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A 22 year old Minnesota man was arrested in Eau Claire after a traffic stop. It was just before 10:30 on Sunday night when Javon’ta Jordan Williams was stopped by a Trooper for lane deviation on I-94 near milepost 56. Upon approach the Trooper detected the odor of marijuana. Williams was tested and subsequently arrested for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs. He was also arrested for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Passengers in the

A man is dead after a two-car crash on Highway 16 in Monroe County.  The county sheriff’s office says the cars hit nearly head-on near Hazel Avenue in Adrian Saturday night.  The driver of one of the cars was pronounced dead at the scene and five people in the other car were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.

The Altoona Intermediate School is nominated for the National Blue Ribbon Award.  The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction nominates schools that are tops in the country in academic achievement.  The winner of the award will be announced in the fall.

Girls on the Run of the Chippewa Valley will start its spring program this month.  Girls on the Run announced over the weekend the program will begin on February 24th and registration is open to girls in third through eighth grade.  At the end of the program, all girls involved will participate in a 5k run on May 9th. INTERESTED? CLICK HERE TO GET INTO THE STARTING BLOCKS!

Students at UW Eau Claire are expected in class this morning, despite a weekend fire at Phillips Hall. School leaders say the fire Saturday morning did ‘extensive’ damage to a research lab, but didn’t do much damage to the rest of the building. No one was hurt in the fire. Firefighters think the fire started at a printer.

A Barron County inmate’s weekend away will likely cost him. Police in Eau Claire yesterday arrested 45-year-old Gerald Jackson after he didn’t return from work release on Saturday. Jackson is serving time for not paying his child support, and he was due to be released at the end of the month. There is no word on how much more time he will have to serve after skipping-out on his sentence.

Authorities in Menomonie are looking for answers after finding a man laying on the ice at Lake Menomin. Fisherman spotted the man Saturday morning when he was near the bank. Deputies took the man to Mayo Clinic Health System in Menomonie. No one is saying what the man was doing on the ice, or how long he’d been there. We could get more answers later today.

Deputies in Racine County are blaming the snow for a crash near Highway 20 that killed one person and injured nine others. The wreck happened yesterday afternoon near Highway 20 and 63rd Drive. Deputies say one car slid across the center line and smashed into another, head-on. One person died in the wreck. Racine County deputies say some of the nine who were injured are dealing with serious injuries.

Republican state lawmakers say their push to get tougher on crime is all about giving prosecutors more tools. State Senator Chris Kapenga was on UpFront over the weekend, and said the Republican package to get tougher on reckless drivers and people who steal cars is all about making roads and communities safer. Kapenga says police and prosecutors need more tools to file tougher charges, and get more serious jail time for offenders.

Three bald eagles that were in rehab for several months are now in good shape and released back to the wild.  NBC15 reports that hundreds of admirers were on hand to witness the release of the three eagles in an event yesterday near the Wisconsin River in Sauk City.  The eagles had been treated since last year at the Raptor Education Group’s location in Antigo.