Home

The Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office is planning a sit-down interview with the father of the man accused of shooting and killing four people in Lake Hallie and Lafayette.  Ritchie German Junior is believed to have killed Laile Vang, Bridget German, Douglas German, and Calvin Harris before killing himself on Monday.  German’s father Ritchie German Senior has previously spoken to authorities but the sheriff’s office is planning a sit-down interview with him to talk about the case. 

State disaster recovery assistance is now available to residents in Barron and Polk Counties.  Local governments can now apply for disaster recovery assistance through Wisconsin’s emergency assistance program.  The state Emergency Management Operations Center estimates last month’s storms caused over eleven-million dollars in damage in those areas.  The state wants anyone who has property damage to call 2-1-1. 

An Eau Claire man is facing his eighth OWI charge.  A criminal complaint says an Eau Claire County sheriff’s deputy pulled over David Colby on Curve Road in Union yesterday.  The deputy involved says Colby had a blood-alcohol level over twice the legal limit.  His OWI charges date back to 1992. 

The convenience store Kwik Trip will soon be able to make deliveries.  Kwik Trip is teaming up with Eat-Street to deliver items such as hot food, drinks, snacks, and ice cream.  The program will be available in Eau Claire, La Crosse, Madison, Wausau, and Appleton.  It’s unclear when it will launch. 

Farmers in western Wisconsin are on the list of people who can ask the federal government for help after a rough spring.  The USDA yesterday said farmers in Barron, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Florence, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon, Marinette, Oconto, Oneida, Pierce, Portage, Price, Rusk, St. Croix, Sawyer, Taylor, and Wood counties can all apply because they were placed under a disaster declaration earlier this year.  Farmers can ask for help to pay for lost equipment or livestock, or to refinance

Western Wisconsin’s congressman says President Trump’s next round of tariffs could make back-to-school shopping more expensive.  Congressman Ron Kind yesterday said the proposed 300-million-dollars’ worth of new tariffs on China will do little more than hurt Wisconsin families who are looking to buy clothes and other things to send their kids back to school.  Kind says tariffs are taxes, and it’s the people in Wisconsin who end-up paying those taxes.  

One of the conservative watchdogs at the Wisconsin Capitol is looking to trim Governor Tony Evers’ veto power.  The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty yesterday filed a lawsuit to block the governor from making more partial vetoes.  WILL’s Rick Esenberg says the governor’s ability to strike individual lines or paragraphs from proposed laws turns law making into a ‘competing game of Scrabble.’  Essenberg says by allowing Wisconsin’s governor to sign only the portions of laws that he likes, the governor is essentially making new

A 29-year-old woman was charged with OWI after officials responded to the scene of a vehicle crash on Highway 2 at Birch Hill Road just after 4 Thursday afternoon. When the Inspector arrived on scene, the Inspector found the vehicle in the ditch, however the driver had walked away from the crash scene. An Ashland County Deputy had located the driver and brought them back to the scene. There was also a five-year-old child in the vehicle at the time

A Crandon man picked up charges after driving under the influence yesterday. It was just after 12 on Thursday when a Trooper stopped a vehicle for speeding on HWY 35 near East Engine Road. Upon initial contact with the driver, the Trooper detected an odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle and observed two young children in the vehicle. The driver was identified as 33 year old Chadwick J. Christensen, from Crandon. A subsequent investigation revealed the driver was operating

Portia Maves rang the bell three times, signaling the end of a struggle and the start of a new chapter in her life. “When you have your last treatment of chemo and are cancer-free, you ring a bell three times,” said Portia, who reached that milestone on July 5, 2018 at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire. “I was so excited to ring that bell. I had been going to treatments every three weeks for a year.” Less than