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The suspect in the murder of a still-missing woman in Clark County is being held on a million-dollars bond. A judge yesterday ordered Jesus Contreras Perez held in jail in connection to Cassandra Ayon’s disappearance and murder. Investigators say Perez had a child with Ayon, but they broke-up weeks before she went missing. Police have never found her body.

We are getting a better idea about the fire in Fort Atkinson last week that touched off an Amber Alert. Prosecutors yesterday filed homicide and arson charges against 36-year-old Elizabeth Durkee. The charges suggest that Durkee killed her 72-year-old grandmother, then set her house on fire. Police say Durkee killed her grandma because she didn’t want to live any longer. Durkee is also accused of taking-off with her two-year-old daughter. Durkee is being held on a million-dollars bond.

Do not turn on the sprinkler in Lake Hallie. The city on Monday banned people from watering their lawns due to the drought. Public Works Supervisor Derek Schad says they want to save the city’s water supply for firefighters or other needs. Anyone who breaks the ban could face a 300-dollar ticket.

Wisconsin lawmakers are going to borrow to expand broadband internet in the state. The legislature’s budget-writing panel yesterday agreed to borrow 125-million-dollars for grants that would bring faster internet to rural parts of the state. Governor Evers wants to spend 200-million on the same projects. Lawmakers say the governor has billions of dollars in federal stimulus money that he can spend in any way that he sees fit.

Despite having a record amount of federal money to spend on their own schools, Wisconsin’s largest school districts are pushing state lawmakers to find more money for public education. Superintendents at the state’s five largest school districts, Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha, and Racine, all wrote a letter to the legislature’s budget-writing panel yesterday demanding more state spending. The schools worry that without more state money, Wisconsin could miss-out on two-billion-dollars in federal money. State Rep. Mark Born, who is helping to write

Leinenkugel’s is looking to find the next generation of minority brewers. The company yesterday announced plans to start a minority brewing scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Leinenkugel’s says the scholarship is open to students who identify as Latino, Black/African American, American Indian, Asian, Pacific Islander and/or LGBTQ-plus. Two people will be awarded the 50-thousand-dollar scholarship each year, and the winners will also get a summer internship at the Leinenkugel’s brewery.

There’s now a call to send troops to Milwaukee to try and get a handle on the city’s violent crime problem. State Rep. Joe Sanfelippo yesterday said Milwaukee is ‘war zone-like,’ and said local leaders have failed to keep people safe. Sanfelippo’s suggestion comes after a weekend where nearly 20 people were shot and five people were killed. Governor Tony Evers immediately dismissed Sanfelippo’s call, saying it’s not the National Guard’s job to patrol Milwaukee. The governor said more mental

There is a huge racial disparity when it comes to the coronavirus vaccine in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said in all, just over 49-percent of people in the state, or two-point-eight-million people, have gotten one dose of the vaccine. But, DHS says two-point-three-million of those people are white. Just over 100-thousand Black people in the state have gotten the shot. In raw numbers, that’s more than any other minority group in the state, but it is a

Nearly 100-thousand postcards are in the mail in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Elections Commission this week sent the postcards to voters who have not voted in years. The idea is to make sure voters are registered at their current address. The postcards ask voters to confirm they are living at that home, or register at a new address. The postcards are being sent to anyone who has not voted since 2016.

Green Bay’s mayor says he didn’t break the law by working with an outside group that reportedly took over the city’s election operation last fall. Mayor Eric Genrich yesterday made the case that he didn’t break the law because there is no state law that prohibits cities from working with groups like the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life. The mayor is asking the Wisconsin Elections Commission to dismiss a complaint against his office and the city’s clerk. Republicans say