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A Spooner man could go to prison for over 100 years after being charged with three sex crimes.  A criminal complaint claims a 12-year-old says she was assaulted about every-other weekend for two years by Kyle Korthof.  Reports say Korthof admitted to the assaults to police.  He’s being held on 25-hundred dollars bond and will return to court next month. 

A woman accused of causing about 70-thousand dollars worth of damage at an Eau Claire hospital will avoid prison time.  Debora Sykora was accused of grabbing a vitals machine off the wall at HSHS Sacred Heart after being taken there to detox after being found drunk and yelling in April.  She pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct yesterday and was sentenced to one year of probation. 

A woman in prison for lying about being a nurse in Wausau is getting more prison time for telling more lies.  Reports say Jennifer Brown was sentenced to prison last year for pretending to be a nurse at North Central Health Care in 2017.  Yesterday she got more time for allegedly using false employee documents.  Brown got two more years tacked on to her one-year sentence plus two more years of extended supervision. 

A Fitchburg student is competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals.  EAGLE School fifth-grader Maya Jadhav made it to the top 50 earlier this week after starting in a group of more than 550 spellers.  The final round begins at nine o’clock this morning on ESPN and will continue with the end of the competition at 7:30 tonight. 

Foxconn is taking another step toward its new factory in Racine County.  The company yesterday awarded 13-million-dollars in construction contracts to three firms.  Foxconn is hoping to have its Gen6 plant in Mount Pleasant up and running by the end of next year. 

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says diversity and special education are part of what makes schools in the state extraordinary.  The governor made a couple of stops in Eau Claire yesterday to talk-up his education plan.  Evers says the key to making education better in the state is more money.  He said he’s disappointed that lawmakers in Madison haven’t given him what he asked for in his state budget. 

Trade not aid! If President Trump isn’t going to open up trade for Wisconsin’s dairy farmers, the head of the American Dairy Coalition says it’s time that they get paid.  The coalition’s Laurie Fischer yesterday wrote a letter to the President that said farmers would always prefer trade to aid, but she says there’s not enough trade.  Fischer also said the last round of aid amounted to only about 250-million-dollars for dairy farmers.  She says the tariff tit-for-tat with China, Canada,

A former St. Croix County soccer coach is heading to jail for sending nude photos to a 16-year-old player.  Ben Schrock used to coach the Hudson JV girls soccer team.  A jury found him guilty back in March of sending the pictures.  A judge yesterday sentenced Schrock to a year in jail, work release, and three years of probation. 

We open the door on a program to address homelessness in our area as advocates in Eau Claire say they are a quarter of the way to their goal.  The advocates and city leaders back in April said they want to find homes for about 80 of Eau Claire’s chronically homeless people.  To date, 16 people have been placed in homes.  Advocates say they hope to have more homes lined-up in the near future. 

A former public works employee in Cornell is looking at a 25-hundred dollar bill for stealing from the city.  A judge yesterday ordered Brandon Larson to repay the city 25-hundred dollars for stealing scrap metal and building a private road on his boss’ land with city materials.  Larson pleaded no contest to misconduct charges.