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Starting Monday, US 14 between Marion Road and Garner Place will go under construction for road improvements.  Work that will be done includes patching pavement along with adding expansion joints on the US 14 Bridge.  Drivers can expect lane closures along with one lane in both directions at times.  The project is expected to be done in early June.

The Beaver Dam girl who had been missing for two months is found safe.  Deputies near Omaha say they got a tip just before midnight about a possible sighting of now-17-year-old Sophia Franklin and 40-year-old Gary Day. The missing girl’s birthday was yesterday. Day is accused of abducting Franklin, who’s currently pregnant with his baby. The two have a no-contact order. Deputies located them and took Day into custody.  Franklin is awaiting re-unification with her family. 

New numbers show almost 22-hundred crashes reported in Wisconsin work zones last year.  That’s an average of about one crash every three hours.  State Patrol says there were almost 800 injuries and ten fatalities as a result of those crashes.  Wisconsin’s April law of the month focuses on work zone safety. 

“I am deeply concerned that our students’ peaceful effort to share information on campus on Election Day was disrupted. UW-Eau Claire strongly supports every person’s right to free speech and free expression, and the university remains committed to ensuring that campus is a place where a wide variety of opinions and beliefs can be shared and celebrated…”  -UW-Eau Claire Interim Provost Michael Carney UW-Eau Claire announced that the faculty member involved in an on-campus incident on Tuesday has been removed

On Thursday, April 3, at 6:42 a.m. a report came in of a vehicle driving on a bike trail in Eau Claire. Eau Claire Police Department officers responded, and a vehicle pursuit ensued. The pursuit was initially terminated due to safety concerns of the general community. However, the male suspect continued to drive in a dangerous manner, nearly hitting a pedestrian, jumping curbs, running stop signs and driving into oncoming traffic on the west side of the city. The suspect’s

A Western Wisconsin teen is accused of a fatal hit and run while driving drunk.  Prosecutors say the 17-year-old girl hit and killed Ann Seidl while she was on a run in Dunn County Saturday morning.  The suspect’s mother found the deceased woman and called 9-1-1.  She told investigators her daughter refuses to stop smoking weed or drinking.  Investigators allege the suspect admitted to drinking before driving, didn’t know what she hit, and didn’t care.  The teen was in court

Emplify Health has declared its intentions to introduce a new behavioral health unit at its La Crosse campus. This new unit will be addressing a big void of mental health care in the region. The new unit will be called “EmPATH” and will give a different approach to patients who come to the emergency room during a mental health crisis. In the new unit patients can be evaluated first in a calm environment before being taken to the new facility,

Middleton police arrested a man for his 11th OWI after an officer noticed his high beam lights were on. The incident took place Elmwood Avenue.  During the stop when police pulled the man over, they could smell alcohol coming out of the car and his eyes were glossed over.  The man then admitted that he had been drinking. Police took his BAC, and it was zero point one-one. He was placed under arrest and taken to a local jail.

The lawyer for the teen accused of killing Lily Peters in Chippewa County is asking for a change of venue.  The teen’s lawyer says media coverage and public commentary won’t allow the suspect to have a fair trial in the county.  Lily Peters was murdered at ten years old almost three years ago.  The boy accused of killing her is 17-years-old now, but was 14 at the time. He’s facing multiple charges, including homicide and sexual assault.  A hearing on

A lawsuit filed against the Eau Claire Police Department by a man shot by officers is being dropped.  Police responded to Clayton Livingston’s home in 2022 after a neighbor accused him of pointing a gun at his house.  Responding officers say Livingston also pointed a gun at them.  Two officers shot and injured him, and now Livingston’s lawsuit is being dismissed.  He’ll have a jury trial next year for charges related to the accusations that caused the police response.