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A Menomonie woman may go to prison after being convicted of abusing her child.  Reports say a jury found Kristine Buttke not guilty of child abuse on Wednesday but Buttke was found guilty of causing mental harm.  Buttke was accused of making her ten-year-old sleep on the basement floor without a bed and making the child use the bathroom on the floor.  She’ll be sentenced in August and she’s facing more than twelve years in prison. 

A Cumberland woman is accused of stealing nearly 30-thousand dollars from an ATM at her work.  Police say the owner of the BP gas station in Cumberland told them the money was stolen from their ATM between this January and April.  Surveillance video reportedly shows Amber Hirsch re-filling the machine for her job but putting some of the money in her purse and scanning lottery tickets she didn’t pay for.  Hirsch will return to court next month.  She’s currently free

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is one step closer to getting a new Science and Health Science building.  Tuesday the state’s Joint Finance Committee approved an over 100-million dollar budget for the first phase of the building in the 2019-to-2021 state budget.  Next the school will need to get the budget passed by the State Assembly, State Senate, and Governor Tony Evers. 

Lake Street bridge in Eau Claire will close next week for construction.  City engineer workers say Lake Street will close next Monday from the bridge to Farwell Street for construction on underground utilities, new curbs, gutters, pavement, and bike lanes.  The project is expected to last until August. 

Jurors will take at least one more day to try and agree on a verdict in a St. Croix County murder case.  The jury in Kayle Fleischauer’s trial didn’t reach a verdict yesterday.  Police say he shot and killed his son after a night of heavy drinking last spring.  The jury yesterday asked to see several pieces of evidence, including the police drawing of how officers think the shooting happened. 

Prosecutors in Dunn County are moving ahead with child abuse charges against a man who police say beat his children with metal bars and broom sticks.  The district attorney filed three felony counts against 40-year-old Bee Yang yesterday.  Police say Yang told them he beat his children because he didn’t think they were afraid of him.  Yang is free on bond. 

City leaders in La Crosse want visitors to pay a bigger piece of the cost to upgrade their local convention center.   La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat is looking to raise the city’s hotel tax from eight-percent to nine-and-a-half-percent.  He wants to find about two-and-a-half million-dollars a year to pay for 42-million-dollars in upgrades to the La Crosse Center.  The mayor says he doesn’t want property tax payers to have to foot the entire bill.  La Crosse’s city council will vote

Steven Avery is asking his supporters not to forget about him.  Making of Murderer star Steven Avery says he was framed for murder.  Avery recently wrote a letter to his supporters from a Waupun prison where he said he’s been in prison for 34 years and was framed by corrupt prosecutors, bad lawyers, and corrupt cops.  Avery was convicted of killing Teresa Halbach in 2007. 

Lawmakers in Madison hope to know soon how they will replace the state’s troubled youth prisons.  The state’s budget writing panel yesterday agreed to let counties borrow about 25-million-dollars to build the replacements for Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake.  Governor Tony Evers originally pitched 90-million-dollars in borrowing to have the state pay for the new prisons.  Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake are supposed to close by the end of next year, but lawmakers say they’re willing to push that date

Wisconsin lawmakers are not ready to add the World Dairy Expo to the laundry list of pork projects in the state budget.  The state’s budget writing panel last night trimmed 30-million-dollars that Governor Evers wanted to spend on the expo in Madison.  The cash was supposed to be the seed money for a public-private redevelopment project.