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A Dunn County man is pleading not guilty to sexual assault charges.  Court documents say Edward Woodbury entered the plea to counts of second-degree sexual assault and sexual assault of an intoxicated victim Monday.  Woodbury is accused of assaulting a passenger while working as a cab driver in Dunn County.

A house in the Town of Cleveland in Jackson County is completely destroyed from a fire.  Reports say the fire broke out Monday on Town Hall Road off Highway 10.  Nobody was home at the time and no one is hurt.  The Fairchild fire chief says the house can’t be salvaged.

There’s one month left to raise money for renovations on the L.E. Phillips Senior Center in Eau Claire.  Officials with the senior center say they’ve raised about 670-thousand dollars of their one-point-one-million dollar goal.  Their deadline is February 14th.

The 2020 USA Curling Junior National Championships are underway in Eau Claire and tourism officials say it’s going to be a boon for the economy.  A Visit Eau Claire official says he expects 200-to-300 people to attend the event and for it to bring in nearly 200-thousand dollars to the city.  The event lasts through Saturday.

The sheriff in Chippewa County says he didn’t fully communicate with neighbors in New Auburn last fall about a sex offender who was placed in the community. Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk last night told neighbors that mistakes were made ahead of David Hager’s placement in a home in New Auburn. But the sheriff said his office is making sure that the community is safe. The sheriff said Hager, who spent time in prison for abusing children, cannot leave his home without

A man from Ladysmith who scammed a Chippewa County woman out of more than 100-thousand-dollars in cars, watches, and cellphones is looking at a few months behind bars. A judge in Chippewa falls yesterday sentenced Andrew Conklin to eight months in jail and five years probation for embezzlement. Conklin pleaded guilty last week. Police say he conned the woman into signing for cars, opening credit cards, and spending thousands on electronics and jewelry that he was supposed to sell.

One man is dead and two others were taken to the hospital after a crash in Barron County. It happened just before 1 p.m. yesterday near Chetek. The Wisconsin State Patrol says a Ford Escape driven by 52 year old Edward Wakefield, of Dallas hit a semi-truck driven by 42 year old Shawn Robbins of Rice Lake. The passenger in the Escape, 46 year old Robert Wanrecke is the one who died while 33 year old Ashley Halpin of Chippewa Falls was

Republican lawmakers want Wisconsin judges to be able to get tougher on criminals. State Senator Alberta Darling yesterday led a contingent of Republicans in introducing a new package of proposed laws that will stiffen sentences or create new crimes. One of those new crimes would be a new law against intimidating the victims of domestic violence. Darling and the others also say they want judges to have the tools to protect witnesses and make testifying easier.

The court fight over Wisconsin’s voter purge case is not going to the state Supreme Court. At least not yet. Justices yesterday were deadlocked, three-to-three, on whether to hear the case that could force over 200-thousand voters in the state to re-register. The decision not to take the case means an appeals court in Madison will have to rule first. Liberal justices on the high court worry that whatever they eventually order may not come in enough time to be implemented

Advocates in Wisconsin are looking to find former felons who want to vote in November. The group, EX-incarcerated People Organizing, yesterday said it is looking for people who spent time in prison and have had their voting rights restored in the state. EXPO’s Jerome Dillard says people who have served their sentence and finished their probation and parole are eligible to vote.