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A West Allis man and a Milwaukee man have been charged in two separate crashes that took the lives of a mother and a son just hours apart. According to reports, Jesse Steinmetz is accused of ran over and killed the 45-year-old mother about 1 a.m. early last Sunday morning. Steinmetz is facing one felony…

A woman and her son were both killed early Sunday morning in separate accidents in West Allis. According to reports, the 45-year-old woman was lying in the road on S. 81st St. when she was struck by a hit-and-run driver about 1 a.m. More than four hours later, about 5:30 a.m., her son died…

A 50-year-old Falls River man was critically injured Tuesday when a chunk of concrete crashed through his windshield while he was driving on Interstate 39/90 near Highway 151. According to reports the softball-sized piece of concrete was from a broken up section of road on Highway 151 and was likely kicked up by another…

Two Milwaukee police officers were injured early Sunday morning and taken to the hospital when their squad car was hit head-on by a suspected drunk driver. According to reports, the crash happened in the 1600 block of W. North Ave. about 12:20 a.m. The squad was responding to a call at the time. Reports…

Alcohol is believed to have played a role in an accident where a car crashed into a Waterford couple’s living room March 30. According to an article in the Mukwanago Chief said the alleged drunk driver was believed to be an administrator at the Norris Adolescent Center, a center providing drug abuse and alcohol abuse treatments….

Nine Wisconsin adults have been sickened in a national salmonella outbreak that began in February. According to reports, four of the affected people are from Milwaukee County and five are from Waukesha County. The outbreak has affected 93 people in 19 states as well as the District of Columbia. All eight residents who were…

Two teenagers were killed and a third was injured in an early-morning crash Wednesday in Manitowoc County. According to reports, two 16-year-olds, one male and one female were killed when the driver of the car they were in lost control and hit a large tree. They were both airlifted to hospitals, where they were…

A Madison woman was charged last week with drunk driving after she allegedly hit a man who was riding a moped, killing him. Twenty-seven-year-old Ekaterina Topolkaraeva allegedly caused the accident last October when she drove in the wrong lane of a Beltline frontage road, killing a 37-year-old Madison man. Officials allege Topolkaraeva had injected…

Two New Franken teenagers were killed when their vehicle overturned in a creek this week. According to officials, two 16-year-olds were killed when their car ran off the road in Scott about 3:30 p.m. Monday. The teenagers were apparently heading north on Highway 57 when they attempted a right-hand turn onto Church Road. The…

One student was injured when his school bus crashed Friday afternoon in Walworth County. According to reports, five students from Bigfoot High School were on board the bus just before 3 p.m. Friday on Beloit Road near Prairie View Road in Walworth when the bus driver lost control of the vehicle and it ended…