| | | | | | LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) — A Wisconsin Democrat running for U.S. Senate stopped by French Island to criticize another Democratic candidate. Tom Nelson spoke outside the future Amazon delivery station to condemn Sarah Godlewski's use of a polling firm that Nelson says assisted Amazon in efforts to stop employees from unionizing. Nelson says Godlewski spent more than $126,000 with Global… | | | | | | Greg Gard and Wisconsin men's basketball officially offered Pewaukee star sophomore Nick Janowski Monday morning during Janowski's official recruiting visit, Janowski announced on social media Monday afternoon. Janowski is a 6-foot-4 sharpshooting combo guard and has been part of a dominant Pewaukee program that has won back-to-back Division 2 WIAA State championships. Janowski averaged over 16 points a game his… | | | | | | An Afghan police spokesman says explosions targeting educational institutions in Kabul have killed at least six civilians and wounded 17 others. Khalid Zadran said Tuesday the blasts happened in the mostly Shiite Muslim area in the west of Afghanistan's capital. Zadran said the explosions occurred in rapid succession near Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School and inside the Mumtaz Educational Center, where exams are taken. No one has immediately claimed responsibility. The area has been targeted in the past by Afghanistan's deadly Islamic State affiliate, which reviles Shiite Muslims as heretics. | | | | | | | The man accused in a drunk driving crash that killed three local high school students will have a plea hearing in July, according to court records. | | | | | | | MADISON, Wis. — Nearly a year after launching an investigation into clergy sexual assault, Attorney General Josh Kaul said his office has received over 200 reports. The Department of Justice said Tuesday that 204 completed reports have been made as part of the Clergy and Faith Leader Abuse Initiative, accusing over 150 people of abuse. Of those reports, officials said... | | | | | | | The City of Madison is confirming that masks will no longer be required on the city's Metro buses following a federal court decision Monday that struck down a requirement that people wear masks while traveling on public transit. | | | | | | | MADISON, Wis. — With COVID-19 case levels on the decline, two local hospitals plan to ease some visitor restrictions. UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter will now let adult patients be accompanied by two people instead of just one, and siblings will be able to accompany pediatric patients in clinics for ambulatory appointments, officials announced Tuesday. “We know these restrictions have... | | | | | | Russia has ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland. It intensified assaults on cities and towns along a front hundreds of miles long Tuesday in what officials on both sides described as a new phase of the war. After a Russian push to overrun the capital failed, the Kremlin declared that its main goal was the capture of the eastern Donbas region. Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces there for eight years. If successful, that offensive would give President Vladimir Putin a vital piece of Ukraine and a badly needed victory in the now 7-week-old war. | | | | | | |
