CHICAGO, Illinois, July 9 -- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) issued the following news: * * * Amtrak and states impressed by positive response to new service * * * Preliminary figures from the first full month of state-sponsored Borealis trains between St. Paul and Chicago show a ridership of greater than 18,500. That is an average of about 300 passengers aboard each of the eastbound and westbound trains operated daily by Amtrak under contracts with Wisconsin, Minnesota   more

MADISON, Wisconsin, July 5 -- President Biden issued the following remarks to to an overflow crowd at a campaign event at Sherman Middle School: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello, hello! (Applause.) Thank you, thank you, thank you. As my mother would say -- AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you. Hey, folks, look, first of all, I can't tell you how much I appreciate you being here. No, I really mean it. I really mean it. You  more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, July 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin issued the following news release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 8, 2024, Senior United States District Judge William C. Griesbach sentenced Randy D. Mack (age: 36) to 15 years in federal prison after Mack was convicted of attempted possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. According to court records, in December   more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, July 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin issued the following news release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Charles A. Parham (age: 42), a former resident of Keshena and Wausau, received a prison sentence of 144 months following a conviction for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. The sentence, imposed on July 8, 2024, by Senior United States District Judge   more