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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a new internal policy to clarify and guide the timely federal notification of appropriate state and local officials of cyber intrusions affecting election infrastructure.
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A weekend police chase traversed 13 miles and ended when the suspect driver attempted a U-turn and struck a pursing deputy's squad car.
A 34-year-old Haugen man was convicted by a Barron County jury on Friday, Jan 10, of killing his 3-month-old daughter in July 2017.
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A film crew was in Barron this week shooting a documentary on the Closs case that will air in Japan in February.
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RIDGELAND– A homicide victim whose locally discovered remains were unidentified since the early 1980s has been found to be Kraig King from White Bear Lake, Minnesota. The Barron County Sheriff's Department is asking the public for information on what may have led to his being in the area and…
POSKIN– A man is in jail pending possible charges after allegedly being armed while intoxicated during a domestic incident and threatening officers on Sunday night, Dec. 29.
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SHELL LAKE– Early release from prison for 85-year-old Richard A. Phernetton has been denied.
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Thomas Ericksen, 72, a former Catholic priest, was sentenced September 26 in Sawyer County Circuit Court to 30 years in prison for two counts of sexual assault of boys in the village of Winter from the early 1980s. At the sentencing the presiding judge, assistant district attorney, and some …
Christopher A. Grover, 45, has been sentenced for arson at six fire scenes discovered on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation in Sawyer County. He received the recommended full 25 years initial confinement and 21 ½ years extended supervision followed by 20 years probation.
SHELL LAKE– “Guilty.”
It took jurors about a half hour Tuesday to convict an Oconto County man who poured gasoline on his Ashland girlfriend as she slept and then set her bed afire on all counts.
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Last fall, over 30 illegally killed deer were found in the fields and ditches of southern Price County — some with their heads removed, but many left to rot where they fell.
Five years after analysts with the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) began linking cases to convicted murderer Samuel Little—and nearly 18 months after a Texas Ranger began to elicit from him a breathtaking number of confessions—the FBI has confirmed Little to be the most p…
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MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers has announced his appointment of Aaron Marcoux to serve as Washburn County district attorney.
,A former Catholic clergyman, Thomas E. Ericksen, 72, who served as a parish priest in the Village of Winter in the early 1980s was sentenced on Thursday, Sept. 26 to 30 years in prison for sexual abuse of boys while he served as a priest in the village.
SPOONER– The Special Response Teams (SRT) from Washburn and Sawyer counties were called out to a domestic disturbance on Labor Day in Spooner, and one man was taken into custody.
Ashland District Attorney David Meany has concluded that there is no evidence that the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers that resulted in Joseph Tedrick's death in Ashland on May 22 was justified.
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers is seeking applications for appointment as Washburn County district attorney.
ST CROIX FALLS– The St. Croix Falls Police Department is asking for help in identifying two people who appeared to be involved in a theft from the Wal-Mart in the city on August 18.
Honorable Angeline Winton is sworn in as Washburn County Circuit Court judge on Monday, Aug. 19, by 10th Judicial District Chief Deputy Judge John Anderson (Bayfield). Aaron Marcoux was hired recently as an assistant district attorney, when Washburn and Burnett counties’ joint half-time assi…
SHELL LAKE– Tanya M. Lanerd, 28, Cambridge, Minnesota, has been sentenced to two years in prison and three years of extended supervision for burglarizing a cabin in the town of Barronett in the summer of 2017.
Prosecution of 14 men caught in Rice Lake Police Department child sex sting operations since February 2018 has hit the halfway mark.
CHIPPEWA FALLS — Three more female inmates in the Chippewa County Jail have been apprehended with meth, bringing the total to five women caught in a recent sweep.
SUPERIOR– Seven women have filed a civil case against Jay Link of Wascott for posting photos of them, and photos claimed to be of them, on FetLife.com, a social media website self-described as “the Social Network for the BDSM, Fetish & Kinky Community. Like Facebook, but run by kinksters…
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