| | | | | | | A Wisconsin man is charged with recently hiding the corpse of a man he was convicted of killing in the early 1980s. John Andrews, of Chilton, was arrested Friday and booked into jail. The 82-year-old Andrews pleaded guilty in 1994 to homicide by negligent use of a motor vehicle in the death of 67-year-old Starkie Swenson, who went missing in 1983. Prosecutors say Swenson and Andrews were involved in a love triangle and that Andrews ran over Swenson. Swenson's body was found last September by two people hiking in High Cliff State Park. The statute of limitations for hiding a corpse in Wisconsin is six years. Prosecutors Andrews' offense of hiding a corpse occurred between June 7, 2021, and Sept. 28, 2021. | | | | | | | A labor board official has ruled that a small group of Wisconsin-based video game workers can vote to form what could be the first union at a major U.S. video game publisher. A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board on Friday ordered a May election for quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software, which develops the popular Call of Duty game franchise. The unionization campaign by 21 employees at Raven's office in Middleton, Wisconsin, has been part of a broader internal shakeup at Activision Blizzard, a Santa Monica, California-based gaming giant with roughly 10,000 employees worldwide. | | | | | | The next House speaker could very well hail from California, but if Republicans take control, that leader won't come from the part of the state represented by the current speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is a son of California's Central Valley, a farming and oil-pumping heartland. It's a swath of rural conservatism amid California's progressive politics. McCarthy is depending on Donald Trump's support to win back the House in November and seize the speaker's gavel. But this past week, McCarthy's future as GOP leader was thrown into jeopardy after audio was released of him telling fellow Republicans in the aftermath of the Capitol riot that Trump should resign. | | | | | | | Watch News 3 Now This Morning from April 23, 2022. COPYRIGHT 2022 BY CHANNEL 3000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED. | | | | | | Thousands of people are protesting against plans to bulldoze a village in western Germany for a coal mine that environmental activists say should be shut down, not expanded. The German news agency dpa quoted police Saturday afternoon as saying the demonstration in Luetzerath, west of Cologne, passed by peacefully. It came weeks after the village's last farmer lost a court case against his eviction and sold his property to the utility company RWE. The village is still inhabited by activists, some of whom have built tree houses to stop the Garzweiler mine from being expanded. Climate activists argue this village and others should not be demolished because burning coal that's still in the ground undermines Germany's efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. | | | | | | | MADISON, Wis. — The Battle for Madison returns to Breese Stevens Field on Saturday, and Forward Madison is making it easy for fans to get to the game. The team is offering a free shuttle bus that will take fans from Nitty Gritty’s downtown location to the stadium. If you’re downtown before tonight’s match, we’ve got a fun way to... | | | | | | Rio de Janeiro's samba schools have begun putting on this year's delayed Carnival parades, the first after a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19-pandemic. The schools' colorful floats and flamboyant dancers began entering the Sambadrome grounds late Friday to parade before tens of thousands of fans on the first evening of the two-night spectacle. Rio's Sambadrome has been home to the parade since the 1980s, and is a symbol of Brazil's Carnival festivities. During the pandemic, it was a shelter for more than 400 homeless people and also served as a vaccination station. Sao Paulo also kicked off its Carnival parade Friday evening. Both cities put off this year's parades for two months due to concerns about the proliferation of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. | | | | | | Many Ukrainian Americans are observing Orthodox Easter this Sunday, but they're finding it difficult to be joyful when their ancestral homeland has been torn by the Russian invasion. The Rev. Richard Jendras of St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Allentown, Pennsylvania, said this should be a joyous holiday. But he noted that this year, it coincides with grim news from the war zone of death and destruction. Yet he said it's important to affirm that "good does triumph" over evil. Eastern Orthodox often celebrate Easter later than Western churches because they use a different method to calculate its date. | | | | | | |
