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The New Lisbon triple-homicide suspect is being held on five-million-dollars bond.  Virgil Thew made his first appearance in Juneau County Court on Friday, a day after he was arrested in connection with the December 30th shooting deaths of his 33-year-old girlfriend Elizabeth Kolba and her 12-year-old and 13-year-old daughters.  The 47-year-old Thew was found in Elroy on Thursday, following a more than week-long search.  Elroy is located about 12 miles southeast of Thew’s mother’s home in New Lisbon, where the

For the first time since winning the NBA Cup Final last month, the Bucks have a three-game winning streak. Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 41 points and Damian Lillard hit several key free throws in the fourth quarter to lift Milwaukee past the Magic 109-to-106 Friday night in Orlando. Lillard knocked down all three free throws after being fouled on a three-point attempt to put Milwaukee on top 87-85 with 8:41 left to play. The Bucks led the remainder of the game

You would never know the Badgers had to rally from ten points down after blowing out Minnesota 80-to-59 Friday at Kohl Center.  The Golden Gophers led 15-5 midway through the first half before Wisconsin rallied to take a 30-29 halftime lead.  The Badgers led 45-39 six minutes into the second half before breaking the game open with a 25-to-four run.  Wisconsin held Minnesota to a three-pointer and a field goal over a span of eight minutes and built the lead

Triple-homicide suspect Virgil Thew will make his first court appearance this afternoon. Federal, state, and local law enforcement were looking for Thew for more than a week after the bodies of a woman and two girls were found last Monday in a house in New Lisbon.  A tip from the public led to his arrest in Elroy yesterday.  Thew’s bond will be determined this afternoon.

Three University of Wisconsin projects are approved by the State Building Commission. Governor Tony Evers says almost 45-million dollars will go toward improvements to the UW-Madison engineering building, the college of education building at UW-Whitewater, and completing Heritage Hall at UW-Stout.

A Wisconsin Dells waterpark is expanding. The Kalahari Resorts and Convention Center says the 75-thousand foot expansion will feature three new water parks and a retractable glass roof. The 85-million-dollar construction project is set to be complete next fall.

This time of year you might be trying to stay warm by the fire, but for this week’s Friday Feel Good we meet a woman who’s outlook (and special secret shot of Fireball) might have just the thing to heat up your day! Florence, AKA Flo or Fireball Flo, recently celebrated her 106th birthday at in Cincinnati, Ohio!  Flo’s children say her key to living a full life has been her positive attitude! Flo demonstrates her positive attitude every day. She

The Juneau County Sheriff’s Office says a tip from the public is behind the arrest of the man accused of killing a woman and her two daughters in New Lisbon.  Someone reported a suspicious person in the community of Elroy shortly before noon yesterday, leading to the successful capture of Virgil Thew, according to authorities.  Local, state, and federal law enforcement officers have been searching for Thew since he was identified as the suspect in the murders of Elizabeth Kolba

The name of the suspect in the 2022 homicide of ten-year-old Lily Peters is being unsealed from court records.  The suspect is 16-year-old Carson Peters-Berger.  He’s being charged with intentional homicide, sexual assault/great bodily harm and child sex assault.  Peters-Berger will  be tried as an adult since the defense didn’t prove that the seriousness of his crimes wouldn’t be deprecated if the case was moved to juvenile court.  In 2022, Peters was reported missing and her body was later discovered

One of the women who was involved in the so-called Slender Man stabbing is now getting an early release from an Oshkosh psychiatric hospital.  Yesterday, a judge issued a ruling which allows 22-year-old Morgan Geyser to be placed into a group home and kept on GPS monitoring.  Geyer and Anissa Weier admitted to stabbing and nearly killing their classmate, Payton Leutner, back in 2014, saying they attacked the girl to please the internet horror character Slender Man.  A panel of