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The second of three suspects in a 2020 murder in Downsville is heading to prison. A jury in Dunn County yesterday convicted Ryan Steinhoff in the stabbing death of Bruce McGuigan. Police found him dead in a mobile home in November of 2020. Another woman, Ashley Gunder, is serving a 25–year sentence for her role in the killing. A third suspect was found not guilty. Steinhoff will be sentenced at a later date.

It’s first-degree homicide charges for the Fond du Lac man accused of stabbing his girlfriend a dozen times and fracturing her skull. Gary Davis was in court for the first time yesterday. Police say he beat, stabbed, and killed his girlfriend back on November 8th. Her body wasn’t found until four days later when police went to check on her. Davis is also looking at mayhem and hiding a corpse charges, he’s being held on two million-dollars bond.

Eau Claire’s new city budget will add 74 dollars to your tax bill. The city council approved the new spending plan last night. It will spend 50 million-dollars next year. That includes the one-and-a-half million-dollar tax increase that voters approved back on Election Day. The city yesterday said that tax hike will mean 74 dollars more from each taxpayer next year.

It was a good start to deer season for hunters in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Natural Resources says the harvest for this year’s first weekend is up 14 percent. Hunters bagged just over 103 thousand deer this year, compared to just over 90 thousand deer in last year’s first weekend. The DNR says this year’s snow likely helped hunters track down the deer. Gun deer season will close after one more weekend of hunting this weekend.

The top Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol say they are talking with the governor for the first time in years. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu this week said they’ve had some conversations with the governor. Republicans spent the past two years saying the governor had frozen them out at the Capitol. No one is saying what they are talking about, but LeMahieu indicated there could be some agreement around spending Wisconsin’s record six-and-a-half billion-dollar surplus. Lawmakers will return

Wisconsin’s attorney general is announcing a six-figure settlement in a phony debt service case. Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday said American Tax Solutions will pay the state 328 thousand-dollars. Kaul sued the company accusing it of sending letters and postcards that scared people into calling for what they thought was a tax protection service. In reality, Kaul said, American Tax Solutions signed people up for tax resolution services they were not licensed to sell. Kaul says legitimate tax resolution services

The University of Wisconsin is ending in-person classes at one of its smallest campuses. The school yesterday ordered the chancellor at UW-Platteville to end the degree program at the university’s Richland campus. Just 60 students are taking classes at Richland right now, next year they will all be transitioned to the Platteville campus. The UW is not closing the campus, there’s some talk about using it to offer enrichment programs or adult education. No one is saying what will happen to the

Menomonie is once again allowing people to pay their fines with food. The city’s Food for Fines program allows people to pay parking tickets with canned goods or non-perishable food items. Each can or box earns you a two-dollar discount. Police say some people bring-in carts full of food. All of the food is donated to the Stepping Stones food pantry. Last year the program brought in 14 thousand pounds of food.

The Governor of Wisconsin is calling on residents to shop local this holiday season.  In a video message this morning Governor Tony Evers  announced Shop Small Wisconsin will take place November 26th through December 31st.  Evers says Wisconsinites will be asked to focus on shopping local during that time.

A New Jersey telemarketing company is promising not to make any more calls to Wisconsin.  The Wisconsin Department of Justice accuses the company of selling extended vehicle service plans without being registered as a telemarketer and calling people on the “do not call” list.  Today the DOJ announced the company has agreed not to make calls to Wisconsin and try to stop third-party partners from making calls to Wisconsin, as well as pay up to 350-thousand dollars in fines.