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A northern Wisconsin man who went on a stealing bender this spring is headed to prison as part of a plea deal. A judge yesterday sentenced Jonathon Bishop to five years in prison for breaking into two homes in Rothschild and then stealing a police car. It all happened back in April. Police arrested Bishop for the break-ins, but he managed to wiggle free and then speed off in the cop car. The plea agreement also ends a number of Bishop’s other

The timeline for the Sonnentag Center is speeding-up. The university yesterday said crews will start work on the new event center next spring, and they plan to open the doors in 2024. The new Sonnentag Center will replace the old Zorn Arena on the UW-Eau Claire campus. Chancellor Jim Schmidt says the new center will not just be for students, he says the entire community of Eau Claire will benefit. The Sonnentag family helped pave the way for the new

The UW System wants to give every high school student in the state a break on the ACT or SAT. University leaders are asking to extend the school’s test-optional policy until the 2024-2025 school year. That policy started last year during the height of the coronavirus school closures. The extension would mean that high school sophomores and freshmen wouldn’t have to take the ACT or SAT in order to be admitted into a UW school. Regents are expected to vote

La Crosse is spending some of its coronavirus stimulus money to rent rooms for the homeless. The city yesterday said it’s spending seven-hundred-thousand-dollars to rent rooms at a local Econo Lodge for the homeless. La Crosse plans to keep them in the rooms until March. Mayor Mitch Reynolds says, after that, La Crosse will need a more permanent solution.

It doesn’t look like Milwaukee is going to sue Kia and Hyundai because their cars are popular with thieves, but the city may fine the companies. Milwaukee’s City Attorney’s Office yesterday said they are looking at filing public nuisance claims against the two automakers to try and collect money for Milwaukee. Milwaukee Police say car thieves like Kias and Hyundais because you don’t need a key to start the engine. Milwaukee has seen a 155-percent increase in stolen cars this

It’s that time of year again. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is asking drivers to look-out for snowplows, and to give them room to work. WIS-DOT says the December Law of the Month is the reminder that drivers must get out of the way of snowplows. That includes not following them too closely or driving too fast on slick roads. WIS-DOT says most crashes involving snowplows happen because a driver is too close or going too fast, and slams into the back

Waukesha County’s state legislative delegation wants Milwaukee County DA John Chisholm removed over the parade deaths.  Senate President Chris Kapenga and 15 other Republicans sent a letter to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers accusing Chisholm of dereliction of duty.  They believe Chisholm should resign after his office recommended a thousand dollars bail for the man later suspected of killing six while driving into the Waukesha Christmas Parade.  The DA said last week an inexperienced prosecutor who didn’t have access to a public safety

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is signing two bills looking to help sexual assault victims into law.  The governor says SB 71 creates a better procedure for collecting and sending sex assault kits to state labs.  He also praised SB 94 which lets victims get updates on the status of the kit.  Evers believes the bills increase transparency and accountability.

Wisconsin still has the top Division 1 Women’s hockey team in the nation.  The Badgers received eleven first place votes in the most recent USCHO poll despite losing to Minnesota last Friday.  UW is also first in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women’s poll.

The Chippewa County District Attorney’s Office has determined that the actions of Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Martin Folczyk on October 8, 2021, during a traffic stop in the Town of Goetz, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, was a reasonable act of self- defense. Wisconsin law allows all persons, including police officers, to use deadly force in an act of self-defense. The law requires all of the following: -The officer believed that there was an actual or imminent unlawful interference with the