• Jury for brother of man accused of killing his children to come from Portage Co.

  Armin Wand III (left), 32, the father of three children killed in a house fire in southwestern Wisconsin and his 18-year-old brother, Jeremy ...

• Schools that Can Milwaukee bolstered by $1.5 million in donations

  A school improvement nonprofit working to get 20,000 Milwaukee children into high-performing schools by 2020 has received about $1.5 million in commitments after a donation drive this ...

• Milwaukee driver crashes into 3 women waiting for bus

  A 37-year-old Milwaukee driver injured at least three women waiting for a bus Thursday when he veered off a road, plowed through a bus shelter and crashed into a building. The accident occurred about 11:20 a.m. in the 4200 block of N. 27th St. The women's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, said Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer, Milwaukee police spokesman. Police are trying to determine ...

• Legislators scale back Scott Walker measure on GPS restraining orders

  Madison -- A proposal from Gov. Scott Walker to allow statewide GPS tracking for those under restraining orders was scaled back by the Legislature's budget committee Thursday as the panel took on a slew of criminal justice provisions. Under Walker's proposal, the state would have spent $3 million over two years to help local governments around the state set up the tracking, with the ...

• Wisconsin jobs agency names 4th CFO in 2 years

  The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. on Thursday named Stephanie M. Walker as its CFO. The agency says she's unrelated to Gov. Scott Walker, and her first day will be June ...

• Wis. raises bag limits for walleye spearfishing

  The state Department of Natural Resources has raised limits on 423 lakes in the ceded territory, a swath of northern Wisconsin the tribes gave to the government more than a century ago. The rules include a five-walleye limit on 289 lakes, a four-walleye limit on three lakes, and a three-walleye limit on 131 ...

• Car crashes into bus shelter at least four people injured

  MILWAUKEE - Four people were injured after a car struck a bus shelter by 27th and Hope, two blocks north of Capitol, Wednesday morning just before 11:30 a.m. "A 1998 Buick LeSabre driven by a 37-year-old Milwaukee man veered off the road, stuck a bus shelter, and then struck a building," said Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer with Milwaukee Police. Stanmeyer said four people were taken to ...

• Crews battle fire at Allouez apartment building that has pool chemicals

  the Green Bay Press Gazette reports . Agencies responding to the fire include those from Brown County, Hobart, De Pere, Green Bay, Bellevue and Howard. At least four pumper trucks and one ladder truck were on the scene Thursday afternoon. The fire started before noon. It intensified, with smoke shooting out of central parts of the apartment complex. Module type name is JSO Mod-Script ...

• UW-Madison seeks limits on open records to protect research

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking to limit the state's open records law -- potentially through language slipped into the state budget -- to keep from the public information about research until it is published or patented. No specific incidents of harmful disclosures were cited ...

• Budget committee permits Milwaukee crime lab move

  MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Legislature's finance committee has approved language in Gov. Scott Walker's executive budget that would allow the state Justice Department to move the Milwaukee crime lab out of the ...

• Wis. committee reduces handgun background fees

  Background checks currently cost $13. The Joint Finance Committee voted 12-4 Thursday to lower the fee to $10 as it revised the state Justice Department's portion of Gov. Scott Walker's 2013-15 executive ...

• Abele Barrett Walker come together for business opening in Milwaukee

  MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele came together to help break ground on a new business center in the city. They made sure to put politics aside at the opening of Data Holdings, on North 31st Street and West Highland Avenue. "Jobs aren't Republican or Democratic jobs, they're just jobs," ...

• Melvin Not a believer in immediate small changes but Brewers performance must change

  iContribute: Share your Brewers fan photos! MILWAUKEE - "We've got to start playing better baseball," said Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin on 620WTMJ's "Wisconsin's Morning News." That demand seems obvious ...

• Reuters shows schools in Wisconsin U.S. near potentially explosive facilities

  The Austin Powder Company, which was listed as an ammonium nitrate storage facility in 2012, is within a mile of Pleasant View Elementary School in Franklin, according to the Reuters news agency. Three schools are within a mile of Royster Clark Inc. in Madison, according to Reuters. The news service published an interactive map Thursday of chemical stockpiles that it says are like the one in ...

• Judge overturns mans 1994 conviction in UW-Oshkosh rape

  Oshkosh -- A Wisconsin man who spent two decades in prison for rape has had his conviction overturned. Joseph Frey, 53, received a 102-year sentence in 1994 for an attack three years earlier on a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh student. The woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint after her apartment was broken into. On Wednesday, Winnebago County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Bissett ...

