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Janesville police on Tuesday asked the public's help in finding a suspect in a stabbing.
Janesville police on Friday night spoke with Bill McCoy because he called for the hanging of multiple city officials after demolition on the Monterey Dam began earlier that day.
The Janesville Police Department is warning the community to beware of rental scams on Craigslist.
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Police are investigating the life-threatening stabbing of a 31-year-old Janesville man reported at 12:52 a.m. Monday.
A Fulton man is accused of sixth-offense intoxicated driving after he was found asleep in his vehicle Sunday night.
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A Caledonia man pulled into the Wal-Mart parking lot in Lake Geneva on June 30, and seven days later police found him dead in the van.
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A Janesville woman was injured in a hit and run accident about 2:20 a.m. Friday morning.
A Janesville woman sentenced in May in a child-abuse incident was charged Thursday with child neglect.
On the eve of a jury trial that could have resulted in a lifelong prison sentence, a Whitewater man agreed Wednesday to a plea deal on child pornography charges.
Two teens have been accused of shooting a BB gun at a homeless man in a downtown Janesville park.
A Twin Lakes man charged with fourth-offense OWI drove after drinking at a fireworks display in Pell Lake, according to a criminal complaint filed in Walworth County Court.
A federal grand jury indicted two Houston men with stealing textbooks from UW System schools, including UW-Whitewater, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.
A Lake Geneva woman has been charged with stealing opioid medication from the town of Sugar Creek retirement home where she worked as a supervisor.
Three Clinton High School students who served brownies containing a sexual-enhancement drug as a senior prank will not face criminal charges.
A Clinton man faces a charge of fourth-offense intoxicated driving after an incident Tuesday in Janesville.
Walworth County Jail Correctional Officer of the Year Randy Swatek was recognized for his service, and he reflected on some of the biggest changes he’s seen over the years.
A Janesville man was arrested on a charge of fourth-offense intoxicated driving after a crash late Friday night.
A Lake Geneva man connected to several others who made methamphetamine in Walworth County was sentenced to two years in prison before an empty courtroom Friday.
An Elkhorn couple on Thursday pleaded guilty to prostitution charges.
A Janesville man was charged with possession of narcotics and fourth-offense intoxicated driving on Monday.
A registered sex offender was arrested in the town of Beloit on Monday.
A Walworth County judge sentenced a Sharon man to 18 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon after police raided the man’s apartment in December, court records show.
Janesville police checked Monday to see if local stores would sell alcoholic beverages to underage people, and three failed the test.
A drug-focused initiative by the Edgerton Police Department last week led to the arrest of an Edgerton man.
A Walworth County judge on Tuesday sentenced a Delavan man to five years in prison after a jury convicted him in a 2016 burglary.
An Elkhorn woman will be sentenced next month after she pleaded guilty to possessing drug paraphernalia to make methamphetamine.
A Beloit man was charged with fourth-offense intoxicated driving after a traffic stop Sunday in the town of Beloit.
A Walworth County judge has dismissed the criminal case against the owner of a home improvement contracting business, court records show.
An Edgerton man faces a charge of seventh-offense intoxicated driving and other charges after a weekend arrest in Madison.
An East Troy man charged with fifth-offense intoxicated driving admitted to police that he had drank alcohol before they stopped him for running a stop sign, according to a criminal complaint filed in Walworth County Court.
A Lake Geneva man faces his fourth operating while intoxicated charge after being stopped for speeding Saturday afternoon.
Walworth County Judge Kristine Drettwan sentenced Tyler Odell, 23, on Friday to the maximum five years in prison and five years of extended supervision in the January 2017 death of David Bauspies, 36.
An Edgerton employer was sent to federal prison for two years for failure to pay payroll taxes.
A Walworth County jury Thursday convicted a Racine County man on homicide charges stemming from 2014 car crash that killed his Delavan passenger.
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Beloit police are looking for the robber of the Fairfield Hotel, 2784 Milwaukee Road.
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Janesville police are looking for two armed robbers of a Walgreens Pharmacy at 1717 Milton Ave.
A woman from South Beloit, Illinois, had a 9-year-old child in the car with her when police arrested her on intoxicated driving charges, Brodhead police said Monday.
A homeless man was assaulted and suffered severe injuries June 17 near a Janesville city bike trail.
A Pell Lake man was charged with stabbing two men on Sunday—sending one to the hospital with a collapsed lung, according to a criminal complaint.
A traffic stop turned into a vehicle and foot chase Thursday, resulting in a Janesville man's arrest.
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Law enforcement and Rock County officials signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to improve they way they care for drug-endangered children in the county.
Town of Beloit police arrested a man early Wednesday morning on suspicion of his fourth drunken driving offense, according to a criminal complaint.
A former Delavan man deported to Mexico was recently charged in Walworth County Court with failing to update his address in the sex offender registry after he was removed from the country.
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Janesville police are asking the public's help in identifying a theft suspect.
Janesville police Wednesday arrested two Janesville men in a what they describe as "a cigarette theft ring."
A federal prisoner failed to report to Rock Valley Community Programs in the town of Rock last month and now faces an escape charge, according to a U.S. attorney news release.
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Walworth County police are searching for a man suspected of robbing an East Troy bank on Tuesday and the woman who drove him away, according to a Wednesday news release.
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Janesville police see a possible connection in recent cigarette thefts.
Disorderly to downright dangerous behavior on Janesville's Milton Avenue circuit continues to concern police and others.
A Delavan teen was sentenced to probation Tuesday for firing an AR-15 in a confrontation with other teens last February.
Two similar but separate Walworth County cases about fatal car crashes both received decisions from an appeals court in favor of the defense, and one is set for trial next week.
