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Plans to link Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha by passenger train are advancing.
The Mark Passenger Rail Commission plans to seek federal planning support.
Metro out of Chicago that runs into Kenosha is helping with planning, but the route, stations and operator remain undecided.
The rail commission will also seek more public input.
Police say a Racine woman burned four American flags outside the Harbor Light Yacht Club Thursday.
People nearby took down the flags and put out the fire.
Emily Johnson faces arson, property damage, and disorderly conduct charges.
A Racine group home worker is accused of punching a resident and grabbing his throat.
According to a criminal complaint, someone at the home said the resident threw Trey Hibbler's phone but didn't try to harm him.
Hibbler faces felony battery and strangulation charges.
A farmer was fined after a combine fire spread to a field in Caledonia yesterday.
A train briefly delayed firefighters near Northwestern Avenue in Highway V. Damage is estimated at about $80,000.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crawley has ordered tablet messaging shut off at the county lockup.
He wants the sheriff's department to do the same at the county jail.
Prosecutors say Kanye Alley Powell's contacted a woman he's accused of attacking.
He now faces new felony charges, including victim intimidation.
But jail tablets have become an issue in the governor's race.
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Man at Twalk Police arrested a man accused of waving a handgun at a child over the weekend.
Police say they got a call just before 3 a.m.
Saturday, reporting a man was intoxicated and waving a handgun at the caller's son.
The suspect ran with the handgun before police arrived, prompting an early morning shelter-in-place alert for the area.
Police later found 32-year-old Jordan Gersky and took him into custody.
Gersky is being held on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges.
Governor Tony Evers is leading a lawsuit against the Trump administration over unemployment insurance systems.
In a statement released Friday, the Evers administration said the Trump administration, without notice, made the decision to terminate millions of dollars in funding to prevent fraud and implement improvements in Wisconsin and other state's unemployment insurance systems.
The governor's office said Evers sent multiple letters urging for the funds to be released, including a letter sent directly to Trump, and that they have gone largely unanswered.
The Trump administration said the U.S.
Department of Labor terminated the investments because it, quote, does not effectuate agency priorities, end quote.
Weekends don't get much better in Wisconsin with summer-like temperatures at the peak of autumn splendor for much of the state, and a decisive Packers win over their longtime rival, Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field.
Top it all off with the Brewers one step closer to the World Series with the win over the daunting Dodgers in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series.
Today's temps won't make it any easier to get back into the work week with another warm sunny day before rains move in over much of the state tonight, details coming up in weather.
A long-awaited trial begins today in the case of a seven-year-old Manitowoc County boy found dead after allegedly being buried in a snowbank as punishment.
A jury trial is scheduled for Timothy Hausschultz, the great-uncle and guardian of the boy.
Hausschultz is accused of ordering the punishment, which led to 7-year-old Ethan Hausschultz's death in April of 2018.
According to the criminal complaint, the boy was being punished for not adequately knowing 13 Bible verses.
The complaint says House Schultz ordered his teenage son Damien to supervise the punishment.
The complaint goes on to say Damien stood on the boy's body and head while he was face down in a puddle and then buried him in about 80 pounds of packed snow without a coat or boots.
Damien House Schultz pleaded guilty to reckless homicide in June of 2021 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, a judge has since added
five more years of supervision after the prison term, neither parent was home at the time of Ethan's death.
A security incident at a Wisconsin pumpkin patch over the weekend led to one person being arrested in Kenosha.
According to a statement released by the Jerry Smith pumpkin farm in Kenosha, on-site security responded quickly and detained the person until law enforcement arrived.
Details regarding what exactly led to the security response Friday night haven't been released by law enforcement.
The Packers came out on top yesterday in a victory made even more sweet because it was against longtime rival Chicago Bears.
But in a moment of true sportsmanship, fans on both sides of this bitter rivalry paused together in a moment of silence, honoring former Bears head coach Mike Ditka.
Ditka, who personified the Bears franchise for many, died Friday at the age of 86.
Perhaps the most notable tribute came in the stands rather than on the sidelines, in the sea of blue number 89 jerseys worn by many Bears fans who made the trip to Green Bay.
And that's your state news update.
I'm Connie Feldman for Civic Media News.
Partly to mostly cloudy today with a chance of a late afternoon shower or isolated thunderstorm shower.
It's going to be warm with a high of 81 this afternoon.
Tonight, partly cloudy, becoming mostly clear late tonight.
Could catch an isolated shower or thunderstorm this evening.
Tomorrow, sunshine 76.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable.
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