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  • Kenosha Murder Victim in Wrong Place at Wrong Time

    Kenosha police have now identified the victim of an early morning shooting last Sunday in the 67-hundred block of 24th Avenue. The victim is 39-year-old Bernard R. Reavers---and---police believe he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. According to Kenosha

  • Murdered Nun May Have Taught at St. Joseph High School

    Sister Margaret Held---one of the two Catholic nuns apparently murdered in their home in Mississippi yesterday---may have taught at St. Joseph High School in Kenosha back in the 1970s. Some Kenoshans have posted this on Facebook---but---WGTD has not been able to

  • New Olympia Brown School Dedicated

    Racine Unified's new Olympia Brown Elementary School, on 5 1/2-Mile Road, in Caledonia, is ready and waiting for next week Thursday when students arrive to begin the new school year.

  • Wisconsin Unemployment: Good News and Bad News

    There is GOOD news and BAD news about unemployment here in Wisconsin. First---the GOOD news. New data from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development shows unemployment dropped in 30 of the state’s 32 largest cities from June to July. Now the BAD news. Mount

  • Racine Arena Proposal Discussed

    IF the Milwaukee Bucks decide on Racine as the home for their planned Developmental League team, a new 38-hundred seat, $40-million dollar multi-use event center could be created on the former Wisconsin Electric site, along the lakefront.

  • Bradford Stadium Will Be Called Mary D. Bradford Stadium

    The new football stadium at Kenosha’s Bradford High School has a new name. Olen Arrington Junior's son urged the Kenosha Unified School Board last night NOT to name the new stadium at Bradford High School for his father, ending two weeks of intense debate over what to

  • Ron Johnson Proposes Replacing College Instructors With Videos

    U.S. Senator Says Change Would Cut Higher Ed Costs

    Monday, August 22, 2016, 4:10pm

    By The Associated Press    

    U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has an idea for making colleges cheaper — ditch the instructors and start playing

  • High Bond Set For Murder Suspect Despite Strenuous Pitch for Low Bail

    Kenosha---Donna Matthews may not be your typical alleged murderess, but the bail amount she received at her initial appearance in Kenosha Court Monday was in line with what you’d expect in a case of 1st Degree Intentional Homicide: A million dollars.

  • KPD Investigates Shooting & Stabbing; Shooting Suspect Back in Kenosha

    Kenosha Police are investigating a Sunday shooting and an unrelated stabbing. In the first case, officers responded to a 'shots fired' call in the 6700 blk. of 24th Ave. at about 8:30 in the morning. They found a man inside a home with a gunshot wound. He was taken to