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Milwaukee man guilty in killing

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A jury found a Milwaukee man guilty Friday of killing and dismembering a 19-year-old college student on the night of their first date. Prosecutors charged Maxwell Anderson in April 2024 with first-degree intentional homicide, dismembering a corpse, arson and hiding a corpse ...

Antigo tech college has first-in-nation training sawmill

A newly opened commercial-scale sawmill in Antigo, Wis., is the only training sawmill of its kind in the U.S. The sawmill at Northcentral Technical College’s Antigo campus will be a teaching tool for northern Wisconsin students and members of the lumber industry. It’s part of the ...

Low-flying planes to collect data across the UP

ESCANABA — Residents across the Upper Peninsula may notice low-flying planes this month — but don’t fret; they are supposed to be there. The U.S. Geological Survey, an agency within the Department of Interior, announced Friday that low-level plane flights would take place over the Upper ...

Jury convicts Wisconsin inmate accused of killing cellmate

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man doing time for trying to kill his mother was convicted Wednesday of strangling his cellmate to death. A jury found Jackson Vogel, 25, guilty of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the death of 19-year-old Micah Laureano at the Green Bay ...

Man accused of trying to get witness deported by forging threats to Trump

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin man is facing charges accusing him of forging a letter threatening President Donald Trump’s life in an effort to get another man who could testify against him in a criminal case deported. Prosecutors said in a criminal complaint filed Monday that Demetric D. ...