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An Eau Claire sculpture has 25-hundred-dollars worth of damage after being vandalized.  Julie Pangallio is the executive director of the Eau Claire Sculpture Tour and says someone pulled the World Sound sculpture off its pedestal sometime on Sunday.  Police later found the sculpture in the street.  The Sculpture Tour is offering 500 dollars for information leading to an arrest in the case.

A 30-year-old man is going to prison in Eau Claire County on child pornography charges.  The District Attorney’s office says Erio Oliver was convicted of eight child porn counts and one count of intimidating a witness earlier this week.  A criminal complaint says police found over 240 pictures of child porn of Oliver’s computer in 2015.  He’ll be sentenced in April.

A Saint Croix County man is having his rape charges dismissed.  The charges against Michael Vennie were dismissed Wednesday because the District Attorney’s office said they didn’t meet the burden of proof.  Vennie was accused of assaulting a 15-year-old girl last Easter weekend.

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is celebrating Martin Luther King Junior.  UW-Eau Claire’s division of equity, diversity, and inclusion held a speaking event with its vice chancellor Doctor Warren Anderson Wednesday night.  Warren talked about MLK and Black History Month.

Wisconsin has a case of the coronavirus. The state’s Department of Health Services confirmed the case yesterday. Doctors say a man who returned from China at the end of January felt sick and almost immediately went to the hospital in Madison. The workers at UW Hospital who came into contact with the man are now being monitored for the virus as well. Public health managers in Dane County say they are working to contact the people who were on the flight

An western Wisconsin woman with seven OWI convictions is heading to prison. A judge yesterday sentenced Shana Corbine from Webster to three years in prison. State troopers say she was drunk when they pulled her over last July. She was driving the wrong way down I-94 with her lights off.

The first phase of the new Veterans Memorial Trail in Altoona could be ready to go by the end of fall. Crews say they are ready to start construction on what will eventually be a two-million-dollar trail and park. The trail is being built in Altoona after neighbors in Eau Claire complained about its placement there.

The plan from UW Eau Claire leaders to combat racism on campus will involve a lot of training and talking. The school’s Rapid Action Task Force yesterday suggested nine different ideas to make sure there are no more racist incidents at the university. Most involve more training or more chances for students to report incidents, but the task force is also suggesting a restorative justice program. Though there are not a lot of specifics as to just what that program

The latest plan to help farmers and dairymen at the Wisconsin Capitol includes two tax cuts. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos yesterday said one tax plan would allow farmers, and some other small businessmen in the state, to deduct the cost of health insurance from their taxes. The other idea is a straight-up property tax cut for farmers. Vos said he hopes to have both plans to the floor of the Assembly for a vote before the end of the month.

Wisconsin’s two U.S. senators voted exactly how you’d expect on impeachment involving the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin yesterday voted to remove President Trump from office, while Republican Senator Ron Johnson voted to acquit the president. The vote in the U.S. Senate was almost exclusively down party line. Only Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney voted to impeach President Trump on one count.