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Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley are getting a break from the snow, but not from the winter weather.  Some areas to our north saw over 20 inches of the white stuff. Here locally, we continue the clean up from our own totals. Due to the inclement weather that affected the Northwest Region of Wisconsin, State PatrolTroopers and Inspectors from Spooner and Eau Claire posts responded to 23 vehicle runoffs and 16property damage crashes between 5:00 pm 2/21 until 6:30

A man who’s spent most of his life on Wisconsin’s sex offender list is facing new charges in a child sexual assault case.  Prosecutors in Chippewa Falls charged 25-year-old Charles Zaruba with assaulting an 11-year-old girl back in 2019.  He’s due in court on those charges in May, Zaruba is also facing charges for in a case Mondovi where he’s accused of assaulting two other children.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON THE STORY FROM WQOW.

One person is dead, one person is missing, and one person is recovering from burns after a fire at a historic Door County bar.  Flames gutted Butch’s Bar in Sturgeon Bay early yesterday morning.  Firefighters say there were people living in some of the nine apartments above the bar.  One body was found in the rubble, another person is unaccounted for.  Fire crews say a third victim was taken to a local burn center for treatment.  No one is saying

One of the latest drug busts in the Wausau-area saw a suspect try and escape out of a second story window.  Officers say 40-year-old Lawrence Lavergne jumped out of the window at the Stoney Creek Hotel when they came to arrest him on Monday.  The Central Wisconsin Narcotics Task Force says Lavergne had 11-thousand-dollars worth of meth and over seven thousand-dollars in cash on him when they arrested him.  He’s due in court for a hearing later today.

A Kenosha County man will get a new trial for the 1998 death of his wife.  The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to stop the new trial for Mark Jensen.  The Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered the new trial last spring after deciding prosecutors shouldn’t have used voicemails and a letter from his former wife in the case against him.  Jensen was originally convicted back in 2008, he’s maintained his innocence the entire time.  There’s no word when his new trial may

Eau Claire County leaders are going to try again on the Orchard Hills development.  The Town of Washington approved the planned neighborhood last week.  County leaders voted down the new homes last June.  Developers have trimmed the project and tried to satisfy some of the neighbors who oppose the plan.  Many of those neighbors say they don’t want more homes and more traffic in their neighborhood.

Tribal leaders in Wisconsin have a list of concerns and issues for state lawmakers.  Yesterday’s State of the Tribes saw Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, talk to lawmakers about voting changes, environmental concerns, and wolf hunting.  Holsey also said something must be done about how tribal people are portrayed in sports mascots.

The latest round of election changes at the Wisconsin Capitol are moving forward but are ultimately not going anywhere.  The Wisconsin Senate yesterday approved 12 changes inspired by the 2020 president election.  The plans would ban the so-called Zuckerbucks donations, change the rules for indefinitely confined voters, and make changes to clean-up Wisconsin’s voter rolls.  Republicans say the changes are necessary to avoid more confusion on Election Day.  Governor Tony Evers has all but promised to veto the plans because he says they will make

Almost every business in Wisconsin has seen a problem with either inflation or supply chain issues.  The state’s largest business group, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, yesterday released its latest Employer Survey.  It says nearly half of businesses in Wisconsin have seen prices rise more than 10-percent and one in five of those companies have seen prices jump by more than 20-percent.  In addition, 98-percent of businesses in Wisconsin say inflation has driven their costs up, and 82-percent of businesses in the state say inflation has hurt them.  Ninety-three-percent

Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly are sending a message to the University of Wisconsin about race and politics on campus.  State representatives yesterday passed new limits on teaching critical race theory at UW schools, and passed a plan they say will prompt free speech at campus events.  Neither plan is likely to become law.  Governor Tony Evers is expected to veto them both as soon as they reach his desk.