MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — A Marinette County sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed an elderly suspect has been cleared by investigators. The Wisconsin Department of Justice has closed the case into the June 8 fatal shooting of 82-year-old Ralph Slattery by Deputy Lance Lincoln. Sheriff Jerry Sauve said prosecutors don’t plan to file any charges. Lincoln told investigators he shot ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a Greendale man on eight counts of tax fraud. The indictment handed down Tuesday accuses Arvind Ahuja of filing false tax returns and failing to report $8.7 million held in foreign accounts. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Ahuja failed to report the bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service ...

Winneconne-based Radtke Contractors Inc. must pay $18,500 for failing to remove concrete debris that had fallen in Winnebago County’s Rat River during a 2006 bridge construction project, according to the state Department of Justice. Radtke was hired by the state Department of Transportation five years ago to replace the Highway M Bridge built over Rat River in the town of ...

By Adam Wise A Winneconne contractor must pay $60,000 as part of a settlement with the state for illegal grading and construction of a seawall and riprap in Lake Butte des Morts, according to the Wisconsin attorney general‘s office. Radtke Contractors Inc. also must remove rock riprap in some places and deconstruct portions of an estimated 166-foot lakeside seawall, according ...

WAUPACA, Wis. (AP) — Federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit Monday accusing Waupaca County of discriminating against a female sheriff’s deputy by promoting a less-qualified male candidate over her. Julie Ann Thobaben, a 16-year veteran of the Waupaca County sheriff’s department, was told she couldn’t be promoted because of the county’s nepotism policy, according to the lawsuit. However, the department ignored ...

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JASON SMATHERS Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Law enforcement officials in Wisconsin reviewed 90 complaints of threats or harassment amid a contentious debate on a collective bargaining bill, most of them directed at Gov. Scott Walker and lawmakers from both parties, and about a dozen of the threats remain under criminal investigation, according to records released Thursday. The ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Justice Department improperly demoted a top Internet detective after she questioned a plan to send state agents to guard Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen at the national Republican convention nearly three years ago, a judge ruled Monday. The agency violated state whistleblower laws when it bumped Joell Schigur out her post as director of ...

By Jack Zemlicka Winneconne-based Radtke Contractors Inc. will pay $15,000 in penalties for placing unpermitted structures in the Wolf River during a condominium construction project in Fremont. The company agreed to pay the fines rather than challenge the penalties but denied any wrongdoing, said Charles Sweeney, Radtke’s attorney. “There was no admission of liability from either party as part of ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Department of Justice officials say they’re concerned that a Dane County district attorney has not acted on a case involving threats to state lawmakers. DOJ officials say they referred criminal investigations regarding the threats to District Attorney Ismael Ozanne two weeks ago, but Ozanne returned the referrals to resolve clerical oversights. According to the DOJ, ...