Man convicted of assaulting boy given probation
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child has been sentenced to probation in Dane County. The sentence handed down by Judge John Hyland Monday…
Union official: Fired Wisconsin school guard gets job back
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin school district is rehiring a black security guard after he was fired last week for repeating a racial slur while telling a student not…
Wisconsin Supreme Court backs Enbridge in Dane County case
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Canada-based Enbridge Energy doesn’t need to carry additional insurance for a pipeline project in Dane County, despite the local government’s…
Authorities ID man who died after Wisconsin triathlon
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a Wisconsin man apparently accidentally drowned during the swimming portion of the Half Ironman 70.3-mile triathlon in Lake Monona. The Dane County medical examiner’s…
Wisconsin Justices Take On Second Lame-Duck Case
MADISON, Wis. (CN) – The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided, without being asked, to take up a second lawsuit over the GOP-controlled Legislature’s lame-duck laws limiting the powers of the…
Review of Wisconsin voting machines could be made public
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Election security experts are watching a Wisconsin court case stemming from the 2016 presidential recount that could result in the first public conclusions on whether closely…
Wisconsin man taken into custody for 5th OWI offense
MADISON — A DeForest man is facing his fifth drunken driving charge after he was found Monday afternoon to be intoxicated during a traffic stop, officials said. A Dane County…
Suspects with gun, horror film mask rob Marshall store
MARSHALL, Wis. (AP) — Authorities are searching for two people they say robbed a Marshall gas station at gunpoint, with one of the suspects wearing a Michael Myers mask from…
Police investigating deaths of Madison couple
MADISON — A man and a woman were found dead Thursday night in a home on Madison’s east side, police said. The man and woman, both in their 50s, were…
Good Samaritan killed while trying to aid motorist
DEFOREST, Wis. (AP) — Police say a man who stopped along a Dane County highway to help a driver involved in a crash died when he fell from the overpass…
Wisconsin man, casualty of flawed hair forensics, latest to be exonerated
Charges against Richard Beranek were dropped after DNA proved hair and semen from rape were not his; junk hair analysis cause of numerous wrongful convictions By Dee J. Hall Wisconsin…
Drivers killed in fiery head-on crash in Dane County
TOWN OF CHRISTIANA, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say two drivers died when their vehicles collided and caught fire in Dane County. Authorities say a westbound vehicle crossed the center…
2 men killed in Dane County crash
WINDSOR, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say two men have died in a car crash in Dane County. Authorities say the driver of a Lexus missed a curve on county…
Deputies find disabled man on state highway
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dane County Sheriff’s deputies have reunited a man found wandering around a yard near Cross Plains with his family. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Elise Schaffer said the man…
1 killed, 1 injured when motorcycle collides with deer
MAZOMANIE, Wis. (AP) — A man was killed and a woman seriously injured when their motorcycle collided with a deer in the town of Mazomanie. The Dane County sheriff’s office…
