The seven face a total of 78 counts that were charged in a 49-page criminal complaint for alleged crimes in Madison, Middleton, Stoughton and Sun Prairie, and outside those cities.

A Mauston man who had been missing since early Saturday morning was found dead in his car submerged in the Lemonweir River, authorities reported.

During Kyle Rittenhouse’s recent visit to a Racine County tavern, he drank beer, flashed white power signs while posing for photos, and was serenaded with the Proud Boys anthem, according to documents prosecutors filed Wednesday.

A 30-year-old Jefferson woman was sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of breaking into the houses of people attending funerals and the homes of coworkers when she was a Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy.

A New Lisbon man is facing numerous criminal charges after allegedly trying to pay a woman for sex and exposing his genitals to her, then returning to accuse her of stealing $5,000 and placing her in a head lock.

Willie Burks drove up the exterior steps on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and around the exterior of the statehouse shortly after midnight, according to Madison police. He was arrested on suspicion of third-offense intoxicated driving.

A former Tomah principal and New York education leader has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after trying to meet up with a 14 year-old boy for sex.

"I’m not sure I have been in a more heartbreaking scene than this particular residence or been a party to more heartbreaking reports than the surviving children in this case," Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley said.

A former guard at Fox Lake Correctional Institution, who is currently serving 35 years in prison, had an evidentiary hearing on Thursday, but did not convince a judge that he was not adequately represented during his trial.

A Kenosha police officer was killed over the weekend in a snowmobile crash in Iron County in far northeast Wisconsin, authorities reported.