• Wisconsin man accused of stealing from the dead

  the Chippewa Herald reports . Seth R. Furgason was charged this week with armed burglary, theft and possessing a firearm by a felon. Furgason's girlfriend told investigators that he was involved in similar burglaries in two other counties. The girlfriend said she drove Furgason to the crime scenes. According to the criminal complaint: A semiautomatic handgun and boxes of baseball cards ...

• Worker seriously injured after getting trapped in cement mixer

  A worker is in critical condition after getting trapped in a cement mixing machine Thursday morning, the Milwaukee Fire Department said. Battalion 2 received a call at 7:48 a.m. about a person with an arm caught in a machine at Sic Lazaro on N. Teutonia Avenue, but while on the way, responders learned an entire person was trapped, Battalion Chief Raymond Groth said. The fire department then ...

• Hundreds of thousands hit state roads this weekend

  The travel organization AAA estimates 627,000 people are expected to travel by land during the weekend in Wisconsin and another 33,000 by air. Travel is expected to be down about 1.6 percent from last ...

• Wisconsin Bill Would Require $50 Tobacco Use Fee for Health Insurance

  Wisconsin state workers who smoke would have to pay $50 more per month for health insurance under a Gov. Scott Walker proposal that has won approval by the Legislature’s budget committee. The Joint Finance Committee on voted 13-3 to approve the fee. Twelve other states currently impose similar fees but anti-smoking groups including the American Cancer Society and the American Lung ...

• Meet the Wisconsin teen behind todays Doodle 4 Google

  Google swapped out its traditional logo today for an emotional piece of art. The drawing, part of the company's annual Doodle 4 Google competition, shows a daughter racing into the arms of her soldier father. It's poignant, smart, and did not come from Google's team of professional artists. This one came from a ...

• Madison police stop burglary in progress at Bridges Golf Course

  Madison police interrupted an early morning burglary attempt Thursday at a golf course and restaurant, causing a would-be burglar to flee empty-handed, according to a police news release. An alarm activated about 1:20 a.m. Thursday at the Bridges Golf Course & Restaurant, 2702 Shopko Drive, and when officers arrived, they found a club house door pried open. Nothing was found to be ...

• New rent-to-own regulation Well have to see GOP leader says

  provision to lessen regulation of rent-to-own stores hangs uncertainly in the balance of negotiations taking place Thursday morning between Republican lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) acknowledged Thursday that the fate of the proposal by Gov. Scott Walker is unclear as the Legislature's budget committee prepares to take up the issue later in ...

• Ex-Walker aide behind bars for 2nd OWI

  Twenty-five-year-old Nicole Tieman pleaded guilty to her second OWI offense Wednesday. She has been booked into the Milwaukee County Correctional Facility in ...

• Todays Coming Home Google doodle created by Wisconsin teen

  SPARTA, Wis.-A Wisconsin teen is the winner of Doodle 4 Google's national contest with her art called "Coming Home." Google says millions of votes were cast on 130,000 submissions in its annual contest to design the logo on Google's home page. Sabrina Brady is a senior at Sparta High School. Brady says she created the art in honor of the day her Dad returned home from Iraq ...

• Milwaukee area foreclosures continued to slip in March

  The national foreclosure rate was 2.84 percent in March, down from 3.49 percent in March 2012. Milwaukee-area foreclosures decreased 0.74 percentage points in March, the same decrease of the previous month, for a rate of 1.86 percent, according to CoreLogic. The area's foreclosure rates have been slowly but steadily declining. The rate in March 2012 was 2.6 percent. The Milwaukee, Waukesha ...

• Thousands without power in Racine County

  RACINE - We Energies says that about 2,400 customers have lost power in Racine after an outage. The outage happened at about 9:20 a.m. Spokesman Brian Manthey tells 620WTMJ's Michelle Richards that crews are on the scene of the outage to try and get people back online. He said heavy winds could be a factor in the ...

• Wis. lawmakers to consider rent-to-own budget plan

  MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Legislature's budget committee is set to decide whether to exempt rent-to-own stores from Wisconsin's consumer protection laws. Rent-to-own businesses offer customers a chance to rent items without a credit check. Customers can exit and rejoin their contracts with an option to buy the items when they fulfill the terms. Critics contend the businesses prey on ...

• Report Former Walker aide begins jail term for drunk driving

  Click here for 620WTMJ's "Under the Influence" section on drunk driving cases MILWAUKEE - According to a published report, an aide to Gov. Scott Walker's campaign who resigned Friday has begun a jail sentence for drunk ...

