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A watchdog in Madison says it doesn’t make sense to spend road money on Milwaukee’s streetcar.  Mike Nichols with the Badger Institute said last week that the plan from Governor Tony Evers’ administration to use road money to expand the streetcar goes against the idea of earmarking money for roads.  Nichols says not only would the governor take money away from road construction, but he says there’s no evidence The Hop is bringing tourists to Milwaukee. 

You can add 22 more names to the list of priests in Wisconsin who are accused of abusing children.  The St. Norbert Abbey late last week named 22 priests who abbey leaders say were ‘credibly accused.’  Only five of the 22 are still living, and none of them are preaching any longer.  Abbot Dane Radecki says they released the names in the ‘spirit of accountability.’ 

A Sunday afternoon river rescue serves as a reminder to be careful when heading out. The Eau Claire Fire Department responded for a person in distress operating a Kayak in the Eau Claire River. One person was rescued near the South bank of the river between the S-Bridge and Boyd Park by a crew of Eau Claire Firefighters and Police Officers. The Kayak was recovered and an ambulance was also on scene, however, medical treatment was not required. Officials want

A fire in Rice Lake had crews out twice to the same location over the weekend. It was on Friday evening when a report came in of a fire at 1 Jachim Place in the City of Rice Lake. At about 7:40 crews arrived to heavy fire but extinguished the blaze. Then, on Saturday morning just before 6:30 a call came in from the same location after the fire rekindled. Crews arrived to once again extinguish the blaze, and there

Structural damage, death and personal injury are the result of strong storms in Wisconsin yesterday.  Wausau fire crews say a lightning strike may have caused a trailer fire in which one man died.  In Trempealeau County high winds busted out a window in a Galesville house that sent flying glass injuring a resident.  In Gale a man was injured when a tree fell on his RV. 

One person is dead after a two-car crash on Highway 53 near Whitehall.  First responders found a car in a ditch and a truck on its side off of 53 near Dubbert Road around nine o’clock last night.  One person involved died and another has serious injuries.  It’s believed weather played a factor in the crash. 

A woman killed in a rock climbing fall in Minnesota last weekend has ties to west-central Wisconsin.  According to Caring-Page, Rebecca Nara was rock climbing at Gooseberry State Park last Saturday when she fell.  Nara died of a serious brain injury on Wednesday.  Nara was an alumni of University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie. 

An Eau Claire man is accused of punching a pregnant woman in the stomach.  The victim reportedly told police Charles Morgan punched her multiple times after she refused to let him stay at her house because he said he was homeless.  Morgan is facing three charges relating to the incident. 

Hundreds of west-central Wisconsin National Guard troops are headed to Afghanistan after a heroes send-off in Menomonie.  Residents lined the streets as buses filled with about 400 soldiers in the Red Arrow Brigade based in Eau Claire paraded down the street last night.  They’re expected to be overseas for about a year providing security to coalition forces. 

The Wisconsin National Guard is looking into how a drone lost its signal and crashed in the woods in western Wisconsin.  The Guard says a RQ-7 Shadow drone went down Wednesday afternoon during a training exercise at Volk Field.  Troops found the drone and recovered what they could.  The RQ-7 Shadow drone is about 11-feet long with a wing span of nearly 14 feet.  The price tag is reportedly at least 750-thousand-dollars.