| | | | | | | Wednesday 5/18 at 11:38am | | A judge has sentenced a white Milwaukee man to a decade in prison for throwing acid in a Latino man's face in a 2019 racist attack. | | | | | | | Wednesday 5/18 at 11:15am | | The latest forecast from News 3 Now. | | | | | | | Wednesday 5/18 at 10:55am | A former Minneapolis police officer has pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. As part of Wednesday's plea deal, Thomas Lane will have a count of aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder dismissed. Lane and prosecutors have agreed to a recommended sentence of three years, which is below state sentencing guidelines. Lane and former Officers J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao have already been convicted on federal counts of violating the civil rights of Floyd, who was Black. Lane hasn't been sentenced yet in the federal case. Their former colleague, Derek Chauvin, was convicted of murder last year and also pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation. | | | | | | | Wednesday 5/18 at 10:52am | | MADISON, Wis. — Outgoing UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a statement from the university. The news comes after several recent public-facing events celebrating her time at the university, including a day at the Memorial Union Terrace for a final round of ice cream, music and goodbyes with students and staff. Blank also attended UW-Madison’s... | | | | | | | Wednesday 5/18 at 10:08am | | Former four-term Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is questioning the hiring of a law school dean from California to run the flagship University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, saying he hoped she does not bring a "California philosophy" with her. | | | | | | | Wednesday 5/18 at 10:02am | | The State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating after the Fitchburg Fire Department says an apartment building that caught fire late Tuesday night did not have an automatic sprinkler system in place. | | | | | | Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes highlights his middle class upbringing in his first television ad in the hotly contested race. Two of his primary challengers, Alex Lasry and Sarah Godlewsk, have already spent millions on spots and polls show a tightening race. The first ad from Barnes, the lieutenant governor, landed Wednesday. The winner of the Aug. 9 primary in the battleground state will advance to face Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, who has also been on the air for months and groups backing Johnson have spent millions on ads so far. | | | | | | | As Wisconsin schools have a little more than two years to spend their remaining pandemic relief money, a new report is showing how those federal dollars have been spent so far. | | | | | | |
