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Wisconsin lawmakers are debating bills that would toughen OWI laws in the state.  One such bill would make a person’s first OWI a criminal offense and give a five-year mandatory sentence to anyone who kills someone in a drunk-driving crash.  Another would toughen OWI laws for people driving vehicles other than cars, like ATVs and boats.  Eleven bills in total will be voted on by a senate committee later this month.

Wisconsin’s longest serving member of Congress says he’s hanging-it up.  Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner yesterday said he will not run for reelection, and will retire when this Congress ends next year.  Sensenbrenner says it’s time, he said he is not leaving because of an opponent or because of anything that President Trump has done.  Sensenbrenner’s announcement set-off a flurry of activity to see who will run to replace him in his suburban Milwaukee district. Meanwhile, looking ahead…The top Republican in

There is another delay in the case of a young girl who police say stomped a Chippewa County baby to death last year.  A judge yesterday ruled the girl, who was 10-years-old at the time of the killing, unfit for trial.  Prosecutors say there’s a chance the girl could eventually be fit enough to be tried in the case.  The delay also means that Jaxon Hunter’s family will not get his body.  The defense says they may need to order

The red octagon says it best: STOP… The sheriff in Dunn County is asking people to stop stealing their road signs.  Sheriff Kevin Bygd says someone has been stealing the signs in the past weeks.  Many of the now missing signs are stop signs-which obviously is dangerous. He’s asking for tips that might POINT IN THE DIRECTION of the sign thieves.

We now know who was involved in the car and house crash earlier this week. It was on Monday afternoon when officers caught up with the suspect who hit a home in the Township of Washington. 29 year old Angel Garcia-Ponce admitted to being the driver of the vehicle that crashed into the house during this incident. Garcia-Ponce told deputies he had been drinking alcoholic beverages prior to the crash and fled the scene because he had a revoked driver’s

La Crosse police are looking for whoever called in a phony report of a double shooting.  Officers responded in force to the call yesterday afternoon at a home on the city’s south side.  Someone called 911 and said they had just shot two people inside the home.  After an hours-long standoff, police went into the home and found nothing.  Investigators say they are looking for the person who made the call.

The sheriff in Pierce County is warning people to be careful who they bail out of jail.  The sheriff’s office yesterday said a new scam is making the rounds where a scammer calls, pretends to be someone in jail who needs to be bailed out, and then takes the bail money for themselves.  The sheriff says scammers often pretend to be family members.  He says if you get a suspicious call, hang-up.

A new plan at the Wisconsin Capitol would get tougher on forever chemicals.  The proposal would all but ban PFAS chemicals in the state.  Only firefighters could use the chemicals, which are the main component in firefighting foam.  The legislation would also drastically reduce acceptable PFAS levels in the state’s drinking water.

A new Marquette University poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump 51 to 42 percent among registered voters in the Badger State.  In results released today, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders beats Trump 48 to 44 percent.  Matched up against Senator Elizabeth Warren, the president and Massachusetts Senator are dead even at 45-percent each with ten-percent undecided.  Kamala Harris and the president are also evenly matched in Wisconsin, each garnering 44-percent support. 

September is National Literacy Month.  According to Wisconsin Literacy-dot-org about one-point-five-million Wisconsinites qualify for literacy services because they are at the lowest levels of literacy skills.  The U.S. Census in 2010 showed on average seven-point-three-percent of Wisconsin residents lack basic prose literacy skills.  Officials say people can help solve the problem by helping adults prepare for the GED and citizenship test and by reading to and tutoring young people.