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Get your telescopes ready for an amazing show in the sky.  Jupiter and Saturn will align with the moon this weekend.  Tonight,  the moon will be directly between the two planets.  And tomorrow night, the moon will appear near Saturn.  Photographers should be able to capture all three in the same photo on both nights.  

A Plymouth, Wisconsin cheesemaker is tops in the state.  Sartori Cheese earned the 2019 Grand Master Cheesemaker honors at the Wisconsin State Fair today.  It’s Rosemary and Olive Oil Asiago was the favorite among 500 entries.  

The average cost for a gallon of regular gas in Wisconsin is down a-nickel-a-gallon compared to a week ago.  Triple-A says the average price statewide is two-dollars-and-66-cents today, a penny below the national average.  Drivers in Dane County are paying an average of two-59-a-gallon, in Portage two-84, and two-81 in northern Oneida County.  In western Wisconsin the price at the pump is two-73 in Eau Clair County, two-76 in St. Croix and two-77 in Barron. 

We have notification of a sex offender being released next week. On August 13 th , 2019 James Bever will reside at 932 BROADWAY ST N, Unit # 19 MENOMONIE WI 54751. Upon release, Mr. Bever will be placed on Supervision, and will be subject to the Global Positioning System (GPS). Mr. Bever will be required to register with the Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry Program for life. In 1998 Bever was convicted of: 1 ST DEGREE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A

A 23-year-old Chippewa Falls man is facing multiple charges in connection with a hit-and-run this week.  According to a criminal complaint, Byer Nevins was drunk, stole a pickup truck and fled the scene after a crash on North Crossing near the Chippewa River Bridge.  On Tuesday, officers in Eau Claire reportedly found Nevins asleep with an open bottle of beer in his hand.  Bond was set at twenty-thousand-dollars and he’s due in court next week. 

A woman in Chippewa Falls is facing charges including disorderly conduct and recklessly endangering safety.  Police responded to an apartment on Macomber Street Thursday for a 911 call about a woman yelling at someone to put down a gun.  Officers determined it was a false call.  Police say there was never a danger to public safety. 

The pastor of the Messiah Lutheran Church in Eau Claire says he is not a hero.  Caleb Schaller confronted an intruder armed with a machete who entered his home on Wednesday afternoon.  Schaller says he feared for his family’s safety so he pushed the man outside and wrestled the machete away from him.   The suspect, who is identified as Dirk Ballard, was later arrested and faces multiple charges. 

Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources says it doesn’t yet know what 400-thousand-gallons of waste from a frac sand mine will mean for the Trempealeau River.  DNR is blaming a faulty pump at the Wisconsin Proppants Hixton in Jackson County for the spill last weekend.  Investigators say there’s no evidence of a fish kill or other contamination in the river.  Test results on the leaked waste water are expected in a few weeks.  

Steven Avery is once again not getting a new trial.  A judge on Wednesday turned down Avery’s request for a new trial based on questions about how investigators handled the bones used as evidence in his 2007 murder trial.  The judge said Avery didn’t prove that his rights were violated.  Avery has been fighting his life sentence for killing Theresa Halbach.  The Netflix series Making a Murder focuses on the case. 

One Democrat at the Wisconsin Capitol wants to tax gun makers to help pay for victims of gun violence.  State Rep. Jimmy Anderson this week introduced a plan that would add a half-percent tax to the list price of guns in the state.  The money from the tax would go to the Wisconsin Department of Justice for a gun violence victims fund.