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The City of Plymouth’s Chamber of Commerce has announced a new summer festival that will celebrate the city’s status as the “Cheese Capitol of the World”. The Cheese Capital Festival will be Saturday, June 24th.  Live music and a downtown cheese themed parade are all part of the scheduled activities.  

Menomonie Police Chief Eric Atkinson has provided details of a home invasion that led to a fatal January 21 shooting of a man by police. And he’s asking  two things of the community, for respect and consideration for those involved.  Atkinson is also requesting privacy for the victim of the home invasion. The shooting by police is being investigated by the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Chief Atkinson’s video can be viewed on the Menomonie Police Department’s Facebook page.

Mark Jensen will not tell the jury in his second trial for his wife’s death his side of the story. Jensen’s defense rested its case yesterday, without calling Jensen to testify. He’s on trial, again, for his wife’s 1998 death. Prosecutors say he poisoned her, and in 2008 he was convicted. But the Wisconsin Supreme Court later overturned that conviction, and ordered a new trial. Closing arguments will begin later this morning, and the jury may get the case by this afternoon.

We’re getting a few more answers about the Milwaukee man who died in his cell in the Waukesha County Jail last week. The sheriff’s office yesterday identified the man as 34-year-old Randy Glenn Jr. He died on January 17th, one day after he was arrested during a traffic stop. Guards say they found him in his cell, by himself, and said there were no obvious signs of how he died. The case remains under investigation.

It may be cold, but waiting a few minutes in a cold car is better than having your car stolen. That’s the thinking behind the latest warning from police in Chippewa Falls. Officers are warning people not to leave running cars unattended. Someone may take whatever is inside, or may take the car altogether. Police in Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire say they don’t have any cases of someone driving-off, but they did have some cases of people walking away

Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources is asking people to be careful after four snowmobile deaths in four days. All four happened between last Thursday and Sunday in either Vilas or Oneida counties in the northern part of the state. Two of the deaths came when riders missed a turn, the third was a crash with another snowmobile, and the other saw a pickup truck hit a rider. The DNR is warning people to slow down, use some caution, and never

This may not be the year for medical marijuana in Wisconsin. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said over the weekend that he doesn’t think the votes are there. Vos is one of a growing number of Republicans lawmakers who’ve said they support the idea of a strict medical-only marijuana program in the state. But he said on Sunday that he doesn’t see the proposal becoming law unless lawmakers can find some kind of ‘middle ground.’ Wisconsin’s governor has said he wants a fully-legal,

There’s now a formal complaint over how one of the liberal candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court is campaigning. A western Wisconsin man filed the complaint yesterday, he says Judge Janet Protasiewicz has violated the state’s Code of Judicial Conduct by talking openly about how she’d rule on cases that will likely come before the Supreme Court. Specifically, the complaint says Protasiewicz has called Wisconsin’s political maps ‘rigged,’ and has said she supports abortion and same sex marriage laws. Candidates for the court are not

The public address announcer at Germantown high school is now internet famous for telling fans at a weekend basketball game to ‘shut up.’ The announcer told fans watching the game between Cedarburg and Brookfield Central to be quiet after they started heckling the referees following a late-game foul. The announcer took to the mic and said ‘The WIAA is always looking for officials, and since you do such a good job from the stands, get on the floor, wear a

Despite the frigid end to the month, this January has been one of the warmest on record in southern Wisconsin.  Through January 28th this has been the fourth-warmest January in Madison and the second-warmest in Milwaukee.  However, the National Weather Service says wind chills are going to dip to around 20 degrees below zero in many places in southern Wisconsin tonight, so that could hurt the rankings.