accidents

Two high school principals in Eau Claire are warning parents about a new drug that's making its way into western Wisconsin. The warning about "25-D," or synthetic acid, came on the same day that a 17-year-old boy appeared in Eau Claire County Circuit Court for possessing it. The...

WOODVILLE -- A Chicago woman told troopers she dozed off while driving I-94 westbound, just west of the Woodville exit Sunday evening. Her car drifted onto the shoulder and when she overcorrected, lost control of the vehicle causing it to enter the west ditch and roll several times. When...

Yesterday's snowstorm was blamed for the death of a pickup truck driver who collided with a passing freight train in western Wisconsin. Buffalo County authorities said Christopher Squires, 32, of Fountain City slid through an intersection, and his pickup got stuck after it scraped...

Snow-covered, slippery roads are being blamed for one death and one injury in a two-vehicle accident near Rice Lake early this morning. According to the State Patrol, the crash occurred on 19th Street just south of 18th Avenue in Barron County at 6:58 a.m. this morning. The...

A 53-year-old St. Paul man, who died on I-94 last night, intentionally walked into the path of the semi that hit him, according to investigators. The Wisconsin State Patrol reports that Valen Bizimana walked into the eastbound lane of the Interstate after leaving his vehicle at...

OSSEO -- The driver of a flatbed wrecker was struck and killed about 8:30 a.m. Monday morning as he worked beside his vehicle, preparing to remove a disabled vehicle from the shoulder of I-94 near Mile Marker 92, three miles south of Osseo. In a press release Tuesday, the State...

A man and a toddler were killed over the weekend when a trench collapsed in far western Wisconsin. Pepin County authorities said John Unser, 56, and two-year-old Macin Finstuen fell into a six ft. deep trench on Saturday at a home-building site in the town of Arkansaw. A third...

A prominent River Falls man was seriously injured Sunday in a bike racing incident that will claim the life of a retired Eau Claire teacher. Dan Woll, 65, River Falls, former superintendent in the St. Croix Central and Menomonie school districts, saw Cheri Uelmen’s crash and...

The motorcyclist seriously injured Sunday when he was run over by a vehicle after toppling from his bike has been identified as Duwayne Standberry of Cottage Grove, Minn. A second cyclist, who was also hospitalized after he struck the cable barrier on the median shoulder in the...