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A man from Janesville is facing his eighth OWI charge, accused of running from police several times overnight.  Police say they tried to pull over a car that was speeding through a neighborhood just after midnight but the driver took off.  Police say they tried to pull the car over two other times before the driver finally stopped near Mineral Point Avenue and North Walnut Street.  Dustin O’Connor was arrested and charged with OWI, fleeing, and parole violation.

On Wednesday, December 28, 2022, at approximately 8:57 am, Lake Hallie Police responded to Wal-Mart, 2786 Commercial Blvd, Lake Hallie, for a report of a male subject who passed four counterfeit $100 bills. The incident originally occurred on Tuesday, December 27, 2022. On January 17, 2023, the photos from the case were uploaded to the Lake Hallie Police Facebook page, to see if social media could assist in identifying the unknown subject. The following day, the Cornell Police Department issued

ABOVE PHOTO: The Little Nell Hotel in winter. Photo by Aspen Snowmass. Strolling into a five-star location can make anyone feel like a celebrity. The attention immediately falls on them – the guest – the center of the hospitality universe. “It is really knowing what they want before they know they want it and being prepared to fulfill those wants.”  Guests may not realize it, but there are dozens of employees at any given time, working to make their luxury

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is accepting applications for 2023 Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin (BLBW) grants through March 31, 2023. DATCP will award a total of up to $200,000 in BLBW grant funding in 2023. BLBW is a competitive grant program designed to strengthen Wisconsin’s agriculture and food industries by helping farms and businesses more efficiently process, market, and distribute locally grown food products. BLBW grants provide consumers with access to more Wisconsin-grown food products,

 There aren’t many answers about the explosion of violence in Milwaukee over the weekend. Police say 18 people were shot between Friday and early Monday morning, two of them died. The shootings include at least one triple-shooting. Both of the victims who died were teens. Police say one was 14-years-old, the other was 15. Milwaukee’s mayor says people in the city’s neighborhoods need to step-up and help.

The prosecution has rested in the double-murder trial of a former Badger football player. The D.A.’s office in Janesville yesterday wrapped-up with its witnesses in  Marcus Randle El’s murder trial. He is looking at life in prison for the 2020 shooting deaths of two women. The jury heard from a string of witnesses that said he fled to Chicago after shooting the women. The defense has pointed out that there’s no DNA evidence in the case, and investigators never found

An Altoona teen who sped away from police last August with more than a pound of marijuana in his car won’t be spending any time behind bars. A judge in Eau Claire yesterday sentenced 18-year-old Cesar Cruz-Ramirez to two years’ probation. The sentence came as part of a plea deal that saw felony drug charges dropped. Police found a pound-and-a-half of marijuana in Cruz-Ramirez’s car.

The search for a missing Tomah woman has come to a sad end. The sheriff in Monroe County yesterday said the remains found last week in a rural part of the county are those of Felicia J. Wanna, also known as Felicia Helgeson. She’d been missing since December. No one is yet saying how she died, or when she died.

We’re going to get an update on the state of Wisconsin tonight. Governor Evers is set to deliver his State of the State speech from the State Capitol. The State of the State speech is one of the governor’s two big speeches to lawmakers, the other will be his budget speech next week. The governor is not yet saying what he is going to speak about. Republicans at the Capitol will have their own address after the governor’s speech tonight. 

Wisconsin’s attorney general is offering schools some safety training. A-G Josh Kaul’s office yesterday announced a new round of Standard Response Protocol, and Standard Reunification Method training. The idea is to help schools learn what to do in an emergency, then help schools reunite kids with their parents afterwards. Kaul says the hope is to make sure that schools across the state have a ‘comprehensive toolkit’ if they ever need it.