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A woman is facing nearly 50 charges after Eau Claire police say she almost hit an officer while running from police.  Police say an officer approached Angela Fisher’s car Tuesday night but she drove away, nearly hitting an officer.  The chase was eventually called off but officers found Fisher in the HSHS Sacred Heart parking lot.  Fisher was quickly arrested and police say she had multiple drugs with her.  She’s being held on 25-thousand dollars bond.

A Stanley man accused of leading sheriff’s deputies on a high speed chase in Clark County is going to prison.  Authorities say Dale Kortesmaki drove over 100 miles per hour, crashed into a ditch, and fought with deputies when they tried to arrest him last December.  Kortesmaki pleaded guilty in the case in September.  He was sentenced this week to two years in prison followed by seven years of probation.

Recently the Sawyer County Sheriff Department has received numerous complaints from citizens reporting that they have received calls from individuals claiming to be from local utility companies. The scammers attempt to get the victims to give them payment or financial information and threaten to turn off their utilities if they do not comply. If you receive such a call, do not give personal information. Hang up and contact your utility company directly using the contact information listed on your utility

Royal Credit Union in Eau Claire is supporting the Nature Center at Willow State Park.  On Thursday the credit union donated 250-thousand dollars from its foundation to the park.  A new nature center is being built that will hold classrooms for adults and kids.  The overall project is expected to cost around four-million dollars.

Wisconsin’s election managers are not naming the local election clerks who are using old and outdated computers. The state’s Election Commission yesterday said five of the state’s 27-hundred clerks are using Windows XP on their election computers. Microsoft stopped offering security updates for Windows XP five years ago. Election commissioners say outdated computers put election files and voter information at risk.

Wisconsin now has a 9/11 Memorial Highway. The state’s 9/11 Memorial Education Center is coming. Governor Tony Evers yesterday signed a law that recognizes a stretch of State Highway 28 between I-41 in Dodge County and Highway 144 in Washington County as the 9/11 Memorial Highway. Crews are working on an education center in Kewaskum. Kewaskum is home to Andrea Haberman who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11.

A jury in Menomonie should start their work in deciding the fate of a young woman charged with killing her ex-boyfriend by the end of the day. Closing arguments are set to begin this morning in Ezra McCandless’ trial. Police say she stabbed her ex, Alexander Woodworth, 16 times last year. McCandless says she killed him in self defense.

We should get more details soon on a stabbing in Barron that sent two people to the hospital and one person to jail. Barron Police say they plan to release more information today about what happened in Anderson Park yesterday. Investigators simply say that two people were hurt in a stabbing, and one person is in custody. There’s no word on injuries or a motive in the case.

Western Wisconsin’s Democratic congressman says impeachment should be a last resort, but he’s open to the idea. Congressman Ron Kind yesterday voted for the rules that will decide the impeachment process in Congress. He says he wants to see where the evidence against President Trump goes. Kind has been less enthusiastic about impeachment than other Wisconsin Democrats, in part because President Trump won his district back in 2016.

The city of Eau Claire is using a 10-million-dollar safe drinking water loan to pay for the next round of improvements at the city’s water treatment plant. Utility managers say they need to upgrade some of the pieces that help filter-out iron and manganese from drinking water. Work on the project should start in two weeks.