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It is Juneteenth across the Union. It was in 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger landed in Galveston, Texas with the news that the Civil War had ended and that those who were enslaved were now free.  The news came two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.  The date is now known as Juneteenth or Emancipation Day. There are events planned across the country and locally as well to commemorate the day. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

 Police in La Crosse say they have a suspect in custody for a drive-by shooting that sent six people to the hospital. The shooting happened about 2 a.m. Saturday morning in the city’s downtown. Investigators are not saying what led-up to the shooting, but police say  31-year-old, Deandrew Grant acted alone and used a handgun in the shooting. He’s in jail, and looking at  six counts of attempted first degree reckless homicide and bail jumping charges. He could be before

There are questions to answer about a welfare check in western Wisconsin that ended with a deadly officer-involved shooting. It happened Friday evening in Vernon County. The sheriff says deputies were sent on a welfare check in Genoa, when they saw the person they were sent to check on drive away from their house. The deputies stopped that person, but that person then sped off, dragging one of the deputies. It’s unclear whether the deputy who was being dragged shot and killed

A deadly crash in Jackson County is under investigation.   On Sunday at approximately 6:22pm, the Wisconsin State Patrol and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department responded to a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 94 westbound near mile marker 121 in Jackson County.  The driver and two passengers from one of the vehicles involved in the crash were transported to Black River Falls Memorial Hospital. At the hospital one of the passengers from the vehicle, 47 year old Elivira Palomec, succumbed to

The U.S. Marshals are part of the search for a domestic violence murder suspect in Milwaukee. The Marshals last week got a warrant for 33-year-old Anthony Ross. He’s wanted in last Sunday’s shooting death of Shadea Green. Investigators are not saying what led-up to that shooting, but say it is domestic violence related. Ross’ warrant is for possession of a firearm by an out-of-state felon. The Marshals are asking for help in tracking him down.

Milwaukee’s latest shooting tally doesn’t include any deadly shootings. Police in the city say nine people were shot between Friday and late last night. That includes two double shootings yesterday, once of which saw a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old girl wounded. There were four other shootings on Saturday as well. Milwaukee Police say they made an arrest in one of the cases so far.

 It has been a week since a missing 13-year-old Sauk County boy left home and disappeared into Devil’s Lake State Park. Today marks one week since the sheriff’s office started looking for James Yoblonski. He took one of his father’s guns and a survival book and headed into the woods last weekend. Sauk County deputies and others have been searching for him ever since. His father, Bill, said over the weekend that James may be trying to survive in the

Wisconsin is looking to see if over 100 thousand voters are still living in the state. The Wisconsin Elections Commission on Friday sent postcards to 116 thousand voters who are still registered, despite not having voted in the past four years. Anyone who does not respond to the postcard will be listed as inactive, but will not be removed from the state’s voter rolls. Voters who still live at their homes, but simply haven’t voted, can return the postcard and will remain as

Wisconsin saw a busier turkey season. The state’s Department of Natural Resources on Friday said hunters bagged just over 42 thousand turkeys during the spring season. That is up seven percent from the five year average. Turkey season actually started back on April 15th, and ran until this month with a few breaks in between. Hunters can start to apply for next year’s turkey season last this year, in December.

None of the recalled cases of Johnsonville sausage ended-up on shelves in Wisconsin. The company last week recalled 42 thousand pounds of its Beddar with Cheddar sausages because they may contain small bits of plastic. Johnsonville says the sausages were sent to Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas. There are no reports of anyone getting sick because of the sausages, and the company says you can take them back to the store or just throw them out.