CHILDREN SHOT

11-year-old girl fatally shot, 5-year-old injured

MILWAUKEE (AP) — An 11-year-old girl has died and a 5-year-old has been injured in a shooting in Milwaukee. Police say the girls were in a car with family members about 9 p.m. Saturday when another vehicle approached and gunshots were fired, striking the children. The family drove to a nearby police station where officers performed first aid until paramedics arrived and the children were transported to the hospital. The older girl suffered fatal injuries and the younger girl is in stable condition. Police have not yet made an arrest in the case. 

FIERY CRASH-THREE KILLED

Three killed, one injured in fiery crash in Dane County

TOWN OF MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say three people have died in a fiery crash in Dane County. A preliminary investigation shows an eastbound vehicle struck another vehicle from behind in the Town of Middleton Saturday about 10:15 p.m. The impact sent the vehicle that was struck into a farm field where it became engulfed in flames. Authorities say the three occupants in that vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene. The other vehicle ended up in the ditch. The driver, the sole occupant, was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, that are not believed to be life threatening. The victims have not yet been identified. 

MANURE SPILL

Decatur semi crash spills liquid manure, injures driver

MADISON. Wis (AP) — Authorities say about 5,500 gallons of liquid manure spilled after a semi-tractor overturned in Decatur, injuring the driver. Deputies from the Green County Sheriff’s Office responded to the crash at about 12:44 p.m. Friday. Authorities said Jeffrey M. Brewer, of Evansville, was driving a semi-tractor hauling the fertilizer on a county and failed to negotiate a curve. The semi-tractor went off the road and into a ditch where it overturned. Authorities say the driver suffered minor injuries. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources also responded to the scene.

ELECTION 2020-AUDITS-WISCONSIN

Gableman sends subpoenas to Milwaukee, Green Bay officials

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former state Supreme Court justice leading Assembly Republicans’ probe of the 2020 election has sent subpoenas to officials in Milwaukee, Green Bay, Madison, Kenosha and Racine as well as Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe seeking information about private funds they used to run voting operations. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Michael Gableman’s subpoenas are the first issued by state lawmakers in four decades. The subpoenas, dated Thursday and delivered Friday, seek documents related to the Center for Tech And Civic Life, which gave more than $10 million to more than 200 Wisconsin communities to help cover election costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The subpoenas require the officials to appear before him Oct. 15 with the documents. 

MURDER-FOR-HIRE

Wisconsin woman sentenced in murder-for-hire plot

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for trying to hire a hitman using bitcoin currency. Federal prosecutors announced that 38-year-old Kelly Harper of Columbus received the sentence after she pleaded guilty to using the Internet to hire a hitman. Harper provided the man’s height, weight, eye color, cell phone number and photos of his vehicle. She also shared a screenshot of a bitcoin wallet with a value of about $5,633 to the site administrator. Her attorney didn’t immediately respond to a message.

WOLF HUNT

Federal judge sets hearing on blocking Wisconsin wolf hunt

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has set a hearing for later this month on whether to block Wisconsin’s fall wolf hunt. Six Chippewa tribes filed a lawsuit on Sept. 21 seeking to block the hunt, saying hunters killed too many wolves during the state’s February season and kill quotas from the fall hunt aren’t grounded in science. U.S. District Judge James Peterson on Friday scheduled a hearing on the tribes’ request for a preliminary injunction blocking the fall hunt for Oct. 29, six days before the season is set to begin on Nov. 6.

LONG SENTENCE

La Crosse man sentenced to 66 years in crash that killed 2

BARABOO, WIs. (AP) — A La Crosse man with a history of drunken driving has been sentenced to 66 years in prison for a crash that killed two men and severely injured two others. Fifty-nine-year-old Albart B. Shores, who was convicted in April, apologized in Sauk County Court Thursday for driving drunk along Interstate 94/90 near Wisconsin Dells in 2018. He had a blood alcohol content just above the legal limit and used cocaine the night before. The Baraboo News Republic reports the prosecutor predicted that Shores, who was convicted on his seventh drunken driving offense, would kill again if he ever goes free.

WHITE SUPREMACISTS ARRESTED

Prosecutors: Neo-Nazis discussed assassination, prison break

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Maryland are recommending 25-year prison sentences for two neo-Nazi group members who were arrested by the FBI ahead of a gun rights rally at Virginia’s Capitol. In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors described former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews and U.S. Army veteran Brian Mark Lemley Jr. as domestic terrorists who prepared for a civil war and talked about planning an attack at the January 2020 rally in Virginia. Mathews and Lemley Jr. are scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 28 after pleading guilty to gun charges in June. They were charged along with a third member of The Base, a white supremacist organization. Defense attorneys filed their sentencing memos under seal.