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A man accused of sexually abusing one Dunn County girl is now facing charges for allegedly abusing another. The D.A. in Menomonie filed new charges against 19-year-old Wyatt Holcomb. He’s already accused of abusing a girl from the time she was nine until she was 13-years old. The new charges accuse Holcomb of abusing a second girl, starting when she was six. Holcomb is essentially looking at life in prison if convicted in both cases.

It’s ten years in prison for a man who admitted selling meth in the Chippewa Valley. Zachary Tepsa pleaded guilty to drug dealing charges back in January. A federal judge sentenced him to a decade behind bars yesterday. Tepsa is currently in state prison on meth-dealing and fleeing from police charges. He was due to get out in two years, but will now serve his time for the new federal sentence.

Ending enhanced federal unemployment benefits may solve Wisconsin’s worker shortage in the short-term, but a new study says the state will likely have troubles filling jobs for years to come. UW-Madison economist Noah Williams is out with an analysis that says Wisconsin’s long-term worker needs will only be solved by getting new workers into the pipeline and bringing new families to the state. Williams says the numbers clearly show Wisconsin’s workforce is aging faster than the rest of the country. He says even

The latest coronavirus snapshot in Wisconsin shows few people are getting the vaccine. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday updated its vaccine numbers, and now says that doctors and nurses handed-out just over 50-thousand doses last week. That’s down from 73-thousand doses the week before. You have to go back to December of last year to find that few doses being handed-out in the state. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

Governor Evers is sending a little more than a million-dollars to communities along Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. The governor announced one-point-four-million-dollars on Coastal Management grants yesterday. Nearly 40 communities will share the money to go toward everything from beach access to pollution control. The governor says Wisconsin’s coastal communities are a vital part of the state, and we need to maintain their lakeshores and lake access.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court may not be able to escape the question of whether ballot droboxes and ballot harvesting are allowed in the state. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty yesterday filed a lawsuit that once again says Wisconsin election law doesn’t allow either. The lawsuit comes after the state supreme court side-stepped the heart of the question in a ruling last week. The state’s liberal justices struck down a businessman’s lawsuit based on a technical argument. WILL’s lawsuit says election law is clear that

The city of Milwaukee is going to talk about the city’s rise in violent crime and the unruly crowds along Water Street this week. Milwaukee’s Department of Employee Relations yesterday said it is inviting business owners and folks who live downtown to come to a community meeting Thursday evening. The city says there’s been an ‘unprecedented’ spike in both violent crime in the city, and a rise in chaos along Water Street this month. Milwaukee Police say last weekend was

 It is billed as the world’s largest bounce house, and it is coming to Waukesha. Organizers yesterday said The Big Bounce America will be at the Waukesha Expo Center August 13th through the 15th. The company’s co-founder Grahame Ferguson says this will be a chance for kids to get out and let off some steam this summer. Tickets start at 19 dollars for little kids and go up to 39 dollars for adults. You can find tickets online.

Beginning this Thursday, July 1st Wisconsin residents will have a new, gender-neutral option for identifying the parents of a child.   Wendy Wilde reports. Birth forms will be updated to include an option for parent-parent in addition to mother-father.  Governor Tony Evers says the change reflects his administration’s commitment to gender-neutral terminology and recognizing that families are diverse and should be recognized and valued in state systems.

She is ranked 44th by Major League Eating and that inspires Kathryn Tesch to compete in the biggest hot dog eating contest of the year.  The Dorchester, Wisconsin native has twice competed in Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July contest.  Her best performance was eating ten-and-a-half hot dogs to finish in tenth place in 2019.  Tesch will try for a personal-best once again at this year’s contest at Coney Island.