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A man convicted of sexual assault of a child back in 2011 is looking at new sex crime charges. Prosecutors in Polk County yesterday charged David Granger Jr. with rape. A woman says she woke-up on Saturday with Granger on top of her, and he refused to stop. Granger is being held on sexual assault and bail jumping charges in the Polk County Jail.

Eau Claire County will likely be one of the counties to slap a new registration fee on horse drawn buggies if state lawmakers agree. The county board last night voted nearly unanimously to send a letter to the State Assembly urging lawmakers to approve a county-based horse and buggy registration law. The idea is to help local law enforcement track down horse and buggy owners if there is an accident or reckless driving.

A western Wisconsin lawmaker is one of the first to introduce a new plan to get tougher on vaping. La Crosse State Senator Jennifer Shilling yesterday introduced a proposed law to make sure young people under 21 don’t buy or use vapes. Schilling’s plan would also ask for a new state ad blitz to talk to young people about the dangers of vaping. That’s the same idea that Governor Tony Evers presented last weekend.

Lawmakers in Madison want to hear some solutions, not just political promises and snarky attacks from the governor. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos yesterday said he hopes Governor Tony Evers’ State of the State speech tonight isn’t too political. Vos said there are real issues that the state needs to solve. He doesn’t think the governor will do anyone any good by trying to pick political fights or propose new initiatives that have no chance of becoming law.

It is going to be American Family Field. American Family Insurance yesterday announced the new name for what will soon be the ballpark formerly known as Miller Park. American Family Insurance bought the naming rights to the stadium last year, and the name change officially takes effect on January 1st of next year.

The conservative group that is driving a lawsuit to have the Wisconsin Election Commission remove over 200-thousand voters from the state’s voter rolls is once again asking the state Supreme Court to act. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty yesterday asked the high court to cancel a Madison-based appeals court order that put that case on hold. WILL’s Rick Essenberg says the appeals court didn’t offer a reason for why it ruled the Election Commission doesn’t have to act. The Election Commission has

The U.S. Department of Labor says 40 Fazoli’s and Wendy’s franchises in Wisconsin have violated child labor laws.  The labor department this week said the franchises’ parent company, Manna Inc. of Louisville, Kentucky will pay a civil monetary penalty of over 157-thousand-dollars for violating the child labor requirements.  The investigation found kids 14-and-15-years-old were working more hours than allowed on school mornings and nights and also working more than eight hours on non-school days.

A deadly snowmobile accident is under investigation in Calumet County.  The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says a 65-year-old man was killed on a trail near Highway 151 near Chilton.  Crash happened shortly before 11:00 last night when the rider lost control crossing the highway and was ejected from his snowmobile.

CLICK HERE TO HEAR PRINCE…SOME PURPLE RAIN INSTEAD OF WHITE SNOW! Prince’s estate is dismissing wrongful-death claims against Walgreens pharmacy and a doctor who had prescribed pain medications for the musician before he died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl.  The dismissals likely result from legal settlements, which often are based on confidentiality.  A case remains open against Dr. Howard Kornfeld, who Prince’s staff had reached out to before the musician died in 2016.  Kornfeld runs a drug treatment program

One person is hurt from a crash in Pierce County.  The county sheriff’s office says Nancy Bader was northbound on Highway 63 west of Spring Valley earlier this week when she went into a ditch and hit a sign.  Bader was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries and her passenger wasn’t hurt.