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An incident ends safely after some alarm from students on campus in Marshfield. It was Thursday, December 17th just before 5 in the afternoon when Marshfield Police were dispatched to a man with a gun at UW Stevens Point – Marshfield Campus. Two students reported a disoriented male with what appeared to be a handgun in his jacket pocket. The man was wearing a green stocking cap and appeared lost looking for a staircase. Officers from Marshfield, State Patrol, Wood

The YMCA is no longer part of the Sonnentag Center project. The Y yesterday said it is pulling out of the joint partnership with UW-Eau Claire and Mayo Clinic Health System to build a new fitness complex. The Y’s Theresa Hillis says they will not agree to build what they cannot pay for. UW Eau Claire and Mayo leaders say they will have to redesign the Sonnentag without the Y. That work will begin immediately.

Deputies in Dunn County don’t know what happened just before a train hit a woman’s pickup truck yesterday. It happened in a rural part of the county. The sheriff’s office says the pickup driver is from Colfax, the Canadian National Train hit her truck yesterday morning. The woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment. No one else was injured.

Eau Claire County’s open board seat is now full. The county last night named Katherine Schneider to the open seat for District 22. Schneider is a retired clinical psychologist. She is also blind and currently heads Eau Claire’s aging and disability services council.

Firefighters in Eau Claire want you to add the fire hydrant to your shoveling list this winter. The Eau Claire Fire Department yesterday reminded people that shoveling the snow away from hydrants will make it easier for them to get to the hydrant in case of an emergency.

Property taxes for Wisconsin school districts are up by the highest rate in the country.  A report by Wisconsin Policy Forum says school districts have levied over five-point-two-billion dollars in property tax bills sent this month, an increase of about four-and-a-half percent from last year.  Reports say that’s the largest increase since 2009.

It looks like raises for state troopers in Wisconsin are dead, at least for now. A proposed four-percent pay-bump for current troopers, and a 23-percent raise for new troopers is not part of a package that lawmakers are set to vote on today. Republican Senate President Roger Roth says lawmakers want more time to look at the long-term costs. He says there could be a vote at a later date.

The Governor of Wisconsin has ordered flags to fly at half-staff, December 18 – December 19, 2019, in honor of former Oneida Nation Chairman Rick Hill.  Chairman Hill was instrumental in developing and implementing national regulatory standards and policies for tribal government gaming, and under his leadership, the Oneida Nation signed its first gaming compact with the state of Wisconsin. 

A former Eau Claire man is going to jail after pleading no contest to drunk driving and sexual assault charges.  Reports say Jason Lucht was sentenced to one year and nine months in jail for battery and his sixth OWI charge.  He had two sex assault charges dropped as a result of his plea.  Lucht was accused of sexually touching a woman before driving drunk in February of 2018.

The Wisconsin State Patrol is holding another recruitment workshop in Sparta today.  The state patrol held an open house at its command post in Eau Claire Monday where people could learn about what it takes to become a part of the state patrol.  Tonight’s workshop is from four to seven o’clock at the Sparta weight enforcement facility.