While undergoing field sobriety tests, the suspect could not stay awake and joked about propping her eyes open.
A 52-year-old man was charged with killing a teenager, stabbing four others in a dispute that allegedly involved a lost cellphone during a tubing excursion on a Wisconsin river.
Gregory Spittel was charged with second-degree reckless homicide in the death of his grandmother Carol Foreman in August 2019.
The criminal complaint against John Steinbrink Jr., the former Village of Pleasant Prairie Village Public Works Department director accused of theft and multiple counts of misconduct in public office, was filed Tuesday afternoon.
La Crosse County is launching an internal investigation after a sheriff's deputy appeared to flash a hand gesture associated with white supremacy and racism in a photo that has since been removed from Sheriff Jeff Wolf's Facebook page.
One person was killed and another was critically injured in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 90 near Tomah on Saturday, the Wisconsin State Patrol reported.
Investigators said the driver was heading west on I-80 when the rear tire of his 2013 Victory motorcycle blew out. The motorcycle flipped several times and struck the cable barriers in the median.
An Illinois man charged with sexual abuse of a 15-year-old Johnson County girl in 2015 is asking a judge to dismiss his charges because he says the parents gave him consent to have sex with their teen.
An arrest warrant was filed against Jackson Greengrass June 8 after the La Crosse County District Attorney's Office filed a criminal complaint for his alleged role in an altercation that killed 17-year-old Storm Vondrashek.
Minneapolis Police spokesman Garrett Parten says authorities negotiated with the man for about six hours before police shot him. Authorities didn’t immediately say what prompted police to shoot.
Police records paint the picture of a turbulent home life for the alleged sniper in the Highland Park mass shooting that left seven people dead and more than 30 injured.
A man arrived at a local hospital with multiple gunshots to his upper body Wednesday night. Police were investigating two scenes.
The alleged shooter who attacked an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, and came to Madison "seriously contemplated" using a gun and 60 rounds in his car to attack a celebration in Madison on the same day, police said.
Kenosha police continue to investigate a shooting that sent a man to the hospital after he suffered multiple wounds in gunfire that erupted Tuesday night.
In an opinion delivered Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled in favor of Chrystul Kizer, who in 2018 was accused of killing the man who had been sex trafficking her and other girls.
"We've made a mess, and we need to fix it," said city arts program administrator Karin Wolf. "We can't talk about equity in our city if we don't take these kind of treatments of each other seriously."
With less than two months to go until ex-R&B superstar R. Kelly and two of his former associates go on trial in Chicago, the sparks are starting to fly. But the most recent legal spat hasn’t involved prosecutors at all — it’s between the defendants.
A suburban Chicago man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment, nearly a year after his 1-month-old son died of fentanyl poisoning.
Rosemont police said the suspect was taken into custody Wednesday "without incident" in the March 25 shooting that killed Joel Valdes, 20, of Skokie, at the Fashion Outlets of Chicago in Rosemont, just northwest of Chicago.
An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for an 18-year-old Chicago man in the fatal shooting of a man and wounding of a girl at a suburban shopping mall.
A Chicago police officer was wounded during a shootout that left a man in serious condition after a car drove forward during a traffic stop, injuring a second officer, police said.
A Chicago Transit Authority worker faces two felony charges after allegedly shooting a man inside a Red Line station, police and the agency said.
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Offended when his roommates kicked him out because he was late on rent, a 33-year-old man set three fires at his South Shore building, including one that erupted when he lit a baby stroller ablaze, prosecutors said.
References to elephants, horses, opossums and raccoons weren't the only things that stood out about the Jeff Fortenberry trial.
The jury took less than two hours deliberating in the federal case of Nebraska Rep. Jeff Fortenberry. He was found guilty on all three charges.
Trey Gowdy testified Wednesday that Assistant U.S. Attorney Mack Jenkins, the lead prosecutor in the case, told him that Fortenberry shouldn’t return it to the donors, in part because it could tip off the donors that they were under federal investigation.
After federal agents first tried to contact Fortenberry at his Lincoln home in 2019, the congressman called the then-Lincoln police chief. Fortenberry said he was concerned for his family's safety.
A Los Angeles doctor who funneled money from a Nigerian billionaire to Rep. Jeff Fortenberry recalled receiving a brown bag with $30,000 — and accidentally leaving it in his car when he went to lunch.
For the first time Thursday, the public — and more importantly, jurors — heard an overview of U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s defense in his court case.
The actor still must serve the 30-month probation term while his case makes its way through the higher courts, and he is still on the hook to pay more than $120,000 in restitution, according to his legal team.