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After a long recess it’s back to work for lawmakers this week.  The State Senate is scheduled to convene tomorrow morning at the Capitol while members of the Assembly will begin their session on Thursday.  The Senate already has about two-dozen votes lined up for consideration, but the General Assembly has not yet released its agenda.  Among the proposals is expansion of the minority teacher loan program and a bill that would give widows of police officers the chance to

Human remains found in Menomonie last month are being identified as a man who went missing last year.  Police say Lucas Libersky went missing in March of 2018.  His remains were found on September 12th of this year in the 300 block of 28th Avenue North.  The Dunn County Medical Examiner is still working to determine Libersky’s cause of death. If anyone has any information regarding the death Libersky you are asked to please contact the Menomonie Police Department at

The man accused of shooting and killing a person and injuring two others at a cemetery in Wausau is being held on one-million dollars bond.  Henry West made his initial appearance in Marathon County Court last Friday.  West is accused of shooting and killing a 52-year-old woman and shooting and injuring two other people at Pine Grove Cemetery last week.  Police are recommending two charges of first-degree homicide and two charges of attempted first-degree homicide.  West will be formally charged

An Eau Claire man will go to prison after being found guilty of threatening to blow up a hospital.  Police say Joseph Walters made the threat on Facebook around the time he was a patient at HSHS Sacred Heart.  Walters was acquitted of making a terrorist threat last Friday but was convicted of a bomb scare.  He’ll face three-and-a-half years in prison when he’s sentenced in December.

UPDATE: The man who was found dead in Sandhill Lake in Luck last weekend is identified.  The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says 70-year-old Larry Richolz was found unresponsive in the lake around 4:45 last Friday afternoon.  The sheriff’s office says an investigation shows Richolz fell out of his boat and was under the water for several minutes.  His death is being considered a drowning.

A group of Eau Claire artists is trying to spruce up an alley downtown.  The Color Block project plans to bring 50 rotating murals to the alley near Brent Douglas Floral, Shift Coffee Bar, and The Metro.  Most of the murals will change every year while some will be permanent.  The first round of murals is expected to be done by next summer.

Governor Tony Evers is ready to end prison sentences for nine people in Wisconsin. The governor will issue the state’s first pardons in nine years, later today. The governor says the people he is pardoning have all served their debt to society. The pardons are the first since former Governor Jim Doyle pardoned 100 people on his last day in office in 2010.

Public health managers in Eau Claire are looking for a bit more information on a dog bite from last week. The City-County Health Department says it wants to know more about the dog that bit someone at the local Goodwill last Thursday. The dog was a pug or pug-mix. No one at the health department is saying why they are looking for more information.

A western Wisconsin man is hoping the internet can come through for him. Jacob Yaeger is from Menomonie and is looking for a kidney. Recently, his Facebook post explaining his need went viral. Yaeger says he’s had at least 25-hundred people offer to help, some of them want to see if they could be a match for his kidney. Yaeger says he’s hoping that someone can come through.

The Air Force is not going to give local leaders in Madison a noise test. The Air Force last week denied a request from Madison Congressman Mark Pocan to fly an F-35 jet at Truax Field so that local leaders can hear how loud the jet is. Many locals say the new jets, which may be stationed in Madison, are too loud. The Air Force says one flight, on one day wouldn’t provide any scientific value to the conversation about