Wisconsin is electing its top education official, who will guide policies affecting K-12 schools during President Donald Trump’s second term.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto that attempts to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years drew outrage and surprise from his political opponents.

Republican hopes to reclaim a crucial governor’s seat in swing-state Wisconsin this year long appeared to rest on Rebecca Kleefisch.

Republican former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson announced Monday that he won't run again in a bid to take on the Democratic incumbent in the battleground state.

The long-running case of a former deep-sea treasure hunter marking his sixth year in jail has hit yet another roadblock.

A former deep-sea treasure hunter is preparing to mark his sixth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A former deep-sea treasure hunter is about to mark his fifth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins. Defendant Tommy Thompson has been held in contempt of court since mid-December 2015. That’s when federal Judge Algenon Marbley found he’d violated a plea deal by refusing to respond to questions about the coins. Thompson says he’s already said everything he knows about them. The coins were minted from gold recovered from the SS Central America, which sank in a hurricane off South Carolina in 1857.

Back in 2012, a different federal judge ordered Thompson to appear in court to disclose the coins' whereabouts. Thompson's criminal sentence has been delayed until the issue of the gold coins is resolved. Thompson, are you ready to answer the seminal question in this case as to the whereabouts of the gold?” Marbley said. “Your honor, I don’t know if we’ve gone over this road before or not, but I don’t know the whereabouts of the gold,” Thompson responded. A federal law addresses individuals like Thompson, known as “recalcitrant witnesses.” The law holds that 18 months is generally the limit for jail time for contempt of court orders.

Wisconsin's "Forward" statue lies in the street on Capitol Square in Madison, Wis. Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Crowds outside the Wisconsin State Capitol tore down two statues and attacked a state senator amid protests following the arrest of a Black man who shouted at restaurant customers through a megaphone while carrying a baseball bat. Tony Evers on Wednesday said he was prepared to activate the Wisconsin National Guard to protect state properties in the wake of the violence. Late Tuesday in Madison, Democratic state Sen. Tim Carpenter was assaulted after taking a cellphone video of protesters. Vos also questioned why Evers, a Democrat, had not intervened to stop the destruction that took place on state property.