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The sheriff in Rusk County is warning that the ice is still too thin in some places. The sheriff’s office yesterday said someone fell through the ice while fishing on Fireside Lake yesterday morning. People who live on the lake pulled the man out of the water before deputies were able to get there. He was taken to the hospital in Rice Lake as a precaution. The sheriff’s office says the warm winter has left the ice on many local

Kirk Bangstad is now looking to keep former President Trump off the Wisconsin ballot. Bangstad, who is the owner of the Minocqua Brewing Company and its political action committee, says he plans to file a 14th Amendment challenge to disqualify Trump from running for office in Wisconsin. Bangstad is an outspoken progressive, and has filed several sweeping political lawsuits over the past year including a challenge to the state’s school choice programs. Bangstand’s request will come just days after Michigan’s

The Powerball jackpot is rolling over again with no grand prize winner on Wednesday night.  Already at 685-million dollars at the time of the drawing, the jackpot now jumps to 760-million dollars.  The cash option on that works out to nearly 383-million dollars.  The next drawing is coming up on Saturday.

The road test waiver available to high school driver’s education students will be going away starting January 1. The waiver allowed 16- and 17- year old seeking a drivers license to waive a road test after completing driver’s education and 50 hours of supervised time behind the wheel. Starting in 2024, all drivers will have to schedule and pass their road tests before getting their license regardless of experience on the road. Data shows more than 144-thousand drivers waived their

David Joseph Andrle, 39 years of age, from Menomonie, WI has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 5th offense. At approximately 12:30 pm Wisconsin State Troopers were dispatched to a crash near mile marker 26 westbound on I94 which is in St. Croix County. When heading to the crash responding units were informed that 2 subjects were fleeing south across the interstate on foot wearing all-black clothing and

A Washington County man is looking at charges after the sheriff says he pretended to be a deputy to try and get naked pictures from a local woman. The real sheriff’s office got a tip about 35-year-old Daniel Anderson after investigators said he allegedly told the woman he could make some criminal charges disappear if she’d send him naked pictures and or have sex with him. Anderson is really a tow truck driver who police say found the woman after

Police in Janesville cleared the local Farm & Fleet after a bomb threat yesterday. Officers got the call yesterday evening. They cleared the store and blocked off the parking lot. Police say they were looking into a bag that was inside the store. No one is saying if the bomb threat was credible and Janesville Police say they’ll provide an update once their investigation is finished. The bomb threat comes just days after the FBI arrested a Janesville man for

A western Wisconsin sex offender will not go to trial. Stephen Jenkins, who lives in Trempealeau, pleaded guilty to child pornography charges back in July, but a federal judge this week found Jenkins unfit for trial. That means he won’t face any new punishment. Instead, the court will monitor his status, and prosecutors could file charges again. Jenkins has two sex crime convictions on his record from both 2005 and 2006 in Utah.

A 17-year-old is in custody after police say they started a fire at the Walmart in Sparta. Video shows a stream of flames shooting up to the ceiling from the store’s fabric section yesterday. The fire sent customers running out of the store, and did about seven million-dollars in damage. Sparta Police are not yet naming the 17-year-old, but say they’re being held in the Monroe County Jail on arson charges. No one was hurt in the fire, and no

Prosecutors in Brown County are adding charges against the 16-year-old girl who they once called the largest fentanyl dealer in their local schools. Maylia Sotelo was just 15 when police arrested her in connection to an 18-year-old’s fentanyl overdose. She was in court yesterday to face new charges. Those new charges include allegations that she sold drugs in local schools. Prosecutors say they have a mountain of evidence from Facebook and other places that show Sotelo talking about dealing marijuana