Racine man has come forward to claim a $7.5 million lottery jackpot.
Albert Mohrbacher Jr. had the only winning ticket in the March 27 Megabucks drawing. He turned in his winning ticket Tuesday.
Even though his ticket is worth $7.5 million, he'll take home far less than that. Mohrbacher decided to claim his prize as a lump sum, which works out to $4.2 million. After taxes, that's about $2.8 million.Wisconsin lottery officials say Mohrbacher is the 68th person to win a million-dollar jackpot.
They say they're glad Mohrbacher stepped forward to claim his prize. Last summer a Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold in Racine but the winner didn't come forward within six months as required. So in February the prize money reverted back to the state.
Middleton, Wisconsin police said a dog caused a fender-bender in a parking lot when it knocked a parked car's gear shift into neutral. Middleton police said the car's owner had stopped for lunch Thursday and left his dog in the car.
Officer Jeff Winer said the dog somehow bumped the car into neutral. He said the car rolled out of its parking spot and into a pickup truck across the lot. Police said the damage to each vehicle could run in the thousands of dollars. Winer said it's the first time in his 27-year career he's seen a dog at fault in a collision. He told WISC-TV when he first heard what happened he thought it was an April Fools' joke.
Wisconsin prosecutor is warning sex education teachers they could face charges if they follow a new state law that allows them to instruct students about proper contraceptive use.
A letter sent to five school districts by Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth said the instruction could amount to contributing to the delinquency of a minor if teachers know students are sexually active. He said the districts should drop sex education until the law is repealed.
Southworth also argued that teaching contraceptive use encourages sexual behavior among children, which equates to sexual assault because minors can't legally have sex in Wisconsin.
"Depending on the specific facts of a case ... this encouragement and advocacy could lead to criminal charges," Southworth, a Republican, wrote to districts in his county.
The law's chief author, state Rep. Tamara Grigsby, D-Milwaukee, dismissed the March 24 letter as a scare tactic.
"It's beyond ridiculous," Grigsby said Tuesday. "It's irresponsible to portray this act in the way he is."
Southworth said in a Tuesday e-mail to The Associated Press that he "merely provided a legal opinion to my school districts about the impact of the new mandate."
"It was the Legislature that acted irresponsibly," he wrote.
A toddler in Oshkosh is OK after taking his mother's car out for short spin down the block. Police said the mother of the 3-year-old boy told officers her son was asleep in the 1985 Buick sedan when she left it running and ran into the house for a moment Wednesday morning.
When she returned, the car was gone. Police say the boy knelt on the seat, pulled down on the gear shift lever and started to roll down the block.
The car had traveled nearly two blocks before an officer was able to stop the vehicle.
