BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday asked an appeals court to revive a Trump-era rule that lifted remaining Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the United States. If successful, the move would put the predators under state oversight nationwide and ...
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles will implement new Federal requirements for drug and alcohol status compliance and will downgrade Commercial Driver Licenses for noncompliance beginning Sunday. Through the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse Status Checks, state DMVs will be notified when CDL drivers do not pass their drug or alcohol testing. When Wisconsin DMV’s new CDL verification system goes live Sunday, all Wisconsin CDL drivers who are not in federal compliance will have their ...
TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) — A hunter in northeastern Wisconsin discovered the skeletal remains of a 3-year-old boy who vanished in February, police confirmed Friday. Elijah Vue was last seen at the home of his mother's boyfriend in Two Rivers, a city of 11,270 people about 30 miles southeast of Green Bay, police said during an afternoon news conference. A hunter preparing his property in the town of Two Rivers, a rural municipality that encircles the city, for deer season discovered the skeletal remains on Sept. 7, Two Rivers Police Chief Benjamin Meinnert said. A forensic ...
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin officials were working Thursday to retrieve a boat that sank during the search for a missing diver in Lake Michigan. Multiple agencies joined the search for Patrick Kelly, 72, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, after he failed to surface Tuesday while diving around the wreck of the S.S. Wisconsin about 6 miles off the coast of Pleasant Prairie. Searchers recovered Kelly’s body Wednesday. The Kenosha County Fire and Rescue Association’s search boat started taking on water Tuesday afternoon about 4 miles from shore, WDJT-TV reported. Other boats rescued ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would hear a lawsuit that could determine whether the state's top elections official could remain in her post after Republicans who controlled the state Senate sought to fire her last year. The liberal-controlled court ...
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Authorities have found the body of a diver who went missing while exploring a Lake Michigan shipwreck. The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release that authorities recovered the body of 72-year-old Patrick Kelly of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, from the area around the S.S. Wisconsin on Wednesday morning. The agency said Kelly had been exploring the wreck in more than 120 feet of water about 6 miles off the coast of Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, on Tuesday when he failed to resurface. His wife was on the couple’s boat and sent a distress ...
