A man who worked for Janesville Comfort Shoppe was stealing merchandise to support his heroin habit, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.

A criminal complaint filed in Rock County Court on Monday says a teen driver was going faster than 70 mph before a crash that killed another driver Oct. 19 in Janesville.

Police arrested a Janesville man Sunday on suspicion of fifth offense drunk driving after he lost control of his vehicle and collided with a utility pole.

Janesville police arrested two men Friday afternoon who are suspected of using counterfeit money to shop at six different stores, according to a news release.

A Janesville couple implicated in the deaths of 12 puppies were sentenced Friday to jail, but not for the animal deaths.

The confession of a Mississippi carnival worker accused in a brutal sexual assault in Elkhorn should not be thrown out, a Walworth County judge ruled Thursday.

Taylor Fraunfelder, accused of causing a heroin death and another overdose, was held on a $50,000 bond Thursday in Rock County Court.

A 34-year-old Edgerton man was picking up his daughter from a Madison day care Wednesday night when two masked men approached his vehicle. 

A Janesville teen stands accused of sexually assaulting a boy in a Janesville park last summer.

A man accused of supplying the drugs for two overdoses—one of them fatal—was arrested Tuesday by Janesville police.

Janesville police arrested a man Tuesday on suspicion of first-degree reckless homicide for his role in drug overdoses, according to a news release.

A woman who immigrated to the United States to play tennis ended up with a gun in her hand at a Janesville drugstore last June.

A prosecutor said a man who followed a woman from Janesville to Evansville on Sunday was trying to sexually assault her.

A Mukwonago woman charged with seventh-offense intoxicated driving drove 90 miles per hour in a 50-mph zone, according to a criminal complaint filed in Walworth County Court.

A Delavan man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of sixth-offense intoxicated driving and driving while revoked, according to online Walworth County Court records.

An Elkhorn man has pleaded not guilty to a charge that he drove for a fourth time with a prohibited amount of alcohol in his system, online court records show.

A third Hanover resident was charged in a pot-growing case Monday in Rock County Court.

A former Williams Bay man was sentenced to four years of prison after he reached a plea agreement on charges of stealing from his elderly mother and repeatedly driving while intoxicated.

Delavan police are investigating Sunday's double-fatal shooting in Darien as a murder-suicide.

A Beaver Dam man was arrested on multiple charges Sunday night following a reported assault in Evansville, according to a news release.

Two men were reported shot and killed, an a woman wounded, in an incident at a Darien apartment building late Saturday night.

Two men fought on Janesville's near-east side early Sunday morning, leading to arrests, police reported.

Two people were charged Friday in Rock County Court with offenses related to the growing and processing of marijuana in two houses in Hanover.

The family of Abbey Conner, a 20-year-old UW-Whitewater student, is suing the Mexican resort where she drowned in 2017, claiming the resort was negligent in serving tainted alcohol.

Lake Geneva police took a 15-year-old student into custody Thursday in connection with a threat that led to the evacuation of Badger High School and Lake Geneva Middle School last week, police said.

Whitewater at its city council meeting Tuesday will welcome Tilla, the police department’s third dog in less than two years.

The mother of a man shot by a Walworth County sheriff’s deputy in 2016 is suing several police officials because “deliberate indifference and negligence” preceded her son’s death.

A Milwaukee man pleaded guilty last week to reduced misdemeanor charges following the sexual assault of a woman he met online in Elkhorn.

The body of a former Janesville woman was found on the shore of a Florida Key on Nov. 21. A man has been charged in the homicide case.

A Beloit man has been arrested on a charge of first-degree intentional homicide in the shooting death of Jose Carrera-Reyes, 49.

An apparent domestic violence incident led sheriff's deputies to surround a house east of Newville on Tuesday morning.

A Beloit man convicted of child enticement was sentenced to 10 years of probation with a year in jail on Monday.

A Janesville woman was arrested on charges of fourth-offense intoxicated driving Saturday night.

Porch piracy is still a threat, especially during the gift-buying season.

Beloit police have named their suspect in a Wednesday-night fatal shooting.

The victim in a Wednesday homicide in Beloit has been identified.

A Janesville man was arrested on a charge of fourth-offense operating while intoxicated and operating after revocation after police found him unconscious at the wheel Wednesday night.

A rural Milton man was charged Tuesday in an incident that reportedly started as a domestic assault in a car on Interstate 90/39 in Janesville.

Fentanyl has killed more people in Walworth County so far in 2018 than it had in 2016 or 2017, and that is a trend that has local officials worried.

A Janesville man was arrested on his fourth OWI charge Saturday night, according to a news release from the Janesville Police Department.

Officials have identified the man killed in an apparent hit and run incident either late Friday night or early Saturday morning in the town of Union.

A 21-year-old Evansville man died Saturday morning in what is believed to have been a hit and run, according to a press release from the Rock County Sheriff’s Office.

A domestic dispute in a vehicle Friday night lead to an accident on Interstate 90/39 near mile marker 172 in Janesville, according to a news release Friday night from the Janesville Police Department.