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Lawyers for Altoona’s former superintendent want more time before they head to trial on child pornography charges. Dan Peggs’ lawyer last week wrote a letter to the judge saying he’s discovered another 120-thousand pages of evidence in the case. Peggs is accused of trafficking a girl to make child pornography, and of possessing child porn. Pegg’s lawyers want another 90 days to review the new evidence.

Authorities say the man responsible for at least a half dozen pipe bombs found in a Marshfield apartment complex is not in custody, but they also say there’s no threat to the public. The FBI and the Marathon County sheriff’s office were back at the Woodland Village apartments on Saturday, this time to search a storage facility belonging to the suspect. They found five more bombs. Authorities say they cannot speak as to why the man responsible for the bombs

There’s a search in west-central Wisconsin for a missing teenage girl. The Adams County sheriff on Saturday put out the word that they are looking for 14-year-old Jennessy Dabell. Her friends and family have not seen her since last Thursday. Anyone who knows anything about her is asked to call the sheriff’s department right away.

More people are being reported as fully recovered from the coronavirus here in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported that nearly 85-percent of the people who’ve tested positive for the virus have now been cleared. That is over 348-thousand people since March. DHS says 37-hundred people have died from or with the virus, which is less than one-percent of people who’ve tested positive. DHS says fewer than four-and-a-half-percent of people who tested positive in the state have ended-up

The sounds of Madison’s Air National Guard unit will fill the city and beyond this week. Commanders say the 115th Fighter Wing will be conducting evening training flights, starting this evening. The jets are scheduled to fly between sundown and 10 pm. The Guard says the flight paths are designed to minimize the noise.

The decorations are out in force in downtown Eau Claire. Businesses are now competing as part of the winter window contest. People will vote which downtown windows are the best dressed and most festive. Downtown Eau Claire Inc. is running the competition. The winning downtown business will get one-thousand dollars. CLICK FOR MORE

An Illinois man has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 1st offense, with two children in the vehicle under the age of 16. It was on Sunday, December 6th at approximately 3pm a Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper stopped an eastbound vehicle for speed on Interstate 94 near milepost 37. Upon approach the Trooper detected the odor of marijuana. The driver, 28 year old Aaron Harris from Chicago, IL,

The first big winter storm of the season is knocking the power out in New England.  The New York Times says over 200-thousand customers lost electricity Saturday as a powerful winter storm brought high winds and heavy snow into the region.  The PowerOutage website says over 196-thousand customers lost power in Maine, and over 46-thousand in New Hampshire. Thousands lost power in Connecticut, where local forecasters are warned of black ice on the roads as temperatures dipped below freezing overnight.

In Wisconsin new COVID-19 cases are dropping.  Yesterday, the state department of health reported nearly five-thousand new cases.  The number is well under the eight-thousand or so cases which were the most recorded in a single day so far on November 19th. State health officials aren’t sure whether the drop will become a trend citing the possible new cases from the recent Thanksgiving holiday gatherings as a variable which has yet to be fully factored in. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI

A Madison church congregation gives away Christmas trees for free.  Yesterday the Chapel Valley Church handed out around 200-Christmas trees.  The tree giveaway is usually only one part of an annual Christmas in the Park event which this year was cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns. Pastor Suzie Genin says the church only had two hundred trees this year and couldn’t meet the demand which was double that amount.