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RACINE - A 5-year-old girl has died after being struck by a van in the driveway of a Racine home.
Police say the child had just arrived for a party in the neighborhood Saturday afternoon and was facing the street when a 16-year-old boy backed a van over the girl.
Authorities say a rear wheel ran over the girl. The teen heard people yelling and shouting, but didn't know he had hit someone. So, he pulled the van forward, running over the girl a second time.
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MINNESOTA - Getting caught speeding through a road construction work zone is about to get more costly in Minnesota.
Starting Friday, the offense comes with an automatic $300 fine plus the normal traffic ticket surcharges. That's under a new state law approved during the legislative session.
Officials from the Department of Transportation, a highway contractor and the State Patrol planned a news conference Monday to highlight the change. They hope the steeper penalty will serve as a deterrent.
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APPLETON - More Wisconsin school districts have begun to take advantage of a change in state law allowing them to borrow money to help fund energy efficient projects.
The Appleton Post-Crescent reports (http://post.cr/1plXwIE ) 55 districts raised more than $23 million without having to ask voters to approve a referendum. The amount raised has nearly tripled since the previous year.
The two-year-old law allows schools to borrow money for energy conservation projects over multiple years in a way that diffuses costs to taxpayers.
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OSHKOSH - Aviation enthusiasts from as many as 70 countries will gather in Oshkosh this week for the annual Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture.
The convention draws about a half million people to the weeklong event near Wittman Regional Airport.
Thousands of planes have already landed at the airport.
On Monday, NASA representatives will talk about their plan to take people to Mars starting in 2030.
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WAUKESHA - The former majority leader of the Wisconsin Assembly will go on trial in October for sexual assault.
State Representative Bill Kramer is accused of shoving a woman into a car, groping her and making inappropriate comments.
The charges date back to a GOP event in April 2011.
During a hearing Friday, a Waukesha County Circuit Judge set a jury trial for October 28th.
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MILWAUKEE - A 4-year-girl Milwaukee girl has been injured in an exchange of gunfire, but police say she was fortunate to escape with only a graze.
Police say it happened around 9:30 p.m. Saturday as the girl was sitting on a porch with relatives. Police say they weren't the intended victims.
The girl was grazed by either a bullet fragment or pieces of a concrete pillar that was hit by a bullet.
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LANSING, MI - The deadline is approaching for fall turkey hunting applications in Michigan.
The state Department of Natural Resources says applications are on sale until Friday for the fall season which runs Sept. 15 to Nov. 14.
Officials say 5,150 general licenses and 46,700 private land licenses are available. The application fee is $5.
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