Category Archives: Local News

Madison shooter was in first semester at school
The Wisconsin 15-year-old who shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student Monday was only in her first semester at the school but seemed to be settling in, a school official said Thursday. Barbara ...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 20, 2024 GotCredit / CC
Judge places temporary hold on collective bargaining ruling
A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday temporarily put on hold his recent ruling that restored collective bargaining rights to teachers and most other public workers that were lost under a 2011 state law that...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 20, 2024

Semi accident in Ridgeway
On Thursday at 4:30 PM, The Iowa County Communications Center was notified of a semi accident that was blocking both eastbound lanes of Highway 18-151 near Mile Marker 52 in the Township of Ridgeway. ...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 20, 2024

Nebraska man arrested for cocaine in Mineral Point
On Thursday at 1 AM, a Mineral Point Police Officer and an Iowa County Sheriff's Deputy conducted a traffic stop on Dodge Street in Mineral Point. As a result of the stop, 27-year-old Joseph Flores-Ji...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 20, 2024

Platteville man sentenced to prison for drug crimes
A Platteville man has been sentenced to three years in prison after illicit substances were found in his home. 30-year-old Nicholas J. Forbes recently received the sentence in Grant County Circuit Cou...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 19, 2024

Wisconsin school shooter received messages from man accused of plotting his own attack
The shooter who killed a student and teacher at a school in Madison brought two guns to the school and was in contact with a man in California who authorities say was planning to attack a government b...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 19, 2024 GotCredit / CC
Identities of school shooting victims released
The identities of the two fatal victims from Monday's Abundant Life Christian School shooting have been released. The student who was killed was identified in an obituary released Wednesday as 14-year...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 19, 2024

Wisconsin DOJ investigating injuries of man in custody in Grant County
Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation reported on Wednesday it is conducting an officer involved investigation in Grant County after a man injured himself while in custody...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 19, 2024

Grant County allocates remaining ARPA funds
In their final planned meeting of 2024, the Grant County Board of Supervisors finished one task they need to get done before 2025. They needed to allocate the final $1.29 million from the COVID-recove...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 19, 2024

Stoughton police located driver who hit VFW plane
Stoughton police on Wednesday identified the driver who they said crashed a semi-trailer into the display airplane at the city's VFW. Police said a 32-year-old Massachusetts man was cited for hit-and-...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 19, 2024 GotCredit / CC





