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Green Bay’s accused murderer will need a new lawyer.  Taylor Schabusiness’ lawyer, unsurprisingly, asked to be removed from the case on Friday.  Schabusiness attacked her lawyer in court last week, landing at least one elbow to his head during a hearing on whether she is competent enough to stand trial.  Schabusiness is accused of strangling her boyfriend during a day of meth-fueled sex, then cutting his body into pieces.  She was supposed to go on trial in May, but that’s

It was another deadly weekend in Milwaukee.  Police in the city are reporting three homicides, including a 13-year-old boy who was shot and killed yesterday.  A 46-year-old woman was stabbed to death Saturday.  Police say they are also looking into a homicide from Friday night, but there aren’t any details there.  In addition, Milwaukee Police say there seven people shot and wounded on Saturday and Sunday.

 A Wisconsin-based sanitation company has been hit with a million-and-a-half dollar fine for employing underage teens.  The Department of Labor on Friday hit Packers Sanitation Services with the fine for employing teens as young as 13 to clean meat packing plants across the country PSSI is one of the largest meat packing plant cleaning companies in the country.  The Department of Labor says it found 31 cases where PSSI used underage teens to clean a plant, though Labor officials say they

Wisconsin’s governor wants to get tougher on drunk drivers in the state. Governor Evers is proposing ignition interlock devices for all OWI cases. Currently there’s no requirement for ignition locks for drunk drivers, and first time OWI cases in Wisconsin continue to be treated like traffic tickets. The idea of mandatory ignition locks for OWIs has been pitched before at the Capitol. It has faced stiff opposition in the past, and has never become law.

Eau Claire’s city council vice president is optimistic that the state may send cities more money in the new state budget. Vice President Emily Berge said during her State of The City speech on Friday that both Republican lawmakers and Governor Tony Evers are talking about sending more shared revenue to local governments. No one knows just how much will be coming from Madison, but Berge says it will help. The talk of more state money comes as city leaders

The remembrances are pouring-in for former UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank after she died from cancer.  She died Friday.  Blank led the Madison campus for 10 years before leaving last year to become the president at Northwestern University.  She never started that job because of her diagnosis.  President Obama is one of the people who remembered Blank over the weekend, she worked in his treasury department before becoming chancellor.  Blank leaves behind a husband and an adult daughter.  She was 67-years-old.

 Milwaukee is looking to become one of the NBA’s All Star cities.  The Journal Sentinel is reporting that the Bucks will submit a bid to host the NBA All Star game either in 2025 or 2026.  The Bucks became a possible host city after opening Fiserv Forum back in 2018.  The NBA just wrapped-up All Star weekend in Salt Lake City this weekend.  Milwaukee hasn’t hosted an All Star Game since 1977.

A Wisconsin family will be competing for 100-thousand dollars tonight on America’s Funniest Home Videos.  Logan and Julia Hertzner of Brodhead were on the show last month and won 20-thousand dollars for the video they submitted showing the artwork of their two-year-old son Braxton, who colored on everything in the house including his baby brother’s head.  Now the Hertzner’s are returning tonight as one of the top three finalists of the season.  America’s Funniest Home Videos starts at 6pm. 

Dozens of bright young students are competing in the Madison All-City Spelling Bee.  About 40 students from the third through the eighth grades took part in the annual spelling bee held Saturday at Madison College.  Winning first place this year was seventh-grader Aiden Wijeyakulasuria of Blessed Sacrament School.  Eagle School seventh grader Jay Jadhav came in second, and in third place was Molly Abel, a seventh grader from Our Lady Queen of Peace School.  All three winners will advance to

Miss America is returning to her Wisconsin roots.  Twenty-year-old Grace Stanke was in Madison on Saturday for a gala at the UW-Madison campus, where she met with Governor Tony Evers and was presented with a certificate of recognition for her time as Miss Wisconsin.  She was crowned Miss America last December.  WKOW says the Wausau native plans on returning to Wisconsin to study nuclear energy at UW-Madison.