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A Belmont couple faces felony child abuse charges for neglecting their kids.  Dalton Hopper and Jamie Lee Weigel face charges of child abuse, neglect and intentionally causing harm.  The couple has two girls, a one-year-old and a four-month-old.  They brought the four-month-old to a health facility in Dodgeville earlier this month and officials say the infant was about a week from dying from malnutrition. 

The state’s unemployment rate remains steady.  Statistics released today by the Department of Workforce Development show the unemployment rate for March remained at two-point-nine-percent with 67-percent of the labor force employed.  Wisconsin added 92-hundred non-farm jobs and over 12-thousand private-sector jobs between March of last year and March of 2019.  

Senator Tammy Baldwin wants Attorney General William Barr to release the entire Mueller report to Congressional members.  Baldwin said today Congress needs to see the full Mueller report to know the truth and what is behind the redacted areas.  She says President Trump has not been exonerated and is not cleared of wrongdoing.  U.S. Representative Brian Steil says the American people deserve transparency when it comes to the Mueller report.  The First District Republican says he is reading through the

When Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers invited people from throughout the area to attend a state budget listening session at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Eau Claire Tuesday, April 16, over 100 people with a wide variety of interests responded. Evers and Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes have been holding listening sessions around the state to hear how the state budget could affect us. While both officials made opening remarks, the bulk of the two-hour session was spent with people in small

The Chippewa River should be back below flood stage soon.  The National Weather Service says the river in Eau Claire will fall below flood stage tomorrow night.  The weather service expects the river to stop just short of the point that it floods in downtown Eau Claire.  There could still be some high water along the river, and forecasters say Chippewa will still be fast moving. 

The man accused of hitting and killing a group of girl scouts and a mother in Lake Hallie is being ordered to stand trial.  Colten Treu is also accused of huffing from an aerosol can before the accident, but his attorney had requested those charges be dropped.  A judge recently refused to dismiss the charges and ordered Treu to stand trial.  He’ll be arraigned on May 24th. 

A Chippewa Falls man accused of sexually abusing an eleven-year-old girl is pleading guilty.  Yesterday, Craig Belden pleaded guilty to two child abuse charges in exchange for having his child sexual assault charge dropped.  Belden faces up to 12-years in prison and will be sentenced in July.

An Eau Claire man is in custody on suspicion he beat and choked a woman until she was unconscious.  A criminal complaint claims Andrew Clark and the victim got into a fight recently over his infidelity and the victim threw a lamp at him.  This caused Clark to punch and choke the victim, causing her to pass out and convulse.  Clark is facing two felonies and is being held on five-thousand-dollars bond.

A woman is accused of breaking into the Village Hall in Edgar Village and stealing venison.  A criminal complaint claims Eve Koldeway went into the hall with a man in February looking for a police officer.  The man tells police they couldn’t find an officer so Koldeway stole venison meat because the hall didn’t have cameras.  Koldeway was arrested and the man hasn’t been charged.  She’s yet to make her initial appearance.

The City of Chippewa Falls is borrowing over two-point-four-million-dollars to pay for infrastructure improvements.  If you happen to be paging through the paper then you might have seen that The Chippewa World Herald reports the borrowing package will be over five years and the city will pay about 165-thousand-dollars a year in interest.  The official borrowing rates will be approved next month.