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RHINELANDER - News that his wife was cheating on him may have led a Waukesha man to light a van on fire, shoot off a gun, and trigger the Oneida County SWAT team near Pelican Lake last week.
Prosecutors filed formal charges against 51-year-old Richard Hitchcock in Oneida County Court on Thursday.
Hitchcock is accused of burning his van in the woods and firing three shots last Thursday. The Oneida County Sheriff's Office responded with its SWAT team, a drone, and canine units before arresting Hitchcock.
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ANTIGO - A Northwoods bar claims to have the best Bloody Marys in the area.
Bar Manager Jeremy Rotzoll won't share his secret, but he did give us peak into what makes the bar on Highway 45 in Antigo a place to visit.
"If they have one, I can usually get them to get one more," said Jeremy Rotzoll. "After the second one, they've got a smile on their face."
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RHINELANDER - Seventeen-year-old Ashlee Martinson was "incapable of making rational choices" when she killed her mother and stepfather in Oneida County two years ago, her lawyer argues.
Attorney Mark Schoenfeldt is arguing for a reduced sentence for Martinson, who is currently serving a 23-year prison term.
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LANGLADE - A legacy that started in 1947 lives on in the small community of Langlade.
Bob and Joni's bar has gone through three generations of owners and a few name changes since it opened more than 70 years ago.
But one thing has remained the same.
"If you're not laughing, smiling, having a good time, you're probably at the wrong bar," said Bob and Joni's manager Jeremy Walters.
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OCONTO - Logging crews in northern Wisconsin are trying to make up for rainy weather that's slowed down their operations.
Logging experts tell WLUK-TV that it typically takes three or four days of dry weather for the ground to be parched enough for trucks to operate on logging roads.
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MADISON - A judge has ordered computer maker Apple Inc. to pay more than $506 million in a patent infringement case brought by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation after the two sides agreed on final damages.
In 2015, a jury found Apple infringed on a patent held by the foundation, which supports research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The patent involves chip technology developed at the university. The technology was used in processors installed by Apple in a number of products.
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MADISON - Now that Wisconsin has landed a coveted Foxconn plant it will need to quickly transition to a more highly skilled workforce than the assembly lines that established the state's manufacturing legacy.
The electronics giant known for making Apple products in China Foxconn has not said what type of jobs it will offer in order to produce liquid-crystal display panels that are used in televisions and computer screens. But some of the higher-end positions could be for engineers and software developers and those jobs aren't always easy to fill.
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