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The Chippewa Falls High School athletic department is benefiting from a 145-thousand dollar donation from the Chippewa Falls Booster Club.  The booster club presented Chi-Hi with a check for the money at last night’s school board meeting.  Reports say the money will be put towards uniforms, equipment, traveling costs, and other daily needs of the athletic department.  Also because of the donation, students will only have to pay 20 dollars to join a sports team. 

The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help from the public in locating a runaway juvenile.  The juvenile is identified as Charli Carlin, 16 years of age from Southern Dunn County, left her residence on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 and she has not returned home at this time. The investigation showed that at this point Charli left on her own free will. It is unknown who she may be traveling with or where she may be going. No one

An Eau Claire man is being held on a 10 thousand-dollar cash bond after police say he threatened to shoot-up the Menards distribution center in the Town of Union.  Prosecutors say Kevin Pinkham made the threats last week.  His coworkers took him seriously enough that some of them didn’t come to work the next day, and a manager who police say Pinkham specifically threatened says he slept with a loaded rifle next to his bed.  Eau Claire police searched Pinkham’s

A Chippewa County sex offender is facing new charges after authorities say he touched a six-year-old child.  Prosecutors in Chippewa Falls filed charges late last week against 34-year-old Timothy Wundrow.  Investigators are not saying how Wundrow knew the child, or where the assault took place.  Wundrow has been on Wisconsin’s sex offender registry since a 2008 conviction for child sexual assault.  He served one year in prison in that case. 

One of the conservative watchdogs at the Wisconsin Capitol is suggesting a few tweaks to the University of Wisconsin’s free speech policy.  The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on Monday filed a statement with UW Regents that supports a formal policy for free speech.  But WILL’s Rick Esenberg says the school needs to clarify just what is disruptive speech and what criticism will mean for students.  Essenberg also doesn’t like the idea of expelling students who simply express unpopular ideas. 

Wisconsin’s Democratic U.S. Senator says she’s not picking a candidate for president.  Baldwin yesterday said she is not going to endorse anyone in the crowded Democratic field for president.  She says she’ll offer guidance and insight, but she doesn’t want to add to the fray that is the race to see who will face President Trump next year.  After leaving Congress to spend more time with his kids, Paul Ryan is heading back to Washington D.C.  Ryan announced this week

The Missouri farmer charged in connection with the disappearance of two Wisconsin brothers is facing new charges.  Garland Nelson remains jailed in Caldwell County, Missouri on tampering with evidence charges for moving a car rented by Justin and Nick Diemel from his property to a parking lot.  The brothers have not been seen since going to Nelson’s farm on business last month and are presumed dead.  Now Nelson is charged in Bourbon County, Kansas with transporting diseased animals across state lines and

People are looking at a shorter life expectancy in Wisconsin, and a new report says drugs and alcohol are to blame.  The report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum says life expectancy in the state for a baby born between 2015 and 2017 is 80 years.  That’s down from 80-point-two years for babies born just two years before that.  Researchers say more drinking and the rise in opioid-related deaths are to blame.  

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.