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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Mary Spicuzza |Chris Ramirez
About 200 protesters gathered outside the federal courthouse in the morning fog May 15 as Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan appeared on charges she tried to help an undocumented immigrant escape arrest from her courtroom last month. Those in the crowd, including about a dozen people who spoke from the foot of the courthouse steps, decried the case against Dugan as an overreach by the Trump administration and warned that America was heading toward autocracy and fascism. State Sen.
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1 month ago | 
jsonline.com | Chris Ramirez |Lawrence Andrea |Eva Wen |Vanessa Swales
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested and charged early Friday with two felonies — obstruction and concealing an individual — for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom last week. Here's how lawyers, politicians and local officials are reacting.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Chris Ramirez |Lawrence Andrea |Eva Wen |Vanessa Swales
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested and charged early Friday with two felonies — obstruction and concealing an individual — for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom last week. Here's how lawyers, politicians and local officials are reacting.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Daniel Bice |Chris Ramirez |Vanessa Swales |Mary Spicuzza
The FBI is looking into whether veteran Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan tried to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest when that person was scheduled to appear in her courtroom last week, sources told the Journal Sentinel. In an email to judges, Chief Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Carl Ashley said agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement came to the Milwaukee County Courthouse on April 18 with an arrest warrant.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Sophie Carson |Chris Ramirez
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner confirmed the shooting death last week of a transgender woman is being investigated as a homicide. Advocates and family members have identified the 23-year-old woman as Amyri Dior and are planning a community vigil for March 8. Milwaukee police responded to the shooting about 12:30 a.m. Feb. 21 in the 8800 block of North 95th Street, where Dior was found dead. As of Friday, police said they did not have any suspects in the shooting and had not made any arrests.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
eu.greenbaypressgazette.com | Jessica Van Egeren |Claire Reid |Chris Ramirez
It has been 10 days since an Amber Alert was issued for 16-year-old Sophia Franklin of Beaver Dam. Franklin, who's three months pregnant, is believed to be with 40-year-old Gary Day of Arkansas ― the father of Franklin's unborn child, according to police. Day has a history of harming children and is on probation for endangering a child. He faces four felony charges in connection to Franklin's disappearance. "We don't know what to do other than wait and pray.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
jsonline.com | Chris Ramirez
A Milwaukee woman who admitted on an episode of TV's "Judy Justice" that she sold Wisconsin FoodShare benefits must serve five days in jail, a judge ruled. Assistant District Attorney Nicolas J. Heitman argued during a sentencing hearing on Friday Katrina Weems took advantage of some of Milwaukee's poorest and most vulnerable residents to enrich herself by selling their benefit cards.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Chris Ramirez
A Milwaukee woman is now taking responsibility for the death of 1-year-old Princess Lard five years ago. Artesia Lockhart, 32, on Thursday changed her plea to "no contest" regarding a charge of physical abuse of a child, causing great bodily harm. “No contest” is a plea that allows a defendant to accept conviction without admitting guilt. Princess LardSentencing will be Feb. 28 before Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Rebecca A. Kiefer.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
sheboyganpress.com | Chris Ramirez
Sixteen firearms were intercepted by Transportation Security Administration officers at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport security checkpoints in 2024, the agency said in statement Wednesday. That's the third straight year the number of guns caught at MKE, Wisconsin's largest airport, has dropped.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Chris Ramirez
A Milwaukee man faces multiple felonies accusing him of training dogs at a north side home to fight for sport. Six dogs, some of them injured and emaciated, were removed from a home on the 3300 block of North Sixth Street. That's where officials say Jeffrey Legend Thompson, 22, of Milwaukee, trafficked "switches" for handguns and also trained animals for dog fighting, according to a Jan. 8 criminal complaint.
