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Attorney General Josh Kaul is lobbying for legislation to eliminate the backlog of sexual assault kits.  Kaul joined a bipartisan group of advocates today to announce support of a bill to improve collection and processing of sexual assault kits.  The legislation creates a statutory procedure for the collection of evidence.  It is designed to enable police agencies to send the kits to the State Crime Lab within two weeks of the reported assault. 

On Monday evening just after 6:00, the Barron County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call from 1939 28th Avenue for a male subject that was pinned underneath a vehicle. Upon arrival responders found a male subject was extricated from underneath the vehicle but was pronounced deceased at the scene. The deceased subject was identified as Pat Uchytil, age 50 of this address. Initial investigation shows a forklift was being used to lift a vehicle up to have some work done

A Buffalo County man is in custody after a three-month drug investigation.  The Buffalo County Sheriff’s Department says Britt Breidung recently delivered methamphetamine to an undercover informant three times while he was out on bond.  Breidung is now charged with one count of meth possession and three counts of making and delivering meth.  He’s being held on ten-thousand dollars bond.

An Eau Claire woman is accused of helping two kids escape from a treatment center for troubled youth.  A criminal complaint claims 20-year-old Ashlynn Alsteen loaded the kid’s belongings into her car one day last month.  They later ran away from Eau Claire Academy and took an Uber to Alsteen’s house where they were kept for one day before being taken back.  Alsteen is charged with two counts of interfering with custody and is facing up to 24 years in

A restaurant in Bloomer is looking for a truck full of pies that was stolen.   Reports say the truck was stolen from Main Street Café yesterday and was supposed to be used to deliver the pies that were inside.  A police report has been filed and anyone with information on the truck is asked to call police.

Governor Tony Evers is holding a listening session in Eau Claire today.  Reports say Evers and Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes will be at Chippewa Valley Technical College at five o’clock tonight as part of their statewide budgeting tour.  The event is free to the public but people are recommended to register online to ensure there’s enough space

Two Eau Claire high schools are making sure students have enough to eat by offering a food pantry. You may have seen this on the news as WEAU-TV reports both Memorial and North High Schools recently opened their pantries and they say about 40 students use them every day.  The pantries are stocked by staff members and donors from the community.  Anyone who needs food or toiletries is able to use the pantry free of cost.

Eau Claire County’s sheriff says it’s the largest cocaine bust he’s ever seen.  Sheriff Ron Cramer says a tip last week lead deputies to a stash of 68 pounds of cocaine inside a trailer at the local Menards.  Prosecutors yesterday charged Samuel Serrano from California for having the drugs.  Sheriff Cramer says they know where the drugs were headed, but aren’t releasing that information just yet.  The sheriff says the drugs are worth at least three million-dollars.

A woman accused of trying to mail drugs into the Chippewa County Jail is behind bars herself.  Prosecutors filed felony charges yesterday against 26-year-old Danielle Puig of Menomonie.  Jailers in Chippewa Falls say they became suspicious of some of the mail she was sending.  Sure enough, they say, she was hiding heroin under the stamps on some letters.  Puig is due in court today.

Some kids in Eau Claire will get a chance at a new kind of classroom.  School leaders last night approved a new virtual charter school.  There will be just 28 seats in the new school when it opens next year, but planners hope to expand the year after that.  The new charter school will be online, but school board members say it will be similar to a traditional classroom.  There’s no word yet how parents can apply for the new