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Two people are dead from a car versus semi-truck crash in Polk County.  The county sheriff’s department reports witnesses say a car was eastbound on Highway 63 yesterday afternoon when it didn’t stop at a stop sign near 60th Avenue and hit a semi-trailer.  The driver of the car and the passenger died at the scene.  No one involved has been identified.

Sheriff’s deputies are investigating after human remains were found near a burned down hunting stand in Juneau County.  The county sheriff’s office says it responded to a welfare check in Plymouth over the weekend and learned a 57-year-old Windsor man hadn’t been seen since last Friday.  Deputies later found human remains believed to belong to him near his car on his family’s hunting property.

A Portage County man wanted for not appearing in court is facing new charges after being found in a makeshift bunker.  Reports say Jeremiah Button was wanted on failure to appear charges stemming from a child porn and sexual assault case and hadn’t been seen in over three years.  Button was found in Marathon County last month.  He had a pre-trial hearing on Monday where he was charged with nine new counts of child pornography.

Over 95 percent of Wisconsin’s municipal water utilities are meeting safe drinking water standards.  According to a report from the state Department of Natural Resources, there were 449 violations of safe water standards at just over 100 of the state’s eleven-thousand-500 systems in 2018.  The report says more than half the systems were among the over 95-hundred licensed campgrounds, parks, motels, restaurants, churches, and other public service businesses that aren’t considered a primary source of public drinking water.  Some of the

A student at UW Eau Claire says someone left a racist message on her dorm room door. The student, Kayde Langer, took to Twitter to post a picture of the handwritten note that says ‘Go back to the Rez,’ there were also racial slurs. Langer is Ojibwe. UW Eau Claire leaders say racism is not tolerated at the school.

Police are still not offering a motive in a Chippewa County stabbing that sent two people to the hospital earlier this month. Prosecutors yesterday filed formal charges against 28-year-old Joseph Moldrem for the stabbing. The D.A. charged Moldrem with second degree reckless injury, battery, and drug charges. Police in the town of Wheaton say Moldrem stabbed two people on September 8th, but they are not saying why. PHOTO CREDIT: WEAU 13 NEWS

Prosecutors in Kenosha County are convinced the THC vape cartridge drug ring they busted this month was the largest in the country. The two brothers charged in the case, Tyler and Jacob Huffhines, were in court yesterday to answer a series of drug charges. Among the new details from that court appearance, prosecutors say the two spent 300-thousand-dollars in California on THC oil that was the beginning of their drug empire. The D.A. says the brothers worked out of a

Dairymen across Wisconsin are worried that Governor Tony Evers is giving local governments the tool to limit livestock in the state. The Wisconsin Dairy Alliance yesterday said proposed changes to the state’s livestock siting law would give local governments the ability to stifle livestock operations. The proposal would allow cities, towns, or counties to require more space between a farm and its neighbors or a public project like a road. The WDA says Wisconsin lawmakers originally wrote the rules for landowners with an eye toward helping

We have an update on the remains found in a wooded area in Menomonie. The remains found on Thursday, September 12th have been identified as human. The investigation is ongoing with assistance from the Wisconsin State Crime Lab. Additional information will be released when it becomes available. It was approximately 7:34 in the evening when the Menomonie Police Department responded to the 300 block of 28th Ave. N., in which it was reported that possible human remains were found in

The Missouri man accused in a case involving two missing Wisconsin brothers is being ordered to stand trial.  Garland Nelson faces charges for allegedly moving a rental truck belonging to Nick and Justin Diemel who went missing during a business trip to meet with Nelson in July.  Nelson has not been charged in their disappearance or their suspected deaths.  Nelson waived his preliminary hearing in court today end is scheduled to enter a plea early next month.