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A Portage County man wanted for not appearing in court is facing new charges after being found in a makeshift bunker.  Reports say Jeremiah Button was wanted on failure to appear charges stemming from a child porn and sexual assault case and hadn’t been seen in over three years.  Button was found in Marathon County last month.  He had a pre-trial hearing on Monday where he was charged with nine new counts of child pornography.

Over 95 percent of Wisconsin’s municipal water utilities are meeting safe drinking water standards.  According to a report from the state Department of Natural Resources, there were 449 violations of safe water standards at just over 100 of the state’s eleven-thousand-500 systems in 2018.  The report says more than half the systems were among the over 95-hundred licensed campgrounds, parks, motels, restaurants, churches, and other public service businesses that aren’t considered a primary source of public drinking water.  Some of the

A student at UW Eau Claire says someone left a racist message on her dorm room door. The student, Kayde Langer, took to Twitter to post a picture of the handwritten note that says ‘Go back to the Rez,’ there were also racial slurs. Langer is Ojibwe. UW Eau Claire leaders say racism is not tolerated at the school.

Police are still not offering a motive in a Chippewa County stabbing that sent two people to the hospital earlier this month. Prosecutors yesterday filed formal charges against 28-year-old Joseph Moldrem for the stabbing. The D.A. charged Moldrem with second degree reckless injury, battery, and drug charges. Police in the town of Wheaton say Moldrem stabbed two people on September 8th, but they are not saying why. PHOTO CREDIT: WEAU 13 NEWS

Prosecutors in Kenosha County are convinced the THC vape cartridge drug ring they busted this month was the largest in the country. The two brothers charged in the case, Tyler and Jacob Huffhines, were in court yesterday to answer a series of drug charges. Among the new details from that court appearance, prosecutors say the two spent 300-thousand-dollars in California on THC oil that was the beginning of their drug empire. The D.A. says the brothers worked out of a

Dairymen across Wisconsin are worried that Governor Tony Evers is giving local governments the tool to limit livestock in the state. The Wisconsin Dairy Alliance yesterday said proposed changes to the state’s livestock siting law would give local governments the ability to stifle livestock operations. The proposal would allow cities, towns, or counties to require more space between a farm and its neighbors or a public project like a road. The WDA says Wisconsin lawmakers originally wrote the rules for landowners with an eye toward helping

We have an update on the remains found in a wooded area in Menomonie. The remains found on Thursday, September 12th have been identified as human. The investigation is ongoing with assistance from the Wisconsin State Crime Lab. Additional information will be released when it becomes available. It was approximately 7:34 in the evening when the Menomonie Police Department responded to the 300 block of 28th Ave. N., in which it was reported that possible human remains were found in

The Missouri man accused in a case involving two missing Wisconsin brothers is being ordered to stand trial.  Garland Nelson faces charges for allegedly moving a rental truck belonging to Nick and Justin Diemel who went missing during a business trip to meet with Nelson in July.  Nelson has not been charged in their disappearance or their suspected deaths.  Nelson waived his preliminary hearing in court today end is scheduled to enter a plea early next month.

Governor Tony Evers is creating a Task Force on Retirement Security.  The governor today says hard-working Wisconsinites deserve to have peace of mind in retirement, but many are unprepared financially.  Evers says one-in-seven registered voters in Wisconsin have no way to save for retirement at work.  The governor’s task force will address several issues like the best practices for retirement security, providing guidance on the average amount someone should be saving and encouraging younger Wisconsinites to save early in life.

Madison is one of the best places to live in America.  Money Magazine released its top 100 locations today and picked Madison at number eight.  The criteria for the rankings included the cost of living, ethnic and economic diversity, income, health and safety, public education and quality of life.  Waukesha landed in the top 100 at number 73 and Appleton is considered the 89th best place to live in America.