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Judge to Defendant: You Can't Be 'Instrument of Reckoning''

Chrystul Kizer sentenced to 11 years for killing man she said trafficked, abused her

(Newser) - A Wisconsin woman who killed a man accused of sexually trafficking her as a teenager was sentenced to 11 years Monday on a charge that could have sent her to prison for up to 30 years. Chrystul Kizer, 24, was 17 years old when she killed 34-year-old Randall Volar. He...

Teen Left Note Apologizing to Officers Who Shot Him

3 officers exonerated in shooting of 14-year-old who refused commands to drop air rifle

(Newser) - Three Wisconsin police officers who killed a student as he tried to break into his middle school with an air rifle this past spring won't face criminal charges, prosecutors announced Monday. In a statement exonerating Mount Horeb police officers Tyler Stephens, Carson Stoddard, and Steve Rosemeyer, Dane County District...

This Is America's Best State to Live In

According to WalletHub, Massachusetts tops the list, while Louisiana comes in last

(Newser) - From sea to shining sea, and every stretch in between, the United States offers plenty of diverse places to settle down, though the "ideal" locale will differ for each person or family. WalletHub has attempted to whittle down the choices with an overall look at each state, comparing all...

4 Charged in Murder Likened to George Floyd's

D'Vontaye Mitchell was held face down for 8 to 9 minutes outside a Milwaukee hotel

(Newser) - Four men have been charged with felony murder in the death of D'Vontaye Mitchell, a Black man who was beaten and pinned to the ground outside a Milwaukee hotel in June. Mitchell's immediate cause of death was "restraint asphyxia and toxic effects of cocaine and methamphetamine,"...

Radio Network Admits Portions of Biden Interview Were Cut

Network says Biden campaign requested the radio show make the edits

(Newser) - President Biden was interviewed on a Wisconsin radio show last week, and now the radio network that airs the show has acknowledged that parts of the interview were edited at the Biden campaign's request, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Biden's phone interview on the Earl Ingram Show was...

Biden Assures Rally He's Staying in the Race

President makes first of two appearances in bid to reassure Democrats

(Newser) - In the first of two opportunities Friday to demonstrate he's still capable of heading the Democratic ticket in November, President Biden assured supporters in Wisconsin that he's not dropping out and that he'll defeat Donald Trump. "They're trying to push me out of the race,...

Wisconsin Court Flips Decision on Ballot Drop Boxes

Trump had argued they were enabling vote fraud

(Newser) - Two years after the state Supreme Court ruled that many unsupervised drop boxes for absentee ballots are illegal, Wisconsin's voters were told Friday that they can use them again. The decision is a victory for Democrats who maintain that the boxes make voting more accessible, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...

Trump Does Damage Control on 'Horrible' Milwaukee Line

'I love Milwaukee,' he tells rally in Wisconsin, accusing Democrats of distorting his words

(Newser) - As Democrats try to capitalize on Donald Trump's description of Milwaukee as "horrible," the former president is clarifying: "I love Milwaukee," he told a rally Tuesday in Racine, located in the same swing state of Wisconsin, reports the Guardian . Last week, Trump referred to Milwaukee—...

'Truly a Miracle No One Is Dead' After Rooftop Party Shooting

10 were injured in Wisconsin incident

(Newser) - An early morning shooting at a rooftop party in Wisconsin left at least 10 people injured, including teenagers, police said Sunday. Nine people were injured by gunfire and another was injured by broken glass at the party at a high-rise apartment in downtown Madison, the AP reports. All of the...

Warden, 8 Others Charged Over Deaths at Wisconsin Prison

Charges include abuse, misconduct in public office

(Newser) - The warden at Wisconsin's troubled Waupun Correctional Institution has been charged, along with eight other corrections officials at the maximum-security prison, in connection with the deaths of two inmates. Four inmates have died at the prison in the past year, and the charges follow investigations that were launched in...

Warden of Troubled Prison Becomes Jail Inmate

Wisconsin warden was jailed hours before news conference on deaths at Waupun facility

(Newser) - A Wisconsin prison warden was jailed Wednesday just hours before a scheduled news conference where officials planned to discuss the findings of investigations into multiple deaths at his facility. Online jail records indicate that Waupun Correctional Institution Warden Randall Hepp was booked into the Dodge County Jail around 8:20am....

Wisconsin Has Bad News for Three Trump Operatives

Attorney Kenneth Chesebro, 2 others charged with filing false paperwork alleging Trump had won the state

(Newser) - Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges against two attorneys and an aide as part of a plan to subvert President Biden's victory over Donald Trump in the battleground state in 2020, per the AP . The charges were filed against Trump attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and Jim Troupis,...

Wild Hit-and-Run Crash Caught on Video

Driver fled the scene, is still being sought in Milwaukee

(Newser) - A dramatic hit-and-run collision was caught on video by a Milwaukee WTMJ-TV news crew that just happened to be filming in the area when it took place Sunday night. The crew was reporting on a shooting in the neighborhood when a vehicle sped by down the street. The driver, who...

20 Years After Missed Court Date, His Skeleton Was Found

Police seek info on Ronnie Joe Kirk, whose remains turned up in Wisconsin store chimney

(Newser) - His name was Ronnie Joe Kirk. How he got to be in the chimney of the Good 'n Loud Music store in Madison, Wisconsin, is anyone's guess. The body of the 5'7" man was discovered at the base of the chimney on Sept. 3, 1989, during the...

Louisiana, You're No. 1 (But You May Not Like Why)

State earns the dubious honor of having the most aggressive drivers, per ConsumerAffairs

(Newser) - "What the heck is making Montana drivers so unnecessarily angry?" That's the question posed by Jalopnik after viewing ConsumerAffairs' latest ranking of states where drivers are, shall we say, a little hot behind the wheel. Montana comes in third on that list, which ConsumerAffairs culled by looking at...

Teen Saves Busload of Kids After Driver Passes Out

'I feel more confident now—and brave,' says hero Acie Holland III

(Newser) - Preparing to get off his school bus last week, Acie Holland III noticed the driver wasn't slowing down for his stop. "She likes to joke with us a lot, and I thought maybe she was fooling with us," the eighth-grader tells the Washington Post . But this was...

Trump Won't Commit to Accept Results in Wisconsin

Former president says he will do so, but only if 'everything's honest' in his view

(Newser) - Donald Trump spoke to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on his swing through crucial Wisconsin this week, and he declined to commit to accept the swing state's election results. "If everything's honest, I'd gladly accept the results," Trump told the newspaper. "If it's not,...

Police Kill Armed Student Outside Middle School

Sources say Wisconsin suspect was 14-year-old boy

(Newser) - Police shot and killed a student outside a Wisconsin middle school Wednesday after receiving a report of someone with a weapon, the state's attorney general said in the first law enforcement briefing on gunshots that sent children fleeing and prompted an hourslong lockdown of local schools. Authorities had previously...

Minnesota Man Guilty of River Tubing Stabbing

Nicolae Miu killed teen, injured 4 other people

(Newser) - A 54-year-old Minnesota man was convicted Thursday in the slaying of a high school student and stabbing of four other people who were tubing on a western Wisconsin river. A Wisconsin circuit court jury found Nicolae Miu guilty of first-degree reckless homicide, four counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, and...

Man Who Firebombed Anti-Abortion Group Gets Prison

Wisconsin man Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury gets 7.5 years

(Newser) - A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 7½ years in federal prison for firebombing the office of an anti-abortion group in Madison in 2022, days after the leak of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, 29, pleaded guilty in November to attempting to...

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