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A 44-year-old Missouri man was stopped for attempting to elude officers locally. On Wednesday afternoon, just before 4:30 Lake Hallie Police observed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed south bound on CTH-P near 40th Avenue. The officer pursued the vehicle and the suspect increased his speed and traveled south on CTH-P to CTH-OO to Business 53 into Eau Claire where speeds topped 70 miles per hour. Once in the City of Eau Claire the suspect vehicle started

Governor Tony Evers and First Lady Kathy are in West Allis enjoying the opening of the Wisconsin State Fair.  The fair runs daily through August 11th.  The main stage concerts feature REO Speedwagon tonight.  Free concerts include The Prince Experience, Here Come the Mummies, Peter Noone and Resurrection.  

A sex offender will be released to our area this week. On August 6th, 43 year old Walter T. Mallett will be released from prison. Previous convictions include 3rd degree sexual assault in both Dunn and Eau Claire Counties. Mallett will be living under DOC supervision on the 100 block of Randall Street here in Eau Claire.

Authorities in Polk County are looking for a missing teenage girl.  Reports say 15-year-old Alyssa Merrill went missing from Balsam Lake Sunday night and hasn’t been seen since.  Merrill’s believed to be wearing a black hoodie and black leggings.  Anyone who sees her is asked to call the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. 

One person is dead and another person is in the hospital after a one car crash in the Town of Rome in Wood County.  The county sheriff’s office says the car was turning off of State Highway 73 early Tuesday morning when it hit a driveway embankment and went airborne.  Passenger Laurie Oleson died at the scene and driver Bonnie Obrien was taken to the hospital in stable condition. 

A case involving a man accused of selling drugs to two men who overdosed in Chippewa County is being allowed to move forward.  A judge made that ruling in the case against Shane Johnson yesterday.  Johnson is accused of selling a deadly dose of drugs to Nicholas Buck and Samuel Ott who died four days apart in November of 2017.  Johnson is already in prison on federal drug charges.  He’s facing just under 200 years in this case. 

A Rice Lake man will go to prison for one year after being convicted of his seventh OWI offense.  A criminal complaint says Daniel Mikkelsen was stopped in Chippewa County back in February and tested with a blood-alcohol level just over the legal limit.  Mikkelson was sentenced to prison yesterday along with being placed on probation for three years following his sentence.  He must also serve 300 hours of community service and have an ignition interlock for one year. 

A group of conservatives in Madison is filing a lawsuit challenging Governor Tony Evers’ veto power.  The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty claims Evers used his power unlawfully to create new laws in the state budget without the approval of the state legislature.  Evers says he wishes everyone would just move on.  The Supreme Court must decide whether or not to take the case. 

Investigators in Missouri say they’ve found human remains in their search for two missing northern Wisconsin brothers.  The sheriff in Clinton County, Missouri is not saying if the remains are those of Nick and Justin Diemel.  Searchers found the remains on Tuesday.  A man who lived at the farm where the Diemels went to look at cattle, Garland “Joey” Nelson, is in jail for driving the brothers’ pickup truck.  A judge ordered him held without bond. 

Prosecutors in eight Wisconsin counties are pushing ahead with nine sexual assault cases based on old DNA evidence.  Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday said the cases all came from the backlog of sexual assault kits that sat on shelves for years.  Kaul says the state has tested over 13 hundred kits so far, and 35 have been sent to police for further investigation.  Nine of those have resulted in charges.