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It’s unclear if prosecutors in Eau Claire are going to be able to get the wanted man who walked away from a halfway house in Tomah back to Wisconsin. Authorities in New Mexico found Shane Helmbrecht Monday night. The Eau Claire County DA’s office says they’ve filed a motion to have him brought back to Wisconsin, but because walking away from the halfway house is a civil matter not criminal, the DA doesn’t have the authority to order his return.

We have names to go along with the two bodies recovered from the St. Croix River On Tuesday. The St Croix County Sheriff’s Office yesterday identified the two as 51-year-old Demetrius Kekedakis and 65-year-old Perry Montpetit, both from Hudson. Deputies found the two after getting a 911 call about a fishing boat that was going in circles on the river Tuesday morning near Troy Beach, which is south of Hudson. The sheriff’s office is not saying how the two ended

Camp Nawakwa has been sold, but it’s going to stay open. A new non-profit called Our Camp Nawakwa recently purchased the camp that had been owned by the Girl Scouts since 1951. The Scouts announced last fall they were going to sell the camp to reduce the number of properties they own. The Scouts and the non-profit say they’ve come to an agreement.  The new nonprofit says it will start raising money soon to update the camp and its facilities.

New drivers in Wisconsin are going to have to start taking the road test again. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles yesterday said it is going to end the road test waiver program at the end of the year. Wisconsin stopped requiring a road test during the coronavirus outbreak back in 2020, and has just continued since. But as of January 1st, drivers under 18 who are looking to get their driver’s license will once again have to prove that

  Wisconsin’s state superintendent of schools says the bill restricting the rights of transgender youth will only end up killing children. Superintendent Jill Underly told lawmakers yesterday that a pair of proposals that would keep transgender athletes out of girls and women’s sports in the state is anti-trans, and dangerous. Republican State Rep. Barb Dittrich is proposing two plans that would keep girls and women’s sports for girls and women only. A number of LGBTQ advocates and lawmakers yesterday also

There is more support across the rest of the state of Wisconsin than there is in Milwaukee to spend public money on the Brewers’ ballpark. Milwaukee’s tourism office, and the city’s chamber of commerce yesterday released a poll that shows 66 percent of people want the governor and Republican lawmakers to work together on a solution to pay for the work at American Family Field, and keep the Brewers in Milwaukee. That’s far more than a poll last month that

Milwaukee is on another best of list. The city made Conde Nast’s 2023 Traveler Readers Choice Awards, as the third-best large city to visit. Milwaukee gets high marks for the city’s food scene. Chicago is the best big city to visit according to the list, followed by San Diego. But Milwaukee finished ahead of New Orleans, San Francisco, Boston, New York City, Nashville, Washington, D.C., and Miami.

“We wanted to experience that old-fashioned feeling of community, and really develop genuine relationships.” A new retail concept that combines community gathering space with fine art sales called Mercantile Plaza is opening in the long-vacant location at 211 N. Franklin Street in the heart of downtown Port Washington, Wisconsin. Owners Julie & Mike Christiansen both grew up in the suburbs of Milwaukee, and recently moved back to Port Washington after living in both Minneapolis and Los Angeles. They fell in

UW-Madison is looking for people with irritable bowel disease to participate in a COVID-19 vaccination study. UW Health is making a study to see if people who take immunosuppressant drugs, like those with IBD, will be able to get the updated COVID vaccines. In a 2021 study, 97-percent of people with IBD had an immune response after taking two vaccine doses. By the end of the study, everyone with IBD had a reaction. UW-Madison is one of three locations nationally

Former Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre will be in court  later this month answering questions in a Mississippi welfare fraud lawsuit, filed by the Mississippi Department of Human Services.   A judge refused to dismiss Favre from the civil lawsuit in August. The questioning is scheduled for Thursday October 28.