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There will be some closure for the family of a missing teenager as his body was recovered. Police have confirmed the body that was found in the Chippewa River last week belongs to missing teenager Will Hessel.  Hessel was last seen cliff jumping at Mount Simon Park on April 23rd.  A body was found in the river on May 17th and police announced yesterday the body is Hessel’s.  He would have graduated high school later this month. 

Recent heavy rains in the upper Chippewa River watershed are resulting in increased runoff passing through the system, and will result in rising river levels on the Chippewa River in Eau Claire. At 5 a.m. the Chippewa River gauge at Grand Avenue read 770.6 feet, which is approximately three (3) feet below the flood state reading of 773. The current crest projection is 771.7 feet for Tuesday, May 21. At this gauge reading, water will have inundated some areas of

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office has identified a man it says led deputies on a high speed chase.  The sheriff’s office says Robert LaVake ran from deputies on Interstate-90 last Thursday, going over 100 miles-per-hour.  Tomah police eventually used spike strips to stop the car.  The car crashed and caught fire and LaVake was pulled from the car and arrested.  The car was reported stolen from Colorado. 

Two Chippewa Falls residents are in custody after being accused of operating a drug house.  A criminal complaint says a K-9 unit detected drugs in a package that was sent from California to a house on Prentice Street back in February.  Police found nearly a kilogram of marijuana in the package before searching the house and finding over ten-thousand dollars and more marijuana.  Lauren Hasenmueller and Shane Doebler were recently arrested in connection with the search.  They’re both facing multiple

Madison police are on the lookout for someone they say threatened a man with a butcher’s knife.  Police say officers responded to a home on the east side of town Saturday night where a 46-year-old man said he’d been threatened with a knife.  The man claimed the suspect whistled at his girlfriend, leading to a fight where the suspect pulled the knife and tried to run the victim over with a car.  The suspect hasn’t been seen since. 

The Dunn County Humane Society is hoping to have raised thousands of dollars during its dog run over the weekend.  The Mutt Strut N’ Tabby Trot five-K was held on Saturday where hundreds of dogs and their owners gathered to run, walk, and compete in contests.  The humane society says it raised almost 15-thousand dollars for animal care last year and hopes to have beat that number this year. 

The Appleton firefighter who was shot and killed last week is being honored today.  Reports say Mitch Lundgaard will have a processional from Brettschneider-Trettin-Nickel Funeral Chapel to Appleton Alliance Church starting at one o’clock this afternoon.  There will then be a visitation from three o’clock until 5:30 at the church.  Lundgaard was shot and killed last Wednesday while responding to a man who claimed to be having a medical emergency. UPDATE ON THE CASE : The suspect in the shooting that

Dunn County’s sheriff is looking for whoever tipped some headstones at the cemetery in Spring Brook.  Deputies aren’t sure when the vandals struck the Strawhill Cemetery, but they said this is not the first time.  The sheriff’s office says several tombstones were knocked over, including some belonging to veterans. 

Almost no one at George Naegle’s funeral ever met him.  But that didn’t stop almost 200 people from saying a final goodbye to the sailor from La Crosse who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Naegle was buried on Saturday, with full military honors.  His family says it was the kind of goodbye that he always deserved, but wasn’t able to get because his remains weren’t identified until recently.  

The market is shrinking for sand from Wisconsin that is used in the fracking process. One industry expert says 75 percent of the mines in the state that provide sand to oil and gas companies could go bankrupt in the next years-or-so.  New mines in Texas and Oklahoma have taken over the market.  Wisconsin had been one of the nation’s leaders in frac sand mining.