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Former UW-La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow will have one more chance to keep his job later this month. Gow will speak to UW regents on Friday the 20th in an attempt to keep his tenure. He was fired as chancellor late last year when the university discovered that he was making porn movies with his wife and sharing them online. A UW-La Crosse panel suggested he also be fired from his teaching position as well. Gow has argued that his

There’s a new option for internet in Chippewa Falls. TDS yesterday said it has finished installing fiber optic cables in town, and is now ready to start providing service. The company says it laid over 91 miles of cable, and will be able to connect up to five thousand homes and businesses. TDS says it is still working on its fiber networks for Eau Claire and Altoona.

The Princeton Valley Park is open for kids. Eau Claire’s parks managers say there are still some finishing touches to be taken care of before the park officially opens, but kids are more than welcome to go to the playground. Eau Claire spent 200-thousand-dollars upgrading the park, and it even has a wheelchair accessible merry-go-round. The parks department says the finishing touches should be finished soon.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking people to report several kinds of species if they’re seen on roadways. The DNR says it wants reports of frogs, salamanders, lizards, or snakes that are crossing Wisconsin roads during the late summer and early fall. The species, collectively known as herptiles, are more likely to migrate between breeding areas and hibernation areas this time of year. Reports of these sightings will help researchers and conservationists understand where populations are living.

Wisconsinites with a lot of pine cones on their land may be in luck. The DNR says it wants help collecting red and white pine cones for its reforestation program. A DNR official says early September is the prime time to collect pine cones. Nurseries will pay 125-dollars per bushel of red pine cones and sixty dollars for white pine cones. A bushel is about eight pounds, and the department says an experienced collector can pick a bushel in about

A winning lottery ticket worth four-million dollars was sold in Eastern Wisconsin. The ticket was sold at a Kwik Trip on Meadow Lane in Manitowoc, and matched five of six Powerball numbers during last Friday’s drawing. Another winning ticket from the drawing was sold at a Kwik Trip in Janesville, and won that buyer ten-thousand dollars.     

The University of Wisconsin Madison – Division of Extension has offices across the state. Family Engagement and Relationships educators have teamed up to bring local communities programs that support relationships, decrease stress and promote positive parenting techniques. Most classes are free and offered online. Raising Wisconsin’s Children is an online state-wide conference for parents, educators and child care professions. After the inaugural conference educators began offering parents a chance to connect with other parents and to get practical, positive, research-based

Eau Claire Police say they are still looking for the suspect in last week’s murder on Gilbert Avenue. Officers found 56-year-old Michelle Jenkins shot to death in a home last Thursday. Police say they went there to check and see if she was okay, but they are not saying exactly who placed the call for a welfare check. Investigators are continuing to seek information from the public and so far have not indicated a motive in the case.

A judge has found the suspect charged with killing two children in Abbotsford unfit for trial. A Clark County judge yesterday said Victor Gomez Acosta is not competent enough for trial. He’s accused of killing his two children, stabbing his wife, and then stabbing himself back on July 5th. Investigators say he stabbed the girls dozens of times. Police originally said Gomez Acosta told them that a crazy person did the stabbing. Gomez Acosta will spend at least the next

There won’t be any charges for a deadly rental house fire in Juneau County that left six people dead. Prosecutors yesterday said they will not be filing charges against the house’s owner. Investigators say the home’s owner never got the proper license to rent the house. A pastor and his family died when the house caught fire back in late June. Fire investigators say faulty wiring may have started the fire, but there’s no official cause yet.