A utility-location worker failed to properly mark a natural gas line in a Madison suburb this summer, leading to an explosion that leveled more than half a dozen buildings and killed a firefighter, according to court documents.
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{FD} Authorities seek 2 vehicles in missing Wisconsin girl’s case
Authorities said Monday that they’re looking for two cars in connection with the disappearance of a Wisconsin girl whose parents were gunned down last week.
{FD} 4 people injured in shooting at business in Madison suburb
Police are responding to a report of an active shooter at a commercial building in a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin.
{FD} Police: Starved teen’s brother wrote letter begging for help
The younger brother of a 15-year-old boy who starved to death while their family prayed and fasted for weeks wrote a letter that investigators found inside the locked southern Wisconsin apartment pleading with lawyers to save him.
{FD} Concerned about elder abuse, states loan out secret cameras
When women at a group home for cognitively disabled elderly in Green Bay heard that the home’s old proprietor was moving back in, they were terrified.
{FD} Wisconsin appeals court reinstates spa shooting lawsuit
A state appeals court reinstated a lawsuit Thursday against operators of a website that facilitated the purchases of a gun used in a mass shooting in suburban Milwaukee five years ago.
{FD} Jury: Wisconsin girl mentally ill in stabbing of classmate
A Wisconsin girl who admitted to participating in the stabbing of a classmate to please horror character Slender Man will avoid prison after a jury determined that she was mentally ill at the time of the attack.
{FD} Jury to mull defendant’s mental health in Slender Man attack
A jury this week will begin weighing the mental competence of a girl accused in the stabbing of a classmate to please a fictional horror character known as Slender Man.