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  • Two Charged In Thelma Orr COP Fire Case

    June 4th, 2020  2:33pm 

    (WGTD)---New charges have been filed in the Thelma Orr Community Options Policing Home fire case. 25-year-old Justin Hernandez of Kenosha and 21-year-old Kylie Gelmi of Mount Pleasant have both been charged with burglary

  • Kenosha County Recruiting COVID-19 Test-Takers

    June 3, 2020 8:40p; Updated 9:40p to add Thursday hours at Tremper

    (WGTD)---The gates are open for COVID-19 testing. 

    Anyone who either lives or works in Wisconsin, with or without symptoms, can be tested for free, according to Kenosha County

  • Witness: Argument Precedes North Beach Shooting; Multiple Guns Involved

    June 3, 2020 3:40p

    (WGTD)---According to one witness, multiple guns were fired in an incident that injured five young people at North Beach on Lake Michigan in Racine Tuesday evening.

    "So many shots that we thought it was fireworks," said 22-year-

  • 2nd RPD Update on North Beach Shooting

    June 3, 2020 11a

    From the Racine Police Dept.:

    Three of the five shooting victims are juvenile teenagers. The adult victims are 18 and 20 years old. This shooting does not appear to have any correlation to the recent protests in

  • Kenosha Protesters Take a Knee; Seek Justice For Floyd & Demand Action

    June 2, 2020 9:10p

    (WGTD)---A peaceful protest in a downtown Kenosha park ended Tuesday night with the some in the crowd marching through the downtown area then dispersing. Demonstrators called for justice in the Minneapolis police-custody death of George

  • Kenosha & Racine Police to Protesters: Stay Home

    June 2, 2020 4:10p; Updated at 5:05p with Kenosha mayor's comments

    (WGTD)---Both Kenosha and Racine police are telling protesters to stay home. 

    At least one protest is scheduled for Racine Tuesday night, while two head-to-head demonstrations

  • City of Racine to Lockdown Overnight

    June 1, 2020 8:30p 

    From the City of Racine: 

    This evening, Mayor Cory Mason issued an emergency declaration instituting a city wide curfew from 10:00 PM to 5:00 AM starting tonight.

  • Kenosha Curfews Extended Two More Nights

    June 1, 2020 4:01p; Updated at 5:40 with bus schedule change; Updated at 6p with Gateway changes and KABA advice; Updated 8:05 with council meeting

  • The Racine COP House that Burned was Named in Honor of Thelma Orr

    June 1, 2020 3:10p; Edited at 5:45p 

    (WGTD)---The person who set on fire the Community Options Policing house on Villa Sunday night simultaneously trashed the memory of Thelma Orr, one of Racine's civil rights pioneers.

  • Kenosha, Racine, Hit With Protests, Vandalism and Violence

    June 1, 2020 5:30a; Updated at 6:50a with Racine violence

    (WGTD)---As has been the case in a number of cities, a noisy but largely peaceful protest against the in-custody death in Minneapolis of George Floyd...is followed by violence, vandalsim and chaos