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Charges are being filed against a Trempealeau County man accused of abusing a 14-month-old child. Twenty-nine-year-old Edgar Valdez is charged with physical abuse of a child.  According to reports, the victim’s mother took the little girl to a Whitehall hospital earlier this month where x-rays showed she had fractures to both of her arms and legs.  Police say Valdez later admitted to having hit the child on numerous occasions.  He is being held on a 150-thousand-dollar bond.

Bond is being set for a Tomah man charged in connection with an overdose death.  Fifty-four-year-old Harley Carlson is accused of providing the drugs that led to the death of a 28-year-old victim in August.  Bond has been set at five-thousand dollars for Carlson who is charged with first degree reckless homicide for delivering drugs.

Tomah High School was placed on a hold for short time on Thursday as authorities searched for a possible weapon.  Administrators and authorities were alerted to the possible presence of a weapon yesterday morning and a BB gun was subsequently found in a backpack inside a student locker.  The school district advises that the student involved will be appropriately disciplined.

Sparta Area firefighters were dispatched to the scene of a structure fire Wednesday morning.  The blaze on State Highway 27 destroyed the building and farm equipment that had been inside.  No one was hurt.

Opening statements in the trial of the Milwaukee County judge is scheduled to start Monday.  Both sides of the case were in court yesterday for the first day of jury selection, and those in consideration were told the trial is expected to take about four to five days.  Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of obstructing immigration agents who were attempting to arrest a man in her courtroom.  Dugan pleaded not guilty to obstruction charges.

Another Democrat is entering the race to be Wisconsin’s next governor.  Joel Brennan launched his campaign to be the Badger State’s chief executive yesterday following weeks of speculation he would join.  In his announcement, Brennan said he would be a governor who stands up to “Trump’s dysfunction.”  The 55-year-old served as the Department of Administration secretary for three years under Governor Tony Evers.  He joins an already-crowded field on the Democratic side, which includes Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley.

The Packers are heading west this weekend.  Green Bay will face off with the Denver Broncos on Sunday.  Running back Josh Jacobs missed Wednesday’s and yesterday’s practice as he deals with a knee injury.  In other news, the team’s Week 17 game against the Baltimore Ravens has been flexed to a 7 p.m. kickoff on December 27. Watch the action then be part of the game recap with our sports guru, Dan Kasper every weekday morning on Sports Talk 105.1.

The woman convicted in the “Slender Man stabbing” is back at a mental health institute in Wisconsin.  Officials confirmed Morgan Geyser was admitted after her attorney requested a transfer from the Waukesha County Jail.  The move follows Geyser removing her ankle monitor last month at a Madison group home.  She was located about 24 hours later in Posen, Illinois.  Geyser was sentenced in February 2018 for the 2014 stabbing of a classmate to please the fictional character Slender Man.  She

Jury selection has begun in the federal trial of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan.  Court records show Dugan is accused of helping an undocumented man evade federal agents at the courthouse in April.  Dugan pleaded not guilty and was suspended indefinitely by the state’s Supreme Court following her arrest.  Federal Judge Lynn Adelman is overseeing the proceedings, including questioning potential jurors about impartiality and conflicts.

State health leaders will continue advising that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.  This follows the CDC’s advisory committee change, which suggests the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive or were untested.  The state’s Department of Health Services says its guidance is based on decades of evidence and endorsement from the American Academy of Pediatrics.  Officials say there is no new evidence justifying changes to the longstanding recommendation.