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Students at UW Eau Claire are expected in class this morning, despite a weekend fire at Phillips Hall. School leaders say the fire Saturday morning did ‘extensive’ damage to a research lab, but didn’t do much damage to the rest of the building. No one was hurt in the fire. Firefighters think the fire started at a printer.

A Barron County inmate’s weekend away will likely cost him. Police in Eau Claire yesterday arrested 45-year-old Gerald Jackson after he didn’t return from work release on Saturday. Jackson is serving time for not paying his child support, and he was due to be released at the end of the month. There is no word on how much more time he will have to serve after skipping-out on his sentence.

Authorities in Menomonie are looking for answers after finding a man laying on the ice at Lake Menomin. Fisherman spotted the man Saturday morning when he was near the bank. Deputies took the man to Mayo Clinic Health System in Menomonie. No one is saying what the man was doing on the ice, or how long he’d been there. We could get more answers later today.

Deputies in Racine County are blaming the snow for a crash near Highway 20 that killed one person and injured nine others. The wreck happened yesterday afternoon near Highway 20 and 63rd Drive. Deputies say one car slid across the center line and smashed into another, head-on. One person died in the wreck. Racine County deputies say some of the nine who were injured are dealing with serious injuries.

Republican state lawmakers say their push to get tougher on crime is all about giving prosecutors more tools. State Senator Chris Kapenga was on UpFront over the weekend, and said the Republican package to get tougher on reckless drivers and people who steal cars is all about making roads and communities safer. Kapenga says police and prosecutors need more tools to file tougher charges, and get more serious jail time for offenders.

Three bald eagles that were in rehab for several months are now in good shape and released back to the wild.  NBC15 reports that hundreds of admirers were on hand to witness the release of the three eagles in an event yesterday near the Wisconsin River in Sauk City.  The eagles had been treated since last year at the Raptor Education Group’s location in Antigo. 

The World Championship Cheese Contest is continuing to grow.  The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association announced that there are a record setting number of entries for the competition in Madison next month.  More than 36-hundred cheesemakers from 26 different countries have signed on to show off their best dairy products from March third through the fifth at the Monona Terrace Convention Center, and may the best cheese win.

You might notice flags flying lowering and wonder why. Governor Evers issued Executive Order # 70, relating to a proclamation that the flag of the United States and the flag of the State of Wisconsin be flown at half-staff as a mark of respect for Milwaukee Firefighter, Darrin Jones who died in the line of duty. He was with the department for 28 years.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says 14 people in the state are currently being monitored for the coronavirus.  In a press  conference, officials said eight tests for the virus have come back negative, five tests are still awaiting results, and one positive case has been confirmed in Dane County.  DHS officials stressed that the risk to the public remains low.

We now know the fate of a woman charged with murder. A judge in Dunn County has sentenced Ezra McCandless to life in prison with possibility for parole after 50 years today. McCandless convicted of stabbing her boyfriend, Aexander Woodworth, to death back in 2018. Police say she stabbed him 16 times. McCandless tried to claim self-defense, but a jury found her guilty last November. She was sentenced today in a Dunn County Court.