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 It’s a quarter-million dollars bond for the suspect in a sexual assault case along an Oregon bike trail last month. Dane County prosecutors filed formal charges yesterday against 42-year-old Richard Cunningham. He was out on bail for another sexual assault case when police say he attacked a woman back on March 23rd along the Oregon Rotary Bike Trail. Investigators linked Cunningham to the latest case through both DNA evidence and his court-ordered GPS tracker. Cunningham pleaded guilty to 2nd degree

Federal prosecutors say a Madison man has been indicted for last May’s firebombing of Madison’s pro-life office. The Justice Department filed charges last week against 29-year-old Hridindu Roychowdhury. Investigators say they connected him to the attack on Wisconsin Family Action’s headquarters through DNA. Authorities arrested him in Boston last week, though it’s not clear when he will be brought back to Madison to appear before a judge here. No one was hurt in the attack. Roychowdhury faces up to 20 years in

Prosecutors in Brown County don’t think they need to move the accused Green Bay chopper’s trial. Taylor Schabusiness’ lawyers want her trial moved out of Green Bay, claiming there is no way she can find an impartial jury. The D.A. in Green Bay yesterday said Schabusiness has not presented any evidence that shows that, and they are pushing to keep the trial in Green Bay. Schabusiness is charged with killing then chopping-up her boyfriend after a day of meth-fueled sex

Add dorm rooms to the list of needs for Milwaukee’s Republican National Convention. The city of Milwaukee is asking local colleges in and around the city to use their dorms next summer to house the thousands of police officers who will come to town for the convention. Milwaukee needs about 45 hundred dorm rooms, plus showers and an on-site cafeteria. The city needs thousands of police officers from all over the state to help protect the convention, or to deal

On Wednesday April 5,2023 at 5:39PM Wheaton Fire & Rescue responded to a report of a medicalalarm at 2754 20th Street in the Town of Wheaton, Chippewa County, south of STH 29. Shortly after theinitial call the Chippewa County Communications Center advised that the call was potentially a fireresponse as the alarm company stated they could hear a smoke alarm in the background and someonestating the words fire. First arriving fire units reported smoke coming from the first floor of

“Alzheimer’s can be a horrifying experience for those affected and the families and friends supporting them…” -Marie Schneider, human resource manager, The Alzheimer’s Association Wisconsin Chapter recently announced that La Crosse-based WalzCraft has signed on as the presenting sponsor for the 2023 Walk to End Alzheimer’s® in La Crosse, which will be held on September 16, 2023 at Riverside Park. “WalzCraft is proud to support the Walk to End Alzheimer’s and all the families who are on this devastating journey,”

 Eau Claire Police are clearing two officers involved in a shooting from last fall. The city’s police department yesterday said the officers actions were ‘appropriate, necessary, and compliant’ with police procedures. The two officers shot and wounded a man after he pointed a gun at them following a 911 call last September. The man with the gun survived the shooting, and the officers were not hurt. Eau Claire County’s D.A. had already cleared the officers of any potential charges in

It is the latest sign of just how many people paid attention to Wisconsin’s race for the Supreme Court. The state’s Elections Commission yesterday said turnout for Tuesday Election Day was nearly 40 percent. Officially 39-point-34 percent of voters cast a ballot in this week’s election. That’s a record for a spring election that was not held at the same time as a presidential primary, as was the case back in 2019. Unofficial results say just over one-point-eight million people voted

UW-Eau Claire students turned-out more than anyone else in Tuesday’s election. The city clerk’s office says Ward 20, which includes most of campus, was the busiest ward in the entire city. Unofficial results show there were 883 votes cast in Ward 20, with about 87 percent of them voting for Janet Protasiewicz for Supreme Court. Last spring just 76 people voted in Ward 20. There were 158 votes from the UW-Eau Claire ward in the supreme court election back in

The University of Wisconsin’s president is defending the recent tuition hike as part of the ‘war for talent.’ President Jay Rothman this week said Wisconsin needs to produce more engineers, nurses, teachers, data scientists, and others at UW Schools, and he says those schools need the money to educate those students. UW Regents last week okayed a five percent tuition increase for next year, with almost all of it going to teacher raises. Rothman says the UW System continues to be affordable, even