• Latest Wisconsin do-not-call list deadline approaches

  MADISON - The State of Wisconsin says that the latest deadline for the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection's Wisconsin Do Not Call List is approaching. The deadline comes May 31st for to register their mobile, phone or VoIP number on the ...

• Memorial Day parades events in the Milwaukee area

  A color guard representing various service branches marches down Wisconsin Ave. during last year's Milwaukee Memorial Day Parade. This year's parade begins at 2 p.m. ...

• Power out to more than 2300 in Racine area

  Between 2,300 and 2,400 We Energies customers in the Racine area are without power Thursday morning, a utility spokesman said. We Energies was notified of the outage about 9:20 a.m. and crews were still patrolling the lines about 10 a.m. trying to find the source of the problem, We Energies spokesman Brian Manthey said. "There were some strong winds in the area before the outage but we ...

• Onalaska man accused of sexually assaulting burning woman

  the La Crosse Tribune reports . The woman said she woke Saturday to Jerald Jackson, 65, of Onalaska, burning and assaulting her, according to the complaint filed in La Crosse County Circuit Court. She said he also assaulted her early Sunday. Jackson denies the offense. Module type name is JSO Mod-Script ...

• Google features Wisconsin teens art as winning doodle

  Teen artist Sabrina Brady of Sparta, Wis., has turned Google's iconic homepage doodle into an emotional artwork depicting her reunion with her father after his 18-month deployment in Iraq. The art, winner of Google's annual doodle contest for students, also won an audience of millions when it was featured Thursday ...

• Woman held at gunpoint in Green Bay home invasion robbery

  Green Bay police are investigating a home invasion armed robbery in which four suspects entered a home Wednesday night and held a female occupant at gun ...

• Craigslist joke leads to charge after man shows up naked at door

  the Racine Journal Times reports . The joke resulted in someone showing up naked at a woman's door. Jason T. Willis, 30, of Waterford, has been charged with felony identity theft on accusations he pretended to be a neighbor and posted fraudulent ads on Craigslist soliciting sexual activity. The neighbor contacted the Racine County Sheriff's Office on Nov. 26 after a man reportedly ...

• Driver pleads guilty in fatal interstate crash

  MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) -- A semi driver has pleaded guilty to a felony charge in a fatal interstate crash that killed another truck driver in Dunn ...

• Moose International Convention gathers in Milwaukee

  Moose International Convention , with an estimated 8,000 Lodge and Chapter leaders of the Moose fraternal and service organization coming to Milwaukee, begins today through next Wednesday. This year, the Moose will celebrate the 100th anniversary ...

• Fond du Lac couple mourn loss of granddaughter in Oklahoma

  Sydney Angle , 9, was one of the seven young students killed during at Plaza Towers Elementary School. In all, the tornado killed 24 people. In Fond du Lac, local radio stations established a memorial fund in Sydney's honor. WTMJ reported that donations can be made at Hometown Bank, 80 Sheboygan St. in Fond du Lac. Donations should be marked as going to the "Dan and Nicole Angle ...

• Milwaukee gains 4000 residents in 2 years

  Census Bureau data released Thursday show the city had 598,916 residents in July. It gained about 1,300 residents from 2011 to 2012 and about 2,400 the year before ...

• Feds find problems at Wis. mental health center

  MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex is facing federal sanctions after being cited for failing to protect patients from each ...

• Oklahoma tornado victim has ties to Wisconsin

  Nine-year-old Sydney Angle was a student at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. She died Monday when a massive tornado tore through the ...

• Manitowoc receives $1 million brownfields grant

  MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) -- The city of Manitowoc has received a $1 million grant from the federal government to clean up properties with environmental ...

• Work zones to close during Memorial Day weekend

  MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin motorists won't have to worry about possible traffic delays when travelling during the Memorial Day weekend. The state Department of Transportation says construction works on most major Wisconsin highways will be suspended starting from noon on Friday to 6 a.m. next Tuesday. Officials say while most lanes through work zones will remain clear, drivers may ...

• Wis. committee to decide on DOJ solicitor general

  MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Legislature's budget committee is poised to decide whether to create a solicitor general's office within the state Justice Department. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says he needs the office to handle complicated cases and oversee appeals. Gov. Scott Walker's 2013-15 executive budget devotes $960,500 in general purpose revenue to fund five positions in ...

• Racine man accused of beating 2 children faces charges

  A Racine man accused of beating two children after one of them accidentally placed his 1-year-old child in scalding water for a bath is now facing criminal charges. William J. Pearson, 26, was charged Wednesday with physical abuse of a child, intentionally causing bodily harm. He was charged as a repeat offender. According to a criminal complaint: Racine police were called to All Saints ...

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