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It’s 15 years in prison in a murder case in Barron County. A judge yesterday sentenced 22-year-old Clayton Lauritsen to a decade-and-a-half for a December 2020 shooting. Police say Lauritsen  shot and killed a man who was chasing his roommate. Lauritsen pleaded guilty earlier this year.

A sex offender who was on the run from Pepin County was apprehended in Eau Claire. On Thursday, June 23rd ,the Pepin County Sheriff’s Office reported that registered sex offender, Allen D. Owens, had tampered with his GPS monitoring bracelet and absconded. Owens had just been released from prison on June 7th , 2022. In the evening hours of June 23rd , Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office Deputies developed information that Owens may have checked into the Days Inn Motel,

Steven Avery has changed prisons. The state’s Department of Corrections this week said Avery has been moved to the medium security facility at Fox Lake. He was at the maximum security prison in Waupun. Avery is part of the Netflix series Making a Murderer and currently serving a life sentence for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. He’s maintained his innocence in the case. His lawyer said back in April that they plan to file a new appeal soon.

Three doctors will have to sign-off before Morgan Geyser can leave a state mental hospital. A judge yesterday ordered three mental health exams for Geyser, who has been at the hospital since she was sentenced for her role in the Slender Man stabbings back in 2014. Geyser has been getting treatment for her schizophrenia. The other girl in the case, Anissa Weier, was freed from a state mental hospital last year. Geyser is due back in court in August.

Wisconsin’s governor expects a challenge to the state’s abortion law when or if Roe v. Wade is struck down. Governor Evers told reporters in Oshkosh yesterday that he believes Attorney General Josh Kaul will go to court to try and keep abortion legal in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is one of about two dozen states where abortion will become illegal if Roe goes away. That could happen any day now. The governor says they will do ‘whatever we can’ to try and stop abortion from

Wisconsin’s two U.S. Senators split their votes on the gun control package on Capitol Hill. Republican Senator Ron Johnson voted against the plan yesterday, while Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin voted for it. Johnson says the plan spends too much money, and he’s worried about what red flag laws will mean for law abiding gun owners. Baldwin says the plan expands background checks and will help protect the victims of domestic violence.

Alliant Energy is keeping its coal-fired power plants after all. The company yesterday said it is delaying the closure of its plants in Sheboygan and Portage online for at least a few more years to ensure a reliable supply of electricity. Power grid operators in the Midwest are  warning about blackouts this summer because of a lack of power. Alliant had hoped to take the plants offline and replace them with green energy projects. The company says it is still

Eau Claire school leaders are trying to figure out what to do about their pending tax hike request following a new survey. The city’s school board got an update on the numbers last night. A little over half the people surveyed said they support the idea of busting Wisconsin’s revenue caps to raise seven-and-a-half million-dollars for schools. But the survey said just 21 percent of people would vote for it. The survey suggested keeping the property tax increase low, or moving

Wisconsin is ending the week with as many people in the hospital with the coronavirus as it started the week. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said there are 378 people in the hospital with the virus. That’s the same as it was on Monday. Wisconsin has been just below 400 coronavirus hospitalizations for the past two or three weeks. CLICK FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

Johnny Davis is now a Washington Wizard. The Wizards picked Davis with the 10th overall pick in last night’s NBA Draft. Davis, who is from La Crosse, is the first Badger to be taken in the first round since Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker in the 2015 draft. Davis says he’s excited to play in Washington, and said that it’s always been his dream to play in the NBA.