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Quadren Wilson, the man shot during an arrest on Madison’s east side back in February, was a wanted drug trafficker and may have been tied to the shooting death of an eleven-year-old Madison girl. Those are some of the new details revealed in court filings in the case against the state DCI agent who shot Wilson. Wilson is currently serving a three-year sentence for drugs, but prosecutors say investigators were looking into his drug activity long before his arrest. As

There are new charges, and new victims in the case of a Janesville Navy recruiter accused of having sex with underage girls. Rock County prosecutors yesterday added three new charges of child enticement and sexual assault. The D.A’s office says there are two new victims in the case. Investigators say the recruiter, 25-year-old Bryan Bradley-Hubbard, would meet high school girls through his job as a recruiter, then contact them on social media and meet for sex.

City leaders in Madison are trying to get a plan on paper for a possible Amtrak station. The city yesterday asked for public input on where a new station should be built. Madison could get an Amtrak line, but only if city, state, and federal leaders can agree. Madison is suggesting five station locations: one near the airport, one near the old Oscar Meyer plant, one off East Washington, one on the east side, one downtown, and the final option

Red Cross workers in Madison are planning to strike during the year’s largest blood drive. AFSCME, which represents workers in Madison’s Red Cross offices, says its members voted to walk off the job on December 23rd, just in time to disrupt the Red Cross’s 37th annual Holiday Blood Drive. Union leaders are demanding more money, but say the Red Cross isn’t offering any. The Holiday Blood Drive is the Red Cross’ largest blood drive of the year. The strike threat

The suspect in a September hit-and-run in Chippewa County is due to be sentenced next month.  Lawyers entered a no contest plea for 20-year-old Chad Myszka of Wausau yesterday.  He’s accused of leading Chippewa County deputies on a high speed chase in September, and then crashing his car.  Deputies were looking for Myszka because of a report that he was armed and suicidal.  Myszka was facing five counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety as well as three counts of hit-and-run. 

Eau Claire Police say it looks like a housesitter robbed a homeowner of up to 30-thousand-dollars in jewelry over the weekend.  Police arrested the housesitter, Melissa Borchardt, her daughter and a third person.  Investigators say a woman asked Borchardt to watch her cats and her home on Princeton Avenue.  Borchardt told police she asked her daughter to do it, the daughter told police she asked a friend.  The homeowner came home to find the jewelry, as well as guns, purses,

The case against the ten-year-old Milwaukee boy accused of shooting his mother in the head is staying in adult court, for now. The judge in the case yesterday did step aside, and will let Milwaukee’s top juvenile judge handle the case from here. Activists say the boy should be tried as a juvenile because there are more resources for him there. Police say the ten-year-old shot his mother in the head last month because he was mad that she wouldn’t

Authorities in Brown County say a police officer accidentally shot himself in the hip during a police chase. It happened yesterday afternoon along Highway 29 near Hobart. Police were checking on a man who then sped away and finally holed-up in his car. At some point the officer’s gun accidentally went off. He was taken to the hospital and is recovering. The man who started the chase stayed in his car on Highway 29 for two hours before surrendering.

Investigators in the UP have not yet found what started October’s massive fire at the paper mill in Menomonie, MI. The fire at the Resolute Forest Products, which is just across the river from Marinette, burned for two weeks, destroyed a large portion of the mill, and sent a column of smoke miles into the air. The fire closed the mill. But Resolute says it’s still paying its workers and hopes to be back open sometime next year.

Judge Jenifer Dorow says she was tougher than normal on a convicted domestic abuser now accused of stabbing his in-laws in Illinois. The sheriff in Will County, Illinois says 36-year-old Michael Liu broke into his in-laws last Thursday, shot at them, then stabbed them several times. Liu was supposed to report to jail in Waukesha last Thursday. Judge Dorow had sentenced him to 60 days in jail just a few days earlier. But he skipped town. Dorow is running for