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An Eau Claire man who damaged city property has a couple options for making amends.

Eau Claire County Judge Paul Lenz says Shane McQuillan can spend 20 days in jail, or he can wear a sign for a day that reads "I was stupid."

The 22-year-old McQuillan pleaded guilty to criminal damage to property after driving into the front gate of the Eau Claire waste water treatment plant last March after he had been drinking.

Judge Paul Lenz says McQuillan would be required to stand in front of the plant wearing the sign for an entire day, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

By ANNE JUNGEN

A 39-year-old La Crosse man is being treated for minor hypothermia and possible frostbite caused by sitting on a marsh trial for several hours after drinking downtown.

Vincent Roh was found 100 yards south of 900 Monitor St. about 6 a.m. Wednesday after a law-enforcement based search initiated when a man reported hearing faint cries for help, according to La Crosse police reports. Officers searched parking lots and other nearby areas with the help of the La Crosse County Sheriff's Department's thermal imaging camera.

Roh said he left several downtown bars "plastered" about 2:30 a.m. and believed he was walking toward Grandad Bluff, police reports stated. He said he sat down on the path when his feet grew cold and then removed his shoes when his legs got cold, according to reports. He then believed he couldn't move his frozen legs.

Roh registered a 0.20 percent blood-alcohol level and was given a public intoxication warning.

By Don Behm
West Bend — After one child got sick and threw up from drinking alcohol at a birthday sleepover, the Kewaskum mother hosting the party and providing the drinks at a West Bend hotel told other children - girls and boys ages 11 to 14 - not to tell their parents about the booze, according to police reports released Wednesday.

One child later told a police officer that she felt threatened by Sarah A. Shay's statement.

"Sarah did tell us not to say anything to anyone or we would be sad if we did," the child says in a statement to police.

Shay, 36, served bottles of Mike's Hard Lemonade to her 12-year-old daughter, a son and 10 other children as the group rode in a limousine from Kewaskum Middle School to West Bend on Dec. 18, according to the reports. Shay drank from her bottle as other bottles were passed among the children.

An employee at a Hudson bar and grill is charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the business.

Police say the woman didn't feel she did anything wrong because drink prices were way too high.

Twenty-eight-year-old Tracee Anderson is charged in St. Croix (KROY) County with theft of more than $10,000 from Barker's Bar & Grill. A criminal complaint says Anderson had canceled about $55,000 in transactions from Sept. 2004 to Aug. 2009, but no more than $1,100 were legitimate transactions.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press says the felony theft charge carries a maximum 10 years in prison.

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Information from: St. Paul Pioneer Press, http://www.twincities.com

SPARTA, Wis. — Santa Claus is in trouble with the law in one western Wisconsin city.

Police in Sparta say they cited a man dressed as Santa after witnesses told officers he stumbled out of a vehicle, approached several children playing in a yard, hugged them and demanded to know the whereabouts of his reindeer.

The man was cited for open intoxicants. The driver of the car in which he was riding was arrested for drunken driving.