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The suspect in a La Crosse stabbing incident is now in custody.  A female victim was found wounded Friday night — shortly before 11:30 p.m. — at a location on 16th Street South.  Police say that 28-year-old Ivan Canchola-Garcia has since been arrested in the State of Indiana and charged with attempted 1st-degree intentional homicide. 

A La Crosse bicyclist is hospitalized after being hit by a vehicle on Monday.  The accident happened near St. Cloud and Avon Streets and left the rider with serious injuries.  Police are investigating.

A former North High School is facing allegations that they created inappropriate AI images featuring fellow staffers.  Benjamin Gilbert resigned from Eau Claire Area Schools earlier this month and no other details about those images have been made available.  No criminal charges have been filed in the matter.

A judge is denying a change of venue request for the man accused of causing the death of three-year-old Elijah Vue.  An attorney for Jesse Vang made motions to move his trial out of Manitowoc County or select a jury from outside the county; both of which were rejected during a hearing yesterday.  Vang was charged with physical abuse of a child, hiding a corpse, and chronic child neglect after Vue went missing in February of 2024 and was found

The Wisconsin State Patrol is participating in the nationwide Click It or Ticket campaign for the rest of this month.  The effort is meant to remind drivers of the importance of using seat belts headed into Memorial Day and the summer travel season.  The State Patrol will be conducting aerial traffic enforcement in various counties this week and patrols will be increased this weekend.  Wisconsin DOT reports over 75-hundred crashes in the state last year involved motorists and passengers who

Wisconsin leaders are making investments to improve telecommunication access in the state.  Governor Evers announced one-point-seven-million dollars in grant funding yesterday.  The money will help eligible residents get discounted phone and internet service and provide telecommunications access for rural areas and individuals with disabilities.  The money for the grants is coming from the state’s Universal Service Fund.

  The Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee is getting help from the state.  Governor Tony Evers says the State Building Commission approved a two-million-dollar grant to be used toward restoring the conservatory on Layton Boulevard.  Other funding efforts are being used to help cover the roughly 130-million-dollar cost of the project.  The National Trust For Historic Preservation put the Domes on its list of most endangered historical places in 2016.  It is visited by nearly 300-thousand people each year.

A pair of Wisconsin students are heading to Washington, D.C. for the Scripps National Spelling Bee.  Kromrey Middle School’s Arnav Vempati earned a spot in the national competition after finishing second in the Badger State Spelling Bee.  He is reportedly the first student from the Middleton-Cross Plains School District to take part in the event.  Vempati will be joined by Ethan Robert, an eighth grader from New Berlin Eisenhower, who won March’s state competition.  The National Spelling Bee starts next

A Cadott woman has been sentenced after stealing from several local groups.  Nicole Ruhe was the treasurer for multiple organizations including the Boy Scouts of America Troop, the Cadott Basketball Association and the Cadott Community Association.  She admitted to taking and using money between 2021 and 2024 from two of the three organizations and not returning it.  The judge ordered Ruhe to 60 days of jail with Huber and three years of probation.  She must also pay nearly ten-thousand dollars

A lawsuit challenging the legality of ICE detainers must remain under the jurisdiction of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.  The ruling rejected an attempt by five county sheriffs to move the case to federal court.  The lawsuit contends that honoring an ICE detainer constitutes an arrest.  Wisconsin law enforcement doesn’t have the authority to make arrests based solely on ICE’s civil administrative warrants.  The ACLU previously alleged ICE sends detainers for people with no criminal records and people who have charges