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Bergstrom Drives Wishes Home, Raising a Record $355K for Kids
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Bergtrom Automotive team and community members raised an all time record of $355,000 to help make life-changing wishes come true for local kids and families facing critical illnesses. Throughout the month of June, Bergstrom led a number of fundraisers to help raise money for Make-A-Wish...
Wisconsin drug dealer sentenced for turning ghost gun into a machine gun
MADISON, Wis. (WFRV) – A 28-year-old Wisconsin man was sentenced to federal prison on Tuesday for turning a ghost gun into a fully functional machine gun. According to a release, Byron Ellison, 28, from Windsor, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years behind bars for possessing heroin and fentanyl intended for distribution and possessing a machine gun.
WisDems: Round up: Rep. Jill Billings and community leaders call on Wisconsinites to vote no on amendments
MADISON, Wis. — Yesterday, Representative Jill Billings joined La Crosse small business owner Penny Fassler and ARPA funding recipient Andrew Rasmussen at a press conference in La Crosse urging Wisconsinites to vote ‘NO’ on two misleading and risky constitutional amendment ballot questions placed on the August 13 primary ballot by right-wing politicians in Wisconsin’s Legislature.
Spinning The State: Green Bay, Eagle, Ashwaubenon
Stories you might have missed from around Wisconsin. Green Bay: President Biden to nominate green Bay attorney to Federal Bench. A longtime vacancy in the US District Court for the eastern District of Wisconsin may soon be filled by an attorney based in Green Bay. This morning, President Biden announced plans to nominate personal injury attorney Byron Browning Conway to the position. The vacancy was created in 2019 by the retirement of Judge William C. Greisbach pending Senate approval. Both Senator Tammy Baldwin and Senator Ron Johnson recommended Conway, along with one other attorney for the job last summer. The decision to nominate Conway comes more than a year after the President decided not to renominate Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge William Pocan after Johnson blocked Pocan’s nomination. Full Story.
Birchwood hunter among those drawing 2024 Wisconsin elk tag
MADISON — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced June 25 that eight Wisconsin residents won a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hunt elk during the 2024 elk season, which opens Saturday, Oct. 12. Four winners will be able to hunt in the Black River Elk Zone for the first time since elk were reintroduced to the state. The application period was open from April 10 to May 31, and the...
Rules and quotas set for Wisconsin's 2024 deer hunting seasons
The 2024-25 Wisconsin white-tailed deer hunting seasons will feature two northern counties with buck-only rules and a slight reduction in the statewide antlerless harvest quota. It will also include a record high number of farmland zone counties with extended archery seasons and holiday gun hunting seasons. And hunters in most farmland counties...
Two Wilmot High School Students Secures Spot on National High School Rodeo Team
{KXLG – South Dakota} Addison Heinje, a 9th-grade student and Mya Heinje an 11th-grade student at Wilmot High School in South Dakota, has secured a spot on the state/provincial National High School rodeo team. Addison and several fellow South Dakota teammates will head to Rock Springs, Wyoming, from July 14 to 20 to compete in the 76th annual National High School Finals Rodeo (NHSFR).
Funding for Mendota treatment center withheld by Republican lawmakers
A 16-year-old boy was charged last week with second-degree reckless homicide, felony murder and two counts of battery of 49-year-old Corey Proulx, a youth counselor for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections at Lincoln Hills School for Boys who was killed at work. The youth prison — as well as Copper Lake School for Girls — […] The post Funding for Mendota treatment center withheld by Republican lawmakers appeared first on Wisconsin Examiner.
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