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A woman’s facing charges after Wausau police say she crashed her car with a five-year-old inside.  Police say the woman was driving recklessly when she crashed near Northwestern Avenue and Gold Ridge Road Tuesday afternoon.  No one was hurt.  After the crash the woman was arrested on suspicion of OWI.

The Centers for Disease Control is looking into a salmonella outbreak linked to bearded dragons in dozens of states including Wisconsin.  The CDC says four people in Wisconsin have recently gotten sick from salmonella.  The CDC says bearded dragons are known to sometimes have salmonella in their droppings.  About 15 people across the U.S. have been hospitalized in connection with the outbreak.

First there was anger, then there were no masks. Milwaukee’s first N95 mask giveaway did not go well yesterday. The city’s health department quickly ran out of packs of the free masks.  But people were angry long before that.  Health department crews were only handing masks out to people who waited in an hours-long drive-thru line.  Anyone who walked-up to get a mask was turned away.  Milwaukee has nearly a half-million N95 masks to give away.  The health department says

It’s two-and-a-half years in prison for a Chippewa Falls man who’s made it a habit to steal from churches. A judge last week sentenced Alvin Coffman to prison. Coffman pleaded guilty last April to stealing 250 dollars from Notre Dame Catholic Church in Chippewa Falls. Coffman had been arrested for breaking into churches before. Police nabbed him for burglaries at the Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Chippewa Falls, in 2003, 2004, and 2006.

The man caught on tape leaning-into a Milwaukee Burger King with a pistol is now in custody. Police yesterday said they arrested a 41-year-old man for armed robbery. He’s not being identified until formal charges are filed. Police say he may have fired his weapon during the robbery, but investigators are also looking for 39-year-old Derrick Ellis, who they say did fire his gun. Ellis was an employee at the Burger King, he’s now on the run. Police say 16-year-old

Eau Claire is giving its disputed liquor license to the restaurant that wants to move into the old Children’s Museum building. The city council last night voted to award the license to Reboot Social. The restaurant was competing against a group that wanted to reopen the State Theatre on Eau Claire Street for the license. City rules cap the number of liquor licenses available in Eau Claire. City council members questioned some of the plans from the theatre group, and

There are more people in jail in Milwaukee County, and some defense attorneys say higher bails are to blame. The sheriff says they currently have 940 people in jail, just 20 short of their maximum capacity. Defense attorney Michael Levine told Channel 12 that judges and court commissioners have been setting higher bail amounts since the suspect in the Waukesha Christmas Parade attack was released on just one thousand-dollars bail. He says many suspects can’t afford to pay the new,

There will be no investigation into whether Milwaukee County’s D.A, should lose his job over how his office handled the Waukesha Christmas Parade suspect.  A lawyer for Governor Tony Evers yesterday dismissed the complaint that asks the governor to fire John Chisholm over the low bail in the case.  The lawyer says the complaint wasn’t filed properly, and didn’t have enough supporting evidence.  Seven people in Milwaukee all signed the complaint, they say the D.A.’s office policy that set the

Add this to the political mix for this year.  Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson says he may run again.  Thompson told a Milwaukee TV station (Channel 12) that everything is on the table.  Thompson served a record four terms as Wisconsin governor, starting in 1986. Sources close to Thompson say he won’t make any decisions until he ends his time as UW System president in March.  If Thompson gets in, he would immediately change the Republican race.  Thompson is 80-years-old and says he’s physically

Republican lawmakers in Madison want a say in how the state spends billions of dollars from Washington, D.C..  State Senator Dale Kooyenga and state Rep. Bob Wittke yesterday unveiled a proposed constitutional amendment that would give the legislature control over federal dollars.  Right now, lawmakers have a say in how nearly 40-billion-dollars in state money is spent.  They, largely, don’t have any say in where federal money goes.  They have no say whatsoever over the billions-of-dollars that Governor Tony Evers