PARK FALLS - The Park Falls Police Department is spreading awareness about the dangers of keeping expired prescription drugs in your cabinets, by encouraging you to throw them out.
Next Saturday, Park Falls police and DEA officials are hosting a "Take Back" event between 9:00-2:00 p.m. where anyone can drop off their unwanted prescriptions.
The service is free and your name and any medications dropped off will remain confidential.
It's all in an effort to stop prescription drug abuse.
Recent studies show an alarming increase in drug overdoses and accidental poisonings from old prescriptions pills.
Authorities also said flushing unwanted drugs down the toilet is dangerous because it contaminates the publics water. So they're encouraging you to drop them off.
WAUSAU - Last June, Kerby Kneiss died after he was beaten to death with a baseball bat.
Prosecutors think Warren Krohn was one of the men who killed Kneiss.
But Krohn's lawyer argues police might not have collected the evidence against him legally.
Krohn's lawyer argued that what he said while police interrogated him shouldn't be used in court. They say he was in police custody - but was not informed of his Miranda Rights.
MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin's maple syrup producers are having a great year.
A report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's statistical arm says the state's farmers produced five times as much maple syrup this year as last year and the most since it began keeping track in 1992.
The USDA says Wisconsin produced 265,000 gallons of maple syrup this year.
Last year's season was cut short by early warm weather.
ST. GERMAIN - Doctors don't know why they're diagnosing more and more children with autism. It’s hard to know what therapy works best for each child.
Today at Camp AweSum in St. Germain, kids on the Autism Spectrum got a chance to interact with horses.
"I saw him smiling up there, just kind of spontaneously. I think the horse kinda shook and he thought that was kinda funny," said Becky Howell-Adams, the mother of a 9 year old with autism.
For some autistic children smiles are hard to come by. Making a connection like that people or animals is special.
WAUSAU - The General Assembly takes up the budget Tuesday. Monday, some local representatives and school officials talked to the public about why they believe the budget will hurt schools.
Democratic representatives Mandy Wright and Katrina Shankland spoke in Wausau today.
Shankland, who represents Stevens Point, stated, "In the last session, Republicans took over 1.6 billion dollars from our public education. They robbed our students of $550 in aid per student. And in this budget, they only return $150. That simply is not acceptable."
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