuse, recycling or large item collection on Friday in observance of Christmas. A release said drop-off sites will also be closed Friday. T...
Dec 22, 2020
