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Wisconsin has a new leader of the Economic Development Corporation  [[ WEDC ]].  Governor Tony Evers today appointed Melissa Hughes as the WEDC director.  She has been working with the organic farming community for the last 16 years.  The governor says Hughes brings a 72-county approach to economic development and he looks forward to working with her to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation while supporting farmers and manufacturers.

A La Crosse man is accused of stealing a wallet from a car but getting caught after leaving his cell phone behind.  Police say a man reported his car was broken into last week and his wallet was stolen but a phone with a red case was left inside.  Police identified and arrested Lucas Armstrong from selfies he’d taken on the phone.  Armstrong is also accused of stealing a laptop from a hotel room back in April.

The number of students getting vaccinated in Eau Claire County is decreasing.  According to the county health department, 87-percent of students were up to date on their vaccinations in the 2018-2019 school year, a drop from the previous school year.  The Center for Disease Control also reports the percentage of people declining vaccinations for personal, religious, or medical reasons in the state rose from just over one-and-a-half-percent to over five-percent.

The Bloomer School District has its first school resource officer ever this year.  Reports say Police Sergeant John Beyer will spend ten hours a week splitting time between all three Bloomer schools.  The district superintendent says he hopes this will give officers more of an opportunity to connect with students in the future.

Wisconsin lawmakers are debating bills that would toughen OWI laws in the state.  One such bill would make a person’s first OWI a criminal offense and give a five-year mandatory sentence to anyone who kills someone in a drunk-driving crash.  Another would toughen OWI laws for people driving vehicles other than cars, like ATVs and boats.  Eleven bills in total will be voted on by a senate committee later this month.

Wisconsin’s longest serving member of Congress says he’s hanging-it up.  Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner yesterday said he will not run for reelection, and will retire when this Congress ends next year.  Sensenbrenner says it’s time, he said he is not leaving because of an opponent or because of anything that President Trump has done.  Sensenbrenner’s announcement set-off a flurry of activity to see who will run to replace him in his suburban Milwaukee district. Meanwhile, looking ahead…The top Republican in

There is another delay in the case of a young girl who police say stomped a Chippewa County baby to death last year.  A judge yesterday ruled the girl, who was 10-years-old at the time of the killing, unfit for trial.  Prosecutors say there’s a chance the girl could eventually be fit enough to be tried in the case.  The delay also means that Jaxon Hunter’s family will not get his body.  The defense says they may need to order

The red octagon says it best: STOP… The sheriff in Dunn County is asking people to stop stealing their road signs.  Sheriff Kevin Bygd says someone has been stealing the signs in the past weeks.  Many of the now missing signs are stop signs-which obviously is dangerous. He’s asking for tips that might POINT IN THE DIRECTION of the sign thieves.

We now know who was involved in the car and house crash earlier this week. It was on Monday afternoon when officers caught up with the suspect who hit a home in the Township of Washington. 29 year old Angel Garcia-Ponce admitted to being the driver of the vehicle that crashed into the house during this incident. Garcia-Ponce told deputies he had been drinking alcoholic beverages prior to the crash and fled the scene because he had a revoked driver’s

La Crosse police are looking for whoever called in a phony report of a double shooting.  Officers responded in force to the call yesterday afternoon at a home on the city’s south side.  Someone called 911 and said they had just shot two people inside the home.  After an hours-long standoff, police went into the home and found nothing.  Investigators say they are looking for the person who made the call.