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An Eau Claire man will be almost 75-years-old when he gets out of prison for sexual assault.  A judge yesterday sentenced 35-year-old Trent Woodman to 38 years in prison.  Woodman pleaded no contest to charges that he abused a 14-year-old girl for months back in 2017.

One Wisconsin lawmaker wants to pay people from out of state to come to school here, and never leave.  State Rep. Dave Murphy is pitching a plan that would pay UW system graduates who make more than 40-thousand-dollars a year to stay in Wisconsin for seven years after graduation.  The grant would be worth ten-percent of the out of state tuition that someone would pay at a UW campus.  Murphy says the idea is to fill Wisconsin’s worker shortfall with

The next time someone wins 768-million-dollars playing Powerball, some Wisconsin lawmakers want to let them stay anonymous.  Speaker Robin Vos yesterday introduced a plan to change Wisconsin’s law that requires lotto winners publicy come forward.  He introduced the plan on the same day that Manuel Franco from West Allis claimed his state-record Powerball jackpot.  Vos says just because you hit it big doesn’t mean you lose your right to privacy. 

Wisconsin ranks dead last when it comes to participation in the school breakfast program.  Governor Tony Evers says that’s not what’s best for the state’s children and his budget, if passed, will fully fund school breakfast.  The Reedsburg School District made a move last week to include free breakfast at the district’s high school.  Its elementary and middle schools already offer free breakfast.

Two people are dead after a head-on car crash in Polk County.  The sheriff’s office says a car was eastbound on Highway 8 early yesterday morning when it crossed the center line and hit another car just east of 15th Street near the town of Beaver.  Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene.

A Chippewa Falls man already in prison on drug charges is also accused of providing drugs to two men who died of an overdose.  Reports say Shane Johnson made his initial appearance yesterday on 12 charges including two counts of first-degree reckless homicide.  Johnson is accused of giving drugs to Nicholas Buck and Samuel Ott.  They died of an overdose four days apart in November of 2017.  Johnson is facing nearly 200 years in prison.

Two people from the Milwaukee area are going to prison for trying to help a terrorist group.  Yosvany Padilla-Conde and Waheba Dais were both recently convicted of trying to plan attacks on behalf of ISIS.  Police say Dais tried to recruit others to the group and gave out information on making explosives.  They’re both facing up to 20 years in prison.

Wisconsin lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow parents to vaccinate their children at pharmacies.  Right now, kids under six-years-old can’t get vaccinations at a pharmacy, but the new bill would allow vaccinations with a doctor’s prescription.  If you watched the news, you likely saw that WQOW reports a pharmacist at HSHS Sacred Heart says allowing pharmacies to do vaccinations would make it easier for patients to make appointments rather than having to use crowded doctor’s offices.

The West Allis man who is claiming a huge Powerball prize says he felt lucky the day he bought his ticket.  Twenty-four-year-old Manuel Franco collected his share of the 768-million-dollar jackpot today.  He matched all six numbers including the Powerball in last month’s drawing.  Franco is taking a lump-sum of 477-million-dollars and will receive around 326-million-dollars after state and federal taxes.

The man who police say ran down three Chippewa Falls Girl Scouts is finally answering drug charges from his arrest about a month before that deadly crash.  Colten Treu pleaded not guilty yesterday to felony drug charges in Rusk County.  Authorities there arrested Treu about a month before police say he ran down the Girl Scouts on the side of the road in Chippewa County last October.  Treu was out on bond at the time of the wreck.