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WMC is partnering once again with Johnson Financial Group to highlight the manufacturing industry and ultimately determine what is the Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin. In the first round of voting, you can vote once per day, per device until Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 5:00pm. Only the Top 16 products will move onto the bracket-style tournament known as Manufacturing Madness! What will you pick as the Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin? Check out all of the nominees by CLICKING HERE.

The woman convicted of killing, then dismembering her boyfriend after a day of drug use will find out her fate later today. Taylor Schabusiness is due to be sentenced in Brown County Court later this morning. She’s  facing a mandatory life sentence, but the judge will decide if she has the possibility of parole.  A jury convicted her back in July of killing her boyfriend then mutilating his corpse.  Schabusiness said she didn’t mean to kill him, but also said

Milwaukee Police and the U.S. Marshals end the summer with the arrest of more than 250 violent criminals in the city. Milwaukee Police yesterday announced the hall from Operation North Star 3. It’s part of a nationwide crackdown on wanted fugitives. Investigators say this summer’s arrests closed 417 warrants, including 37 for murder, 75 for assault, and 26 for weapons offenses. Authorities say they also took more than 100 guns off the street, that’s nearly a fifth of the total

They’re hiring at Eau Claire’s fire department. Chief Robert Haller says they need to replace some firefighters who retired, and replace some who just left. Eau Claire’s recent tax increase allows the city to hire six firefighters, but a grant from the Department  of Homeland Security will allow them to hire six more. In all, the chief says the 12 new hires should keep Eau Claire’s fire department at around 96 firefighters. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

Voters across Wisconsin could soon have a better idea as to just how much they will be paying for a new school or a new tax increase. A State Senate panel today will hold a hearing on a plan that would require school districts to include information about the interest costs, and interest rates of any school referendum question. Currently schools have to tell voters just how much they’re asking for, but they don’t have to include the price of

Monday night’s Powerball drawing failed to produce a grand prize winner.  That means when the next chance to strike it rich comes up on Wednesday, an estimated 835-million dollars will be on the line.  The cash value on that works out to just over 390-million bucks.      

On September 21, 2023 Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office Administration learned of allegations of possible domestic abuse by a Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Deputy. Due to the nature of the allegations the Polk County Sheriff’s Office was asked to investigate. During the initial investigation, Polk County Investigators had probable cause to believe that Deputy Ryan M. Schick, 28, of Hayward committed the crimes of Domestic Battery, False Imprisonment, Strangulation & Suffocation and Stalking. Deputy Schick was arrested and is currently

PHOTO: The University of Wisconsin-Superior will hold a celebration for Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday, October 9 The University of Wisconsin-Superior will hold a celebration for Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday, October 9, beginning at 5 p.m. at the Maawanji’idiwin – “The Place Where We Come Together” Medicine Wheel and Community Gathering Area located in the courtyard near the Yellowjacket Union. This family-friendly event is free and open to the community. Refreshments will be provided. Following the ceremony, UW-Superior students

UPDATE: 9.30.2023 : Henke was taken into custody today at approximately 3:00pm in Oshkosh.  He is being held in the Winnebago County Jail, pending his transport to Eau Claire County.  The stolen firearm has not been recovered. There is a search in Eau Claire County for an armed and dangerous man. The sheriff’s department says they’re looking for 28-year-old Mitchell Henke. Deputies say he’s the accused of beating, pistol whipping, and threatening to kill a woman and her two-year-old child.

A registered sex offender in Chippewa Falls is back in custody after police say he cut off his ankle bracelet on Friday. Police rushed to an apartment complex on Pearl Street after they say Todd Leary snipped his ankle monitor bracelet Friday afternoon. The apartments aren’t far from the St. Charles Borromeo schools. Chippewa Falls Public Schools were also called as precaution. Police found Leary, and said later there’s no indication that he tried to approach the schools. He’s now