Category Archives: Local News
Pro-life group optimistic after FBI offers $25K reward for info in arson investigation
MADISON, Wis. – Eight months after someone threw two Molotov cocktails into Wisconsin Family Action’s office in Madison, the group’s president is feeling optimistic a cash incentive ...
Jan 19, 2023
Trial dates set for teen father accused of fatally shooting newborn daughter
MONROE, Wis. — The trial of a teenager accused of fatally shooting his newborn daughter in Green County in early 2021 has been scheduled for March, online court records show. Logan Kruckenberg-A...
Jan 19, 2023
Van Orden on his first two weeks in Congress
WEST SALEM, Wis. (WKBT) — Rep. Derrick Van Orden is now a member of three different House committees. During a visit at a farm in West Salem Thursday, the freshman congressman from Wisconsin&rsq...
Jan 19, 2023
Sun Prairie restaurant implements robotic food server to combat staffing shortage
SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. — In an attempt to combat a statewide labor shortage in the service industry, restaurants are getting creative with how they serve their food. For many restaurants, the staffin...
Jan 19, 2023
Work requirement referendum moves through Legislature, heads to April ballot
MADISON, Wis. — An advisory referendum on whether Wisconsinites receiving welfare should be required to work will be on the April ballot after the Assembly voted to approve the measure. It will ...
Jan 19, 2023
Third day of double murder trial of former Badgers wide receiver brings surveillance footage evidence, friends’ testimony
JANESVILLE, Wis. — Testimony continued Thursday in the trial of a Wisconsin Badgers football player charged with the 2020 murders of two Janesville women. Marcus Randle El, 36, faces two felony ...
Jan 19, 2023
Dane County Board Black Caucus members ‘appalled’ by sheriff’s comments on Jail Consolidation Project referendum
MADISON, Wis. — Hours before the Dane County Board was set to vote on whether to put a referendum about covering rising costs for the Jail Consolidation Project on the April ballot, members of t...
Jan 19, 2023
St. Mary’s employee celebrates 50 years and a lifetime at the hospital
MADISON, Wis. — Modern statistics show it’s now common for the average individual to stay at a job for about four years before getting a new one. This next woman is above average in many w...
Jan 19, 2023
Union: Energizer planning to close facilities in Portage, Fennimore
PORTAGE, Wis. — Energizer has told workers at its plants in Portage and Fennimore it plans to close both facilities in the next year or two, according to a union representing nearly 600 workers ...
Jan 19, 2023
Regents pick Green Bay official as Whitewater chancellor
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin-Green Bay official with a long resume of working in university administration will serve as UW-Whitewater’s next chancellor, UW System...
Jan 19, 2023
