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One person is dead and multiple people are injured after a pileup on Interstate-41 near Neenah, south of Appleton.  Police say anywhere from 20 to 40 cars were involved in the crash during whiteout conditions over the weekend.  About 20 people were taken to the hospital.  Most of them are considered to be in goof to fair condition. 

A Nelson man accused of attacking someone with a knife plans to enter a plea next month on an attempted first-degree homicide charge.  A criminal complaint says police received a report 37-year-old Kenneth Teel stabbed and injured a 65-year-old man last September during an altercation at the victim’s house.  Police say Teel told them the victim would have bled out if they wouldn’t have gotten there when they did.  Teel waved his preliminary hearing last week.  He’s facing up to

A former Chippewa County employee will not get an appeals hearing after getting fired after running for office against his boss.  If you were paging through The Leader-Telegram while sipping your coffee, then you likely saw reports Nate Liedl ran against Karen Hepfler for clerk of court last year and lost.  Two months later Liedl was fired from Hepfler’s office and he says it was only because he ran against her in the election.  Liedl then filed to have a

Milwaukee is in the hunt for the 2020 Democratic National Convention.  Just like Miami and Houston.  Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez told Fox News Sunday that all three cities have a chance to host the convention.  Milwaukee has been rumored to be the favorite, partially because of the weather and partially because Wisconsin is considered a key state to winning the White House in 2020.  Perez says he hopes to pick a winning city in the next few weeks.

Governor Tony Evers is expected to ask to keep tuition at the University of Wisconsin system where it is.  Fox 6 last night had the story that the governor plans to ask lawmakers to continue the state’s tuition freeze in his new budget.  The station also reported that Evers wants to allow people who are not in the country legally to pay in-state tuition.  The governor will deliver his budget later this week. 

Eau Claire and Trempealeau Counties are under a snow emergency.  Both counties called the state of emergency late yesterday afternoon after certain cities got over a foot of snow over the weekend.  More snow will hold off today but temperatures aren’t expected to get out of the single digits and wind chills could reach as low as negative 30.  There’s at least one more chance for accumulating snow in west central Wisconsin this week.  According to the National Weather Service

Six people on a bus were injured when the bus was involved in a crash with a snowplow in Eau Claire County on Sunday.  The crash on Interstate 94 west between Foster and Osseo at around 2 p.m. caused the bus driver to suffer life-threatening injuries, according to the Wisconsin State Patrol.  Authorities say the county plow was clearing snow when it was rear-ended by the motor coach, and the bus then struck a tractor-trailer.  The highway was closed for almost 90

One person is in custody after a standoff with authorities on Interstate 90.  The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department was alerted to a stolen vehicle from Marquette County possibly being in the area on Saturday morning.  Reports indicate the vehicle was found on I-90 near Sparta, and that the driver fired a single gunshot from the vehicle upon deputies arriving, leading to a 45-minute event which culminated in the suspect’s arrest.  No injuries were reported.  The interstate was shut down for

No one was hurt when a church roof partially collapsed in Osseo on Sunday.  The Osseo Rural Fire Department says it happened yesterday morning at Osseo Lutheran Church, in the area of the building where Sunday school is held.  Fire crews and others worked to clear snow off the roof. 

People are jumping in freezing water to raise money for Wisconsin’s Special Olympics-BUT locally, we won’t be making the splash this year. On Saturday, teams of people gathered in Wausau for the annual Polar Plunge at Sunnyvale Park.  Over 100 people jumped into the ice cold water-but in Eau Claire the event was cancelled due to weather.