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Prosecutors in Barron County are pushing ahead with charges against a driver who they say smashed into a pickup truck, then ran away. The D.A. filed charges yesterday against Edwin Guitierrez. Police say he was going too fast in last week’s fog, crossed the center line, and smashed head-on into a truck. They say Guitierrez then took off. He was eventually caught and arrested. He’s being held on two-thousand-dollars cash bond.

Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator says he’s more bothered by the leaks surrounding President Trump’s call to Ukraine’s president than anything that the President actually said. Senator Ron Johnson yesterday said he didn’t see anything in the call that is worthy of impeachment. Johnson did say that he’s bothered that the whistleblower complaint about the phone call was leaked to the media. Johnson says that may make it tougher for the President to talk candidly with other world leaders in the

No one is saying what they want Wisconsin lawmakers to do, but nearly 200 local leaders say they want lawmakers to do something. The League of Wisconsin Municipalities released a letter signed by 185 local leaders that asks the Wisconsin legislature to act on guns. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says it’s a sign of just how many cities and counties want to see more gun control. Meanwhile, the people who sell guns in Wisconsin could soon be trained to spot potentially suicidal people. A task force looking at

Stout reported the death of a student. 18 Haaris Ameen, a first-year UW-Stout student from Rochester, Minn., passed away overnight. No foul play is suspected, and the death is under investigation. He was majoring in computer and electrical engineering.

Governor Tony Evers is opening the door to more state help for Chippewa and Dunn counties after Tuesday’s tornado. The governor was here in our area yesterday afternoon and got a firsthand look at the damage. He also declared a state of emergency. Some numbers are coming out and forecasters say the tornado that hit near the Town of Wheaton was an EF3 storm, with top winds of 165 miles-per-hour. HOW TO HELP If you want to lend a hand,

A woman involved in a high-profile child sexual assault case in Eau Claire dating back to last year is going to prison in a different case.  Reports say Michelle Mayer pleaded guilty Tuesday to a delivery of meth charge and was sentenced to five years in prison.  A criminal complaint filed in June claims Mayer was in a parked car with a man near an auto body shop for hours at a time and police found meth in the car. 

A new report says the number of Wisconsin students enrolling at University of Wisconsin-Madison is dropping.  According to the University, only 50-point-three percent of this year’s freshman class is made up of Wisconsin natives, down over 16 percent from 1995.  However, there are nearly 38-hundred Wisconsin students enrolled at the school, the fourth-most in the last 30 years.  Total enrollment is also up by nearly 25-hundred in the last 25 years.

Prosecutors in Eau Claire are pushing ahead with charges against four people who they say went on a spending spree with counterfeit money. All four are from Chicago. Eau Claire police say they spent counterfeit money at nearly a dozen shops and restaurants in Eau Claire last week. Police arrested them after a traffic stop turned-up some marijuana and a lot of phony money.

Wisconsin could soon get tougher on people after their fifth OWI or if they kill someone. A state Senate panel yesterday approved a handful of proposed laws that will now head toward a vote in Madison. Among them is a mandatory minimum 18-month sentence after someone’s fifth or sixth OWI, and a minimum five years sentence if a drunk driver kills someone. Lawmakers also are sending along a plan to essentially erase someone’s first OWI conviction after 10 years.

Western Wisconsin’s congressman is the latest to ask the federal government to protect cheese. Democratic Congressman Ron Kind on Wednesday introduced the Codifying Useful Regulatory Definitions, or what he’s calling the CURD Act. Kind wants Congress to define cheese as something that comes from real milk, not something that comes from vegetables or anything else. It’s the latest attempt from a dairy state lawmaker to push back on the increasing number of vegan cheeses being sold across the country.