UNDATED (WSAU) A state Senate panel will hold a public hearing next Thursday in West Allis on pay-day loan regulations which are different than what the Assembly passed last month. Senate Democrat Jim Sullivan of Wauwatosa is proposing a 33-percent annual interest rate for loans which are not paid back ...More
Indianapolis, Ind (WSAU) The Wisconsin Badgers shot just 29% from the field and lost in the Big Ten Tournament to the Illinois Fighting Illini 58-54. Despite a sub-par shooting day and falling behind by 16 at one point the Badgers battled back and had a chance to tie with 11 ...More
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WSAU) – A Marshfield man is again claiming that he was criminally insane when he stabbed an ex-girlfriend’s new lover and two others last fall.
Danny Tuttle entered the not guilty by insanity plea during his arraignment in Chippewa County today.
But a judge refused to order ...More
MILLADORE, Wis. (WSAU) – Someone robbed a gas station in Milladore last night.
The Wood County sheriff’s department says the robber walked into Swetz Country Corner Mart just before 9 p.m., pointed a hunting rifle at the clerk and demanded money.
The suspect drove away from the store in ...More
MADISON (WSAU) A former head of the cancer pharmacy at U-W Hospital in Madison is accused of falsifying prescriptions so he could get over 12-thousand methadone pills.
58-year-old Joseph Thiesen was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on 25 counts of prescription drug fraud. State licensing records from last ...More
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) - A federal grand jury has indicted two illegal immigrants from central Wisconsin on charges of illegally re-entering the United States after they were previously deported.
The indictment alleges federal immigration agents found 27-year-old Amulfo Romero-Gonzales in Marathon City and 26-year-old Luis Fernando Marcellano-Reyes in Dorchester on February ...More
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Madison, Wi (WSAU) The Wisconsin men's basketball team will start playing this afternoon for it's 3rd Big Ten Tournament title. The Badgers have won four in a row and will face Illinois for the 2nd straight game. You can hear the game on WSAU with pre game programming ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) Wisconsin's unemployment rate was up slightly in January. Experts were hoping the numbers would keep coming down as a modest economic recovery takes hold. Instead, joblessness was up from 8-point-5 to 8-point-7 percent.
Wisconsin is below the national unemployment rate at 9-point-7 percent.
There were employment gains ...More
STEVENS POINT, Wis (WSAU) The Central Wisconsin Children's Museum in Stevens Point is moving.
They had been in a long-vacant series of storefronts at the CenterPoint Marketplace Mall. But the mall is scheduled for a foreclosure auction in May, and its long term future is in doubt. The museum ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) A D.C. Everest High School senior was sentenced to 65-days in jail, followed by two years of probation, for a sexual assault that took place at a Halloween Party attended by more than a dozen students last year. The incident took place at a cabin in Oneida ...More
