CRIME & SAFETY
UPDATE: Fundraiser for women injured in Vernon County crash
TOWN OF FRANKLIN, Wis. (WEAU) - A fundraiser has been set up for a Soldiers Grove woman injured in a two-vehicle crash in the Town of Franklin Saturday night. 20-year-old Chloe Billington sustained serious injuries in the crash. She has multiple broken bones and will be in the hospital for several weeks having multiple surgeries. She’s already had three surgeries since Saturday.
Police in West Allis search for missing 14-year-old girl
WEST ALLIS, Wis. — West Allis police asked for the public's help Monday searching for 14-year-old Natalia Shea. According to a post on the department's Facebook page, Shea was last seen wearing a white zip-up hoodie with a teddy bear on the back, a white top, a jean skirt and tennis shoes.
Two horses were caught running on a Kenosha County highway. No one knows where they came from
Update: According to a Facebook post from the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department, both horses were returned home as of 10 a.m. Tuesday. Monday afternoon, the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department responded to a call of possible horsing around. ...
Pleasant Prairie bank robbery, bomb threat; former Racine officer charged
PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis. - A former Racine police officer, who already served prison time for robbing a Walmart in 2014, is now accused of robbing a Pleasant Prairie bank and making a bomb threat. Prosecutors charged 51-year-old Paul Garchek with robbery of a financial institution and bomb scare. Both alleged...
Timothy Hoeller Carroll threats case; declared not competent to stand trial
MILWAUKEE - He’s charged with making indirect threats of a school shooting, and now a Milwaukee man faces a possible mental health commitment, for the second time in 18 months. 63-year-old Timothy Hoeller is charged with making terrorist threats against Carroll University in Waukesha in 2018 and again in...
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