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Wisconsin jobs agency names 4th CFO in 2 years
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. on Thursday named Stephanie M. Walker as its CFO. The agency says she's unrelated to Gov. Scott Walker, and her first day will be June ...
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Car crashes into bus shelter at least four people injured
MILWAUKEE - Four people were injured after a car struck a bus shelter by 27th and Hope, two blocks north of Capitol, Wednesday morning just before 11:30 a.m. "A 1998 Buick LeSabre driven by a 37-year-old Milwaukee man veered off the road, stuck a bus shelter, and then struck a building," said Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer with Milwaukee Police. Stanmeyer said four people were taken to ...
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Crews battle fire at Allouez apartment building that has pool chemicals
the Green Bay Press Gazette reports . Agencies responding to the fire include those from Brown County, Hobart, De Pere, Green Bay, Bellevue and Howard. At least four pumper trucks and one ladder truck were on the scene Thursday afternoon. The fire started before noon. It intensified, with smoke shooting out of central parts of the apartment complex. Module type name is JSO Mod-Script ...
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UW-Madison seeks limits on open records to protect research
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking to limit the state's open records law -- potentially through language slipped into the state budget -- to keep from the public information about research until it is published or patented. No specific incidents of harmful disclosures were cited ...
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Budget committee permits Milwaukee crime lab move
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Legislature's finance committee has approved language in Gov. Scott Walker's executive budget that would allow the state Justice Department to move the Milwaukee crime lab out of the ...
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Wis. committee reduces handgun background fees
Background checks currently cost $13. The Joint Finance Committee voted 12-4 Thursday to lower the fee to $10 as it revised the state Justice Department's portion of Gov. Scott Walker's 2013-15 executive ...
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Abele Barrett Walker come together for business opening in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele came together to help break ground on a new business center in the city. They made sure to put politics aside at the opening of Data Holdings, on North 31st Street and West Highland Avenue. "Jobs aren't Republican or Democratic jobs, they're just jobs," ...
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Melvin Not a believer in immediate small changes but Brewers performance must change
iContribute: Share your Brewers fan photos! MILWAUKEE - "We've got to start playing better baseball," said Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin on 620WTMJ's "Wisconsin's Morning News." That demand seems obvious ...
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Reuters shows schools in Wisconsin U.S. near potentially explosive facilities
The Austin Powder Company, which was listed as an ammonium nitrate storage facility in 2012, is within a mile of Pleasant View Elementary School in Franklin, according to the Reuters news agency. Three schools are within a mile of Royster Clark Inc. in Madison, according to Reuters. The news service published an interactive map Thursday of chemical stockpiles that it says are like the one in ...
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Wisconsin man accused of stealing from the dead
the Chippewa Herald reports . Seth R. Furgason was charged this week with armed burglary, theft and possessing a firearm by a felon. Furgason's girlfriend told investigators that he was involved in similar burglaries in two other counties. The girlfriend said she drove Furgason to the crime scenes. According to the criminal complaint: A semiautomatic handgun and boxes of baseball cards ...
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Worker seriously injured after getting trapped in cement mixer
A worker is in critical condition after getting trapped in a cement mixing machine Thursday morning, the Milwaukee Fire Department said. Battalion 2 received a call at 7:48 a.m. about a person with an arm caught in a machine at Sic Lazaro on N. Teutonia Avenue, but while on the way, responders learned an entire person was trapped, Battalion Chief Raymond Groth said. The fire department then ...
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Hundreds of thousands hit state roads this weekend
The travel organization AAA estimates 627,000 people are expected to travel by land during the weekend in Wisconsin and another 33,000 by air. Travel is expected to be down about 1.6 percent from last ...
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Wisconsin Bill Would Require $50 Tobacco Use Fee for Health Insurance
Wisconsin state workers who smoke would have to pay $50 more per month for health insurance under a Gov. Scott Walker proposal that has won approval by the Legislature’s budget committee. The Joint Finance Committee on voted 13-3 to approve the fee. Twelve other states currently impose similar fees but anti-smoking groups including the American Cancer Society and the American Lung ...
