Archive for March, 2010

     MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Unemployment is up in five Wisconsin metropolitan areas.
     The state Department of Workforce Development on Wednesday reported local unemployment figures for February.  Unemployment rates rose in the Eau Claire, Fond Du Lac, Oshkosh-Neenah, Racine and Wausau areas from January. Rates didn’t change in the Appleton, Green Bay and Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis More >

     MILWAUKEE (AP) – The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests is renewing its claims that Milwaukee prosecutors should have charged a priest accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of deaf boys between 1950 and 1974.
     The man who was the prosecutor at the time says he had no choice. E. Michael McCann says the More >

     MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A state appeals court says secluded places in child enticement cases can be anywhere that reduces the chance of discovery.
     The ruling stems from a case in Sheboygan County. A jury found Mitchell Pask guilty of child enticement in September 2007.  Prosecutors say he tried to lure a 9-year-old girl More >

     MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin appeals court says sex offenders who are being civilly committed for treatment do not qualify for the minimum wage.
     Offenders held at the Wisconsin Resource Center filed a lawsuit after the acting warden slashed their pay in 2007 from the minimum wage at the time, $6.50 per hour, More >

     DICKEYVILLE, Wis. (AP) – A village in Grant County is the only Wisconsin community saluted by federal officials for its strong response to the U.S. census.
     The Census Bureau says 77 percent of 1,000 residents in Dickeyville have already mailed in their forms, placing them among 50 communities nationwide with that kind of response More >

     SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (AP) – An eastern Wisconsin woman says her
Toyota Camry’s sudden acceleration is to blame for a crash that sent her to the hospital.
     Myrna Marseilles was parking her 2009 Camry at the YMCA in Sheboygan Falls Monday when the car lunged ahead and crashed into a wall. The 76-year-old woman fractured More >

     MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A young blues guitar prodigy will speak in front of a state Senate committee Wednesday about a law prohibiting kids from performing in taverns and night clubs.
     GOP Sen. Neal Kedzie of Elkhorn has introduced a bill on behalf of 10-year-old Tallan Latz.  Latz’s father, Carl, went to Kedzie after More >