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A man is accused of committing several felonies including hit and run in Eau Claire County.  A criminal complaint claims a woman told police Thomas Buchholz got into a violent argument with her at an apartment complex in Altoona over the weekend.  Buchholz is accused driving drunk and running into a neighbor with his car while trying to get away.  Buchholz was charged Monday and released on 25-hundred dollars bond.

An Eau Claire man will spend time in federal prison after being convicted of illegally having a gun.  Eau Claire police say they arrested Lamont Davis last July when he was found with a gun during a reported family violence incident.  Davis was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in federal prison.

The ballots are set for city council and county board elections in Eau Claire County.  Eau Claire City Council President Terry Weld will run uncontested.  There will be at least one new city council member after Laura Benjamin stepped down and one at-large election.  There are also over 40 people running for county board.  The election is on April 7th.

The La Crosse Police Department saw an increase in service calls in 2019.  Reports say La Crosse officers responded to almost 63-thousand calls last year, over one-thousand more than in 2018.  The police department says the top calls were about kids and parties, suspicious activity, and welfare checks.

The period of time between getting a divorce and remarrying in Wisconsin could be eliminated.  Reports say the Committee on Family and Law approved a bill that would eliminate the waiting period by a six-to-three vote Tuesday night.  Currently Wisconsin residents must wait six months after getting a divorce to remarry.

There is finally a name to go with the remains found nearly 40 years ago in the Barron County woods. Investigators yesterday said they used DNA to identify the remains found in 1982 as those of Kraig King, from White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Police say he died in a stabbing, but they never knew his name until just recently. There is no word on the search for a suspect or any other new developments in the case.

A suspected meth dealer is looking at a laundry list of felony charges after a hit and run chase through Eau Claire back in November. Prosecutors filed charges yesterday against 32-year-old Christopher Parker. He was arrested after he ran from police after a hit and run crash on the day after Thanksgiving. He’s accused of dealing meth, having pot, felony bail jumping, and seven other felony crimes. A judge released him on a signature bond with a promise to return

A western Wisconsin man is looking at felony charges after election managers say he voted twice in the 2018 election. The D.A. in Eau Claire yesterday filed charges against Robert King. He’s from Ladysmith, but investigators say he registered to vote – and voted – in both Rusk County and Eau Claire County back in November of 2018. No one is saying who he voted for. He’s due in court at the end of the month.

All of that snow in 2019 was a good thing. Tourism leaders in Eau Claire yesterday said the city saw a bump in visitors last year, mostly thanks to the snow. Visit Eau Claire’s Jason Krueger says some parts of Wisconsin didn’t have enough snow, so a lot of people came to Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley to ski, sled, or snowmobile. Krueger is not saying just how many more visitors the city saw because of its abundance of snow.

Lawmakers in Madison are once again trying a pink-tax plan. A group of lawmakers led by Madison Democrat Melissa Sargent yesterday introduced a proposal to end the state’s five-percent tax on diapers and feminine hygiene products. Sargent says the state treats them as ‘luxury’ items as opposed to the necessities that they are. Sargent has tried this idea in the past. Two years ago she said ending the tax would cost the state about two-and-a-half-million-dollars.