Teen held in deaths of 2 people in Grand Chute
GRAND CHUTE, Wis. (AP) — Police in Grand Chute have arrested a 17-year-old boy in the deaths of two people. Officers went to a home on West Edgewood Drive late…
Suspect in crash that killed 3 Girl Scouts, mom due in court
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — The man accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed three Girl Scouts and a mother as they collected trash along a highway in Wisconsin is…
Cold case murder trial to begin Thursday in Rhinelander
WAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW A 37-year-old Minocqua murder case will finally head to trial Thursday morning after a brief delay was announced last week, WJFW reports. Robin Mendez, 70, faces…
3 indicted in reservation overdose death
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Three people from Keshena have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their alleged involvement in a drug overdose death on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The…
Police: Prosecutor fatally shot while young daughter nearby
JUNEAU, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors in Wisconsin have charged a 31-year-old man with fatally shooting his ex-wife who was a prosecutor in Illinois. Cash bail was set at $2 million…
Man charged in Kloss killing, kidnapping due in court Wednesday
BARRON, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl, killing her parents and holding her captive in a cabin for three months is expected to enter…
Wisconsin AG fights appeal in Merrill man’s homicide conviction
By Shereen Siewert Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is asking judges to reject an appeal by a Lincoln County man convicted in April 2014 of strangling and stabbing his wife…
Woman charged with harboring accused killer
WAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW MILWAUKEE — The woman accused of assisting the man who police say killed the mother of his child and kidnapped his daughter was assigned a $3,500 signature…
Court upholds conviction in 2008 Wood County homicide
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Supreme Court says a Wisconsin Rapids man was properly convicted of killing his daughter’s ex-boyfriend. Joseph Reinwand was sentenced to life in 2014 in…
Attorney seeks pardon for Laurie Bembenek murder conviction
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The attorney for Wisconsin’s famous runaway convict and convicted murderer Laurie “Bambi” Bembenek is asking Gov. Tony Evers for a pardon. Bembenek insisted up until her…
$1M bail set for man charged with killing missing girl’s mom
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Cash bond is set at $1 million for a 34-year-old man accused of killing a missing girl’s mother in Milwaukee. Dariaz Higgins appeared in court Sunday on…
Family: 2-year-old Noelani Robinson found dead
WAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW Family members of 2-year-old Noelani Robinson, who was missing since Monday, have confirmed to a Milwaukee TV station that she was found dead in Minnesota. WISN…
Abbotsford double homicide suspect sentenced
By Shereen Siewert WAUSAU — A 27-year-old Unity man convicted of shooting his girlfriend and a second victim at an Abbotsford home will spend the rest of his life in…
Milwaukee police need nationwide help in missing girl search
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Authorities are asking “the entire nation” for help finding a missing 2-year-old girl after the arrest of a man suspected of fatally shooting her mother in Milwaukee…
Kidnapping, murder suspect arrested, but toddler still missing
WAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW The Milwaukee Police Department have arrested Dariaz Higgins, a suspect in the kidnapping of a two-year-old girl and in the death of the girl’s mother. Police…
Police rule Lincoln County shooting deaths as murder/suicide
WAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW TOWN OF PINE RIVER, Wis. — Police say a Valentine’s Day shooting that left two people dead is now being treated as a murder/suicide, according to…
Police: Lincoln County homicide investigation still pending
WAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW TOWN OF PINE RIVER, Wis. — Police in Lincoln County are continuing their investigation into the fatal shooting of a 77-year-old woman in her town of…
Police identify couple in murder-suicide case
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Police say an Oshkosh woman was fatally shot by the father of her child, who then took his own life. Authorities say 26-year-old Clint Jorgensen called…
Name released in Lincoln County homicide
WAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW Police have identified the woman shot to death last week in Lincoln County in an apparent homicide as 77-year-old Barbara Renken, of the town of Pine…
Police: 1 dead, 1 critical in apparent homicide in Lincoln County
By Shereen Siewert TOWN OF PINE RIVER — Police are investigating an apparent homicide in the Lincoln County town of Pine River, after a 77-year-old woman was found shot to…
