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A St. Croix County man is asking for a new trial after his reckless homicide conviction.  A jury found Kayle Fleischauer guilty in June of killing his 19-year-old son last year.  Police say Fleischauer was drunk at the time.  He claimed his son accidentally shot himself. The judge in the case heard arguments for a new trial yesterday, there’s no word when a ruling will come. 

The city of Eau Claire is ready to spend almost three-quarters-of-a-million-dollars to help some folks find an affordable place to stay.  The city council last night approved a 700-thousand-dollar request to invest in affordable housing.  Two hundred-thousand of that will stay with the city, but the other half million is being earmarked for projects in the community.  Council member Andrew Werthmann says developers may be able to ask the city for part of the money as a loan, or the

It’s a seller’s market in Wisconsin right now.  The state’s Realtors Association says while fewer homes are on the market, the price for those homes that are available is going up.  Realtors say the average price for a home in Wisconsin topped 200-thousand-dollars last month.  But home sales are down.  The Wisconsin Realtors Association says sales dropped almost 10-percent last month.  June is supposed to be the busiest month of the year for home sales. 

Lawmakers in Madison are looking to spend four-million-dollars to place another 14-thousand-acres of woodlands off limits.  The state’s budget writing committee, the Joint Finance Committee, yesterday approved four-point-three-million-dollars to buy the land in Iron County.  But that may not be enough.  The state’s Department of Natural Resources says the land could be worth as much as six-and-a-half-million-dollars.  The sellers, Keweenaw Land Association, will now have to decide if they want to let the land go at that price. 

The National Weather Service is confirming a fifth tornado touchdown in Northeast Wisconsin.  The weather service has been surveying the damage of thousands of trees and confirmed that an EF-0 tornado touched down near the Waupaca Airport around 11:00 Saturday morning.  Tornadoes in New London, Stevensville, Hortonville, Wrightstown and Greenville have been confirmed.  This makes ten tornadoes reported in the state over the weekend. 

Police in Wausau are looking for the suspects who vandalized the Monk Botanical Gardens.  Cops say sometime Sunday night or Monday morning a group broke into three buildings, taking an ax from one building and breaking windows, damaging walls and then spraying a fire extinguisher all over summer camp supplies.  They also spray-painted cars parked outside the garden. 

At its July 22 meeting, the Eau Claire Area School District Board of Education voted in favor of changing the boundaries for seven of the district’s elementary schools. The changes will affect Lakeshore, Locust Lane, Longfellow, Northwoods, Roosevelt, Sam Davey and Sherman elementary schools. The new boundaries will take effect starting in the 2020-21 school year. Students will continue to attend their current school this fall. The district and school officials will now develop a transition plan for students and

A person is in the hospital after a car crash and fire in Polk County.  Police say a car crossed the center line on Highway 87 in Saint Croix Falls yesterday  morning and hit another car.  Both cars rolled and one caught on fire.  The driver of that car was flown to a hospital in the Twin Cities in unknown condition. 

The woman who died in a rollover crash in Jackson County last week is identified.  The county sheriff’s office says Katina Russon was driving near Highway X and Young Road last Friday when her truck flipped for an unknown reason.  Russon was thrown from the truck and died at the scene.  Karyn Behling was riding with Russon at the time of the crash and survived. 

A Black River Falls man is avoiding jail after pleading no contest to running from officers and operating while intoxicated.  The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says Jon Peterson was pulled over for drunk driving back in May but he drove off.  Peterson reportedly drove through multiple yards before he got stuck and was arrested.  Yesterday he had a three-month jail sentence stayed so he won’t serve any time as long as he doesn’t re-offend.