AP Photos of the Month

AP Photo of the Month: April 2013

AP Photo of the Month: April 2013

** WISCONSIN APRIL PHOTO OF THE MONTH **Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews talks to reporters in the team’s locker room after signing his new contract on Wednesday April 17, 2013, in Green Bay, Wis. The Packers locked up star linebacker Matthews with a long-term extension Wednesday, and also are negotiating with quarterback Aaron Rodgers. [...]


AP Photo of the Month: March 2013

AP Photo of the Month: March 2013

** WISCONSIN MARCH PHOTO OF THE MONTH **ISA-certified arborist Chris Sparks of Boley Tree & Landscape Care, Inc., positions himself while pruning a Kentucky coffee tree on the state Capitol grounds in Madison, Wis., Friday afternoon, March 1, 2013. Sparks and other Boley crew members were working all around the Capitol, Friday, climbing high to [...]


AP Photo of the Month: February 2013

AP Photo of the Month: February 2013

**WISCONSIN FEBRUARY PHOTO OF THE MONTH **Derek Williams’ mother Sonya Moore, second from left, reacts with family after the verdict was read during a public inquest in a Milwaukee County courtroom on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. An inquest jury is recommending misdemeanor charges against three Milwaukee police officers who ignored a suspect’s pleas for help [...]


AP Photo of the Month: January 2013

AP Photo of the Month: January 2013

WISCONSIN JANUARY PHOTO OF THE MONTH  – As a continuing trend of milder winter weather occupies the upper Midwest region, University of Wisconsin-Madison track and cross-country team member Michael Van Voorhis makes his way past a melting snow cover during a run along Vilas Park Drive in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart)


AP Photo of the Month: December 2012

AP Photo of the Month: December 2012

** WISCONSIN DECEMBER PHOTO OF THE MONTH**Ben Sebena is brought into intake court in Milwaukee, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Sebena, 30, was charged Thursday with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of his wife, Jennifer Sebena, who was found dead in front of Wauwatosa’s fire station by her fellow officers before dawn on Monday. She [...]


AP Photo of the Month: October 2012

AP Photo of the Month: October 2012

** WISCONSIN OCTOBER PHOTO OF THE MONTH** Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds a family friend’s daughter, Zaydee May, as they stop at a corner on their trick-or-treating route, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Janesville, Wis. (AP Photo/The Janesville Gazette, Mark Kauzlarich)


AP Photo of the Month: September 2012

AP Photo of the Month: September 2012

**WISCONSIN SEPTEMBER PHOTO OF THE MONTH** Emily Martin waves goodbye to her grandmother, Molly Strachota, as she enters her classroom for her first day of first grade at Fair Park Elementary in West Bend, Wis., Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/West Bend Daily News, John Ehlke)


AP Photo of the Month: August 2012

AP Photo of the Month: August 2012

** WISCONSIN AUGUST PHOTO OF THE MONTH ** Janesville, Wis. native and Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan stands on stage during a rally at his alma mater the Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville, Wis., Monday, Aug. 27, 2012 before heading to the Republican convention in Florida. (AP Photo/The Janesville Gazette, Bill Olmsted)


AP Photo of the Month: July 2012

AP Photo of the Month: July 2012

** WISCONSIN JULY PHOTO OF THE MONTH ** A Racine firefighter carries Pete Lui from the balcony of his burning home in Racine, Wis., on Tuesday afternoon, July 24, 2012. Lui was transported to the hospital and his condition is unknown. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Gregory Shaver)


AP Photo of the Month: June 2012

AP Photo of the Month: June 2012

WISCONSIN JUNE PHOTO OF THE MONTH – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker poses for a picture with a bottle of beer while manning the grill as he hosts a Brat Summit at the Executive Residence in the Village of Maple Bluff, Wis., Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Walker, just a week removed from his win in a [...]


AP Photo of the Month: May 2012

AP Photo of the Month: May 2012

** WISCONSIN MAY PHOTO OF THE MONTH **An honor guard carries the casket of Cpl. Benjamin H. Neal from the airplane to a hearse after arriving at Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport Saturday, May 5, 2012 in Janesville, Wis. The Pentagon says the decorated 21-year-old soldier was killed April 25 after enemy forces attacked his unit. [...]


AP Photo of the Month: April 2012

AP Photo of the Month: April 2012

** WISCONSIN APRIL PHOTO OF THE MONTH **The afternoon sun shines through smoke enveloping an office building on John Nolen Drive in Madison, Wis. on Tuesday, April 24, 2012.  It took firefighters from five departments more than four hours to put out the fire at Causeway Center office building.  The building was evacuated and no [...]


