Prosecutors charged a Michigan man Thursday with killing his wife 43 years ago in Wisconsin based largely on witnesses saying he seemed unhappy in their marriage, her comments to neighbors that she thought he was going to kill her and other discrepancies in his story.

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — An Illinois man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for driving three others to a home where a Kenosha man was killed. Fifty-five-year-old Richard Beeter of Lake Villa was sentenced Friday for felony murder in connection with the 2009 death of 50-year-old Robin Leydel. The man who shot Leydel and the man who planned ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court won’t hear Mark Jensen’s appeal of his conviction for killing his wife. The state Court of Appeals’ decision in December upholding Jensen’s 2008 murder conviction will stand. The 51-year-old Jensen is serving a life sentence for poisoning his wife, Julie Jensen. He was convicted a decade after his wife’s death after a ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors say a Wisconsin man mowed down in an act of revenge near the University of Minnesota was actually not the suspect’s intended target. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that prosecutors now say 23-year-old Benjamin Van Handel of Appleton was killed April 15 in a case of mistaken identity. Authorities had initially said 29-year-old Timothy Bakdash ...

The competency of the 17-year-old charged with murdering a Pewaukee developer still is in question after a brief hearing Thursday morning in Waukesha County Intake Court. The findings of a confidential competency examination performed on defendant Richard Wilson will be discussed during a June 2 court appearance before Judge William Domina. At that time, Domina is expected to rule on ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a Minnesota man on a first-degree murder charge for allegedly plowing into a crowd of pedestrians and killing a Wisconsin man. According to the Hennepin County Attorney’s office, the grand jury indicted 29-year-old Timothy Bakdash of Roseville on Thursday. Bakdash is accused of purposely driving onto a sidewalk and striking the pedestrians ...

RED CLIFF, Wis. (AP) — Authorities now say an 18-year-old man who died after falling from a Lake Superior cliff was allegedly pushed. Bayfield County District Attorney Craig Haukaas said Monday he will file a complaint charging a 22-year-old Ashland man with second-degree reckless homicide and felony murder in the death of Marvin Charette III of Washburn. A kayaker found ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A Wisconsin man who shot and killed his mother, pregnant wife, infant son and two nieces while they slept in a Chicago house has been sentenced to life in prison. Thirty-three-year-old James Larry was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court, a month after he pleaded guilty ...

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man became so enraged after an argument in a bar near the University of Minnesota that he purposely drove onto a sidewalk and plowed into a group of pedestrians, later telling a witness that he intended to kill three people and “had no remorse,” according to a criminal complaint filed Monday. ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A jury has found a 22-year-old man guilty of killing two children and two women in Milwaukee. Desmond Laster and 24-year-old Anthony Barnes were accused of going with 19-year-old Brittney Robertson to her apartment and helping rob her roommate Rachel Thompson. According to the criminal complaint, Robertson stabbed Thompson and helped Laster suffocate Thompson’s 3- and 4-year-old ...

By DINESH RAMDE Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man convicted of choking the life out of seven women during a 21-year killing spree was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison, and prosecutors said they may yet tie Walter E. Ellis to two or more unsolved slayings. Ellis, 50, was convicted last week after ...