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The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP), today certified the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board (WMMB) dba Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin (DFW) 2019 Board of Directors election results. Commencing July 1, 2019, the following dairy producers will begin a three-year term as elected members of the Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin: Mark Leder, District 3, Lincoln, Oneida, Price and Taylor counties                     Douglas Danielson, District 6, Chippewa and Eau Claire counties Jeff Strassburg, District 9, Shawano and Waupaca counties

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The Eau Claire Parks & Recreation Department announces that the first annual Water Safety Awareness day in cooperation with the Eau Claire YMCA and Eau Claire Water Safety Task Force will take place Saturday June 1 from 9am-11:30am at Fairfax Pool. This event is for non-swimmers ages 6-11 and consists of an hour long interactive skills lesson designed to teach kids water adjustment, using a life jacket, how to safely assist others and river, and lake safety. This event is

Eleven children are hurt after a bus crash in Monroe, just north of the Illinois border on Highway 69.  Police say four cars collided at the intersection of 8th Street and 69 Tuesday afternoon, injuring kids from five to 15-years-old.  Only a five-year-old was taken to the hospital by ambulance, the rest of the victims were taken in a separate school bus.  There were 26 students on the bus at the time of the crash. 

A Spooner man could go to prison for over 100 years after being charged with three sex crimes.  A criminal complaint claims a 12-year-old says she was assaulted about every-other weekend for two years by Kyle Korthof.  Reports say Korthof admitted to the assaults to police.  He’s being held on 25-hundred dollars bond and will return to court next month. 

A woman accused of causing about 70-thousand dollars worth of damage at an Eau Claire hospital will avoid prison time.  Debora Sykora was accused of grabbing a vitals machine off the wall at HSHS Sacred Heart after being taken there to detox after being found drunk and yelling in April.  She pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct yesterday and was sentenced to one year of probation. 

A woman in prison for lying about being a nurse in Wausau is getting more prison time for telling more lies.  Reports say Jennifer Brown was sentenced to prison last year for pretending to be a nurse at North Central Health Care in 2017.  Yesterday she got more time for allegedly using false employee documents.  Brown got two more years tacked on to her one-year sentence plus two more years of extended supervision. 

A Fitchburg student is competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals.  EAGLE School fifth-grader Maya Jadhav made it to the top 50 earlier this week after starting in a group of more than 550 spellers.  The final round begins at nine o’clock this morning on ESPN and will continue with the end of the competition at 7:30 tonight. 

Foxconn is taking another step toward its new factory in Racine County.  The company yesterday awarded 13-million-dollars in construction contracts to three firms.  Foxconn is hoping to have its Gen6 plant in Mount Pleasant up and running by the end of next year. 

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says diversity and special education are part of what makes schools in the state extraordinary.  The governor made a couple of stops in Eau Claire yesterday to talk-up his education plan.  Evers says the key to making education better in the state is more money.  He said he’s disappointed that lawmakers in Madison haven’t given him what he asked for in his state budget.