MILWAUKEE (AP) — Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison Wednesday for ushering a Mexican defendant through her jury room door as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sought to arrest him in a courthouse hallway. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman fined her ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an attempt by a conservative activist to obtain guardianship records in an effort to find ineligible voters in the presidential battleground state. The case has been wending its way through the courts for years and stems ...
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Michael Alfonso, the 26-year-old son-in-law of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, has an answer for people who say he doesn’t have the experience necessary to join Congress as its youngest member. He points to George Washington and Thomas ...
Greg Sass steers a boat out towards four bright orange, round buoys floating off the shore of Escanaba Lake. Two graduate students on the boat hold onto wrapped PVC piping that gets hooked up to the buoys. Back on shore, those pipes are connected to a water heater you might find at an ...
Wisconsin has 100,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than it had in 2001 while health care and social assistance has become the state's largest professions, according to a new report from Forward Analytics. Manufacturing was the state’s largest industry in 2001 and now, along with 46 other states, health care and social assistance have overtaken it with those sectors adding 143,000 jobs since 2001. Only Indiana still has more manufacturing employees. Hawaii and Nevada are led by employees in accommodation and food service jobs. “Manufacturing remains a vital part of Wisconsin’s ...
LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (AP) — Three children who died when a boat capsized in Geneva Lake during a Wisconsin storm were wearing life vests, authorities said as the nation assessed damage from storms and a heat wave that marred the July Fourth holiday, leaving hundreds of thousands of utility customers without power. The tragedy in Wisconsin’s Walworth County in a part of Southern Wisconsin that has long served as a favorite vacation getaway for residents of the Chicago area came with a storm that downed trees, ruptured power lines and made transportation treacherous and complicated ...
