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A Milwaukee mom has agreed to a plea deal after neighbors found her kids walking down the street this summer, covered in blood and feces.  Prosecutors yesterday announced the plea deal with Katie Koch.  She was accused of keeping her kids in a house of horrors.  She pleaded guilty to two counts of chronic neglect of a child and one count of false imprisonment.  The DA’s office dismissed three other charges.  Police found the house of horrors after Koch’s seven-

Add Menomonie Schools to the list of school districts in Wisconsin that are asking voters for more money. The city’s school board this week okayed a referendum question for next spring. Menomonie Schools say they need another four million-dollars to make payroll and keep-up with day-to-day expenses. 

There’s another CWD case in western Wisconsin. The DNR yesterday confirmed a case in a wild deer that was shot in Jackson County.  The two-year-old buck was harvested in the town of Garfield, which is within ten miles of Trempealeau and Eau Claire Counties. The DNR says the confirmed case means Jackson County will have to restart its ban on feeding and baiting for three years.  Both Eau Claire and Trempealeau counties already have bans in place.

There will be a public memorial for Oshkosh’s police therapy dog later this month. The city’s police department yesterday said there will be a service for Magic on December 12th.  Magic had to be put down after doctors discovered cancer surrounding her heart last weekend.  She served with the Oshkosh PD for almost two years as a therapy and support dog.  Oshkosh Police are accepting donations in lieu of flowers to honor Magic’s time with the department.

Wisconsin’s former attorney general is running for the Supreme Court in 2025.  Brad Schimmel yesterday said he is running to put a check on the new liberal-majority court.  Schimmel will be running against liberal Justice Anne Walsh-Bradley in the spring election in 2026.  That race is expected to be just as contentious, and as expensive, as last spring’s election that flipped the Wisconsin Supreme Court.  Schimmel served as Wisconsin Attorney General for one term, he lost his re-election bid in

Democrats at the Wisconsin Capitol want to roll back the spending restrictions included in the state’s new shared revenue agreement. Lawmakers agreed in the state budget to share more state sales tax money with local governments. In exchange, Republicans put limits on how local governments can spend that money. Yesterday, a group of Democrats said those restrictions are hurting cities, towns, villages, and counties. The Democrats want to keep the money, end the spending restrictions, and allow local governments to

Unions in Wisconsin are asking the new liberal-majority Supreme Court to strike down Act 10.  A group of public sector unions, including the state’s teachers’ union, yesterday asked the court to overturn the 2011 state law that limited how teachers unions could bargain.  That law limited teachers’ unions to only getting raises, capped at the rate of inflation, in their contracts.  The union lawsuit says Act 10 created two separate categories of public employees, and violated the state’s equal protection

UPDATE 11.302023: On Thursday November 30th 2023, Jose E Dominguez-Garcia was brought from Missouri to Jail in Chippewa County, Wisconsin where he is detained on First-Degree Intentional Homicide charges from an incident reported in 2020. This is all the information to be released at this time. PREVIOUS DETAILS: A Reedsburg man accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend in 2020, is now being held in a Missouri jail. Jose Dominguez-Garcia was charged in the death of Rosaly Chavarria Rodriguez in December

Explore Menomonie and the Menomonie Parks and Recreation Department are bringing people together and providing memory-making moments this holiday season. Menomonie’s 2023 Parade of Lights highlights 18 locations throughout the city on a downloadable map. The map outlines a simple evening drive for holiday light seekers. Parade- goers can vote for their favorite light displays in both the business and residential categories. Locations on the map include Dunn County Historical Society’s Wakanda Wonderland as well s the walk-thru light display

More than 300 students will receive their degrees from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls during the fall commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 10 a.m. at Knowles Field House in the Falcon Center, 185 Emogene Nelson Ave. A total of 305 students are set to graduate; 272 will receive bachelor’s degrees and 33 will receive master’s degrees.  Student graduates have not only invested time and money into obtaining their degrees, but they have often had to persevere through various challenges, said