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An Eau Claire County man is facing multiple charges after sheriff’s deputies say they found meth and fake ID’s in his car.  A criminal complaint says a deputy tried to make contact with Song Lee last Friday but Lee drove right at the deputy.  Lee was eventually arrested and two deputies say they found meth, a credit card reader, 25 fake ID’s, Social Security cards, credit cards, and Visa gift cards in his SUV.  Lee was charged with multiple counts

Two of three men accused of raping an intoxicated woman in Eau Claire are taking plea deals to avoid jail time.  Alexi Gloodt and Alexander Pinero were both charged with felony sexual assault but they recently pleaded guilty to have the charge reduced to a misdemeanor.  A third suspect has already been put on probation in the case. 

An Eau Claire manufacturing plant is facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in OSHA fines.  According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Choice Products USA LLC hasn’t been implementing and training employees on certain safety procedures.  Choice Products now has about two weeks to comply with the violations.  If it doesn’t it could have to pay over 780-thousand dollars in fines. 

Bridget German’s friends and neighbors want her to be remembered for more than her death.  A couple dozen people gathered last night at the grocery stores where she worked in Chippewa Falls to remember German on what would have been her 67th birthday.  German was one of four people killed in last month’s spree killing in Chippewa County.  Her son, Ritchie German Jr., was the triggerman and killed himself.  Friends at the vigil last night remembered Bridget German as a

Barron, Clark, Polk, and Rusk counties are all on the list of 18 counties in western and northern Wisconsin that Governor Tony Evers wants declared disaster areas.  The governor yesterday asked FEMA for an emergency declaration for the areas hit by the storms on July 18th, 19th, and 20th.  The governor says the storms caused at least 19-and-a-half million-dollars in damage.  A disaster declaration would allow local governments to get federal money to pay up to 75-percent of that cost. 

Eau Claire is getting another grocery store.  City leaders last night approved the plans for Hy-Vee to tear down the old Kmart store off Clairemont.  Demolition work is set to begin in the spring.  Planners say it will take several months after that to get the new Hy-Vee ready to open. 

Eau Claire schools are making their annual plea for more help in and around the classroom.  Superintendent Mary Ann Hardebeck yesterday said the district needs substitute teachers and part time school bus drivers.  Subs can make 110 dollars a day. The school district says pay for bus drivers is very competitive as well.  Hardebeck says they are hiring both short term and long term substitute teachers.  CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE JOB OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT

Foxconn’s Racine County plant is taking shape.  Crews put-up the first concrete walls at the plant in Mount Pleasant yesterday.  Structural steel work will begin next week.  Foxconn is still hoping to have the new plant up and running by the end of next year.  In all, Foxconn has promised to hire 13-thousand people in southeast Wisconsin.  Governor Tony Evers has questioned if that will happen. 

On Friday afternoon, August 16, 2019 at 3:25pm, the Barron County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call of a 14 year old male who was struck in the head by a falling tree that was being cut down by another person. The incident occurred near 7 th Avenue and 19 th Street, Town of Prairie Lake, Barron County. Initial investigation shows 14 year old Floyd Lehman, of Melrose, WI, was part of a group cleaning up downed trees from a

The life expectancy in Wisconsin continues to decline.  Data released today by the Wisconsin Policy Forum shows a decline for the second straight year, which mirrors a national trend.  The life expectancy for Wisconsin babies born from 2015 to 2017 is 80 years, down slightly from 2014 to 2016.  The Policy Forum says there was a concerning rise in the rate of deaths due to alcohol especially among black residents and for people in their 20s and 30s due to opioids.