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An Eau Claire woman is looking at a deal in a burglary case where she bashed an elderly man in the head. Megan Dehate entered her guilty plea recently. She was originally facing armed burglary and abuse of an elder person charges, but she pleaded that down to burglary and physical abuse of an elder person instead. Investigators say Dehate was high on something when she broke into a elderly couple’s home. They say she smashed the husband in the

Crews responded to a morning crash. It was just before 8am on Sunday May 5th when crews were on scene after the Chippewa County Sheriff’s office received a report of a single vehicle rollover crash. Units responded and discovered that a truck was southbound on STH 40 when the truck left the roadway drove over a driveway and became airborne. The Truck then collided with an embankment and multiple trees causing heavy front- end damage. The truck subsequently rolled over

The old Girl Scout camp in Chippewa County is back open. The camp’s new owners cut the ribbon on Camp Nawakwa yesterday. The Girl Scouts owned the camp for years, but sold it off last year because of the costs. A group of former Girl Scouts in the Chippewa Valley came together to buy the camp, fix-it-up, and reopen it. The group says the idea is to keep the camp open for Girl Scouts, and other youth groups going forward.

Wisconsin is getting ready to host the president again. President Biden is planning a visit to the old Foxconn site on Wednesday to celebrate Microsoft’s development there. Microsoft has bought nearly 15 hundred acres at the old site, and the company plans to use the land for new data centers. There’s no word yet just what President Biden will do or say. Governor Evers negotiated the deal with Foxconn, and has paid the company its tax benefits for the past

There will be another protest on campus at UW-Madison today. UW faculty members and staffers say they plan to rally in support of the pro-Palestinian protesters who’ve been on campus now for a week. Professor Keith Woodward says they want to listen to their students and hear their ideas. The faculty rally will be at the Library Mall, which is the center of the current protests. Faculty members say they plan to meet with students in the tent village on

The state DOJ says the Mount Horeb Middle School student killed by police had pointed his pellet rifle at officers before they shot him.  The Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation said in a news release on Saturday that officers directed him to drop his weapon and he would not comply.  The student died on the scene after lifesaving measures were deployed.  In the release, the DOJ described the weapon as a Ruger 177-caliber pellet rifle.  The Milwaukee

A soon-to-be life sciences communication graduate at Wisconsin-Madison is the new “Alice in Dairyland.” Halei Heinzel was chosen on Saturday by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. As the 77th Alice in Dairyland, Heinzel will have a full-time position with the agency touting the importance of agriculture in the state. Current Alice in Dairyland, Ashley Hagenow, will serve until July 8th, when Heinzel takes over.

Hello. We are glad you are here! Welcome to your weekend. It’s both Derby Day and May 4th, the day that Star Wars fans get to embrace all things Jedi and beyond from a galaxy far, far away. But here on Earth, your weekend might already seem full. That’s why we like to take some time on Saturday morning to simply slow things down a bit. It’s a “scroll down memory lane.” A look back at events that happened on

May the Force be with you this May 4th. Mark Mayfield has more.

The “most exciting two minutes in sports” is here as the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby takes place today at Churchill Downs in Louisville. The current favorite Fierceness will start from the 17th post position, while second-favorite Sierra Leone is starting out of the number-two gate. Fierceness is running at five-to-two odds, Sierra Leone at three-to-one. For those who like betting on the longshot, West Saratoga, Grand Mo The First and Society Man are running at 50-to-one. A total