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Darrell Brooks Junior is looking at dozens of more charges for the Waukesha Christmas Parade attack.  Prosecutors in Waukesha yesterday filed 71 new charges of reckless endangerment.  Police say Brooks barreled through the parade in late November, killing six and injuring more than 60 others.  The new charges cover the injuries to people in the parade and those who were watching.  Brooks is already facing life in prison on homicide charges, the new charges each carry a 12-year sentence.  Prosecutors

An Eau Claire firefighter is recovering after being injured at a fire yesterday afternoon.  The fire broke-out at the apartments at 2524 Boardwalk Circle, that’s on the city’s southeast side. Everyone who lives in the apartments made it out okay.  The city’s fire department says the firefighter suffered minor injuries, but they are not offering specifics.  There’s no word what started the fire.

Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources isn’t sure there’s a wolf wandering around in Eau Claire.  Somebody took to Facebook to say they saw a wolf near Old Wells Road this week.  The DNR says it’s possible that wolves are in western Wisconsin, but the agency says it’s unlikely that wolves would come so close to people.  If it is a wolf, the DNR says stay away from it and then report back to their office.

They are hiring at the Eau Claire Police Department.  The city yesterday said it needs at least seven officers.  You simply need 60-hours of college classes, as well as the ability to pass the background check, the written test, and the physical test.  Starting pay is about 58-thousand-dollars.  There’s not a lot of time to waste, the city says applications for the open spots are due by Sunday. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ABOUT THE ECPD

There is another challenge to another one of Governor Tony Evers’ programs that assigns state aid based on race.  The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty yesterday sent Governor Evers a letter asking his to erase the provision in his Wisconsin Help for Homeowners program that give more help to non-white families.  Under the program, minority families can make about 50-thousand-dollars more than white families and still qualify for housing assistance.  WILL’s Rick Essenberg says it is unconstitutional for the government to hand-out aid

More people are in the hospital with the coronavirus in Wisconsin than ever before.  The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said two-thousand-278 people are in the hospital with the virus.  That is one more than Wisconsin’s previous record-high, set back in November of 2020.  The Hospital Association says 488 people are in ICUs across the state.  Nearly all of the cases are omicron cases, which for people who are vaccinated is much less severe than previous strains of the coronavirus.

 A picture of Pope Francis leaving an Italian record store is going viral.  Michael Castner reports.

Coronavirus hospitalizations are at a record-high in Dane County and continue to go up.  Public Health Madison and Dane County says nearly 200 people are hospitalized with the virus, 13 more than the previous record from Monday.  Dane County also has the highest coronavirus vaccination rate in Wisconsin.

ABOVE PHOTO: Flying General Games will release its first title, Notoris: the Goblin War, in July.  Whether he was developing a civilization from hunter-gatherers to a medieval empire in Age of Empires or combating one-on-one in Dynasty Warriors, Steve Datz was influenced by video games from an early age. Since he was 11 years old, he’s wanted to make a certain kind of video game – one that combined an overworld grand strategy campaign with real-time battles, where players can connect to

A woman’s facing charges after Wausau police say she crashed her car with a five-year-old inside.  Police say the woman was driving recklessly when she crashed near Northwestern Avenue and Gold Ridge Road Tuesday afternoon.  No one was hurt.  After the crash the woman was arrested on suspicion of OWI.