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JANESVILLE A $5 million cash bond was set Friday for a Janesville man accused of murdering a woman in a Wisconsin Dells hotel room after assaulting her in Janesville 12 days earlier. Jeremy L. Mondy, 34, of 2948 Carrousel Lane, No. 5, Janesville, had been released on a signature bond in a Rock County case in which he was accused of strangling and imprisoning the woman Feb. 2. Mondy was already out on bond in an April 2020 domestic abuse case involving the same woman, and he was ordered to have no contact with the woman in both cases, Columbia County District Attorney Brenda Yaskal said at Fri...

Dec 17, 2020 PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should be extradited to Michigan, but he will be given a chance to appeal first, a judge ruled. Brian Higgins was allegedly part of a crew conducting surveillance of the governor’s vacation home for the kidnapping plot. He is charged with material support of an act of terrorism. The Wisconsin Dells man, 52, is jailed in Columbia County until the appeal of his extradition is decided. Defense attorney Christopher Van Wagner argued that Michigan extradition order should not be granted...

Dec 17, 2020 PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should be extradited to Michigan, but he will be given a chance to appeal first, a judge ruled. Brian Higgins was allegedly part of a crew conducting surveillance of the governor’s vacation home for the kidnapping plot. He is charged with material support of an act of terrorism. The Wisconsin Dells man, 52, is jailed in Columbia County until the appeal of his extradition is decided. Defense attorney Christopher Van Wagner argued that Michigan extradition order should not be granted...

This photo combo shows from top left, Kaleb Franks, Brandon Caserta, Adam Dean Fox, and bottom left, Daniel Harris, Barry Croft, and Ty Garbin. (Kent County Sheriff via AP File) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (CN) — Five of the six men accused of scheming to kidnap Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer pleaded not guilty before a federal judge Thursday after a grand jury found the night before there was enough evidence to indict them. The indictment returned late Wednesday did not add additional charges against the men but a chilling detail emerged: one defendant, Brandon Caserta, allegedly se...

Dec 17, 2020 PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should be extradited to Michigan, but he will be given a chance to appeal first, a judge ruled. Brian Higgins was allegedly part of a crew conducting surveillance of the governor’s vacation home for the kidnapping plot. He is charged with material support of an act of terrorism. The Wisconsin Dells man, 52, is jailed in Columbia County until the appeal of his extradition is decided. Defense attorney Christopher Van Wagner argued that Michigan extradition order should not be granted...