LA CROSSE, Wis. (WTAQ) - A former investment manager in La Crosse pleaded guilty Monday to running off with $850,000 in his clients’ retirement funds. 67-year-old Donald Johnson was convicted on a felony theft charge. He vanished in 1995, after stealing the retirement accounts of 68 investors who include nurses ...More
ROCK COUNTY, Wis. (WTAQ) - Many financially-troubled Wisconsinites are getting a chance to ward off home foreclosures, thanks to court intervention in several counties. In Rock County, homeowners are told about their right to mediation when a landlord files a foreclosure request. If the homeowners agree, a mediator hooks them up ...More
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - A retired state official who helped victims of job discrimination turned out to be a victim himself. Federal Judge Lynn Adelman has ruled that Johnny Kimble – who used to head the Milwaukee office of the state Equal Rights Division – was denied years of pay raises because of ...More
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - Beloit, Janesville, and Green Bay will join a federal program that fights drug trafficking in Metro Milwaukee. The National Drug Control Policy Office has added Rock and Brown counties to the Milwaukee High Intensity Drug Trafficking area. It allows authorities in the 2 counties to work ...More
NIAGARA, Wis. (WTAQ) - A tire recycling company in northeast Wisconsin has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle claims that it took too many tires and ran an unlicensed facility. The DNR said American Tire and Recycling accepted more than the 33,000-plus tires for which it was licensed at ...More
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - After studying the problem for months, 2 Madison Democrats have introduced a major bill to protect Wisconsin’s groundwater supplies. It would create new protection zones beside the current Waukesha and Brown counties, where water conservation must be considered before major wells are drilled. The DNR would ...More
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - The job market in Metro Milwaukee may finally begin to recover this spring. Manpower Incorporated says 21 percent of employers plan to add workers in April, May, and June – and only 5 percent expect more layoffs. It’s the 13th best job outlook among 201 U.S ...More
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - The community organizing group ACORN defended its voter registration drive in Milwaukee, after 2 of its workers were charged with felony election fraud. 36-year-old Maria Miles of Milwaukee and 26-year-old Kevin Clancy of Racine were accused of trying to sign up the same voters more than once ...More
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A man shot to death in Madison early Monday has been identified as 27-year-old Lofton Sprouls. Police are still looking for his killer, and investigators say it might have been drug-related. Sprouls was shot once outside his apartment building about 2:30 a.m. He died at ...More
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Two workers for the controversial group ACORN were charged in Milwaukee Monday with getting false voter registrations. 36-year-old Maria Miles of Milwaukee and 26-year-old Kevin Clancy of Racine were among 5 Wisconsinites whose charges were announced by state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. Miles and Clancy ...More
