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It could be a de facto life sentence for the man who spent years posting pornographic pictures on hiking trails in Chippewa County. Listen to more with Jon Demaster: Prosecutors yesterday filed felony identity theft and harm of reputation charges, as well as disorderly conduct charges against 60-year-old David Lunemann. Police say he posted hundreds of pictures on trails in the county for years. All of them were directed at workers at a local business, though no one is saying

The suspect in November’s stabbing death in Menomonie is due in court next week. A judge has set Tasheen Goggins’s preliminary hearing for next Wednesday. Police say Goggins stabbed and killed a man back on November 1st. Police say Goggins told them it was a ‘light stabbing.’

The number of people in the hospital with the coronavirus continues to fall in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said just over a thousand people are hospitalized with the virus. That’s down from 12 hundred earlier this week, and down from over two thousand last month. Overall, Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers have been falling since a peak in the middle of November. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

The 16-year-old from Rice Lake who went missing more than two weeks ago has been found, and police say her boyfriend and his father hid her. Police say they found Cara Haaf hiding in a closet in her boyfriend’s home in Ridgeland yesterday. She’s been missing since the beginning of the month. Police arrested her boyfriend and his father for interfering with Haaf’s mother’s custody.

 The FBI is now investigating why an employee at a suburban Milwaukee health clinic intentionally left hundreds of coronavirus doses to spoil over the weekend. Managers at Aurora Health’s clinic in Grafton are now saying that an employee did not mistakenly leave about 500 doses of the vaccine out to spoil. The clinic yesterday released a statement that said the employee admitted that they did not return the vaccine to the refrigerator, and that it was not a mistake. Aurora

It’s finally cold enough for ice skating in Eau Claire. The city says it is opening its rinks today. That means rinks in Boyd Park, Demmler Park, Oakwood Hills, Pinehurst Park, Putnam Heights, Roosevelt Park, and Sam Davey Park are all open. Eau Claire is keeping its warming shelters closed because of the coronavirus, and park managers are asking people to please wear a mask.

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Senate says shifting unemployment cases is not the same thing as making sure people are getting paid. The Department of Workforce Development yesterday said it has cleared the state’s months-long unemployment backlog. Thousands of people have waited months, some since March, to get their unemployment checks. DWD says they have sent all remaining claims to adjudication. But in-coming Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu yesterday said that’s a shift, not a clearance. LeMahieu said thousands of people

Most schools in Wisconsin were able to limp through last spring’s coronavirus shutdowns. A new report from the state’s Department of Public Instruction says 97 percent of schools in the state offered some sort of online classes in the spring. Those schools taught at least 80 percent of what kids were supposed to learn, though some only taught about 60 percent of the curriculum. DPI says while schools were closed, most kept all of their teachers, administrators, and support staff members on

Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. senator continues to say that most Americans don’t need two thousand-dollar checks from the federal government. Senator Ron Johnson told Fox News yesterday that he’d rather see more targeted coronavirus relief for people who really need the help. Johnson says two thousand-dollar checks would mean eight thousand-dollars for a family of four, but would also add 464 billion to the national debt. Johnson says someone will eventually have to pay that bill.

Wisconsin Health Department officials are confirming 27-hundred-and-55 new coronavirus cases in the last day.  The total number of confirmed cases statewide now tops 477-thousand with nearly 28-thousand cases still active.  There were 35 additional death reported today raising the death toll in Wisconsin from COVID-19 to four-thousand-818. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS