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Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in west-central Wisconsin.  The Eau Claire City-County Health Department says there are more cases of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in the county so far this year.  It also says unprotected sex is often the cause for increases in STDs and STI’s.  

Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin is trying to get more broadband access across the state.  Baldwin introduced the Access Broadband Act yesterday that would increase access to broadband in rural areas across the country by removing regulations from small telecommunication companies.  The bill has bipartisan support including from Wisconsin’s other Senator Ron Johnson. 

One Wisconsin lawmaker wants to end lunch shaming in the state’s public schools, but local school leaders aren’t so sure.  State Rep. Gary Tauchen is pushing a plan to stop schools from not feeding, or feeding a smaller lunch to children who cannot pay.  But his plan doesn’t include any money from the state, so schools would have to eat the cost of the lunches that they give away.  Local school leaders say they’d rather see each school set its own lunch

It looks like a heart attack killed Durand firefighter before he rolled his car earlier this week.  Kyle Hayden’s family said he died of heart failure, not the one car crash on Highway 85.  Hayden was just 30-years-old.  A public visitation is set for this Sunday at the Rhiel Funeral Home in Durand. 

A sailor from La Crosse is finally getting a homecoming and a final goodbye.  George Naegle died in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.  His remains were not identified until recently.  Now, Naegle will be buried in La Crosse and receive the funeral he never got back in 1941.  Naegle’s family says everyone is invited to the funeral Saturday at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman in La Crosse. 

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is set to decide whether lawmakers in Madison can set their own schedule.  The court will hear arguments today from lawyers for the Wisconsin League of Women Voters who are challenging the entirety of last December’s extraordinary session at the Capitol.  The League says lawmakers cannot call themselves into session whenever they want, so all of the laws passed during that session are null and void.  Lawmakers say they specifically gave themselves the power to meet as they see

The Big Buddy and roller grill lunch isn’t the only thing that Kwik Trip has going for itself.  The folks at GasBuddy.com say Kwik Trip has the cleanest bathrooms in the entire state of Wisconsin.  GasBuddy released its annual traveler survey yesterday.  Kwik Trip also got the cleanest nod in Iowa and Minnesota. That’s good for road trippers who may be heading our way. Wisconsin once again just missed being among the top ten best places to live in the U.S.  The

Lottery officials are waiting for two big winners to come forward to claim their jackpots.  Officials today say one player matched Saturday’s SuperCash to win 350-thousand-dollars.  That ticket was sold at a Speedway on South Chicago Road in South Milwaukee.  On Friday a lucky ticket in Badger 5 was bought in Superior and is worth 73-thousand-dollars.  

An Eau Claire sex offender is being sentenced to probation for cutting off his ankle bracelet.  Reports say Leigh Beebe reached a plea deal yesterday and pleaded no contest to not updating his information with the state.  Beebe was previously convicted of third-degree sexual assault in Eau Claire in 2012 and was released in 2017.  After his latest conviction he’s getting two years of probation tacked onto his sentence. 

The owner of a Weston bar who was at the scene of a recent shooting says customers helped disarm the shooter.  Big Dan and Space Kelly’s Club manager Jared Elliott says he was inside the bar early Sunday morning when Sergio Retana started shooting someone.  Elliott says a bunch of his customers got the suspect to the ground and took his gun from him before police got there.  The bar has since re-opened.