crime and courts

A high-tech medical testing lab in northwest Wisconsin has been searched by the F-B-I, apparently to investigate possible Medicare billing fraud.

A man wanted for running an alleged cock-fighting and illegal gambling ring near Wausau has appeared in court, after he turned himself in. 35-year-old...

A convicted sex offender faces multiple criminal charges after allegedly admitting to Cottage Grove police that on numerous occasions he drugged...

A 20-year-old Farmington man was being held in the Dakota County Jail on multiple charges of possession of child pornography.

Scammers used the names of two Wisconsin women to set up Internet sites that fraudulently sell pro football jerseys.

An insurance company is asking for a subpoena to access cell phone calls allegedly made by a restaurant owner who claimed intruders forced him to spray a flammable liquid inside a landmark St. Croix County business.

A Wisconsin Rapids woman will not be institutionalized for threatening to kill a federal administrative law judge. Norma Prince was put on three...

A faith-based organization last week filed suit against the city of Woodbury, alleging a city ordinance has infringed on a resident’s First...

A former River Falls man was sentenced to five years’ probation Monday in Pierce County Circuit Court for first degree sexual assault of a child.

Four years after the state shut down his collection agency and nearly two years after he was formally charged with stealing money from his clients,...

The teenager accused of stealing a school bus in Roseville in February is due in Ramsey County Juvenile Court today. The 14-year-old boy is charged...

A frantic scene on a Woodbury off-ramp involving an inmate trying to break loose nearly ended in catastrophe last month.

A Wausau woman has pleaded guilty to poisoning and stabbing her ex-boyfriend's dog to death, in a case that attracted worldwide publicity. Sean...

A Spring Valley man will be sentenced in April for felony theft after pleading guilty to the charge last week in Pierce County Circuit Court.