UPDATE: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 --- 9:39 a.m.
MADISON, Wis.---- A Sauk City man who was arrested for operating while under the influence after his car hit and killed a pedestrian has been tentatively charged with first-degree reckless homicide and homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, according to the Madison Police Department.
Witnesses told police that the suspect, 25-year-old Adam M. Sutter, was speeding when he ran a red light while turning from N. Stoughton Road onto East Washington Avenue Thursday night.
UPDATED Tuesday, June 23, 2015---9:14 a.m.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A 36-year-old Madison woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for her role in the 2014 death of a man from a drug overdose.
She pleaded guilty in April to first-degree reckless homicide and was sentenced Monday.
A criminal complaint says 32-year-old Joshua Hendrickson shot up heroin supplied by Kathryn Dustin of Madison after Dustin and the man's cousin, Angel Hendrickson, met him in a Madison park-and-ride lot.
DUNN COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) -- A Rock Creek man is behind bars, accused of making bomb threats on Facebook.
Donald K. Wheeler, 52, was arrested late Monday night. The FBI contacted the Dunn County Sheriff's Department about the threatening posts just before midnight.
Together, Dunn County deputies, the FBI and the regional SWAT team searched a home on 190th Avenue in Eau Claire.
Investigators say they found evidence Wheeler posted to Facebook about the use of a bomb. His case is now headed to the Dunn County District Attorney's Office for prosecution.
MILWAUKEE —The man accused of shooting a Wauwatosa police detective has been charged with armed robbery.
Najee Harmon, 19, is in custody as prosecutors review the shooting case, but Monday he was charged with robbing a woman at gunpoint last week.
“He's a good friend of ours. I'm not going to throw him down. I'm not going to throw him to the wolves,” said Stephanie King, who added she's known Harmon since he was little. He's friends with her kids, she said.
MILWAUKEE — U.S. Marshals are looking for 24-year-old Devon Loggins.
Loggins is charged with two counts of first degree reckless homicide, three counts of recklessly endangering safety and one count of felon in possession of a firearm.
Milwaukee Police say Loggins was involved in a shooting on May 1st at 37th and Nash that escalated from a family feud. 26-year-old Montrell Burdine and 25-year-old Damario Jones were killed, and three others were injured.
MADISON (WKOW) --A Sauk City man is arrested for impaired driving in an accident that killed a pedestrian in Madison.
Madison police say the crash happened around 7:15 p.m. Thursday. Witnesses told police the driver, Adam M. Sutter, 25, was speeding and ran a red light as he was turning onto East Washington Avenue from North Stoughton Road. Officials say a 36-year-old woman was properly in the crosswalk when she was hit by Sutter's car.
MILWAUKEE (WKOW) -- Police have named the suspect they say shot an officer from Wauwatosa.
Authorities say he is 20-year-old Najee Harmon.
Police have now narrowed their search down to a neighborhood at North 12th Street and Keefe Avenue in Milwaukee.
Three officers in Wauwatosa were investigating a burglary Friday morning, when officials say the suspect shot at police.
One officer was hit.
MADISON (WKOW) -- Friday night, family and friends honored the memory of Julia Majette, a Madison woman shot and killed on this day two years ago.
They held a candlelight vigil at the state Capitol, and walked around the building.
Majette's mother says she remembers her daughter as a very joyous person.
MADISON (WKOW) -- A Madison man accused of shooting at police officers has entered an insanity plea.
Court records show 31-year-old Tommie Evans pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to several felony charges, including attempted homicide.
Police say Evans fired at them when they responded to an incident on Gammon Lane in March 6th.
Family members told investigators Evans was having some sort of emotional crisis.
MEDFORD (WAOW) - A Sheldon man will spend 16 years in prison after being convicted of drunken driving and plowing into a group of deer hunters, killing one, a judge ordered in Taylor County court Friday.
Judge Ann Knox-Bauer said James Winchel, 43, had a “cavalier attitude” toward drunken driving and said he played Russian roulette with a loaded gun.
"He was significantly drunk and it was like a bowling ball being thrown down a bowling alley at a bunch of pins, and the folks who were in the way got hit," Knox-Bauer said.