The central Wisconsin sheriff’s office has 50 take-home vehicles, nine of which travel beyond the county, Sheriff Tim Wilz ...

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A deputy for the Forest County Sheriff’s Office resigned amid an investigation into his conduct, which included an incident where he was accused of refusing to back up a female deputy during a welfare ...

The U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, a major Silicon Valley billionaire and many others have all given Van Orden the ...

A famous musician, the former CEO of the Green Bay Packers and members of the Soros, Pritzer and Walton families have all given the challenger the maximum allowed by federal law.

Jonathan Bechman worked for the sheriff’s department for 15 years before he pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors in a domestic abuse case involving his wife.

The Portage County Sheriff’s Office suspended one of its sergeants in April after deputies from the same department responded to a call for a fight and recognized him as one of the two men wrestling ...

Before 2015, the most a person could give in annual political donations in Wisconsin was $10,000. Through early August this year, the conservative billionaire megadonor Elizabeth Uihlein has given the ...

A Portage County corrections officer resigned days after he was arrested under suspicion of assaulting his brother with a thermos during an argument in July. Todd Domres, the 46-year-old former jail ...

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