AP Photo of the Month: March 2012

AP Photo of the Month: March 2012

** WISCONSIN MARCH PHOTO OF THE MONTH **Cousins Jarrel Campbell, 10, left, Dedrick Flowers, 13, and Shydale Allen, 14, play basketball at Lakeview Park in Racine, Wis., during the spring break from school, Friday, March 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Mark Hertzberg)


AP Photo of the Month: February 2012

AP Photo of the Month: February 2012

For the third month in a row, AP Wisconsin has chosen an image by John Hart of the Wisconsin State Journal as the Photo of the Month. ** WISCONSIN FEBRUARY PHOTO OF THE MONTH **A runner is framed by the posts of a snow fence at Tenney Park in Madison, Wis., as mild winter weather [...]


AP Photo of the Month: January 2012

AP Photo of the Month: January 2012

** WISCONSIN JANUARY PHOTO OF THE MONTH **Hallis Mailen, of Madison, Wis., participates in a rally at the Wisconsin State Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 in Madison. Opponents of Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker submitted nearly twice as many signatures Tuesday as required to force a recall election, but still face the challenge of transforming [...]


AP Photo of the Month: December 2011

AP Photo of the Month: December 2011

** WISCONSIN DECEMBER PHOTO OF THE MONTH ** Tom and Cathy Hannes, enjoy an up-close view of a seasonal display at the Holiday Fantasy of Lights in Olin-Turville Park,  Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 in Madison, Wis. The couple, who reside nearby in Madison, take occasional walks through the annual exhibit, periodically stopping to capture photographs [...]


AP Photo of the Month: November 2011

AP Photo of the Month: November 2011

** WISCONSIN NOVEMBER PHOTO OF THE MONTH **Michael Dummas embraces his girlfriend, Veronica Bogard, during a visit to the grave site of her step-brother, Jason Wildfong, at Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in the Town of Dover, Wis., on Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. Wildfong was killed while serving in Kuwait on March 12, [...]


AP Photo of the Month: October 2011

AP Photo of the Month: October 2011

** WISCONSIN OCTOBER PHOTO OF THE MONTH **A young man reads the obituary of two-year-old Donnasia Jackson at Jackson’s funeral service at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Racine, Wis., on Monday, October 31, 2011. Jackson died in the hospital on October 20, a day after the child allegedly suffered multiple abuses from her mother’s [...]


AP Photo of the Month – September 2011

AP Photo of the Month – September 2011

** WISCONSIN SEPTEMBER PHOTO OF THE MONTH **Firefighter Thomas Mahar is bent over as he catches his breath after climbing one round of nine stories of stairs , Sunday, Sept.  11, 2011, at a building in Wausau, Wis.  Mahar, and other firefighters and area residents were honoring the firefighters that died in the Sept. 11 [...]


AP Photo of the Month – August 2011

AP Photo of the Month – August 2011

** WISCONSIN AUGUST PHOTO OF THE MONTH ** A rainbow appears over the field during Green Bay Packers NFL football training camp Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/The Green Bay Press-Gazette, Evan Siegle)


AP Photo of the Month – July 2011

AP Photo of the Month – July 2011

** WISCONSIN JULY PHOTO OF THE MONTH ** Berron Hill is treated for heat-related complaints at Festival Hall in Racine, Wis. Thursday, July 21, 2011.  Hill was delivering Pepsi products to the facility when he said he felt faint because of the heat. Liz Hojan-Figge, left, the hall’s business manager, put a bag of ice [...]


AP Photo of the Month – June 2011

AP Photo of the Month - June 2011

** WISCONSIN JUNE PHOTO OF THE MONTH **Neenah High School’s Codey Sauer reacts after losing 11-1 to Eau Claire North High School during their WIAA Division 1 championship baseball game Thursday, June 16, 2011, at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Dan Powers – The Post-Crescent)


AP Photo of the Month – May 2011

AP Photo of the Month - May 2011

** WISCONSIN MAY PHOTO OF THE MONTH ** A boat filled with protesters floats Saturday, May 7, 2011 near where Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (not pictured) was fishing on the Chippewa River near Jim Falls, Wis. Walker was participating in the Governor’s Fishing Opener, a tourism promotional event held each year on opening day of [...]


AP Photo of the Month – March 2011

AP Photo of the Month - March 2011

** WISCONSIN MARCH PHOTO OF THE MONTH **Students demonstrating at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wis., form a peace sign on the floor of the rotunda Thursday, March 10, 2011. Demonstrations at the Wisconsin State Capitol continue as Assembly legislators voted to approve an amended version of Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget repair bill. [...]