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Crop duster crashes

A close call for the pilot of a crop duster, following a plane crash Wednesday morning near Evansville. The pilot was attempting to take off from a grass landing strip, when it was unable to make it off the ground and crashed into a nearby ...

From WRN STAFF, Wisconsin Radio Network,  12 Aug 2009

13-year-old charged with killing stepdad

A 13-year-old Milwaukee girl was charged as an adult Monday with killing her step-grandfather over a jug of milk. The girl was charged with first-degree reckless homicide and she's due in Children's Court Tuesday afternoon with the chance she'll ...

From WRN STAFF, Wisconsin Radio Network,  11 Aug 2009

Man drowns in Madison

Police were called to the scene on Lake Monona just after 3:30 Wednesday afternoon. Donahue says the area where the drowning occurred, near the Monona Terrace Convention Center, not typically known as a beach area, but on a hot afternoon it's not ...

From WRN STAFF, Wisconsin Radio Network,  6 Aug 2009

Chrysler return to Kenosha unlikely

Governor Jim Doyle doubts Chrysler will restart operations in Wisconsin. In a statement released Thursday afternoon, the governor said it is "unlikely that Chrysler will exercise its option to purchase the Kenosha car-engine plant." Doyle calls the ...

From WRN STAFF, Wisconsin Radio Network,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Chrysler,  Fiat

State ranks 10th for well being of kids

Wisconsin ranks number 10 nationally in a new state-by-state study on the well-being of America's children. The 2009 KIDS COUNT Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation reveals that since 2000, Wisconsin (PDF) improved on six of the 10 measures ...

From WRN STAFF, Wisconsin Radio Network,  28 Jul 2009

Stick up turns deadly

Police said the men entered a back door of the restaurant as it was about to close for the night. One had a gun, and the other a knife and they got away with an undetermined amount of cash after shooting the two people. There were no customers there at ...

From TOM KARKOW-WRJN AND WRN STAFF, Wisconsin Radio Network,  27 Jul 2009

Fire at Johnsonville Sausage plant

A fire at a Johnsonville Sausage Company plant in the Town of Sheboygan Falls this morning resulted in one injury and an evacuation of the facility. The Sheboygan Sheriff's office says a report of the fire came in at just after 11 this morning, ...

From WRN STAFF, Wisconsin Radio Network,  24 Jul 2009

Local unemployment rates increase

Unemployment continues to increase across the Badger State. Unemployment rates increased in each of the Wisconsin's 12 Metropolitan Statistical Areas in June compared to May. State Department of Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman released ...

From WRN STAFF, Wisconsin Radio Network,  22 Jul 2009

Harley to cut 1,000 jobs

Milwaukee’s Harley-Davidson says it will cut another one-thousand jobs, after its profit for the last quarter plunged by 91-percent. The famous motorcycle company reports total earnings of almost 20-million-dollars from April-through-June, down from 223 ...

From WRN STAFF, Wisconsin Radio Network,  16 Jul 2009

Cause of meat plant fire determined

The mayor of Cudahy says he’s furious that someone started the fire that ravaged the Patrick Cudahy meat plant even if it was an accident. Officials said Tuesday that a military flare exploded before landing on the plant’s roof July fifth. It was fired ...

From WRN STAFF, Wisconsin Radio Network,  15 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Department of Justice

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