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Add Wisconsin to the list of states looking to pay college athletes. State Rep. Dave Murphy, who heads the Assembly’s Colleges and Universities Committee, this week said he is working on legislation to allow college athletes to make money while in school. About a dozen states have, or are considering, laws that allow athletes to make money off of their names or images. Murphy says Wisconsin cannot afford to wait and see what other states or the NCAA does. No one at the University

The City of Eau Claire City Councilvoted to approve an ordinance that will return the City of Eau Claire to “Alternate Side Parking” rules between November 1 and May 1.     Alternate Side night time parking restrictions will go into effect on all city streets on Friday, November 1, 2019 and continue through May 1, 2020.  The restrictions apply and will be enforced between midnight and 7 a.m.    When parking a vehicle or trailer on the street, the date

An increased demand for propane is prompting Governor Tony Evers to declare an energy emergency in the state.  The governor today said people are heating homes with the arrival of cold weather and farmers need propane to dry their corn.  The governor’s order also temporarily lifts restrictions on truck drivers making propane deliveries in the state.  Regulations mandate truckers can only drive 14 hours consecutively before a ten-hour mandated rest period, but that will not be enforced during the emergency. 

The nation’s report card has arrived and it shows Wisconsin struggling to close the achievement gap between black and white students.  The National Assessment of Educational Progress released data last night showing results from math and reading tests given to fourth and eighth grade students over the last ten years.  In general Wisconsin students scored higher than the national average for math and reading.  But education officials consider the achievement gap experienced by African-American students to be a crisis and imperative for the state

A Clarke County woman is charged with attempted murder after her husband reportedly cheated on her.  A criminal complaint says Shannon Liddell admitted to catching her husband cheating on her, then hurting people.  The complaint says Liddell stabbed a woman in the neck and injured a man’s chest.  She was charged Tuesday and ordered held on 50-thousand dollars bond. PHOTO CREDIT WEAU 13 NEWS

An Iowa man is accused of stabbing another man at a Chippewa Falls motel.  A criminal complaint says the victim told co-workers Anthony Avila stabbed him with a box cutter outside the County Inn and Suites on October 24th.  Avila has been arrested and charged with second-degree reckless endangering safety, substantial battery, and carrying a concealed knife.

Wisconsin dairy experts predict milk prices will go up across the state in 2020.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture says milk production was up by over half a percent this September from last year, meaning a recovery year could be on the way.  The USDA says the increase in production is because of higher milk prices.  It expects the price of milk to go up by about a dollar per 100 pounds by the start of 2020

The man accused of threatening officers before being shot at a Chippewa Falls motel back in August likely isn’t getting out of jail anytime soon. A judge yesterday refused to lower 48-year-old Christopher Knyphausen’s 50-thousand-dollar cash bond. A deputy shot Kynphausen after he threatened to shoot people at the Indianhead Motel back in August. He’s due back in court in two weeks.

BlueGolds add the color green. Leaders at UW Eau Claire say they welcome the vote from students to be more green when it comes to new buildings on campus. The UW Eau Claire Student Senate yesterday approved a sustainability resolution. It calls for environmentally friendly building strategies on campus. UW EC officials say they welcome the idea, but are quick to say that state lawmakers often times have the final say on what gets built.

Wisconsin is a step closer to expanding the state’s felony trespassing law to include more energy producers. The state already has a law on the books that could land someone in prison for six years for trespassing at an electric company’s facility. The proposal that went before a Senate panel yesterday would add pipelines and oil and gas facilities to the list as well. A number of environmental groups say the law is aimed at squashing protests.