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A three-year-old is dead after what’s believed to have been child abuse.  Tomah police say the child was found unresponsive at a home last Friday and it died at a local hospital.  An autopsy shows the child died from multiple blunt force trauma injuries and police named Marcus Anderson as a suspect.  Anderson was arrested after making contact with police in downtown Tomah.  He’s facing multiple charges related to the child’s death and is being held on 750-thousand-dollars bond. 

A Black River Falls man is in custody after sheriff’s deputies say he led them on a chase through people’s front yards.  The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says Jon Peterson was driving drunk without a license over the weekend and he drove away from deputies during a traffic stop.  The deputies chased Peterson through multiple lawns in Black River Falls until his car got stuck and he ran away.  Peterson was arrested and he’s facing multiple charges related to the

The Eau Claire Area School Board has a new president and vice president.  Yesterday, board members elected Eric Torres as the new president and Lori Bica as vice president.  The election was held after President Joe Luginbill decided not to run for re-election.

Construction is underway on the new Stillson Elementary School in Chippewa County.  Reports say crews started moving dirt yesterday so the foundation can be poured.  The school is located about a mile away from its current location on nearly 40 acres of land off of County Highway J in Lafayette.  The project is expected to be completed by July of 2020.

There are still no answers about two missing people in the Chippewa River in Eau Claire.  More than two dozen volunteers and eight police dogs searched the river yesterday, looking for Panio Hessel and James Liedtka.  Hessel jumped into the river two weeks ago and is still missing.  Liedtka hasn’t been seen since walking along the riverfront last November.  

The city of Eau Claire is a big step closer to tearing-down the old Clarion Hotel and the Green Mill Restaurant.  Eau Claire’s planning commission last night approved a demolition plan.  The hope is to tear down the old hotel and build a new one on the same spot.  Eau Claire’s city council is expected to vote on the idea next week.

A western Wisconsin teen who fired into the dark last fall and hit a woman who was hunting will not go to jail.  A judge yesterday sentenced Nicholas Sempf-Nyren to 300 hours of community service, and took away his hunting license for five years.  Sempf-Nyren admitted to pulling the trigger on his gun last November, that bullet hit a woman as she was climbing out of her tree stand.  She survived, but with serious and lasting injuries.

State regulators say the city of Eau Claire failed to make sure everyone was safe from asbestos during the recent renovations at city hall.  The Department of Natural Resources is considering a possible 75-thousand-dollar fine for the city.  Colleen Schian with the city of Eau Claire says nothing is final yet.  She says the DNR investigation should not slow down the city’s renovation work, it’s scheduled to wrap-up by June.

Lawmakers in Madison don’t seem to have too much of a problem with the University of Wisconsin turning to out-of-state students to pay the bills.  A new audit shows UW schools saw almost 13-thousand fewer Wisconsin students from 2008 to 2018, but saw an additional ten-thousand out-of-state students over the same ten years.  Sen. Rob Cowles says he’d only be worried about those numbers if the UW system was shutting-out Wisconsin students in order to get more tuition money from out-of-state students, but he doesn’t know

A 15 dollar-an-hour minimum wage could cost Wisconsin 350-thousand jobs.  The  Badger Institute has a new report that says raising the minimum wage could cost about a third of workers in the state their job.  The report says almost 40-percent of all workers make less than 15 dollars-an-hour, and many of those people would be the ones to go if wages spike.  The Badger Institute report looked at what happened in other states that raised the minimum wage, and worries that the