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Doctors: 12-year-old stabbing suspect incompetent (UPDATE)
Doctors have found that one of the two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please a fictional online horror character is mentally incompetent to stand trial, attorneys said Wednesday.
County attorney to Roundy’s: Rehire stab victim (UPDATE)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A prosecutor in Ramsey County has urged Roundy’s Supermarkets Inc. to reconsider its firing of a St. Paul grocery store manager who said he suffered emotional distress after he was stabbed by a customer. County Attorney John Choi’s office prosecuted the man who stabbed Scott Ostrom in the chest May […]
Court upholds conviction in jogger’s death
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state appeals court has refused to grant a new trial for a man convicted of killing a Kaukauna jogger in 2000. Kenneth Hudson of Little Chute was sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for stabbing 19-year-old Shanna Van Dyn Hoven while she was running near her home. Hudson raised […]
Man who hoped to kill Obama back in SD prison
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A man accused of killing a Sioux Falls hospice nurse in her home and stealing her car is back behind bars in South Dakota. Forty-one-year-old James McVay waived his right to an extradition hearing in Wisconsin’s Dane County on Tuesday and was transported to the South Dakota State Penitentiary on […]
Parole denied in 1982 Richland County murder
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state review board has denied parole for a woman convicted of stabbing a 76-year-old storekeeper more than 50 times during a robbery in 1982. Bonita “Bonnie” L. Smith, now 63, was 34-years-old when she and James Willison, then 20, were sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years in the […]
AG’s office to prosecute suspect in ’07 homicide case
NEW LONDON, Wis. (AP) — New London police say they’ve made an arrest in an old homicide case. Seventy-seven-year-old James Park was found stabbed to death in his New London apartment in 2007. Police say a 35-year-old New London man has been arrested after the state’s Division of Criminal Investigation helped work on the case. […]
Bond set for teen accused in fatal stabbing
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — A Portage County judge has set a $250,000 bond for a teenager accused of stabbing three people, including one fatally. Nineteen-year-old Tyler Dahms appeared in court Tuesday by video conferencing. District Attorney Tom Eagon said he will charge Dahms with the death of 37-year-old Karen Dombrowski and attempted homicides of […]
Teen in court, accused of triple stabbing
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — Portage County sheriff’s investigators say the teenager accused of stabbing three people, including one fatally, was kicked off some property where the victims broke up a large party. The 19-year-old is expected to make an initial appearance in Portage County Circuit Court later Tuesday. Investigators say the teen returned to […]
Plea deal reached in Green Bay stabbing death
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A plea deal has been reached with one of two men charged in a Green Bay stabbing death last June. Twenty-seven-year-old Mao Xiong pleaded no contest to second-degree intentional homicide in the death of 35-year-old Eric Vieau. WLUK-TV reports Xiong could now face 60 years in prison. He originally was […]
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