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A new mural will soon adorn an exterior wall of University of Wisconsin-Stout’s Applied Arts Building, telling the story of art through the ages, from the cave paintings of horses in France and Spain to music, photography, pottery and more, representing the different majors in the School of Art and Design. The nearly 400-square-foot mural – 40 feet long and about 10 feet high – was designed by four UW- Stout students and will be painted in late May and

A former teacher in Ladysmith is heading to prison on child pornography charges. A judge yesterday sentenced 34-year-old McKenzie Johnson to 26 years in federal prison. Investigators say he had inappropriate pictures of a 13-year-old girl on his iPad.  Johnson resigned from his job at Ladysmith High School immediately after his arrest last fall.

A Sawyer County man is looking at election fraud charges for voting when he wasn’t supposed to. Prosecutors this week charged Jeffery Billyboy with voting as a felon.  Billyboy was on supervised released in the fall of 2020 when he cast his ballot. No one is saying just who he voted for. The election fraud charges carry a penalty of up to six months in jail.

The permanent memorial for the victims of the Waukesha Christmas Parade attack will be built just south of downtown. Waukesha’s Parade Memorial Commission yesterday said they will build the memorial to the six people killed and 60 others who were injured in the attack in Grede Park. The park is nestled along the river, and just off Wisconsin Avenue a few blocks south from where the attack happened. The next task is to design, then build the memorial. Planners hope to have

The Waukesha Christmas Parade attack suspect says he doesn’t feel safe in jail.  Darrell Brooks Jr. wrote a letter to his mother complaining that other inmates were spitting in his food, and accusing jail guards of using racial slurs and making vague threats about him dying in prison. Waukesha County’s sheriff says Brooks filed a complaint with them about his treatment. But the sheriff says a review found Brooks is being treated appropriately. He’s facing life in prison for the

Police in Beloit say a tip led them to the suspect in January’s deadly shooting outside of Memorial High School. Police Chief Andre Sayles yesterday said investigators initially had trouble getting any information out of the people who witnessed the shooting. But he says someone eventually stepped-up and told police where to find the suspect. Officers in Holland, Michigan arrested 19-year-old Amaree Goodall for the shooting this week. He’s waiting to be brought back to Wisconsin to face formal murder charges.

It’s the clearest sign yet that Tommy Thompson is considering another run for governor. A number of outlets yesterday reported that Thompson met with former President Donald Trump in Florida yesterday. Thompson, who was elected four times as Wisconsin governor in the 80s and 90s, is expected to decide by the end of the month whether he will run again. There are no specifics as to what the two men talked about. The Republican frontrunner in the race, former Lieutenant Governor Rebecca

 School kids in Wisconsin will now officially observe nine-eleven. Governor Evers yesterday signed a new law adding September 11th to the state’s list of special observation days. That puts nine-eleven on the same list as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, Susan B. Anthony’s birthday, Environmental Awareness Day, Bullying Awareness Day, and Veterans Day.  Kids will not automatically get the day off.  The new law specifies that the day is to remember the attacks that occurred on September 11th, 2001, and to

Prosecutors in Wisconsin will not be able to add charges against protesters when their protests turn violent. Governor Evers yesterday vetoed the proposal from Republican lawmakers. The idea was to allow for misdemeanor charges against anyone who attended a protest that turned into a riot, and allow for felony charges against anyone who participated in the riot. The governor said Wisconsin already has laws that cover unlawful assemblies and violence. He said this plan could have infringed on people’s First Amendment rights.

A lot of voters across the state are looking at tax questions on their ballot next week. Eighty one school districts in Wisconsin are asking for over a billion-dollars in school referendum questions in Tuesday’s election. About half of the questions look to borrow money, while the other half want to spend more than state law allows.