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Wauwatosa Schools are moving ahead with a new sex-ed curriculum for kids. The city’s school board last night approved changes that will teach kids starting in kindergarten about sex, sexual orientations, and gender. Superintendent Demond Means last night said the new lessons are needed as 13 percent of students in Tosa schools now identify themselves with ‘different sexual orientations.’ Some parents aren’t happy with the new lessons, which they say are too graphic and too much for younger students.

If you are looking for a new four legged family member, more beagles are coming to Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Humane Society yesterday said it is going to get another load of beagles who were rescued from Virginia. These dogs are adult dogs, and the Humane Society is looking for people to foster the dogs when they arrive. Milwaukee already got 62 beagles in the last round of rescues.

One of two men wanted for a murder in Green Bay is arrested in Texas.  Gustavo Cantu was taken into custody during a traffic stop in Kerr, Texas on Saturday.  He was wanted along with Alejandro Cantu for a drug-related killing in Green Bay in April.  Alejandro Cantu is Native American, six-feet tall and 165 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.  He has several tattoos including one with his last name “Cantu” on his left forearm. 

A suspect in a Madison hit-and-run is busted after denying any involvement in the crash and then being caught with the car keys in his pocket.  Police have not yet named the man who took off from the scene at Washington Avenue and Park last night but he was caught when one of the other drivers in the crash followed him until cops caught up.  No one was injured in the three-car crash but the suspect was arrested for his

One person is in custody in connection to two overdose deaths in Grand Chute.  Police found two victims dead in a hotel parking lot over the weekend.  One person was lying on the ground at the Rodeway Inn and the other was found in their car.  The suspect is accused of giving the victims the narcotics that claimed their lives.

An uninvited guest prowled the yard as if it was his own before ambling on through a Cross Plains neighborhood.  One family snapped a picture of a bobcat roaming through their yard on Saturday.  The Department of Natural Resources says bobcats are the most common of the big cats to be spotted in Wisconsin.  The DNR says sightings of bobcats are rare but there have been more sightings recently in central and southern Wisconsin.

In the spirit of full disclosure, the photo above is my own dog, Nova. But there’s a reason we are posting her picture! Calling all dog lovers… National Dog Day is this Friday (August 26), and in advance of this day celebrating our loyal companions, Trupanion, a leader in medical insurance for pets, has released its anticipated list of most popular dog names and breeds for 2022.   Surveying its database of more than 740,000 insured pets, Trupanion has compiled a tail-wagger of

No one was hurt, but a house on Shellamie Drive is considered a total loss after a fire yesterday evening. Firefighters say the fire started in the garage and quickly spread. No one is saying exactly what caused that fire to start.

Robert Francis Brodersen, 83 years of age, from Spring Valley has been arrested by the WisconsinState Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 1st offense. On Sunday, August 21, 2022, at approximately 3:21 pm a Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper responded to the El Paso Parade in Pierce County for a report of an individual who drove through a road-closed barricade. The trooper observed signs of impairment and a subsequent investigation, including standardized field sobriety tests,

The Chippewa Valley is starting the week with medium coronavirus activity. The CDC updated its coronavirus numbers last Thursday, and said Eau Claire and Chippewa counties have dropped out of high coronavirus levels. Many other western and northern Wisconsin counties, however, continue to see high levels. That includes Barron County and Rusk county. There are once again fewer than 500 people in the hospital with the coronavirus in Wisconsin. The state’s Hospital Association on Friday said 461 people are hospitalized across the state,