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TOMAHAWK - A man in a wheelchair couldn't make it out of a burning Tomahawk home Thursday.
The fire killed 70-year-old Kenneth Pietila.
A snow plow driver saw smoke coming out of the windows of the home on East Pine Shore Lane just after 1 p.m.
Tomahawk firefighters found an active fire spreading throughout the home.
Pietila, in his wheelchair, couldn't be saved.
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EDGAR - Fire did $1.5 million dollars in damage at a Marathon County Highway Department garage overnight.
Someone driving by shortly before three this morning saw smoke coming from the building along State Highway 97 near Edgar.
One of the garages was on fire at the Marathon County Highway Department's location in the town of Wien.
Firefighters from Edgar and Stratford rushed to the scene.
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THREE LAKES - Imagine not being able to move your body.
That was the reality for a 4th grader from Three Lakes
Hunter St. Louis has a rare nerve disease called Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
Guillain-Barré Syndrome makes your body attack nerve cells.
The messages from the brain can't get to the nerves.
So his body was unable to move.
Hunter had to go through seven plasma replacements.
And now he'll go through intense physical therapy.
Hunter is leaving the hospital Friday, but he still has a long road to full recovery.
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MADISON - A federal appeals court has upheld Republican Gov. Scott Walker's public union restrictions.
The restrictions stripped most public workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights. Two unions representing city of Madison and Dane County public workers filed a lawsuit in 2011 alleging the law violated their right to freely assembly and equal protection.
U.S. District Judge William Conley found the restrictions constitutional in September. A three-judge appeals panel affirmed Conley's ruling Friday, saying the U.S. Constitution doesn't require the state to maintain policies that allow certain associations to thrive.
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen calls the ruling ``a victory for the law and for Wisconsin taxpayers.''
An attorney for the unions tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he needs to talk to his clients before deciding whether to appeal.
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RHINELANDER - A Northwoods team broke their own state record last month by winning a 17th state title.
A pair of state legislators honored them Friday.
Republican State Representative Rob Swearingen and Republican State Senator Tom Tiffany honored the Rhinelander Mock Trial Team at the Oneida County courthouse today.
"It's on behalf of myself and Senator Tom Tiffany from the 12th senate district," said Republican State Representative, Rob Swearingen.
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TOMAHAWK - Statton’s General Store in Tomahawk will close its doors after ten years.
Dick and Rita Statton opened the business in May of 2004.
“I decided it was time for a change,” says Dick Statton.
Dick worked in manufacturing for 32 years before opening the business.
He wanted to try something new.
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MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to decide whether police can legally draw suspected drunken drivers' blood without a warrant or driver consent.
The court said it would hear three drunken driving cases, two of which involved a homicide. That announcement came nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a Missouri case that could call into question Wisconsin's law.
Wisconsin since 1993 has granted police authority to draw drunken driving suspects' blood without a warrant or consent.
About 5,000 people refused to comply with police tests in 2011 and 2012.
The eventual rulings in the three cases are expected to clarify how law enforcement can gather evidence in some Wisconsin drunken driving cases.
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