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84-year-old Minnesota man arrested in hitchhiker’s 1974 cold case homicide
An 84-year-old Owatonna, Minn., man has been charged with a 50-year-old unsolved murder that occurred in western Wisconsin's Dunn County.
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After 157 years, production of ‘Leinie’s’ to cease at western Wisconsin brewery
Molson Coors, the parent company of Leinenkugel's, made the announcement Wednesday afternoon.
Wisconsin boy, 5, out of hospital after wagon rollover at orchard
Gabe is wearing a C-collar around his neck, and Angie Mier said he’s going to have to wear it all the time for at least the next two weeks.
Defense asks for new judge in Lily Peters homicide case
Defense attorney Michael Cohen filed the request in Chippewa County Court.
Homicide suspected as 10-year-old girl found dead in western Wisconsin
Iliana "Lily" Peters' father reported her missing around 9 p.m. Sunday when she did not return home from a visit to her aunt's house, about four blocks away.
Western Wisconsin suffers 115 COVID-19 deaths in December, 472 for 2021
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. -- Despite the widespread availability of three COVID-19 vaccines since late spring, 115 people across 12 western Wisconsin counties died from virus-related symptoms in December, according to...
Minnesota woman, son arrested in husband’s slaying; body found in Wisconsin in 2017
BARRON, Wis. -- A 60-year-old Minnesota woman and her 26-year-old son were arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing the woman’s husband in 2014. His body was located in western Wisconsin’s...
Coroner: Western Wisconsin man in quadruple murder/suicide shot relatives repeatedly
Ritchie German shot each of his three relatives multiple times, according to a preliminary autopsy report in the quadruple murder/suicide involving the western Wisconsin man. Chippewa County Coroner Ron Patten...
Too cold for beer in Wisconsin? Drivers won’t be doing some deliveries
It will be so cold this week that beer trucks won't be delivering some places. General Beer Northwest in Chippewa Falls will limit its deliveries on Wednesday, said general manager...
Jayme Closs’ aunt taking steps to be her guardian
Jayme’s godmother, who said she has always been close to Jayme and provided daycare for her for 12 years, has signed a guardianship request, she said.