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 A 15-year-old boy from Florida is arrested in connection with threats made at Portage High School earlier this month.  A possible active shooter threat was called into the school back on January 3rd and a 15-year-old girl was arrested three days later.  Now police say a 15-year-old boy from Sarasota, Florida has been linked to swatting calls in Canada, Washington, Indiana, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, including the one at Portage High School.  Police want him charged with terroristic threats.

This year’s United States Championship Cheese Contest will happen in Wisconsin.  Nearly 200 cheese makers will take to the Resch Expo in Green Bay on February 21st and 22nd for the 21st biennial competition.  Medals will be given out in 118 cheese categories.  The champion cheese announcement will be streamed live online on February 23rd.

Visit Eau Claire recently announced $32,000 in grant awards for upcoming Tourism and Cultural Arts area organizations and events. The Tourism Grant program is intended to encourage tourism development and promotion through events that will generate overnight stays and/or extend visitor stays while creating a positive image of the Eau Claire area. It is appropriate for new and expanding festivals, sports tournaments, conventions, and other special events that have a room night impact on Chippewa Valley area hotels. It can

Xcel Energy announced that Feed My People Food Bank is the recipient of a $5,000 grant as part of the Xcel Energy Foundation’s 2022 Employee Choice Grant Award. Feed My People received the most votes from Wisconsin and Michigan employees. Each year, employees nominate nonprofits for the award, and all employees statewide then vote for a single finalist. “I’m very proud to work alongside colleagues who donate their time and talent to organizations they truly believe in.” “Xcel Energy coworkers are

 Wisconsin’s governor is sticking with his theme of more money. Governor Tony Evers last night used his state of the state speech to push for billions in new spending. The governor says he wants to spend two billion-dollars more on public schools in the state, and earmark 20 percent of the state’s sales tax to spend more on local government. The governor says Wisconsin is in the best fiscal shape ever, and he wants to spend some of the state’s record six-point-six

 Former Badger football player Marcus Randle El is heading to prison for the rest of his life for murder. A jury yesterday convicted him for the 2020 murders of two women. It took the jury just about two hours to find Randle El guilty. Prosecutors say Randle El killed the women because he thought they were stealing drugs from him. He’ll be sentenced in May.

 Mark Jensen’s lawyers will now get to make their case in his second murder trial. Prosecutors rested yesterday after calling former Kenosha County Medical Examiner Mary Mainland to the stand. She testified that Jensen’s former wife died from poisoning and was smothered back in 1998. Jensen was convicted of killing her, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered a new trial. No one is guessing how long Jensen’s defense will take.

The U.S. Marshals are now part of the search for a murder suspect from Madison who is one the run. Charvis Blue is facing homicide charges for his role in the shooting death of an 18-year-old on Madison’s north side last July. He hasn’t been seen since. Madison Police and the Marshals are asking anyone who knows anything about Blue’s whereabouts to please come forward.

An escaped inmate from St. Croix County is back behind bars. The sheriff’s office in Hudson says they found Brian Fern in Washington County, Minnesota yesterday. He walked away from the jail earlier in the day. Deputies say Fern had special privileges and was allowed to leave, but he didn’t come back. New charges are likely coming against Fern.

There’s a search for a long-missing woman in western Wisconsin. La Crosse Police are asking for help in finding 37-year-old Jennifer Peterson. Investigators say her family hasn’t heard from her since September. She was living in La Crosse at the time, but she may have moved. Her pictures are online, police are asking anyone who knows anything about her whereabouts to please contact them.