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A man serving time in Chippewa County for writing bad checks will do more time in prison.  Reports say Ryan Sturz pleaded guilty in Eau Claire County Thursday to theft and fraud against a financial institution.  Sturz was already serving a three year sentence in Chippewa County.  He got another year tacked onto that sentence.

Chippewa Falls wants about 25 more poll workers for this year’s elections.  The city says it expects more voters this year and it wants to be able to cut down on workers’ shifts.  The preference primary is in April and the general election is in November.

Eau Claire city leaders will consider the possibility of new apartments on the northwest side of the city.  A plan for up to 550 multi-family apartments on Kane Road near the Menards Distribution Center will go before the city plan commission Monday.  Reports say a majority of the apartments would be workforce housing.  Rezoning for the apartments has already been approved.

A traffic stop leads to a 7th OWI for an Ellsworth man. 71 year old Thomas Michael O’Shaughnessy has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 7th offense. It was just before 9:30 on Thursday night when a Wisconsin State Trooper stopped a vehicle on Interstate 94 for a traffic lane deviation violation. The driver was identified as Thomas M O’Shaughnessy. A subsequent investigation, including standardized field sobriety testing,

One man is dead after an officer-involved shooting in Wausau. It happened yesterday at a home on the city’s north side. Wausau Police and the Marathon County Sheriff’s office say they were both involved, but no one is saying who pulled the trigger. There were no officers or deputies hurt in the shooting. The Wisconsin Department of Justice is now handling the investigation.

Western Wisconsin’s congressman says dairy farmers in the state are getting a big win. Congressman Ron Kind yesterday said the new trade deal with Canada and Mexico will open-up new markets for Wisconsin farmers. The U.S. Senate approved the agreement yesterday. Kind says he hopes that President Trump will sign the deal quickly so farmers in western Wisconsin can get to selling their products.

Taxpayers in the Chippewa Valley are going to see another tax increase question on their spring ballots. The Chippewa Valley Technical College last night approved a 48-million-dollar referendum. The idea is to raise property taxes to build two new centers, as well as pay for day-to-day expenses. Voters will have their say on the proposed tax increase in April.

There are more questions than answers about that suspicious death in Dunn County. The sheriff in Menomonie yesterday refused to say why they are calling a man’s death Wednesday night near Colfax suspicious. Investigators are also not saying anything about the person of interest in the case. The sheriff did say that there is no threat to the public, and that the man’s death is an isolated incident.

Every single National Guard member in Wisconsin could soon get some guarantees about their college classes. The state Assembly on Wednesday approved a plan to allow all guardsmen who are deployed to drop college or grad school classes free of charge. Right now, Wisconsin only allows troops who are deployed for longer periods of time to have that flexibility. The proposal passed without a single ‘No’ vote. It now heads to Governor Evers’ office.

A former nurse at the VA hospital in Tomah will not go to prison for over-prescribing opioid pain pills. A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Jennifer Amble to three years of probation. Prosecutors say she wrote 83 prescriptions for a friend who was neither a veteran or a patient at the Tomah facility. That friend overdosed back in 2014.