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Authorities in Polk County are looking for a missing teenage girl.  Reports say 15-year-old Alyssa Merrill went missing from Balsam Lake Sunday night and hasn’t been seen since.  Merrill’s believed to be wearing a black hoodie and black leggings.  Anyone who sees her is asked to call the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. 

One person is dead and another person is in the hospital after a one car crash in the Town of Rome in Wood County.  The county sheriff’s office says the car was turning off of State Highway 73 early Tuesday morning when it hit a driveway embankment and went airborne.  Passenger Laurie Oleson died at the scene and driver Bonnie Obrien was taken to the hospital in stable condition. 

A case involving a man accused of selling drugs to two men who overdosed in Chippewa County is being allowed to move forward.  A judge made that ruling in the case against Shane Johnson yesterday.  Johnson is accused of selling a deadly dose of drugs to Nicholas Buck and Samuel Ott who died four days apart in November of 2017.  Johnson is already in prison on federal drug charges.  He’s facing just under 200 years in this case. 

A Rice Lake man will go to prison for one year after being convicted of his seventh OWI offense.  A criminal complaint says Daniel Mikkelsen was stopped in Chippewa County back in February and tested with a blood-alcohol level just over the legal limit.  Mikkelson was sentenced to prison yesterday along with being placed on probation for three years following his sentence.  He must also serve 300 hours of community service and have an ignition interlock for one year. 

A group of conservatives in Madison is filing a lawsuit challenging Governor Tony Evers’ veto power.  The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty claims Evers used his power unlawfully to create new laws in the state budget without the approval of the state legislature.  Evers says he wishes everyone would just move on.  The Supreme Court must decide whether or not to take the case. 

Investigators in Missouri say they’ve found human remains in their search for two missing northern Wisconsin brothers.  The sheriff in Clinton County, Missouri is not saying if the remains are those of Nick and Justin Diemel.  Searchers found the remains on Tuesday.  A man who lived at the farm where the Diemels went to look at cattle, Garland “Joey” Nelson, is in jail for driving the brothers’ pickup truck.  A judge ordered him held without bond. 

Prosecutors in eight Wisconsin counties are pushing ahead with nine sexual assault cases based on old DNA evidence.  Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday said the cases all came from the backlog of sexual assault kits that sat on shelves for years.  Kaul says the state has tested over 13 hundred kits so far, and 35 have been sent to police for further investigation.  Nine of those have resulted in charges. 

The man accused of Chippewa County’s weekend killing spree had handcuffs in his car.  Investigators yesterday say Ritchie German Jr. had handcuffs and more ammunition inside the car he took to Laile Vang’s home on Sunday.  You have likely heard the rumblings of a copycat crime. Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk said on Tuesday that evidence in German’s car leads him to think this case may have been inspired by the Jayme Closs case.  Investigators say they are now focusing

An Eau Claire mom and dad are looking at charges after police say their kids tested positive for meth and marijuana.  Prosecutors filed child neglect charges yesterday against 29-year-old Teresa Grassel and 28-year-old Tyler Zais.  Police say the two smoked marijuana and meth while their six-year-old and two-year-old children were at home with them.  Doctors told police both children have developmental issues, possibly caused by drug use at home.  

An Eau Claire man is looking at his seventh drunk driving charge after Chippewa Falls police found his car crashed in someone’s lawn.  Police say Bruce Jensen’s blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit when he was arrested back in June.  Police say Jensen admitted to drinking and failed several sobriety tests.  Jensen has six prior OWI convictions.