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On Thursday, Dec. 29, Pine County Sheriff Robin Cole made another appearance on WCMP for his weekly report. In addition to updating our listeners on the actions of his office over the past week, Cole also had words of warning for folks about the threat of wildfires and the dangers of drinking and driving on New Year’s Eve.
Charges were filed against a Finland man on Thursday for allegedly robbing a Two Harbors bank on Christmas Eve. Twenty-five-year-old Robert Kenneth Moore faces three felonies for the incident after being arrested in Proctor earlier in the week. Police said he walked into the Lake Bank inside the Super One Foods just before 10 a.m [...]
A car crash on I-35 near Esko early Thursday killed one person and injured two others. WCMP first reported on this incident during the Pine County Sheriff’s Report with Robin Cole.
Three people were displaced on Thursday night after a bedroom fire broke out at a duplex in Chippewa Falls. The Chippewa Falls Fire Department responded to a call around 10:25 p.m. when the owner of a duplex called in saying the building had caught fire. Police say the fire was contained to one bedroom in [...]
Three people have been arrested in a drug bust near Rice Lake. WEAU reports that the bust happened after 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning at an apartment on the north side of Rice Lake. During the bust, police said they found nearly $600 in cash, several grams of meth and marijuana, and “drug distribution paraphernalia.” The [...]
Organizers of the drive to remove Republican Gov. Scott Walker from office plan to travel to Pasadena, CA, for Monday’s Rose Bowl in hopes of getting additional signatures for the recall. The game, which pits Wisconsin against Oregon, will be attended by many fans from Wisconsin. The organizers of the petition drive apparently plan to [...]
On Thursday, WCMP and WXCX carried a quadruple header from Webster, WI as four schools from our listening area collided in boys and girls high school hoops. From the West Lakeland conference in Wisconsin Grantsburg and Webster were in action, while Pine City and Hinckley/Finlayson represented the Great River conference from Minnesota.
Sadly for fans of the Minnesota teams, the West Lakeland conference went 4-0. We’ve got the replays of all four games right here…
