UNDATED (WSAU) In 2009, about 70-percent of all Wisconsin tax returns were done using e-file. The state is expecting even more this year. Department of Revenue Secretary Roger Ervin says there hoping to see about four or five percent growth this year. So far, Ervin says, almost a million state ...More
MILWAUKEE (WSAU) Thousands of visitors will comes to Milwaukee on Memorial Day weekend as the 2010 Summit on Leadership and Prayer comes to town. Visitors will fill about 18 hundred hotel rooms and dump more than a million dollars into the local economy. They are coming to the convention to ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) Some gas price experts say the cost of a gallon of gasoline could reach three dollars by the end of May.
Triple-A Wisconsin reports that gallon gas jumped 22 cents in the past month, to two dollars, 77 cents. One expert says speculators pushing the market could tack ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) ATVs are a lot of fun, but you shouldn’t forget how dangerous they can be. New reports show a high rate of severe injuries among kids under 16 who drive or ride all-terrain vehicles, including amputations, spinal injuries and even death.
The actual numbers vary, depending on ...More
UNDAED (WSAU) Two rivers in Wisconsin are over their banks this afternoon – but the flooding has been minor, and officials say it’s not expected to get much worse.
The National Weather Service said the Fox River at New Munster in Kenosha County is a foot over its flood stage ...More
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
UNDATED (WSAU) A Chilton man who’s charged in the disappearance of his girlfriend is now accused of killing her. A first-degree intentional homicide charge was filed in Manitowoc County yesterday against 51-year-old Roger Rosenthal. He was charged in late January with hiding a corpse, after Michelle Jaeger’s body ...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
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
UNDATED (WSAU) U.S. Senator Russ Feingold is behind an effort to reclaim millions of dollars in unspent transportation funding. The Wisconsin Democrat is offering an amendment to an aviation bill in the Senate that would reclaim money that was set aside for transportation projects that haven’t moved in ...More
