by Milwaukee Mainstay | Nov 26, 2025 | Local News
The Milwaukee Common Council voted unanimously to overturn Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s proposals for the city’s fire department. Last Tuesday, Johnson refused to fully-fund the 2026 budget for the Milwaukee Fire Department (MFD) that would fund critical...
by Milwaukee Mainstay | Nov 25, 2025 | National News
Last week, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin filed a new petition for post-conviction relief, arguing that his trial contained serious constitutional defects and that the prosecution “can only run from the truth for so long.” According to the 71-page...
by Milwaukee Mainstay | Nov 24, 2025 | National News
Last Monday, 50-year-old Lawrence Reed is accused of pouring gasoline on a 26-year-old woman aboard a train near Clark-Lake station and setting her on fire. Reed had been released just months earlier under electronic-monitoring conditions after an August assault in...
by Milwaukee Mainstay | Nov 23, 2025 | Local News, National News
On Saturday, Morgan Geyser, who was one of the two girls involved in the notorious 2014 “Slender Man”inspired stabbing, cut off her court mandated monitoring bracelet and disappeared from a group home in Madison, Wisconsin. According to the Madison Police...
by Milwaukee Mainstay | Nov 20, 2025 | State News
Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted Tuesday to repeal Gov. Tony Evers’ 400-year extension of school funding — a change the Democratic governor created through his powerful partial veto in the 2023 budget. That veto struck digits and a hyphen to transform a...
by Milwaukee Mainstay | Nov 17, 2025 | Local News, National News
Over the past couple weeks, the quiet suburb of Mequon, is grappling with a rising pattern of break-ins and a growing perception that crime is changing in the community. According to the Mequon Police Department, investigators believe a sophisticated, highly mobile...
by Milwaukee Mainstay | Nov 14, 2025 | State News
Legislation in Wisconsin is paving the way for the Native American tribes to run online sports betting. The companion bills AB 601 and SB 592 would allow wagers to be placed anywhere in Wisconsin, provided the betting servers are housed on tribal lands. Under the...
