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The family of a Prairie du Sac man with terminal cancer is making a last request to bring him a very special holiday season.  Gene Weittenhiller says doctors have told him he only has months left to live, and his family is asking everyone to send the 71-year-old a Christmas card this year.  Cards can be sent to Gene at 410 20th Street, Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin 53578.

The remains of a missing Dane County woman are found in Adams County.  The Adams County medical examiner says a body found in the woods by a hunter on November 23rd has been identified as 24-year-old Annastasia Evans. She had been missing from the town of Dunn since May. 

Several cases of respiratory illness on college campuses is prompting the Wisconsin Department of Health to investigate.  Adenovirus infection spreads easily in classrooms and college dorms.  Officials say it can be especially hard on people with weakened immune systems or heart or lung problems.  The State Health Department is working with local officials to provide prevention  information to the colleges while also tracking the outbreaks.

The cost for regular gas in Wisconsin is up four-cents a gallon compared to a week ago.  Triple-A says the price statewide is two-dollars-and-44-cents, while it’s two-58 across the country.  Drivers in Eau Clair and Pierce-St. Croix County are paying the highest average price at around two-54 a gallon.  The price at the pump in Appleton averages a state low two-38 a gallon.

We now know the name of a man killed in an accident in Dunn Co. It was Thursday afternoon when theh Fire Department responded to the 3400 block of 420 th Ave. in the Town of Menomonie, for a report of a male subject who had been run over by a tractor. Upon arrival, Deputies learned that the victim was riding in the bucket of the tractor, while driving eastbound on 420 th Ave. The tractor drove over a bump

Today, Governor Evers issued Executive Order #61, relating to a proclamation that the flag of the United States and the flag of the State of Wisconsin be flown at half-staff in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. You will notice the flags being flown at half staff beginning at sunrise Saturday, December 7, 2019 and ending at sunset.

It’s time to get your HO!HO!HO! on and give Santa a little help. Join us Thursday, December 5th and Friday, December 6th at the Festival Foods location on Mall Drive in Eau Claire, from 6:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day.  We’ll be collecting new unwrapped toys and monetary donations for children in need! Keep your eye out for the North Point RV trailer, our home away from home outside the Mall Drive Festival Foods! Also, thanks to some of

Two Eau Claire men are facing child sexual assault charges.  William Bye and Richard Hargrove are accused of assaulting a teenage girl over the summer.  Police say they both denied involvement, but DNA from the victim shows they both were.  Bye is facing seven charges and Hargrove is facing two.

A new report says Wisconsin leads the country in cuts to environmental protection since 2008.  According to the Environmental Integrity Project, the Department of Natural Resources cut environmental protection projects by about 36 percent between 2008 and 2018.  The report also claims state spending went up by 14 percent during that time.

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Regents Committee is approving a new field house.  Reports say the field house would cost about 49-million dollars and be built east of the football field.  The school says no state dollars will be involved in the cost.  The project must now get approval from the full Board of Regents tonight.