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There are now formal charges in the death of the 12-year-old Milwaukee boy found decomposing in his father’s home. The Milwaukee County DA’s office this week filed reckless homicide charges against Romuan Moye. He’s Jacorie Robinson’s father. Investigators say they found Robinson dead and decomposing in the living room of his father’s old house in early October. No one is sure just when Robinson died, or how. Moye is on the run, and there is a warrant out for his

A former Milwaukee pimp says he’s a serial killer. Lawrence McFarland told Milwaukee Police last month that in addition to prostituting women, he killed several women in Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, and Detroit. He reportedly told police that he burned their bodies after strangling them. There’s no word if his claims are true, Milwaukee Police have not said if McFarland’s description matches any open cases. He’s not facing murder charges either. Prosecutors are looking to take him to trial on sexual

This morning brought multiple power outages in South Eau Claire and we now have more information about the incident. According to the Xcel outage map, more than four-thousand customers were without power. Many businesses, including a Walmart and Target, also lost power. Eau Claire Police say traffic was congested, since multiple traffic lights were affected by the outages. They say an electrical substation fire caused the electrical snags.

A Central Wisconsin woman is in the hospital after being shot in the abdomen while walking her dog. The Department of Natural Resources says the hunter thought the dog was an antlerless deer and decided to shoot at it. The agency says the woman was shot on private property on the second day of gun-deer season in Big Flats Township. During a news conference, Mike Weber with the DNR recommends hunters wear fluorescent orange or pink while in the woods.

A proposal giving more leeway to prosecutors seeking sexual assault charges has been resurrected. Republican Senator Andre Jacque introduced the bill, extending the statute of limitations from ten years to 20. The lawmaker says the 20-year-limit has been enacted in other states and was approved in the Wisconsin Senate last year – but stalled in the Assembly.    

Cantaloupes sold in Wisconsin are linked to salmonella infections. The Wisconsin Department of Health says four people in four counties at minimum have gotten salmonella. Two of them had to be hospitalized. Some whole fresh cantaloupes sold between October 16 and 23, and ALDI cantaloupe and pineapple spears with best buy dates between October 27 and 31 are recalled. The department of health says any of the fruit, including any frozen for future use, should be thrown out.

 Decking the halls and decorating your home this holiday season doesn’t have to break the bank. For those who haven’t made the switch yet, purchasing LED lighting (light-emitting diode bulbs) can result in substantial savings on customer’s energy bills. Depending on the type and number of lights used, customers can typically save anywhere from $1 to more than $100 for holiday lights based on electric rates. Strings of LED lights still cost more to purchase than strings of traditional incandescent lights, but because

Shane Helmbrecht may once again be looking at homicide charges when he returns to Eau Claire. Prosecutors in Eau Claire this week said they are looking to resume their case against Helmbrecht, after police say he killed his neighbor back in 2016. Helmbrecht was originally found unfit for trial in the case, but that decision is under review after he fled from a halfway house in Sparta back in September. Authorities in Mexico arrested Helmbrecht on Sunday. He’s in jail

There is now a permanent memorial to remind the people of Waukesha about those who died in the attack on the Christmas Parade two years ago. The city yesterday dedicated a memorial to the six people who were killed when Darrell Brooks Jr. sped through the parade crowd back in 2021. It’s the first of two permanent memorials to the Waukesha parade. The youngest victim, eight-year-old Jackson Sparks’ mother Sheri was among those who spoke. Governor Evers ordered flags across

Deer hunters in Wisconsin didn’t get nearly as many deer this year. The state’s Department of Natural Resources yesterday said hunters took 10 thousand fewer deer than during the opening weekend of gun season last year. This year’s harvest stands at just over 92 thousand deer. That’s compared to over 103 thousand last year. The DNR is blaming the weather and a decrease in the number of antlerless deer. The second weekend of gun deer season in the state ends