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In Ohio, a man is wondering what to do after receiving a massive amount of duplicate letters in the mail.  Phil Hulett explains. OPEN THE ENVELOPE HERE FOR THE DETAILS

A Barron man is facing child sexual assault charges.  A criminal complaint says Edwin Gutierrez admitted to assaulting someone in a church parking lot in Almena last November and December.  Gutierrez is charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child.  He’s also facing charges in a hit and run case from September.

A shed at an Amish farm in Eau Claire County is destroyed from a fire. Reports say the fire broke out around two o’clock Tuesday afternoon in Bridge Creek.  Reports say the fire may have been caused by a chimney malfunction and the shed’s considered a total loss.

It could soon be more expensive for students from Illinois and Minnesota to go to college in Wisconsin. UW Trustees are set to vote tomorrow on a plan to raise tuition for non-Wisconsin students at the campuses in Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Platteville, River Falls, Stevens Point, and Whitewater starting this fall. The tuition increases would range from one-and-a-half percent to 25 percent.  Wisconsin lawmakers are sticking-with a tuition freeze for all Wisconsin students at UW schools. But that tuition freeze doesn’t apply to students who come

 Getting engaged just took a cheesy turn.  Phil Hulett explains. CLICK HERE FOR A SLICE OF THE STORY-HELP YOURSELF!

Prosecutors in Chippewa Falls are moving ahead with charges against a man who they say drunkenly pointed a gun at his son’s head back in December. Fifty seven-year-old Matthew Merritt is looking at felony weapons charges. Police say he was drinking with his 18-year-old son on the day before New Year’s Eve when he took out a 45-caliber pistol, loaded it, and pointed it at his son. Merritt is not supposed to have a gun because he is a convicted

It looks like a lot of people want to be Eau Claire’s next superintendent. The city’s school board last night said that 37 people have applied for the job. School board president Eric Torres says they will narrow that field down, then invite some finalists for interviews. Current Superintendent Mary Ann Hardebeck is retiring in June.

The people who drive the buses in Eau Claire are remembering Rosa Parks.  Eau Claire Transit Manager Tom Wagener says they placed pictures of Parks on bus seats on a number of buses yesterday as part of Transit Equity Day. Wagener said bus companies across the country did the same. It was Parks’ refusal to give-up her bus seat in 1955 that helped spark the end of segregated public transportation.

The University of Wisconsin La Crosse is looking to solve its future enrollment problems. The school this month formed a long-term enrollment task force. Chancellor Joe Gow said the school had record enrollment this past fall, more than 10-thousand-students are on campus. But he said Wisconsin high schools are predicting a dip in graduates in the next five years or so. Gow said the school cannot keep doing the same thing and expect to keep-up with enrollment.