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Attorney General Josh Kaul today announced that a jury in Oneida County found Brandon A. Darnick guilty of First Degree Child Sex Assault – Sexual Contact with a Person Under Age 13 for an assault that occurred in 2013. The victim’s sexual assault kit was tested as part of the Wisconsin Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) in 2018. The case was presided over by Oneida Co. Judge Patrick F. O’Melia. This conviction was the result of a joint effort by

Two men are charged with robbing convenience stores in Black River Falls. One robbery was at the Holiday gas station on North Water Street last Friday.  Reports say Jessie Blankenship and Treyton Laufenburg were recently arrested when someone told police they overheard them talking about the Holiday robbery and another possible robbery.  They’re both charged with armed robbery with use of force.

Eau Claire’s Royal Credit Union has a new vice president of operations.  Royal Credit Union announced Wednesday former business process improvement manager Sheila Kohls is taking over as VP.  Kohls has been with Royal since 2016.

A new homeless warming center is opening in Eau Claire soon.  Christ Church Cathedral is opening the Eau Claire Overnight Warming Center on South Farwell Street.  Reports say the shelter costs about seven-thousand dollars and will open on December 15th.

A man who Eau Claire Police say drunkenly brought a gun to North High School back in September will spend 10 days in jail for his crime. A judge yesterday sentenced 30-year-old Benjamin Weinberger to a week-and-a-half in jail and 80 hours of community service. Police say he approached a group of teens in the high school’s parking lot with a gun. Officers say Weinberger admitted that he’d had about 10 drinks that day. There’s no word on why Weinberger

Students in every other Oshkosh school are heading back to class, but the kids at Oshkosh West High School will miss another day today. School leaders say West High School students won’t return to class till tomorrow. The school is still dealing with the aftermath of Tuesday’s officer-involved shooting that came after a student attacked the school’s resource officer. West High School teachers will be in the school today, they’re getting the building ready for students. On the heels of

The first part of Eau Claire’s plan to go carbon-neutral comes with a nearly one-million-dollar price tag. City leaders yesterday said they’d like to see 160 electric car charging stations installed across Eau Claire in the next ten years. Right now, less than one-percent of the people who live in Eau Claire drive an electric car. Each charging station costs as much as five-thousand-dollars. One hundred sixty of them would cost 800-thousand-dollars. There’s no word on where that money would

The University of Wisconsin System is looking for more online learners. The school this week announced plans to double its online enrollment within five years. Right now, there are about 48-hundred students taking online classes through the school’s UWEX campus. Even doubled, that would be a fraction of the 182-thousand students who attend the system’s 13 brick-and-mortar campuses.

Phoning-in a threat to a high school could soon be a felony in Wisconsin. Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday said he wants tougher penalties for people who threaten violence against schools. There’s been a rash of threats this week after two officer-involved shootings at schools in Waukesha and Oshkosh. Prosecutors can file felony terror-related charges, but often times opt for misdemeanor charges. Kaul says there needs to be more options to bring tougher charges against high school students who make threats.