Apr. 1, 2026 4:10p; Updated at 4-2 with restraining order clarification, arrest
(WGTD)---Two small children were present in a south side Kenosha home early Wednesday morning when a 33 year-old man allegedly stabbed his estranged wife to death.
According to a criminal complaint, a friend who'd been on...
Apr. 1, 2026 10:45a
(WGTD)---Kenosha Police say a woman is dead and the suspect is on the run.
Police responded to a home in the 7400 blk. of 22nd Ave. this morning and came across the body of a woman.
They believe the suspect--33 year-old Marckus L.A. Plaza ran out of the house with nothing more than...
Mar. 31, 2026 8:30p
(WGTD)---A warrant for unpaid income taxes was filed Tuesday against Kenosha County District Attorney Xavier Solis.
According to online court records, Solis owes the state $13,609 in tax, interest and penalties stemming from his employment in private practice before he was elected...
Mar. 31, 2026 6:30p
(WGTD)---The place is old--real old--but there’s still a lot going on behind the Neo-Gothic façade of the DeKoven Center along Wisconsin Avenue on Racine’s far south side. The collection of 175 year-old buildings that once housed an Episcopal college is now rented out for weddings...
Mar. 30, 2026 8:15p; Updated at 10p with information from the Kenosha County District Attorney; Updated 3-31
(WGTD)---DNA recovered from beneath the fingernails of a 1977 Kenosha murder victim led to an arrest Monday.
James Terry Fowler, who was a 19 year-old recruit at the nearby Great Lakes Naval...
March 29, 2026 8:30p
(WGTD)---The city and county are pointing fingers at each other in the case of the omission of the Racine municipal judge's race on spring ballots that were prepared for mailing.
In a news release, the city says it discovered the omission last Wednesday. Although Municipal Judge...
Mar. 28, 2026 10a
From WGTD News:
An Illinois man who purportedly admitted to smoking marijuana before getting into a crash in Burlington this week that killed his girlfriend has been charged with vehicular homicide by the use of a controlled substance. According to the criminal complaint, 31 year-old...
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