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Investigators in Sauk County say the 18-year-old who ran down a Reedsburg girl in May was texting while driving. Prosecutors filed homicide charges against Kevin Green. He’s accused of hitting and killing 13-year-old Evelyn Gurney while she was waiting for the bus. Investigators say he swerved to miss a stopped school bus at the time. Green was in court yesterday, a judge set his bond at 25 thousand-dollars.

Democrats at the Wisconsin Capitol want a new law aimed at what they’re calling a frivolous lawsuit against a news outlet in Wausau. Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard yesterday said there needs to be a state law that protects small news outlets from lawsuits aimed at closing them down through legal pressure. The law is tied to the back-and-forth between the Wausau Pilot & Review and state Senator Cory Tomczyk and the Review’s story that said Tomczyk used a gay

Republicans in the Wisconsin senate are asking the state Supreme Court to remove one of their own from the coming case on redistricting. A dozen Republican state senators yesterday asked the court to remove Justice Janet Protasiewicz from the case because of her comments during last spring’s election. Protasiewicz called the maps ‘rigged’ and ‘unfair,’ and said she’d give them a second look. The Republicans say she prejudiced herself with those statements. Progressive groups have asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court

The debate is in the books and what did the Republican candidates for president have to say? In case you didn’t watch the debate from Milwaukee, we’ll look at the biggies from the debate on the Fox News Channel. Ron DeSantis says HE GETS YOU: On the issue of abortion, former Vice President Mike Pence said he’d push for a federal 15-week ban on abortion if elected president. Immigration was covered by South Carolina Senator Tim Scott: CRIME AND JUSTICE?

There are not a lot of answers about the person hit and killed by a train in Rusk County. It happened in the Town of Marshall Tuesday afternoon. The sheriff’s office says the victim was found underneath the train. No one is saying why they were on the tracks.

It was a day of tough questions for members of Wisconsin’s DNR Board. A senate committee yesterday pressed board members for answers about wolves, Sandhill Cranes, and PFAS contamination. The answers they got were vague. Wisconsin’s DNR is finalizing a new wolf management plan, and is inching toward an agreement on PFAS pollution. Republicans disagree with Governor Evers on all three issues, but it remains to be seen what they can do to stop the governor.

Some downtown business owners in Eau Claire say they may have to close their doors if the city moves ahead with paid parking. Showing you different sides so you can decide, Eau Claire city engineer Dave Solberg says the city is considering parking meters. He says the goal is to create some turnover in downtown parking spots, as well as to raise money for the city. No one, however, is saying just what the paid parking will look like, or

August 23rd, 2023 is now in the record books. The National Weather Service says Milwaukee set a record for heat yesterday when it hit 101 degrees. That breaks the old record of 98, set back in 1947. Forecasters say yesterday was just the 34th time Milwaukee has hit 100 degrees since they started keeping records in 1871. There is just one more day of heat for Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley. The National Weather Service is leaving a Heat

A western Minnesota teen is getting high praise after making an unusual catch.  Fourteen-year-old Connor Halsa was fishing at the lake during his family’s summer vacation in the northern part of the state when he managed to reel in a wallet containing two-thousand dollars.  The family found a business card inside the wallet and called the number, which eventually led them to Iowa farmer Jim Denney.  Denney lost the wallet in the lake a year earlier and thought he would

A brewery in Wisconsin is using something festive to brew beer.  The Black Husky Brewery announced its new beer Tree Sproose and it’s made using spruce from Milwaukee’s official Christmas Tree.  The couple who donated the city’s tree, Kaite Major and Mike Conell, also participated in the bottling of Tree Sproose.  Co-owner of Black Husky Brewery Tim Eichinger said a portion of the beer’s sales will go to the Milwaukee Urban Forestry Fund.