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“Our Office continues to seek justice for Angelina and her family. They continue to be in our thoughts as this investigation remains a priority for our Detectives…” -Sheriff Riewestahl. The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office continues to actively investigate the death of Angelina Wall. Angelina was walking home from her job at McDonalds on Hastings Way and was later discovered on the roadside of rural Highway J near Fall Creek. She was 22 years old and was just beginning her

The public will get a chance to say goodbye to Herb Kohl next week. The Kohl Foundation yesterday announced a public memorial for next Friday at Fiserv Forum. Kohl Died last week at age 88. He served four terms as a Democratic U.S. Senator in Wisconsin, but was equally well known for owning the Milwaukee Bucks. His memorial invitation says donations in his name are welcome at the LaFollette School of Public Affairs, Milwaukee Jewish Federation and Wisconsin Teachers’ Classroom

Authorities in Barron County say they know who they are looking for in a violent home invasion from last month.  A judge yesterday issued an arrest warrant for Ryan Charpentier, from Little Canada, Minnesota.  The sheriff’s office says he and another man broke into a 70-year-old man’s home back in December, tied the man up, and stole guns and cash.  At one point, the man told investigators, Charpentier used a taser on his face.  Detectives say they zeroed in on

Eau Claire’s homeless population continues to grow.  The folks at the non-profit Western Dairyland are preparing for their latest homeless count later this month.  They expect to find more people without a home.  The July count found 44 people living in the streets in Eau Claire.  Since then, national numbers say homelessness has jumped 12-percent.  Western Dairyland’s Dale Karls says homelessness has been growing in the area since about 2021.

There’s a change coming to the Jennie-O plant in Barron County.  The company yesterday said the plant will no longer harvest turkeys.  Instead, the plant in Barron will focus on other tasks including ‘smoking, cooking, canning, curing, refining, or rendering products.’  No one will lose their job because of the change.  Jennie-O says it’s making the change to focus on demand from customers.  The transition will begin next month.

Hundreds of people at one of Johnsonville’s plants in Sheboygan County will  be out of a job by the end of the year.  The company yesterday said it is closing its Meadowside plant in Sheboygan Falls.  Currently, 390 people work at the plant, and Johnsonville says they will all keep their jobs through at least June.  Johnsonville says the plant is closing because the company bought another packer, Salm Partners.  There is no word just when the plant will close,

Wisconsin lawmakers look to make AI child porn a crime.  A legislative committee yesterday heard the first arguments for a new law that protects children from artificial intelligence, and the dark side of how it can be used.  State Rep. Calvin Callahan says AI images are created from real images somewhere, and he says those kids are victims.  Wisconsin already has laws against child pornography, but AI images are not covered in those laws.  Callahan says a new law would

There’s a plan at the state capitol to make the Wisconsin State Fair tax free. Lawmakers will talk about the plan later today. The proposal would end the sales tax on tickets to the State Fair, and to the State Fair Park. Lawmakers would have to create a special sales tax exemption for the State Fair, because right now there’s a tax on tickets to all ‘amusement, athletic, entertainment, or recreational events’ that are not at county fairs.

Nurses at Planned Parenthood’s clinics in Wisconsin are looking to unionize. The Wisconsin Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals yesterday said nurses at clinics in Madison and Milwaukee have agreed to join the union. The election will be set next week, and Planned Parenthood said it supports its workers right to join the union. There  are already unionized clinics at Planned Parenthood sites in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

It looks like Milwaukee’s casino will continue to grow. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday reported that the Potawatomi Casino plans for a new, six-thousand-seat concert  venue. The project is expected to cost at least 200 million-dollars. Potawatomi managers didn’t comment on the report, but sources close to the project say the idea is to break ground early next year. Potawatomi recently closed its concert theater to make room for a new sports book. The new concert venue would not be