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A Whitehall man is going to jail after being convicted of a road rage incident.  Reports say Joseph Taylor is accused of sideswiping and ramming an SUV that passed him on Interstate-97 in Eau Claire County in December of 2017.  The victim claims Taylor then punched him in the face and claimed to have a gun.  Taylor was sentenced yesterday to two months in a work release facility followed by 18 month probation.

A man convicted of killing two people in a Chippewa Falls bar 40 years ago wants out of prison.  Charles Coogan is asking for parole.  He’s been in prison since the 1979 murder at the Four Corners bar.  Coogan is 72-years-old and says if released he will live with his brother in southern Wisconsin.

A western Wisconsin man is likely looking at charges after police say they found his hidden bathroom camera.  Osseo police arrested Kyle Coleman earlier this week after they say they found a camera hidden to record an underage girl in the shower.  Investigators say he also hid the camera in another bathroom to catch another woman showering.  Trempealeau County prosecutors haven’t yet filed formal charges.

There’s good news for western Wisconsin entrepreneurs.  The folks at Verizon say La Crosse and Eau Claire are some of the best places in the country to start a small business.  Verizon’s latest poll ranks La Crosse as the 20th best place to start a business, Eau Claire is ranked 31st.  Appleton also made Verzion’s list

Lawyers for a transgender woman are suing the state of Wisconsin because she cannot legally change her name.  Karen Krebs cannot legally change her name, she was born Kenneth, because she’s a sex offender.  Wisconsin law does not allow sex offenders to change their names.  Krebs’ lawyer this week said that law is unfair and causes her a number of problems.  Lawyers filed a similar lawsuit this week in Illinois over a similar name-change law there.  

The city of Milwaukee is going to have to get busy if it’s going to expand the Hop before next summer.  City leaders yesterday said they want to expand the streetcar service to reach Fiserv Forum ahead of the Democratic National Convention.  Mayor Tom Barrett also wants to take the Hop to Wisconsin Avenue, and south into Walker’s Point.  There’s no price tag for the full expansion, but the mayor says he wants to use TIF dollars to pay for it all. 

Senator Ron Johnson is holding a public forum in Hudson to talk about the removal of gray wolves from the endangered species list.  The meeting is at the Hudson House Grand Hotel on Friday from 10 a.m. until noon.  Representatives from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will present information about the proposed rule to remove the wolves from the list in the lower 48 states.  Wildlife officials from Wisconsin and Minnesota will also be on hand. 

Attorney General Josh Kaul is pushing for Congress to fund Legal Services Corporation [[ LSC ]].  Kaul is joining 41 other Attorneys General saying Legal Services provides critical assistance to underserved populations in the states and the federal government needs to continue funding it.  LSC was established in 1974 by Congress to promote equal access to justice for all Americans.  

With the help of sponsors, volunteer organizations and U.S. Postal Service employees in 10,000 communities nationwide, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its 27th annual Stamp Out Hunger FoodDrive on Saturday, May 11. Stamp Out Hunger is the nation’s largest single-day food drive. Last year’s drive resulted in carriers collecting 71.6 million pounds of food from local communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. The food drive has become

Residents of 16 western Wisconsin counties can expect to see and hear loud, low-flying planes as early as sunrise starting in early-mid May. Small, yellow planes will be treating for invasive gypsy moth caterpillars. These non-native pests defoliate many kinds of trees and plants during their caterpillar stage, causing stress and potentially tree death. Treatment efforts are focused in western Wisconsin where gypsy moth populations are low or beginning to build, in an attempt to slow their spread. DATCP will