Home

One person is dead after a head-on crash in Clarke County.  The sheriff’s office says the crash was on Schofield Road in Weston yesterday morning.  One car was seen blocking both lanes and the other was on the shoulder of the road.  One of the drivers was pronounced dead at the scene and the other was taken to the hospital in unknown condition. 

A Chetek man is accused of assaulting a woman on the side of a road in Barron County.  A criminal complaint claims the woman recently got a ride home from Cazz Johnson and he stopped to go to the bathroom on the side of the road and sexually assaulted her.  The woman says she kicked him out of the truck and drove to get help.  Johnson is facing four felonies and could do up to 60 years in prison. 

Eau Claire police are investigating a threatening message written to DeLong Middle School.  School district officials say police found the person responsible for writing the message yesterday and determined there was no credible threat.  School is in session as usual today and it’s unclear what kind of discipline the person responsible will receive. 

Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in west-central Wisconsin.  The Eau Claire City-County Health Department says there are more cases of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in the county so far this year.  It also says unprotected sex is often the cause for increases in STDs and STI’s.  

Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin is trying to get more broadband access across the state.  Baldwin introduced the Access Broadband Act yesterday that would increase access to broadband in rural areas across the country by removing regulations from small telecommunication companies.  The bill has bipartisan support including from Wisconsin’s other Senator Ron Johnson. 

One Wisconsin lawmaker wants to end lunch shaming in the state’s public schools, but local school leaders aren’t so sure.  State Rep. Gary Tauchen is pushing a plan to stop schools from not feeding, or feeding a smaller lunch to children who cannot pay.  But his plan doesn’t include any money from the state, so schools would have to eat the cost of the lunches that they give away.  Local school leaders say they’d rather see each school set its own lunch

It looks like a heart attack killed Durand firefighter before he rolled his car earlier this week.  Kyle Hayden’s family said he died of heart failure, not the one car crash on Highway 85.  Hayden was just 30-years-old.  A public visitation is set for this Sunday at the Rhiel Funeral Home in Durand. 

A sailor from La Crosse is finally getting a homecoming and a final goodbye.  George Naegle died in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.  His remains were not identified until recently.  Now, Naegle will be buried in La Crosse and receive the funeral he never got back in 1941.  Naegle’s family says everyone is invited to the funeral Saturday at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman in La Crosse. 

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is set to decide whether lawmakers in Madison can set their own schedule.  The court will hear arguments today from lawyers for the Wisconsin League of Women Voters who are challenging the entirety of last December’s extraordinary session at the Capitol.  The League says lawmakers cannot call themselves into session whenever they want, so all of the laws passed during that session are null and void.  Lawmakers say they specifically gave themselves the power to meet as they see

The Big Buddy and roller grill lunch isn’t the only thing that Kwik Trip has going for itself.  The folks at GasBuddy.com say Kwik Trip has the cleanest bathrooms in the entire state of Wisconsin.  GasBuddy released its annual traveler survey yesterday.  Kwik Trip also got the cleanest nod in Iowa and Minnesota. That’s good for road trippers who may be heading our way. Wisconsin once again just missed being among the top ten best places to live in the U.S.  The