Wisconsin

Check your coins: Some Wisconsin quarters from 2004 have a detectable error on its reverse side.

A former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student threatened students, staff members and professors at the university, telling some of them via email that he planned to kill their children, according to court documents.

A letter sent out to parents by the school identified the spiders as yellow sac spiders, a common species in the United States.

A motions hearing was held in Waukesha County on Friday, Nov. 18 for Darrell Brooks. It was associated with an appeal following his conviction on 76 charges associated with the Waukesha Christmas parade attack.

Darrell Brooks will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Judge Jennifer Dorow threw the book at Brooks, handing down the maximum sentence, drawing applause from the courtroom filled with victims and their families.

Darrell Brooks will be sentenced on Nov. 15-16 following his conviction on 76 charges in connection with the Waukesha Christmas parade attack in November 2021. He did not address an appeal in court Monday when sentencing was scheduled, but in a letter Friday, he said he intends to do so.

A jury found Darrell Brooks guilty on all counts in the Waukesha Christmas parade attack that took place Nov. 21, 2021.

A Milwaukee man with an open stalking case is now accused of stealing $124,000 meant for the provider of his son's therapy for autism. There's a warrant for his arrest.

Milwaukee police are investigating a shooting in which three people were wounded near Martin Luther King and Highland around 9:15 p.m. Friday. This is just outside Milwaukee's Deer District.

Wisconsin authorities have officially declared the death of Lily Peters, the 10-year-old girl who went missing from Chippewa Falls, a homicide.

Police have stopped one reckless driver 35 times in 3 years. Each time, they let him go. Starting Sunday, they'll be able to impound his car instead.

A 14-year-old boy has been charged in the killing of Lily Peters, a 10-year-old girl found dead in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Monday morning.

Abram Markofski pleaded guilty to participation in the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

Authorities rescued 27 people from a floating chunk of ice that broke away from shore in the bay of Green Bay in eastern Wisconsin, the sheriff's office said Sunday.

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice.

The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial returned for a fourth day of deliberations Friday, the morning after the judge raised eyebrows among lawyers when he let a juror take home a copy of the detailed legal instructions he gave to the panel.