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Just before 6 Monday (September 2nd) evening the Lake Hallie Police received a complaint about a motorcycle travelling northbound on Business 53 riding “wheelies”. DetectiveAdam Meyers spotted the motorcycle as it turned off Business 53 and followed it to the Walmart parking lot. The officer activated his emergency lights and after briefly stopping, the motorcyclist fled the parking lot onto Commercial Blvd. The officer pursued the motorcycle onto CTH-OO as it headed eastbound. The officer lost sight of the motorcycle

After a competitive application process, the School District of Bloomer has been selected to receive mindfulness training during the 2019-2020 academic year. Thirty staff will receive training through Mental Health Matters. Mindfulness is paying attention to the here and now. The goal of the mindfulness training is to create a positive school environment that supports student social and emotional learning and development. Staff will first participate in a six-session mindfulness training course. They will then work together to determine the

A Minnesota man is accused of kidnapping a woman and bringing her to Jackson County.  A criminal complaint claims Dwayne Doxen picked up the woman at a homeless shelter in Minneapolis last  month and promised her work.  She says she pled with Doxen to take her back to the shelter but he insisted on taking he to Atlanta or Miami because she wanted to be an actress.  Doxen was arrested after the woman got him to pull over at a

An Eau Claire man is formally charged in connection with a stabbing.  A criminal complaint says Michael Alexander stabbed a man three times after a fight on 1st Avenue on Labor Day morning.  Alexander was initially charged with attempted murder but was charged yesterday with first-degree reckless endangering safety.  He’s facing over 17 years in prison.

The Lake Holcombe School District is offering a new way for kids to receive mental health counseling.  The district recently received 60-thousand dollars from Wisconsin’s mental health grant to introduce virtual counseling.  In partnership with Prevea Health, students will be able to tune into a monitor and talk to a health professional in a private setting so families have better access to help.  This will be the first district in the state to use the program.

Madison and Dane County’s health department is the latest in Wisconsin to tell people not to vape.  Health department director Janel Heinrich yesterday said people need to stop vaping, immediately.  Heinrich says it doesn’t matter if people are vaping nicotine or marijuana, she says there’s no safe level of vaping.   Wisconsin health managers say 34 people in the state have been hospitalized after vaping. Some areas are taking it one step further. Vaping is now prohibited in some parts of Middleton.  On Friday,

A Eau Claire man looking at sexual assault charges and his sixth OWI conviction skipped-out on his sentencing in Chippewa County.  The sheriff says 45-year-old Jason Lucht was due to be sentenced yesterday, but he never showed-up.  There’s now a warrant out for his arrest.  Lucht was arrested in February of last year for drunk driving and grabbing a woman in his car.  That arrest came less than a year after his fifth OWI conviction.

Eau Claire’s superintendent is telling parents that their kids’ school lunches are safe, even though a teacher bit into something in her lunch yesterday.  Superintendent Mary Ann Hardebeck sent a letter to parents yesterday explaining that the teacher cut her mouth when she bit down on a ‘small object’ in a school lunch.  Hardebeck says the school pulled that lunch from the menu, and inspected other lunch items.  The superintendent said no one else found anything in their lunch, and

There will be a new helper roaming the halls in Onalaska Schools, and this one will not be blamed for eating homework.  The school district this year added a second therapy dog to help students throughout the year.  Onalaska school counselor Chrissy Delong says the dogs, Annie and Davie, help kids who may not be able to open-up to teachers or other students.  Annie started her shifts at the high school last year, while Davie started his time at Northern

One of the most recognizable names with Foxconn in Wisconsin is stepping down.  The company’s Louis Woo yesterday said he is leaving the company to tend to personal matters.  Racine County Executive Jonathan Delagrave yesterday said despite Woo’s departure, Foxconn leadership has ‘reiterated to us their commitment’ to their being-built factory in Wisconsin.