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Wisconsin extends its season dominance in the Big Ten West with a 38-0 romp of Michigan State.  The Badgers got their 4th shutout win of the year yesterday in Madison to increase their record to 6-0.  Wisconsin travels to Champaign next Saturday to take on the Fighting Illini at Memorial Stadium.

The average cost for regular gas in Wisconsin is down two-cents-a-gallon compared to a week ago.  Triple-A says the average price statewide is two-dollars-and-49-cents today, 15-cents-a-gallon below the national average.  Western Wisconsin is seeing the highest prices statewide with the Pierce-St.Croix area posting a price of two-60-a-gallon and Eau Claire at two-59.  Madison and Milwaukee drivers are paying about two-43 fo a gallon of regular. 

The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office has taken a 21 year old man into custody for the robbery at People’s State Bank in Boyceville earlier this month as well as in connection with Friday’s armed robbery at U-Fuel. David J.R Hoffman has been booked into the Dunn County Jail on Robbery charges.

On Thursday October 10, local officers were recognized in Madison at the State capital for their response to a multi casualty homicide incidentwhich took place in the Village of Lake Hallie on Sunday July 28, 2019. Speaker of the Assembly Robin J. Vos and Representative Jesse James presented these officers the 68 th Assembly 1 st Responders of The Year Award. Multiple law enforcement and emergency personnel from several agencies responded to this incident as well as the mass casualty

A wanted man from Portage County will go to prison for decades after being found hiding from police in a bunker for three years.  Jeremiah Button had been wanted since 2016 for not showing up to a court appearance on multiple sex charges.  Button’s lawyer says he initially went into the woods to try to punish himself and slowly die.  He was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison followed by 30 years of extended supervision.

A Lafayette County woman is pleading guilty in a child neglect case.  Jamie Weigel and her husband are accused of not feeding their one-year-old daughter enough.  Weigel pleaded guilty to a child abuse and child neglect charge earlier this week.  She’ll be sentenced in December.  Weigel’s husband is also facing charges.  He has a plea hearing on October 21st.

No one is hurt following a house fire on Menomonie Street in Eau Claire.  Fire officials say someone passing by the 17-hundred block of Menomonie Thursday afternoon saw the outside of a house on fire.  No one was home at the time but a dog was rescued from the fire.  The fire was put out within ten minutes.  It’s unclear what caused it.

Leaders of the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe are banning the sale and use of vaping products on tribal lands.  The tribal chairman says the decision was made to safeguard tribal members from the adverse effects associated with vaping.  The LCO Legal Department is currently working on an ordinance that will outline legal action involving vaping products.

Mondovi is holding its second annual Oktoberfest this weekend.  ‘ The event will feature wine and beer tasting, a chili cook-off, wagon rides, and other activities.  The event starts at eight o’clock Saturday morning in downtown Mondovi.  It’s free to the public and will take place rain or shine.

The suspect in two Eau Claire County sex cases is looking at 40 years in prison as part of a plea deal. Prosecutors say Jason Weber pleaded guilty yesterday to a case from 2018 and another from 2019. The specifics of the deal won’t be known til Weber is sentenced in December. He’s facing 40 years in prison.