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Public health managers in Eau Claire are looking for a white pitbull that they say bit someone on Halloween night. It happened on the city’s southwest side in the Broadview Boulevard area. The dog’s owner was not there for the bite. The Eau Claire City-County Health Department says they need to see the dog to make sure it doesn’t have rabies.

State education officials say the plan to teach cursive in Wisconsin schools could cost almost eight-million-dollars. Lawmakers got their first chance yesterday to hear the pitch for a cursive mandate in public schools. State Rep. Jeremy Theisfeldt says teaching cursive will help kids with other learning strategies. But the state says it will be too expensive, costing as much as six-million-dollars in textbooks and other cursive lesson materials alone.

There is concern for farmers’ safety in many counties across Wisconsin as they push ahead with the fall harvest.  The change of the clocks means farmers are coming in from the fields after dark and if they are driving slow-moving tractors they are vulnerable to drivers who want to speed past them.  Officials ask drivers to be more cautious and look out for farmers who are nearly a full month behind this year’s corn harvest schedule.

The U.S. Air Force will release its preferred site to host the F-35 fighter jets in the spring.  The Wisconsin National Guard announced today the draft of the environmental impact statement will be taken under consideration as to whether Truax Field in Madison will be that site.  If the Air Force accepts the recommendation for Truax to host the F-35, the aircraft would begin arriving at Dane County Regional Airport in 2024.

The legal age to purchase tobacco or vaping products may soon be raised.  Assembly Bill 422 would change the age from 18 to 21 to buy nicotine products including cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, smoking tobacco and vaping products.  The Assembly’s Committee on Substance Abuse held a hearing today and approved moving ahead with the proposal.  It would have to pass both the Senate and Assembly and be signed by the governor before becoming law.

Today, Governor Evers issued Executive Order # 58, relating to a proclamation that the flag of the United States and the flag of the State of Wisconsin be flown at half-staff as a mark of respect for Army Sgt. Robert McCarville. That will begin at sunrise Saturday, November 9, 2019 and end at sunset on the same date.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an officer-involved shooting.  The sheriff’s office says the shooting happened near Highway 27 in Leon Tuesday night.  No other details have been released.

A man accused of plotting to rape and kill a woman in Trempealeau County is going to prison.  Chad Anderson pleaded guilty in the case in September and was sentenced Monday to two years in prison followed by a year of extended supervision.  Anderson and Ryan Gunderson planned to kill the woman last October but their plan was stopped when Gunderson was shot by the Strum police chief.

A Clark County man is accused of having dead and malnourished animals at his house.  A criminal complaint says the county sheriff’s office responded to Russell Sandley’s house back in July where deputies found malnourished dogs, and animal body parts on the ground.  Sandley was recently charged with seven counts relating to the case.  He’ll appear in court on December 11th. PHOTO CREDIT WEAU 13 NEWS

A man convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Chippewa County in 1993 is being released from prison.  David Hager was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1995 and deemed a sexually violent person in 2008.  Hager’s petition to be released was denied in 2014 but a judge recently approved a supervised release plan.  Reports say health experts have found he’s not likely to re-offend.