Author: Todd Richmond
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With recounts looming, Trump adds new administration picks
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump pressed forward Friday with two more administration picks, as failed Green Party candidate Jill Stein took new steps to force recounts across key Midwestern battlegrounds that could complicate Trump’s push for national unity. Stein, who earned little more than 1 percent of the national vote, formally requested a…
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University of Wisconsin-Madison is top party school in US
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders are chafing under a state-imposed tuition freeze and the football team didn’t crack the Top 25 preseason rankings. But no school in the country throws a better party, according to the Princeton Review’s 2017 edition of “The Best 381 Colleges.” Here’s a look at how it decides who’s No.…
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Officer in Milwaukee shooting joined force as teenage aide
MILWAUKEE — Dominique Heaggan attended grade school in Milwaukee and joined the city’s police force as a teenage aide through a program that aims to recruit young people into law enforcement, including minorities. Heaggan, identified by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as the black officer at the center of a fatal shooting that sparked two nights…
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Trump backtracks on question of punishing women for abortion
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday that women who get an abortion should receive “some form of punishment” if it is ever outlawed, drawing swift condemnation from activists on both sides of the divisive social issue. Within hours, Trump’s campaign sought to take back his comments in two separate…
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12-year-old Wisconsin girls charged in stabbing of another girl 19 times
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Prosecutors say two 12-year-old southeastern Wisconsin girls stabbed their 12-year-old friend nearly to death to please a fictional character they learned about online. Both girls were charged with first-degree attempted homicide Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court. A court commissioner set bail at $500,000 cash per girl. The criminal complaint says that…
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Report: Law officers struggle to readjust after war
MADISON, Wis. — For soldiers patrolling in Iraq and Afghanistan, death can come from a bomb hidden in a trash pile or an innocent-looking face in the crowd. Returning home alive can depend on the quick turn of a steering wheel or pull of a trigger. Those heightened survival instincts don’t always translate when those…