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There are some Wisconsin families keeping an extra-close eye on the situation in Ukraine. The Wisconsin National Guard yesterday said 150 guardsmen are in Eastern Europe. The troops with the 107th Maintenance Company based in Sparta and Viroqua have been in Europe since May of last year. A guard spokesman says they were originally in Poland, Romania, and Lithuania, but have mostly all been called back to Poland. The troops are due to come home sometime this spring, but no one is saying just

 Derek Hammer’s latest court appearance was quick and full of complaints. Hammer appeared in Green County yesterday on what he called “Mickey Mouse charges.” He’s facing felony charges in a drug case, but is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of his girlfriend, Melissa Trumpy. She’s been missing since last October. The D.A. in Green County said earlier this month that her disappearance is likely a “no-body homicide.”

An Eau Claire man is looking at a possible five year sentence for last Thanksgiving’s deadly stabbing. Kelly Weiberg pleaded guilty yesterday to an amended felony count of homicide by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon. Police say he was drunk when he stabbed another man on Thanksgiving Day. Weiberg says he stabbed the man because the other guy punched him in the face. Weiberg is looking at five years in prison when he’s sentenced in August.

Authorities in La Crosse know the name of the young man pulled out of the Black River on Wednesday, but they are not saying how he ended-up in the water. Police say they followed a line of footprints out to the edge of the ice on the river, that’s where they found 27-year-old Dayton Anderson-Teece’s body in the river. No one is saying why he was on the ice, or just what happened. La Crosse Police say the case remains

They have found the second body in the rubble of a historic Door County bar. Crews recovered the body in what was left of Butch’s Bar in Sturgeon Bay yesterday. A fire gutted the building early Tuesday morning. Investigators say the body will be sent to Madison to be identified. A first victim was found in the building immediately after the fire. Sturgeon Bay Police say they are continuing to look for a cause of the fire.

The latest attempt to change Wisconsin’s election laws are headed to Governor Tony Evers’ desk.  The State Assembly last night approved a series of election proposals all inspired by the 2020 presidential election.  This is the second time in less than a year Republicans have tried to change the rules for indefinitely confined voters, managing the state’s voter rolls, and closing other loopholes they say were exploited in 2020.  Governor Evers vetoed the first round of legislation, and he is expected

There are some questions about just where all of the money for the Waukesha Christmas Parade attack victims is going. A Milwaukee TV station last night reported that some of the five-point-seven million-dollars raised for parade victims could to local non-profits instead. Anita Busch with the victims’ rights group Victims First said they want to see victims get 100-percent of the donations.  The United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County wants some of the donations, though no one is

The new hospital in Whitehall is a step closer to reality. Crews broke ground yesterday on what will become Gunderson’s new tri-county hospital. The hospital will replace Whitehall’s 60-year-old current facility. Work will begin in the spring, and is expected to take about a year-and-a-half.

Prosecutors in Waukesha want adult charges for the teenager accused of sexually assaulting an 87-year-old woman. The D.A.’s office wants to keep the case against the 14-year-old in adult court. Police say the teen carjacked the woman outside of Waukesha’s library, then sexually assaulted her at knife point back in November. Police say they arrested the teen with a knife and the victim’s credit card in his pocket. If the case is kept in adult court, the teen could face

The race for city council in Wauwatosa didn’t change. Elections managers yesterday said the 58 found absentee ballots didn’t produce a new winner in the Third District race. Patricia Stone and Joe Makhlouf will advance to the April election, just like was thought. Tosa’s clerk said election workers missed a box of absentee ballots back on Election Day. He’s promising to change how ballots are collected and sorted to make sure this doesn’t happen again.