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Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), today announced that municipalities across the state received more than $106 million in the second quarterly payments for 2024 for General Transportation, Connecting Highway, and Expressway Policing Aids. Gov. “Wisconsinites need and deserve safer, more reliable roads statewide, and my administration has been working hard to fix the darn roads and improve infrastructure in every corner of our state,” said Gov. Evers. “Through these investments, we are ensuring that

English Language Learner students at Chippewa Valley Technical College will showcase their book, Voices of the Valley, beginning at 1 p.m. on Monday, April 15, at the Menomonie Public Library. The open-house style event will feature a 30-minute introduction to talk about the learning process journey the students took to end with a published book. Students will also be on hand to discuss their stories and why it’s important to tell them to the community. Copies of the book with

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The jury will continue deliberating in the Apple River stabbing case today. Yesterday saw closing arguments in Nicolae Miu’s trial. Prosecutors say he was the aggressor in the river back in 2022 when he stabbed a group of teens, killing one of them. But his lawyer says it’s a clear case of self defense. They showed the jury a video that shows the group of teens harass, then attack Miu. The jury got the case yesterday afternoon, but said it

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.