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One person is in jail and another is recovering after a stabbing in the Town of Wilson yesterday. The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office is not saying what led-up to the stabbing, though deputies say the two men knew each other. The sheriff had to call out the tactical team to help arrest the suspect. He was taken into custody after deputies used less-than-lethal rounds. No one is identifying either the suspect or the victim, there’s no word when formal

It’s a year’s worth of probation for a former Chippewa County priest accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. A judge yesterday sentenced former McDonell Area Catholic School Chaplain Father Charles Richmond to one year of probation. He’s not allowed to have any contact with girls under 18, but he will not have to register as a sex offender. A former student accused Richmond of abuse. He pleaded no contest last month to a misdemeanor fourth degree sexual assault charge

It’s a reminder for fishermen across the state. Rescue crews in Onalaska yesterday pulled two men from Lake Onalaska after they got stuck while ice fishing. Firefighters say the fishermen’s boat hit a weak spot in the ice, and they became stuck. No one was hurt. Crews figure the two were stuck for about 40 minutes. Firefighters say everyone needs to be careful of spotty ice conditions at this point in the winter.

The latest piece of Wisconsin’s coronavirus relief money is going to pay people’s water bills. Governor Evers yesterday said he’s earmarking 18 million-dollars for the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program. There’s no word just how many people will be helped by the money. The governor’s office says the 18 million brings the total spent on rent, utilities, and housing assistance from Wisconsin’s coronavirus cash stockpile to just over 86-million-dollars.

A record year for lottery sales in Wisconsin is good news for homeowners in the state. The Wisconsin Lottery yesterday said homeowners will see a larger property tax credit for 2021. A portion of lottery sales is saved for property tax relief each year. This year, lottery managers say that comes to 341 million-dollars. That’s over 100 million-dollars more than last year. The average payment per-homeowner comes to about 230 dollars.

The Republican members of the State Assembly panel investigating last year’s vote now want to know who has access to the state’s voter rolls. State Rep. Janel Brandtjen sent a letter to the Wisconsin Elections Commission this week asking for the ‘who, what, where and when’ regarding Wisconsin’s election databases and voting rolls. Brandtjen says knowing who has access to the voter rolls is key to understanding election security in the state. Brandtjen has been leading an investigation in her Assembly committee for

There aren’t any details about the young child who is being listed as Wisconsin’s first coronavirus death of someone under 10-years-old. The state’s Department of Health Services listed the child deaths last week, but isn’t saying if they had any underlying health conditions or other issues. It is extremely rare for young children to die from the coronavirus. DHS says of the state’s nearly 10 thousand coronavirus deaths, just seven of them are among people under the age of 19. DHS

Foxconn is getting paid by the state of Wisconsin. The Evers Administration yesterday said the company qualified for 29 million-dollars in tax credits by adding jobs and making other investments at its campus in Mount Pleasant. This is the first time Foxconn has qualified for any state aid since it signed a development deal back in 2017. Governor Evers re-wrote the agreement with Foxconn back in the spring to guarantee tax credits for a smaller-than-promised manufacturing facility.

There’s a push to add more people to Wisconsin’s voter rolls. The League of Women Voters yesterday filed a lawsuit in Madison to have the court force the Wisconsin Elections Commission to reinstate 32 thousand voters who have been deactivated. WEC moved the voters to their ‘inactive’ list because they had not voted in years. It was another court case, brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, that pushed WEC to deactivate the voters. The League says the 32-thousand weren’t given proper notice

Gov. Tony Evers signed Executive Order #149 ordering the flags of the United States and the state of Wisconsin to be flown at half-staff tomorrow, Thurs., Dec. 23, 2021, in honor of Chad P. Christiansen, of Baraboo, a Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs security officer at Volk Field Air National Guard Base who lost his life due to complications from contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty. “Chad was a valued member of our Department of Military Affairs team and his