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It doesn’t look like Wisconsin lawmakers are going to approve a new Milwaukee County juvenile detention center this spring. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos yesterday said it’s unlikely that state representatives will vote on the plan from the Wisconsin Senate to spend 43 million-dollars to replace the troubled Lincoln Hills youth prison. Vos says he’s waiting on Governor Evers to find a suitable site. Neighbors in Milwaukee fought the governor’s original plan to put the new youth prison on Milwaukee’s north side. Vos says lawmakers

Lawyers for ‘Silly the Clown’ say Milwaukee County prosecutors broke their promise by charging him with his daughter’s death from back in 1991. The D.A.’s office filed reckless homicide charges against Ronald Schroeder back in August. This month, his lawyers told a judge that the 30-year gap between the alleged crime and the filing of charges violates Schroeder’s due process, and breaks a written promise from prosecutors not to charge him in the case. Doctors say the little girl was

The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is investigating an officer involved critical incident (OICI) in the City of Superior, Wis. that occurred on the evening of Saturday, February 19, 2022. On Saturday evening at approximately 9:37 p.m., several Superior police officers responded to a call for an injured subject in the road near the intersection of Tower Avenue and North 8th Street in the City of Superior. Minutes prior to the call coming in for the

Wisconsin lawmakers are working on plans to keep the state’s waterways clean.  The Joint Finance Committee passed companion bills today that would allocated up to one-point-four-million dollars a year toward keeping farmers’ fertilizers out of waterways.  The money would also be used to pay for a new University of Wisconsin System position that would monitor groundwater quality.  The bills are supported by many Wisconsin agriculture groups.

Multiple people are unaccounted for after an early morning fire at a bar in Sturgeon Bay.  Police say the fire broke out at Dutch’s Bar around 3:40 this morning, causing the roof and second floor to collapse.  One person was taken to the hospital in unknown condition.  Police say there were nine occupied rooms above the bar at the time of the fire and not all of those people have been contacted.  The cause of the fire hasn’t been determined.

With the NFL season resting, if you need a Packers fix you can find one near us. Frank Winters, Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame class of 2018 member, will be visiting La Crosse Wednesday, February 23, for the 2022 Golden Eagle Fundraising Dinner to support local Scouting programs. Frank is known as the center from Brett Farve’s glory years – playing as the starting center from 1993-2000. During his 11 years as a Packer, Winters was a competitive and

 The Illinois teenager acquitted of murder during street protests in Wisconsin is launching an initiative to combat what he calls “lies” told by powerful news organizations.  Eighteen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse talked about his Media Accountability Project on Fox News Monday night.  Rittenhouse said the project will raise money to take media organizations to court.  He said he wants to “hold them accountable” for what he feels they did to him.

Investigators are treating the weekend death of a long-time Racine firefighter as a homicide. Fire crews were among the first to respond to a call about a man who wasn’t breathing on Sunday. That’s when they found 50-year-old Christopher Lalor’s body. No one is saying just how he died, or who may be involved. We could get more information today, there’s a new conference in Racine set for later this morning. Lalor spent more than 20 years with the fire

A Chippewa Falls woman is looking at charges after police say she stole 83-thousand-dollars from a youth basketball organization.  Investigators say the new treasurer at the Cardinal Flight Girls Basketball noticed some discrepancies after taking over last summer.  Investigators say it looks like the former treasurer, 54-year-old Lisa Johnson, spent the money on meals, her cell phone bill, and even airplane tickets.  Johnson told investigators that she tried to repay whatever money she took from the basketball program, but lost

It is suspensions and fines for the players and coaches involved in Sunday’s fight after the Badger game. The Big Ten yesterday suspended Michigan coach Juwan Howard for the rest of the regular season and fined him 40-thousand-dollars for slapping a UW assistant coach. Wisconsin coach Greg Gard was hit with a 10-thousand-dollar fine. Two Michigan players were suspended for a game and a Wisconsin player was also suspended for one game. UW-Madison Police say they won’t be seeking charges against Howard for his