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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.

The sheriff in Pierce County is warning people to be careful who they bail out of jail.  The sheriff’s office yesterday said a new scam is making the rounds where a scammer calls, pretends to be someone in jail who needs to be bailed out, and then takes the bail money for themselves.  The sheriff says scammers often pretend to be family members.  He says if you get a suspicious call, hang-up.

A new plan at the Wisconsin Capitol would get tougher on forever chemicals.  The proposal would all but ban PFAS chemicals in the state.  Only firefighters could use the chemicals, which are the main component in firefighting foam.  The legislation would also drastically reduce acceptable PFAS levels in the state’s drinking water.

A new Marquette University poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump 51 to 42 percent among registered voters in the Badger State.  In results released today, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders beats Trump 48 to 44 percent.  Matched up against Senator Elizabeth Warren, the president and Massachusetts Senator are dead even at 45-percent each with ten-percent undecided.  Kamala Harris and the president are also evenly matched in Wisconsin, each garnering 44-percent support. 

September is National Literacy Month.  According to Wisconsin Literacy-dot-org about one-point-five-million Wisconsinites qualify for literacy services because they are at the lowest levels of literacy skills.  The U.S. Census in 2010 showed on average seven-point-three-percent of Wisconsin residents lack basic prose literacy skills.  Officials say people can help solve the problem by helping adults prepare for the GED and citizenship test and by reading to and tutoring young people.

For 121½ years, a copper weathervane shaped like a quill has perched atop the Clock Tower at University of Wisconsin-Stout — 135 feet above campus and downtown Menomonie. The quill finally is getting a rest from the elements. On Aug. 27, two workers with Building Restoration Corp. of Roseville, Minn., hung in a basket from a lift and slowly swung around the quill. They removed the molded flame — or torch — at the top of a lightning rod, then

A suspect is in custody after a stabbing in Eau Claire.  Police say Michael Alexander was fighting with another person in the eleven-hundred block of 1st Avenue early Monday morning.  Alexander is accused of leaving, coming back with a knife, and stabbing the person he was fighting with in the neck and shoulder area several times.  Alexander is charged with first-degree attempted homicide.  The victim is expected to survive. 

A Colfax man will go to prison as part of a plea deal in a Dunn County child pornography case.  A criminal complaint says authorities received a tip Brian Pautz had shared child porn earlier this year.  Pautz reportedly told investigators he got addicted to porn after his divorce and he knew what he was doing was wrong.  Pautz pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child porn yesterday and was sentenced to three years in prison.