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Price County Sheriff Brian Schmidt reports his office is investigating a two-vehicle  accident involving a school bus.   On September 25, 2024, at approximately 4:01 p.m., the Price County Dispatch Center  received a call reporting a two vehicle accident at the intersection of US Highway 8 and  Stadium Road, in the Township of Knox. One of the vehicles involved was a school bus  from the Prentice School District. Although children were upon the school bus at the  time of the crash,

Marshfield schools recently dealt with swatting. On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, the School Resource Officer assigned to the Marshfield High School received a phone call from an individual reporting concerns over the mental state of a current student of the high school. Allegations were made that the student made comments about committing an act of violence at the school. Approx. 20 minutes later a call was made to the Wood County Dispatch Center that this same student had just committed

Police are asking questions after they say a four-year-old was shot in Neillsville. It happened yesterday morning at a home on West 7th Street.  Police say the four-year-old was rushed to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Investigators say an underage relative shot the little girl. They are not calling the shooting an accident, yet, and police are not saying how old the relative is. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE WITH WEAU 13 NEWS.

 Police in Chippewa Falls say the latest school threat was, once again, not credible. Officers say they will step-up patrols at the city’s middle school for the next couple of days out of an abundance of caution, but they don’t expect any problems. Chippewa Falls Schools are not saying just what the latest threat entailed. Wisconsin has seen a wave of school threats over the past two weeks. The attorney general’s office says nearly 150 school threats have come-in to

The Justice Department is suing two rural Rusk County communities over their decision to scrap their electronic voting machines. The Biden Administration filed its lawsuit last week against Thornapple and Lawrence townships. Both communities voted last year to stop using their electronic voting machines. The DOJ complaint says federal law requires at least one electronic voting machine at each polling place so that disabled voters have an option. Lawrence Township leaders say they’ve already settled with the Justice Department and

There are a lot of requests for more in Governor Tony Evers’ new state budget. The Institute for Reforming Government took a look at Evers proposed two-year spending plan and found billions of dollars in new requests. The largest, four billion-dollars, comes from the state’s Department of Health Services.  That money is tied to a proposed Medicaid expansion that the governor’s office says would bring in billions-more from Washington. D.C. The University of Wisconsin is asking for nearly a billion-dollars

No students are hurt after a school bus carrying a soccer team was involved in a crash last night. The Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District Superintendent says the varsity boys’ soccer team was traveling to Menomonie for a game when their school bus was hit. An SUV reportedly ran a stop sign and hit the bus. No students or other bus riders were injured.

Wisconsin is in the top ten U-S states with the most factory farm waste production. The Food and Water Watch analysis ranks Wisconsin tenth in the nation, producing 33 billion pounds of waste annually. That’s four times the amount of human waste in the state. Iowa is at the top of the list with 109 billion pounds of factory farm waste, followed by Texas.

Wisconsin is giving out 125-thousand dollars in grants for hunting recruitment and retention. The state Department of Natural Resources says it’ll give out the money to projects that encourage young people to learn how to hunt in Wisconsin, and increase the total number of hunters in the state. Past projects that benefited from Hunter R-Three grants include expos for new hunters, archery ranges for after-school clubs, and purchasing outdoor wheelchairs for public use. Applications will be accepted until October fifteenth.

“Growing up in a Midwestern tool-and-die manufacturing family, the polytechnic roots resonate with my life’s paths, and I know how rare — and needed — applied learning expertise is, not only here in Wisconsin, but also on a national and global scale.” -Schmitt A new dean of the College of Arts and Human Sciences has been named at University of Wisconsin-Stout.  The appointment of Jason Schmitt was announced recently by Glendalí Rodríguez, UW-Stout provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs. Schmitt, who began