Posted: 6:29 AM Police say the suspect in a sexual assault on Madison's east side earlier this week gained entry through an unlocked door. Security experts say most criminals are opportunistic, and look for the easiest target.
Updated: 4:03 PM Madison police are looking for a suspect involved in a violent sexual assault. The attack happened about 5:30 Tuesday morning on Jana Lane, on Madison's Northeast side.
Posted: 9:08 AM Employees who work closely with children are used to going through criminal background checks. Now, in some cases, volunteers are required to go through the same process.
Posted: 9:08 AM A property manager on Allied Drive says the owner of three buildings wants to renovate the properties, which is forcing people living in 15 units to move out by the end of the year.
Posted: 11:08 PM The Salvation Army and Toys for Tots drive are coming up short this holiday season, due to an unusually high amount of need in the Dane county area.
Posted: 6:38 AM A 19-year-old Marine from the tiny Wood County community of Vesper has been killed in Iraq. The Pentagon says Lance Corporal Jesse Tillery died Saturday from wounds suffered during combat in Al Anbar province.
Posted: 6:55 AM Shop with a cop program rewards students in Dane County for being good students with good behavior. This year's shopping spree rewarded 62 kids in the county who now have almost all of their Christmas shopping in the bag.
Posted: 8:21 AM A proposed federal laboratory in the town of Dunn is not sitting well with some local residents. If built, the federal laboratory would perform studies on foreign animal diseases.
Updated: 8:20 AM Madison bus drivers say they don't know how a Milwaukee bus driver who crashed with a bus full of kids on Wednesday, was ever allowed to drive without having a basic drivers' license.
Posted: 8:41 AM The Weston School District is getting more support, following September's tragic shooting of a principal. On Thursday, State Superintendent of Schools Elizabeth Burmaster awarded Weston a $25,000 grant to upgrade security.
Posted: 5:29 AM The future of the Deerfield police department has been decided. The Village Board voted 4-2 in a special meeting on Wednesday to disband their current police department. Members of the board voted to contract police services through Cambridge and Dane County.
Posted: 5:28 AM The slow housing market is good new for buyers, but very bad news for some home owners ... especially if they bought their house with a non-traditional loan.
Posted: 5:27 AM FEMA has re-mapped the Wisconsin River flood plain near Portage, and a levee system upgraded in 1998 has put new homes in the flood plain.
Posted: 5:26 AM A Monticello woman accused of luring an elderly acquaintance to her home, fatally shooting her and stealing her money is sentenced to life in prison today.
Posted: 5:25 AM Police say a Janesville man facing child porn charges kept thousands of images and hundreds of videos, some of them featuring local boys.
Updated: 10:54 PM A local school district is hoping to break down language barriers and help educate their kids with a new Spanish-langurage area in their high school.
Updated: 8:37 AM Holidays can be stressful ... and grief counselors say that stress can be over whelming for people who have lost a loved one in the past year.
Posted: 8:38 AM Madison's Board of Estimates approved a plan last Monday night that would allow the city, Dane County, and the state to spend up to $4.5 million on hundreds of acres near Cherokee Marsh Conservation Park from a developer.
Posted: 8:39 AM The Wisconsin DNR is calling the 2006 gun-deer season one of the safest on record. One hunter was killed and 10 others injured statewide during the 9-day hunt. While there's always room for improvement, DNR leaders say more hunters are putting safety first.
Posted: 8:40 AM The Rotary Gardens in Janesville has installed an extensive system of 16 security cameras to prevent damage to its 15 acres after vandals struck in June.
Posted: 8:41 AM Hunters killed more deer this year during Wisconsin's popular 9-day hunt. The state Department of Natural Resources today says that 336,211 deer were killed -- up 7% from the preliminary count a year ago.
Posted: 8:42 AM A judge has ruled that school records of a 15-year-old boy accused of gunning down his principal can not be turned over to prosecutors. The ruling comes after Eric Hainstock's attorney argued that the records are confidential.
