After a drunken fight, one man walked away with massive injuries and two others with battery charges. Today, Pennau is saddled with medical bills he can't pay and a failing credit score and financial setbacks he can't get out of. He believes that wouldn't be the case if it weren't for case delays brought about by COVID-19.
A newly-released audit from Wisconsin's non-partisan Legislative Audit Bureau found state agencies had incorrectly allocated about $1.1 million in federal COVID funds through June of last year, according to the report.
Dane County judges finalized a plan on Friday to resume jury trials starting June 1, a date well past a year after trials were first suspended in March by an order of the state Supreme Court due to the spread of COVID-19.
It doesn’t get much busier than a week in the life of Jessica Madley.
The state's top consumer protection leaders are warning folks to be on the lookout for any scams related to COVID vaccines.
After the Madison Police Department closed its investigation into an alleged hate crime that happened in front of Portillo's on the city's east side, News 3 Now filed an open records request to obtain the documents disclosing why MPD did not follow through with criminal charges.
Many Republican and a few Democrat lawmakers in Wisconsin's legislature aren't disclosing whether they've had or plan to get the Covid-19 vaccine, in response to questions emailed to 130 Assembly and Senate lawmakers over the past week.
Public health officials in Dane County have issued almost $200,000 in fines to businesses and individuals violating Dane County public health orders since last summer, a records request filed with Public Health Madison and Dane County shows.
The death of Tony Robinson made national headlines nearly six years ago. It's a day that Robinson's grandmother, Sharon Irwin Henry has never forgotten.
Loved by all who knew him, James “Yoda” Fisher of Beloit was just weeks away from his 42nd birthday when he died on November 22.
Vaccination rates per state tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have consistently ranked Wisconsin near the bottom for shots in arms per 100,000 in population.
A growing number of national companies heavily invested in political spending are distancing themselves or withdrawing support for members of Congress who voted last week to block the certification of President-Elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Some, like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, have announced plans to put all of their political donations on pause.
There's few headaches for homeowners that can match the stress of a sewage backup.
Investigation reports from the Wisconsin Department of Justice detail Jacob Blake's own account of the knife that played such a key role in an officer's decision to shoot him seven times on August 3 in Kenosha--and a prosecutor's decision not to charge the officer.
It’s a chilly afternoon in mid November outside the governor’s mansion in Madison, but Eugene Crisler’s young daughter isn’t deterred. Her older sister rests in the car, but she remains with her father as he fulfills a two-hour shift in an ongoing “sit-in” outside the residence.
In just the last six days, nine residents at the Wisconsin Veteran Affairs nursing home in King passed away from COVID-19. New death totals released Thursday show a total of 34 COVID-related deaths have occurred at the home since the pandemic began; across all three VA nursing homes in Wisconsin, 45 residents have died.
In the wake of former Vice President Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin by 23,000 votes according to unofficial totals, theories have been flying from social media influencers that involve miscalculations of turnout or comparisons of turnout rates that aren’t equal. Frequently located outside Wisconsin and picking up traction within the state on Twitter and Facebook, accounts posting about “improbably high” turnout or theories of “more votes than registrations” lack both context and facts.
A self-described media junkie and active voter who’s passionate about liberal political causes, Keith Klein of Menomonee Falls recently started using Twitter heavily. In spite of himself, he occasionally succumbs to what he calls “Twitter rage.”
A Madison woman is facing a legal battle with a KFC franchise owner, Mitra QSR, after she said she was fired from her job for not wearing a company-provided hat over her hijab.
As local health departments struggle to meet the demands of high daily case counts, Wisconsin's Department of Health Services says they've made several thousand contact tracing calls in the past month to alleviate the pressure.
Citing HIPAA laws, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections leaves it up to medical examiners and coroners to disclose inmate deaths of those who have tested positive for COVID-19.
As Madison Metropolitan School District students prepare to start the year virtually only a small fraction of families have used meal sites.
Public health officials in multiple counties are investigating several cases of COVID-19 linked to sporting tournaments in Wisconsin Dells.
For years, social media giants and the U.S. government have known about Russian efforts to influence Americans’ choices on Election Day, but so far very little has been done to stop it.
