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A man from Janesville is facing his tenth OWI charge.  Police say Daniel Gerblick was pulled over in a liquor store parking lot on Memorial Drive Tuesday morning.  They say he failed a field sobriety test and was arrested for OWI, operating after suspension, and having open intoxicants in a car.

A man’s arrested in southern Wisconsin after police say he shot a gun into a home.  Police in Monroe say someone reported bullets being fired into their home near 16th Street 15th Avenue Tuesday night.  Police say John Frediu was arrested at the scene on several charges including first-degree intentional homicide.

A new report shows Wisconsin cigarette sales are less than half what they were 20 years ago.  The Wisconsin Policy Forum says 193-million packs of cigarettes were sold in Wisconsin last year, compared to just under 420-million in 2001.  The Wisconsin Policy Forum points to several likely causes, including tax rate increases, public health messaging, substitute products, and policy changes.  The Wisconsin Policy Forum says this has resulted in state tax revenue going down, but Wisconsin is also seeing lower disability and disease rates and lower health care costs.

 It looks like Wisconsin gas prices may be going back down.  According to Triple-A, the statewide average is down one cent from this time last week to three dollars and ten-cents a gallon.  In Madison the average is down five-cents from last week at three-oh-nine a gallon.  Triple-A says the holiday spike in gas prices seems to be stalling and prices will likely start going back down.

 Opening arguments are set to begin today in the second trial of a Kenosha man accused of poisoning his wife back in 1998. A jury was selected in Mark Jensen’s trial yesterday. He was originally convicted of killing his wife, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered in 2021 that he be given a new trial. Prosecutors will have to get a conviction this time without a letter from his wife that said if anything happened to her, that police should assume Jensen

 Wisconsin’s bail reform amendment continues its fast track for the spring ballot. Lawmakers in Madison had a hearing on the plan yesterday. Advocates and activists continue to criticize the proposal, saying making it easier for judges to keep dangerous suspects in jail isn’t the solution that Wisconsin needs. Republicans at the Capitol say there have been too many cases where a suspect is released on little to no bail, and then commits a new crime. The amendment started after the Waukesha Christmas

Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher is getting his China-focused committee in Washington, D.C. The House voted yesterday to create the new Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. The idea is to look into  CCP’s economic, technological and security advancements and its competition with the United States. Gallagher has been sounding the alarm about a rising threat from China. Wisconsin’s two Democratic members of Congress, Mark Pocan and Gwen Moore, voted against the committee.

The Mega-Millions jackpot is growing again. No one won last night’s drawing, so Friday night;s drawing will now be worth one-point-three billion-dollars. The lump sum cash payout on that would be 708 million-dollars. One-point-three billion will be the second largest Mega-Millions jackpot ever. It’s been three months since someone won the big prize. Your chances of winning the prize this time are about one-in-300-million.

A Green Bay mom is looking at charges after police say she left her kids alone to go to the bar.  Green Bay Police say they found Christina Badalamenti’s non-verbal six-year-old son wandering around a parking garage. They took him in, and took him home. That’s when police say they found his four-year-old sister alone in the house. Officers were able to track Badalamenti down, she initially told police she left the kids with a babysitter. Prosecutors on Monday filed

The weather once again causes some hiccups for morning commuters and schools. To see a full list of the delays, closures, and adjustments to your daily schedule CLICK HERE for our partners at WEAU 13 News. Be sure to leave extra time for travel and be safe!