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Meet the Wisconsin teen behind todays Doodle 4 Google
Google swapped out its traditional logo today for an emotional piece of art. The drawing, part of the company's annual Doodle 4 Google competition, shows a daughter racing into the arms of her soldier father. It's poignant, smart, and did not come from Google's team of professional artists. This one came from a ...
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Madison police stop burglary in progress at Bridges Golf Course
Madison police interrupted an early morning burglary attempt Thursday at a golf course and restaurant, causing a would-be burglar to flee empty-handed, according to a police news release. An alarm activated about 1:20 a.m. Thursday at the Bridges Golf Course & Restaurant, 2702 Shopko Drive, and when officers arrived, they found a club house door pried open. Nothing was found to be ...
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New rent-to-own regulation Well have to see GOP leader says
provision to lessen regulation of rent-to-own stores hangs uncertainly in the balance of negotiations taking place Thursday morning between Republican lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) acknowledged Thursday that the fate of the proposal by Gov. Scott Walker is unclear as the Legislature's budget committee prepares to take up the issue later in ...
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Ex-Walker aide behind bars for 2nd OWI
Twenty-five-year-old Nicole Tieman pleaded guilty to her second OWI offense Wednesday. She has been booked into the Milwaukee County Correctional Facility in ...
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Todays Coming Home Google doodle created by Wisconsin teen
SPARTA, Wis.-A Wisconsin teen is the winner of Doodle 4 Google's national contest with her art called "Coming Home." Google says millions of votes were cast on 130,000 submissions in its annual contest to design the logo on Google's home page. Sabrina Brady is a senior at Sparta High School. Brady says she created the art in honor of the day her Dad returned home from Iraq ...
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Milwaukee area foreclosures continued to slip in March
The national foreclosure rate was 2.84 percent in March, down from 3.49 percent in March 2012. Milwaukee-area foreclosures decreased 0.74 percentage points in March, the same decrease of the previous month, for a rate of 1.86 percent, according to CoreLogic. The area's foreclosure rates have been slowly but steadily declining. The rate in March 2012 was 2.6 percent. The Milwaukee, Waukesha ...
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Thousands without power in Racine County
RACINE - We Energies says that about 2,400 customers have lost power in Racine after an outage. The outage happened at about 9:20 a.m. Spokesman Brian Manthey tells 620WTMJ's Michelle Richards that crews are on the scene of the outage to try and get people back online. He said heavy winds could be a factor in the ...
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Wis. lawmakers to consider rent-to-own budget plan
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Legislature's budget committee is set to decide whether to exempt rent-to-own stores from Wisconsin's consumer protection laws. Rent-to-own businesses offer customers a chance to rent items without a credit check. Customers can exit and rejoin their contracts with an option to buy the items when they fulfill the terms. Critics contend the businesses prey on ...
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Report Former Walker aide begins jail term for drunk driving
Click here for 620WTMJ's "Under the Influence" section on drunk driving cases MILWAUKEE - According to a published report, an aide to Gov. Scott Walker's campaign who resigned Friday has begun a jail sentence for drunk ...
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Latest Wisconsin do-not-call list deadline approaches
MADISON - The State of Wisconsin says that the latest deadline for the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection's Wisconsin Do Not Call List is approaching. The deadline comes May 31st for to register their mobile, phone or VoIP number on the ...
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Memorial Day parades events in the Milwaukee area
A color guard representing various service branches marches down Wisconsin Ave. during last year's Milwaukee Memorial Day Parade. This year's parade begins at 2 p.m. ...
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Power out to more than 2300 in Racine area
Between 2,300 and 2,400 We Energies customers in the Racine area are without power Thursday morning, a utility spokesman said. We Energies was notified of the outage about 9:20 a.m. and crews were still patrolling the lines about 10 a.m. trying to find the source of the problem, We Energies spokesman Brian Manthey said. "There were some strong winds in the area before the outage but we ...
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