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Chippewa County Emergency Management wants people to stay out of Wheaton following a report of a tornado touching down last night.  Eau Claire County Emergency Management posted on Facebook on behalf of Chippewa County early this morning saying they want people to hold off on volunteering because of downed power lines and debris.  Only a few minor injuries have been reported. Hundreds of people are still without power to the north and west of Eau Claire.  According to Dunn Energy

Two homeless men are accused of sexually assaulting a homeless woman in Phoenix Park in Eau Claire.  A criminal complaint claims Kenneth Minck and Steven Mwangelwa pulled the woman into a men’s bathroom and forced her to drink from a cup on September 18th.  She claims Mick and Mwangelwa then assaulted her throughout the night.  They’re both charged with second-degree sexual assault.

Eau Claire County is no longer considering the purchase of an Eau Claire home to place a convicted sex offender.  Jeffrey Bonnin was originally scheduled to be placed in the 32-hundred block of Jupiter Avenue but the Supervised Release Committee announced yesterday it’ll look for another spot.  The committee says that house is too close to a daycare.  The committee plans to find a new house before Bonnin’s release.

The storms were strong last night, and near Elk Mound, we know that yes, it was a tornado. Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk says last night’s storm that cut through the Town of Wheaton was in fact a tornado. There is plenty of damage, but the sheriff says a few people suffered only minor injuries. Chippewa County is asking people to stay away from the town today.  Forecasters say the tornado came from a strong line of storms that cut

A Pierce County deputy may not get his job back even after a jury found him not guilty of child sexual assault. Pierce County’s sheriff says Deputy Allen Wojcik will stay on leave as the department conducts an internal investigation into his conduct. A jury on Monday found him not guilty of assaulting a girl as young as 12 for more than a year. It took the jury less than an hour to return their verdict.

Western Wisconsin’s Democratic congressman is not quite there on impeaching President Trump. Congressman Ron Kind yesterday said he wants to see more about the whistleblower complaint that started the latest push for impeachment. Kind says the President must be held accountable to the law. But Kind did not join other Democrats in saying he will vote to impeach the president.

Wisconsin lawmakers will likely be coming back to the Capitol sometime this year to deal with Governor Evers’ request for a red flag law. The governor yesterday said he intends to ‘press the issue’ of gun control. Republican lawmakers who control the State Assembly say they don’t want to pass a new law that takes guns away from people who have not been convicted of a crime. The governor says the idea is to get guns out of the hands of

You might call it a moo-pub…  More than a dozen spotted cows managed to find their way to the New Glarus Brewing Company in Wisconsin, proud maker of Spotted Cow beer.  Owner Drew Cochrane told police his security discovered the cattle wandering their parking lot in the middle of the night and were easily rounded up and returned to their owner with the help of a sheriff’s deputy.

Convicted murderer Steven Avery’s lawyer is following up on a claim by an inmate who says he’s the real killer of Teresa Halbach.  Kathleen Zellner tweeted yesterday that her office received a handwritten confession from a Wisconsin inmate over the weekend.  She says it’s worthless unless it’s corroborated.  Authorities have not received any such confession.

Today is National Voter Registration Day and organizations across the state are urging those of eligible age to update their voter information or register for the first time.  As of September 1st Wisconsin had just under three-point-four-million active registered voters.  Wisconsin doesn’t register voters by party preference or affiliations and it does not collect information about voters’ gender or race.