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At 7:55 a.m., on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, the Barron County 911 Center received a call from of atwo vehicle crash on Hwy 48 near 18 3⁄4 Ave. Deputies from the Barron County Sheriff’s Department along with the WI State Patrol, MMC Ambulance, Rice Lake Fire Department and the Rice Lake Police Department responded to the scene. Initial investigation shows a tanker type truck was travelling west on Hwy 48 when a small SUV type vehicle lost control and crossed

The Chippewa Valley is invited to embrace all things winter-related with Eau Claire Parks and Recreation’s tenth annual Clearwater Winter Parade, starting at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, December 2, near the Eau Claire County Courthouse on Grand Avenue and proceeding down First Avenue to Owen Park. This year’s theme is “Passport to Festivities Around the Globe”. The parade will begin with a firework show at 6:30pm from the Grand Avenue pedestrian bridge. Grace Lutheran Church will again be hosting its

Wisconsin’s new head football coach is starting off with some ambitious goals.  Coach Luke Fickell yesterday said Wisconsin has the potential to play for a championship.  Fickell spoke with reporters on his first day as the new coach.  He didn’t get into the specifics, including what will become of interim coach Jim Leonhard.  Fickell will be making seven-and-a-half million-dollars in the first year of his contract.  That’s about a million-dollars more than what he made at Cincinnati.

A jury will decide if a man convicted in a Dunn County killing will go to prison or the state mental hospital. The sentencing phase for Ryan Steinhoff began yesterday. The jury is being asked to decide if Steinhoff  was sane when he killed Bruce McGuigan back in 2020. Another woman charged in the case is already in prison, she’s serving a 25 year sentence.

Police in Sheboygan say there’s no evidence that the wreck that killed a man after the city’s Holiday Parade was anything other than an accident. Officers say a 69-year-old man died about 30 minutes after the parade ended. He was trying to cross the street at the time. The suspect sped off, but was arrested a little while later. Sheboygan Police say there’s no evidence to suggest the man was intentionally hit.

The judge from the Waukesha Christmas Parade trial says she’ll decide about a run for the state supreme court in the next few days. Judge Jennifer Dorow talked about her future in a number of sit down interviews yesterday. She said she’s considering making a run next spring. A number of Republicans pushed her name to the top of the list. Conservative former Justice Dan Kelly is also running. Dorow didn’t say anything about him. Dorow grabbed national attention for

One of Wisconsin’s Republican congressmen says TikTok is ‘digital fentanyl’ that is addicting our kids. Congressman Mike Gallagher was on Fox News on Sunday, and once again called for a TikTok ban in this country. Gallagher says because TikTok is owned by a Chinese tech company, all of the data used and created by American users is sent back to Beijing. He says TikTok can not only track where users are, it can censor what they see. Gallagher has a piece

 Brett Favre wants a judge to let him out of the lawsuit over Mississippi’s misspent welfare money. Favre’s lawyers yesterday said the Mississippi Department of Human Services “groundlessly and irresponsibly seeks to blame Favre’ for how it mismanaged millions of dollars, years ago. Favre has not been charged, but newly released evidence shows he knew that the millions he was paid for speeches was money that was tied to the state’s welfare program. Favre’s lawyers say attaching him to the

Grab a warm beverage from a local business, bring along a warm blanket and a lawn chair for the Downtown Holiday Parade this Thursday, December 1, 2022  starting at 6:30 p.m.  South Central Avenue between 2nd Street and 9th Street will be closed to traffic by the City’s Street Division starting at 3 p.m. the day of the parade and reopened shortly after the parade is finished. City parking lots located along Maple Avenue and Chestnut Avenue (West 2nd Street

 It’s another day of significantly lower gas prices in Wisconsin.  Triple-A says the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded in Wisconsin is down 20-cents compared to this time last week, three dollars and 16-cents.  That’s also 40 cents lower than this time last month.  In Madison the average sits at three-26 a gallon, down 18-cents from last week.