Jan. 20, 2025 11:45a; Updated 5:15p; Updated 1-21 8a;
(WGTD)---A relative of the Kenosha couple who lost their Kenosha home to a fire over the weekend says they're doing well and are thankful for the community's support.
Over $20,000 has been raised in a crowd-sourcing campaign to help the Hamilton...
Golf course improvements...Home repair program going gangbusters...Help on the way for the computer illiterate...Downtown COP house to become a reality
Jan. 19, 2025 10a
(WGTD)---This is the first week of true freedom for Martel Lee, the Kenosha teen who dodged a bullet when a judge, in a rare move, set aside a jury’s guilty verdict in a sexual assault case last November and ordered a new trial.
On Friday Judge Gerad Dougvillo granted the prosecutor...
Jan. 17, 2025 3:50p; Updated 1-18 with additional comments from Lee
(WGTD)---The 2nd degree sexual assault case against a Kenosha teen has been thrown out for good in an exceptionally rare instance of a verdict being set aside by a judge.
“You are free to go, sir,” Kenosha Circuit Court Judge Gerad...
Jan. 15, 2025 10:25p; Updated 1-16 2:10 with information from a KTEC news release
(WGTD)---Some big changes are underway at a Kenosha charter school, but they’re not expected to have an immediate impact on students.
A governing board that oversaw KTEC 4K-8 is being disbanded.
The school—currently...
Jan. 15, 2025 10:15p
(WGTD)---The director of the Shalom Center in Kenosha is leaving to take a new position.
Tamarra Coleman has been appointed C-E-O of the Racine Family YMCA.
Coleman, a former Kenosha school board member, joined the staff of Kenosha’s homeless shelter in 2015, and became...
Jan. 14, 2025 3:10p
(WGTD)---The Racine School Board voted Monday night to ask voters in April for authority to exceed state-mandated levy limits. It’s a move being duplicated by a record number of school districts around the state as they find it difficult if not impossible to keep operating...
Jan. 10, 2025 11:40a; corrected 11p with reference to land leases not purchases
(WGTD)---We Energies is confirming that the Paris Solar Park is up and running.
Under construction for the past several years, the facility is the first large renewable energy project to be producing electricity in...
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