Woman sacrifices son, owner of fat dog frozen to sidewalk enters plea

All of the reasons to not visit your family in Wisconsin this holiday season:

OSHKOSH -- A one-day trial to determine the sanity of a Neenah woman who suffocated her 2-year-old son will be held Tuesday. A criminal complaint says the woman told police she heard voices telling her to "give her only son" just before she suffocated the child in their Neenah home May 5.

SHEBOYGAN -- A Sheboygan woman whose dog froze to the sidewalk while left outside in single-digit temperatures has pleaded not guilty to intentionally mistreating animals. 

Wisconsin tops country for use of primates in research 

Wisconsin used 8,859 monkeys for experiments in 2007, a 44% increase over the year before. 

Man pushes disabled volunteer after getting pissed off about campaign calls 

APPLETON -- An Appleton man fed up with political phone calls from the Republican Party in October is due in court next week on charges of pushing a disabled campaign volunteer. Prosecutors say the 57-year-old entered the Appleton headquarters of the Republican Party on Oct. 27 and yelled at the only person there, a 60-year-old woman. The criminal complaint says Porter was upset about numerous phone calls to his house. 

Band teacher likes teenage boys, lets them have fun on trip 

CHIPPEWA FALLS -- Former Chippewa Falls Senior High School music teacher Andrei Strizek, who resigned one month ago, reportedly learned of two separate inappropriate sexual acts among teenage boys while on band trips in October but didn't report the incidents to administration. Strizek then began sending repeated text messages to a boy, telling him he would be interested in participating in sex if the boy were older.