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Attorney General Josh Kaul announced that on August 14, 2019, Jerry Wayne True was sentenced by Bayfield County Circuit Judge John P. Anderson to the maximum sentence allowed by law for threats to injure a judge, threats to injure a judge’s family, and one count each of threats to injure a prosecutor, with each count charged as a habitual offender. A jury convicted True in July 2019. “Threats like the ones made in this case are an attack on our

A man has died from injuries sustained during a boating accident in La Crosse.  The La Crosse County Sheriff’s Office says Scott Halvorson hit a boat driven by Keith Matush on the East Channel and French Slough on August 17th.  Halvorson refused medical treatment at the scene but went to the hospital for his injuries the next day.  He passed away on August 19th. 

Construction for the new roundabout on State Street in Eau Claire is ahead of schedule.  That roundabout is one of four planned additions to Eau Claire roadways this year.  The city engineer says asphalt is already laid for a roundabout at Lexington Avenue and they will start laying asphalt for one at MacArthur this week.  Work on a fourth roundabout at Hamilton Avenue will begin once the first three are done in September.  Construction should be done by November. 

Chippewa Falls is another step closer to construction.  Last night the Chippewa Falls city council approved a developer’s agreement for the project.  The project will now go before the county economic development committee A six-million dollar project for the Lake Wissota Business Park in on Thursday.  If the committee approves it more details of the project will then be released. 

The Chippewa Falls High School athletic department is benefiting from a 145-thousand dollar donation from the Chippewa Falls Booster Club.  The booster club presented Chi-Hi with a check for the money at last night’s school board meeting.  Reports say the money will be put towards uniforms, equipment, traveling costs, and other daily needs of the athletic department.  Also because of the donation, students will only have to pay 20 dollars to join a sports team. 

The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help from the public in locating a runaway juvenile.  The juvenile is identified as Charli Carlin, 16 years of age from Southern Dunn County, left her residence on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 and she has not returned home at this time. The investigation showed that at this point Charli left on her own free will. It is unknown who she may be traveling with or where she may be going. No one

An Eau Claire man is being held on a 10 thousand-dollar cash bond after police say he threatened to shoot-up the Menards distribution center in the Town of Union.  Prosecutors say Kevin Pinkham made the threats last week.  His coworkers took him seriously enough that some of them didn’t come to work the next day, and a manager who police say Pinkham specifically threatened says he slept with a loaded rifle next to his bed.  Eau Claire police searched Pinkham’s

A Chippewa County sex offender is facing new charges after authorities say he touched a six-year-old child.  Prosecutors in Chippewa Falls filed charges late last week against 34-year-old Timothy Wundrow.  Investigators are not saying how Wundrow knew the child, or where the assault took place.  Wundrow has been on Wisconsin’s sex offender registry since a 2008 conviction for child sexual assault.  He served one year in prison in that case. 

One of the conservative watchdogs at the Wisconsin Capitol is suggesting a few tweaks to the University of Wisconsin’s free speech policy.  The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on Monday filed a statement with UW Regents that supports a formal policy for free speech.  But WILL’s Rick Esenberg says the school needs to clarify just what is disruptive speech and what criticism will mean for students.  Essenberg also doesn’t like the idea of expelling students who simply express unpopular ideas. 

Wisconsin’s Democratic U.S. Senator says she’s not picking a candidate for president.  Baldwin yesterday said she is not going to endorse anyone in the crowded Democratic field for president.  She says she’ll offer guidance and insight, but she doesn’t want to add to the fray that is the race to see who will face President Trump next year.  After leaving Congress to spend more time with his kids, Paul Ryan is heading back to Washington D.C.  Ryan announced this week