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The investigation into the death of the 2-year-old child that was struck and killed by a train in the Village of Lublin, Taylor County on June 29, 2021 is near completion and will be forwarded to the Taylor County District Attorney’s Office. The parents of the deceased child are 26-year-old Kyle T. Bratland and 31-year-old Natasha S. Bratland of Lublin Wi. The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office investigation found that the children from the Bratland residence were commonly seen without adult

Someone noticed a big shiny orange fish the size of a football in a small Minnesota lake, but it wasn’t the only one.  Wendy Wilde reports.

Milwaukee’s former police chief is getting 625-thousand-dollars to not come back to work. Mayor Tom Barrett said yesterday Alfonso Morales and the city have agreed to a settlement. Morales was talking about coming back as chief tomorrow. Milwaukee’s Fire and Police Commission pushed him out last summer, but he fought his firing. A judge ordered Milwaukee to either settle the case or rehire him. The mayor yesterday said Morales’ settlement is ‘fair.’ The end of the Morales saga now allows

Governor Tony Evers is accepting applications for Eau Claire County’s new D.A.. The governor is looking to replace Gary King who announced his resignation last Friday. King is leaving amid complaints that he was drunk and abusive on the job. His last day in the prosecutor’s office is August 14th. The new district attorney will serve out the rest of King’s term, which ends in 2025.

Altoona’s former superintendent is likely headed to prison for 10 years under a plea deal in his child pornography case. Daniel Peggs pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to one count of child pornography. As part of the deal, federal prosecutors are dropping the other charges in the case. Peggs’ agreement means prosecutors will ask for the maximum sentence, which is 10 years in prison. Peggs admitted to having pictures of underage girls on his phone and computer.

Four men are looking at arson charges for fires set during Kenosha’s nights of violence last summer. The D.A. in Kenosha announced the charges yesterday. In one case, three men are charged with coming from Minnesota to set a Kenosha bar on fire. The second case accuses a local man of starting a fire at the B&L Office Furniture building in Kenosha.

Wisconsin man, and his family from Texas, are looking at charges for being inside the U.S. Capitol back on January 6th. Joshua Munn, who is from Melrose, appeared in federal court in Madison yesterday. Prosecutors are pushing ahead with charges for entering a restricted building, disruptive conduct in a restricted building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. There is no evidence that Munn took part in any of the violence at the Capitol that day. Prosecutors say they

Wisconsin could hit its next coronavirus threshold number in a week or two. Currently, a little over two-point-nine-million people in the state have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said they are vaccinating about five-thousand people per-day, or about 30-thousand people per week. That means Wisconsin could hit three-million people vaccinated in the next few weeks. DHS’s Julie Willems Van Dijk says she expects Wisconsin’s vaccine numbers to jump as soon as the vaccines are

The Republican majority in the Wisconsin Assembly is not changing. Republican William Penterman easily won the 37th Assembly District special election last night. The 37th stretches across Dane, Jefferson, Dodge and Columbia counties. It is a solidly Republican district. Penterman replaces John Jagler, who won a special election to the state Senate earlier this year.

The mystery of who damaged a city car in Neenah appears to be over. Crews found a dead carp just a few feet away from a dented Chevy in the city lot last weekend. At first, the police didn’t know what to think. But the city yesterday said they now believe an eagle or another large bird dropped the fish from the sky. It hit the car and bounced a few feet away. No one was hurt. There’s no word