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Authorities in Pierce County are investigating the seizure of abused animals and the possible link with a dog fighting ring.  The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office recovered over 13-hundred animals from a property in Gilman Township last week.  It’s believed the chickens and dogs rescued were being bred for fighting.  A conviction for promoting animal fighting in our state carry a prison term of nearly four years and a ten-thousand-dollar fine.

A Stabbing in Nelson sends one to the hospital. It was about 8 yesterday morning when the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a 65 year old man who had been stabbed at his home. The suspect fled the scene after slashing the victim’s tires. 36 year old Kenneth Teel was eventually taken into custody after being located walking in the lane of traffic on Highway 25 near County Highway KK with a knife. The victim was taken

Governor Scott Walker says nearly 560-thousand eligible families filed for the child tax rebate.  Almost 95-million-dollars was returned to families through the rebate program, which ran between May 15th and July 2nd. Wisconsi’s Child Sales Tax Rebate and the Back to School Sales Tax Holiday were both adopted because of a state budget surplus of almost 400-million-dollars at the end of the 2017 fiscal year. 

Governor Walker says flood damage has topped more than two-hundred-million-dollars as a result of storms over the last three weeks.  Nearly 100-million-dollars is damage to homes, about 41-million-dollars in damages to business and nearly 67-million-dollars in damage to public buildings and infrastructure.  The figures are expected to rise as full damage estimates have not been received. 

We now have more information on the Eau Claire Police Officer involved in a domestic incident. It was just after 4 on the morning of August 31st when members of the Eau Claire Police Department were called to a hospital for a woman who was dropped off by an unknown male with severe head trauma and was listed in critical condition. It was believed the woman was a victim of a crime. During the course of the investigation, the Department

Mother Nature’s hissy fit with the rain is now causing some travel headaches here on the ground. A highway in Eau Claire County is closed due to flooding.  Emergency management officials say Highway H is closed between Channey Forest Road and Roack Dam Road because of flooding on the bridge. We aren’t quite sure when we can expect the highway to reopen. And about that rain-let’s talk numbers…Officials are reporting huge rain totals for the past three weeks.  Parts of

Police are investigating a series of battery complaints in UW-La Crosse campus housing.  The three incidents happened early Monday morning and appear to be related with the same suspects.  A group of three or four males in their early 20s battered at least one person in each incident. Police are deploying additional patrols in the campus housing area for the next two weekends. 

The FDA has taken to Twitter to warn people not to eat Honey Smacks.  It says the cereal has been linked to 130 confirmed salmonella infections in 34 states and some people have been hospitalized.  Honey Smacks has been the subject of a recall since June, which means stores can’t sell it, but people are still getting sick from it.  The theory is that people still have the cereal in their cabinets so the agency is tweeting, telling people to

Business Highway 53, Melby Street, and Hogarth Street were closed for most of the morning yesterday after a deadly accident. It happened just before 6 when the Eau Claire Police Department along with Eau Claire Fire and Rescue were notified of a train versus vehicle crash on the railroad tracks. The initial investigation has shown a Union Pacific Railroad train was North bound and a large white commercial vehicle carrying mail for the United States Postal Service was traveling East

There is a new principal in a local school. The Elk Mound Area School District School Board of Education have agreed to a contract with Mr. Paul Kling for the position of high school principal. Mr. Kling has served as a high school science instructor for the past 19 years in the Eau Claire Area School District and New Richmond Alternative High School. He will replace Mr. Paul Weber who accepted an administrative position near Madison. His first day was