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A member of the secret panel studying Wisconsin Supreme Court justice’s impeachment backed her rival

One of the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices tapped to investigate impeaching newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz for taking Democratic Party money accepted donations from the state Republican Party when he was on the court.

September 15, 2023

Man charged with threatening UAW President Shawn Fain on the eve of strike

A mid-Michigan man has been charged with sending threatening text messages to United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain on the eve of the union’s strike against Detroit’s three automakers, a prosecutor said Friday.

September 15, 2023

Wisconsin man accused of pepper-spraying police on Jan. 6 pleads guilty

Prosecutors charged 24-year-old Riley Kasper, of Pulaski, in March 2022 with counts in federal court that included assaulting an officer, disorderly conduct, and entering a restricted building with a deadly or dangerous weapon.

September 15, 2023

Wisconsin city delaying start of Lake Michigan water withdrawals

City officials in Waukesha had planned to begin pulling millions of gallons per day from the laIke to serve as the city’s public water supply in mid-September, possibly as early as this week.

September 14, 2023

Planned Parenthood to resume offering abortions next week in Wisconsin, citing court ruling

Planned Parenthood says that it will resume offering abortions in Wisconsin next week after a judge ruled that an 1849 law that seemingly banned the procedure actually didn’t apply to abortions.

September 14, 2023

Egon Schiele work seized from Art Institute of Chicago, believed stolen from Jewish art collector during Holocaust

The artworks by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele were all previously owned by Fritz Grünbaum, a cabaret performer and songwriter who died at the Dachau concentration camp in 1941.

September 14, 2023

Wisconsin Senate votes to fire official targeted by 2020 election skeptics

It’s the latest in a whirlwind of deep partisan divisions in Wisconsin, where Republicans who control the Legislature are threatening to impeach a newly elected Supreme Court justice before she’s even heard a case.

September 14, 2023

Wisconsin GOP to pursue nonpartisan redistricting to avoid having state justices toss maps

Wisconsin Republican lawmakers, in a surprise move on Tuesday, reversed their long-held position and proposed a nonpartisan redistricting plan they want to enact ahead of the 2024 election.

September 12, 2023

EPA staff slow to report health risks from lead-tainted Benton Harbor water, report states

The EPA Office of Inspector General said staff monitoring the state’s response to lead levels and compliance in Benton Harbor failed to “elevate” the issue of health risks to the city’s residents, per an EPA policy that encourages staff to do so.

September 07, 2023

Battery parts maker Entek breaks ground on $1.5B manufacturing campus in western Indiana

Gov. Eric Holcomb joined Entek executives and others at the Terre Haute groundbreaking for the planned 1.4-million-square foot complex, with Holcomb calling it “a great day for Terre Haute and for the state of Indiana.”

September 06, 2023

Donald Trump plans to attend the Iowa-Iowa State football game in the leadoff 2024 GOP voting state

Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who is among a dozen challengers to Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination, also plans to attend the Iowa State-Iowa game, his campaign said.

September 06, 2023

Wisconsin Democrats combat threatened impeachment of court justice with $4M effort

The Wisconsin Constitution limits the reasons to impeach a sitting officeholder to corrupt conduct in office or the commission of a crime.

September 06, 2023

Lawsuit claims mobile home park managers conspired to inflate lot rental prices

The lawsuit filed in Chicago claims the management companies bought up mobile home parks and used “competitively sensitive market data” to exchange pricing information and conspire to raise rents.

September 05, 2023

Wisconsin city to begin pulling millions of gallons a day from Lake Michigan

After years of seeking approval, a Milwaukee suburb is finally set to start pulling millions of gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan to replace its polluted water supply.

September 05, 2023

Minnesota seeks unifying symbol to replace state flag considered offensive to Native Americans

The seal depicts a Native American riding off into the sunset while a white settler plows his field with his rifle leaning on a nearby stump. The imagery suggests to many that the Indigenous people were defeated and going away, while whites won and were staying.

September 05, 2023

Complaints over campaign comments by Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz are dismissed

Janet Protasiewicz’s win in April flipped majority control of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court from conservative to liberal for the first time in 15 years.

September 05, 2023

Pier collapses into lake on Wisconsin college campus, 1 hospitalized, 20 others slightly injured

Authorities say a pier filled with people celebrating Labor Day on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus partially collapsed into a lake, leaving one person hospitalized and slightly injuring about 20 others.

September 05, 2023

Schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 found intact, miles off Wisconsin coastline

Shipwreck hunters have discovered the intact remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 and is so well-preserved it still contains the crew’s possessions in its final resting spot miles from Wisconsin’s coastline.

September 01, 2023

Ohio police release video showing officer’s fatal shooting of pregnant Black woman Ta’Kiya Young

Authorities in Ohio say they will release body camera footage of a fatal police shooting of a pregnant Black woman.

September 01, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy raises $450,000 in first hours after Republican debate

Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has taken in $450,000 since Wednesday night’s debate, with an average donation of $38, campaign spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said on Thursday.

August 24, 2023

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