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It’s a year in jail for a sexual assault suspect in Dunn County. A judge yesterday sentenced Jesse Fortenberry, from Mississippi, to a year behind bars. He pleaded guilty to a weapons charge, and prosecutors reduced the sexual assault charge against him to a misdemeanor. Police say he admitted to shooting bullets into two cars in downtown Menomonie last summer.

A man is suing the Chetek Chamber of Commerce for a 2022 ATV wreck. Dennis Anderson says he was riding his ATV along the ice trail on Lake Chetek the day after the Winter Fest snowmobile races, when he hit a berm and suffered catastrophic injuries. Anderson says the Chamber created the berms for the race, but failed to remove them afterwards.

Police in Two Rivers say they have no evidence that Elijah Vue was kidnapped, and no evidence that he simply walked away. Elijah Vue, 3, is still missing.(Two Rivers Police Department) Two Rivers Police Chief Ben Meinnert yesterday said they’ve searched over 10 thousand pieces of video, looked across most of Manitowoc County, and sifted through nearly 15 hundred tips in their search for the missing little boy. Vue has been missing since February 20th. He was last seen at

Local leaders in Wausau say they are thankful and ready for new federal rules on PFAS chemicals. The Biden Administration yesterday unveiled new standards for the so-called forever chemicals, and they are much lower than the standards in Wisconsin. Wausau is building a PFAS treatment center at its water treatment plant, and Mayor Katie Rosenberg says that turned-out to be a great decision. She says there’s no way they could meet the new, lower threshold without a new treatment facility.

It’s almost official, the effort to recall Robin Vos has failed. The Wisconsin Elections Commission says the group in Racine County who wanted to oust the state’s assembly speaker did not get enough signatures to force a recall. The Elections Commission is expected to vote to make that call official later today. Vos called the recall organizations whack-jobs and morons, and said it was always a personal vendetta against him. Prosecutors in Racine County continue to look into whether the

Add schools in De Soto to the list of school districts to get an online threat. The Vernon County Sheriff’s Office says the school district got an email threat yesterday. Deputies went to the school to investigate, and didn’t find anything that was threatening. All of the kids were okay. The sheriff’s office yesterday said several schools in Wisconsin got similar threats, but no one is saying where they came from.

Packer nation is headed to South America. The NFL yesterday said the Green Bay Packers will play in Brazil to start the season. The Packers will take on the Philadelphia Eagles in a game in São Paulo, Brazil on September 6th. That means it will be a Friday night game. This is just the second international game for Green Bay. Their last was the 27-to-22 loss to the Giants in London back in 2022.

A man in Trempealeau County is accused of shooting a deer out of season and carrying methamphetamine. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says they got a report of a deer shot in Galesville. They say Tony Lorenz admitted to shooting the deer and gave them the gun he used, which had a silencer on it. The DNR says they found 20 silencers, four illegally modified rifles, methamphetamine, and a hundred pipes during a search of his home. Lorenz is

Governor Evers has scuttled the latest plan to deal with PFAS contamination in the state. The governor yesterday vetoed the proposal from Republican lawmakers because he said it included a loophole for polluters. Republicans say the governor’s definition of polluter includes anyone who finds any PFAS contamination on their land or in their water, even if the chemicals came from somewhere else. Lawmakers say they want to focus on cleaning Wisconsin’s drinking water, and accuse the governor of wanting to

It is going to cost a lot more to insure American Family Filed this year. The ballpark is looking at a half-million dollar insurance premium spike. The Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District says it will need to spend a total of 790 thousand-dollars to insure the home of the Brewers. The district says flood insurance is driving the price increase. The Menomonee River runs just a few blocks from the ballpark, but is right next to some of the stadium’s