Wisconsin State Journal Local News

SUN PRAIRIE - John Kroetz, age 83, passed away on Friday, July 1, 2016. A Funeral Mass will be held at 12 noon on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, at SACRED HEARTS CATHOLIC CHURCH in Sun Prairie. A visitation will be…

STOUGHTON - Mildred Jean (Kroener) Gardner joined the bass section of the heavenly choir on Monday, July 4, 2016.

MADISON - Mary Jo Draxler, age 81, passed at away Agrace HospiceCare on Sunday, July 3, 2016, with her family by her side. A funeral service with luncheon will be held on Friday, July 29, 2016, with a visitation on…

SUN PRAIRIE - Judith Kay (Vander Ploeg) Franken, of Sun Prairie, loved lakeside cabins, animals, children, traveling to national parks, sewing gifts for family and friends, music, and most of all she loved her family. Judy was born on Oct.…

MADISON / APPLETON - Robert B. Kirkpatrick, age 98, passed away on July 2, 2016,after a wonderful long life. He was born in Richland Center, Wis., on Jan. 23, 1918.

WAUNAKEE - Robert "Bob" Ballweg, age 46, of Waunakee, died on Sunday, July 3, 2016, at a Madison hospital following a brief illness.

SHEBOYGAN / COBB - Lavon M. (Holmes) Tremelling, age 90, of Cobb, passed away on Monday, July 4, 2016.

MADISON - Elizabeth R. Richter, age 91, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, on Monday, July 4, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital. She was born Dec. 19, 1924, in Madison, the daughter of William F. and Margaret E.…

There's a good chance for rain or storms Tuesday night in Madison, with warm weather sticking around for the rest of the week.

A Bagley man was killed early Saturday morning when his car left a Grant County highway and struck two trees.

A motorcycle driver was injured Saturday when he collided with a pickup truck in Janesville.

Four motorcyclists were injured in two separate crashes in Juneau County during the Fourth of July weekend, with all four taken by medical helicopter to hospitals.

A spokesman for Walker's political campaign did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation and for comment.

A 41-year-old Dane County Jail inmate was found dead on his bunk early Tuesday morning, with officials saying there were no signs of physical trauma to the inmate.

A 97-year-old Madison woman shopping at a grocery store had her wallet stolen from her purse, with the thief using her credit cards to buy over $5,000 in gift cards.

Kimberly quarterback Danny Vanden Boom announced on Twitter that he will be a walk-on for the University of Wisconsin in 2017.

A 15-year-old Madison boy was arrested Friday for allegedly stealing a car Thursday night, then joyriding with other teens in the car on Friday before getting pulled over for running a red light.

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan has again rebuked his party's presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, this time for a Twitter post containing an image Ryan called "anti-Semitic."

A two-man posse detained a suspected robber Sunday night, after the suspect allegedly knocked a man down on Madison's East Side and stole a bag from the man's car.

A North Side resident upset with his neighbor setting off fireworks Monday night got the neighbor to stop when he brought out a rifle.