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Add Wisconsin’s governor to the list of people pushing for year-round E-15 sales. Governor Tony Evers signed-on to a letter from seven other Midwestern states asking the Biden Administration to green light the sale of more ethanol fuel.  Evers says allowing for more E-15 sales will help during the time of “continued supply chain disruptions and rising inflation.”  The hope is that more E-15 sales will drive down the price at the pump for more people here in the state.

 There are no human cases of the bird flu in Wisconsin, at least not yet. The CDC yesterday said someone who works with birds in Colorado tested positive for the flu, but they don’t think that’s the norm. In Wisconsin, the state’s Department of Agriculture says the bird flu has been found in flocks in ten counties, as well as a number of wild birds across the state. There are, however, no reports of any people getting sick with the H5 bird

It was drugs and a heart attack, and officers are cleared. Eau Claire County’s district attorney yesterday said 43-year-old Demetrio Jackson died from a heart attack, likely brought-on by a heart condition and lethal amount of meth. Jackson died in the hospital about two weeks after he was arrested back in October for standing on top of a car and screaming along Harlem Street. The D.A. says the officers involved will not be charged in the case.

The 14-year-old accused of carjacking an elderly woman at knife-point, then sexually assaulting her will be tried as an adult. A judge in Waukesha yesterday said the charges against Khalil Perry are serious enough to warrant a trial in adult court. Police say Perry carjacked the 87-year-old victim in front of the Waukesha library back in November. Officers say he then assaulted her in her car, and threatened to kill her family if she went to the police. The move

School choice supporters like the trend they see in the latest Marquette Law School Poll. The new poll, released this week, says 58 percent of voters in Wisconsin support the idea of ending limits on vouchers for private or religious schools. That would open up school choice to more than just low-income families in many parts of Wisconsin. The poll says 33 percent of voters oppose the idea. Jim Bender with School Choice Wisconsin says those numbers reflect what they’ve been seeing for a while.

Wisconsin is investigating four cases of kids with mysterious liver damage. The state’s Department of Health Services issued a health alert on Wednesday about a ‘recent increase in cases’ of acute hepatitis and adenovirus infections in children. One of the kids who got sick required a liver transplant, another child died. Wisconsin is not alone in seeing the liver cases. Three other states have also reported mysterious illnesses there.

One of Wisconsin’s smallest and poorest counties is also the state’s least healthy. The new University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute report says Menominee County in the northeastern part of the state is dead last in their rankings. The report states that 27 percent of people in the county are in poor or fair health, and just five percent of people have access to exercise equipment. The report also says that 37 percent of Menominee County’s children live in poverty. There are

Wisconsin is heading into the weekend with about 200 people in the hospital with the coronavirus. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said 203 people are hospitalized with the virus, including 35 in the ICU. Wisconsin’s hospitalization numbers have ticked-up this month after hitting a low of just under 150 in March.

A downtown La Crosse building collapses during an early morning fire.  The fire broke out at the India Curry House on 4th Street around 4:00 a.m.  The fire continued to grow for hours after firefighters arrived and eventually caused the building to collapse.  It’s unclear if anyone’s hurt.

Jury selection is underway in the case of a mother and daughter accused of killing a teen girl in Iowa County.  Police say Laurie and Alexis Barry were taking care of 13-year-old Selah Kaden back in 2018 when she died of suffocation.  An autopsy showed she also had blunt force trauma to the head.  The suspects’ trial will start in two weeks.