Reporter Chris Rickert's 5 favorite stories from 2021
This year provided plenty of opportunity to look more closely at how some of last year's top issues — including the pandemic, elections and race relations — continue to affect us all.
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Nothing in the emails suggests there were problems with the election that contributed in any meaningful way to Trump's 20,682-vote loss to Joe Biden.
Two people affiliated with the group have posted more than $220,000 in bail since last summer.
Chronic absenteeism among Madison middle schoolers doubled with the advent of the pandemic.
The grants were provided to every Wisconsin municipality that asked for them, and in the amounts they asked for.
Mothers of students targeted in violence call for better security at school.
"It's not just an exercise class. We're fighters."
Lt. Reginald Patterson resigned Nov. 24 after being caught on video engaging in sexual relations in his unmarked squad car in a store parking lot.
The 23-year-old Dane County man is charged with killing his parents, Bart and Krista Halderson, over the Fourth of July weekend.
"A lot of cases begin with a murder. This one is just a small piece of the puzzle," the prosecutor told the 18-member jury.
Halderson's former girlfriend believed he was working and going to school and nicknamed him "hubby." Prosecutors say Halderson was living a lie.
Jurors heard the 23-year-old Windsor man haltingly explain to detectives where he'd been and what he'd been doing from June 30 to July 8.
Ammunition and a bloody ax were also among dozens of pieces of evidence unveiled Monday.
Voters in southeastern Wisconsin on Tuesday were choosing a Court of Appeals judge in a race that took a sharp partisan turn and featured ads referring to the Waukesha Christmas parade killings.
Six people were hurt, including three firefighters, in an explosion and fire that rocked a Wisconsin marine construction company Thursday with a blast so thunderous it shook a nearby elementary school.
Sanford shot the parents of his then-girlfriend in the head at the UW Arboretum in March 2020.
A World War II veteran from Chippewa Falls has died the day after receiving a congressional medal.
A man died after being shot, reportedly accidentally, on the Southwest Side on Friday, Madison police reported.
"One minor mistake during this critical phase could have led to catastrophic results," the pilot wrote.
With barges busy carrying recently harvested corn and soybeans up and down the Mississippi River, nearly all of the river's basin has seen below-normal rainfall since late August.
The meetings are the latest twist in the city's yearslong debate over whether to adopt the increasingly common technology.
