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Ice anglers are reminded that the last deadline to remove permanent ice shanties from state waters is this Sunday, March 17, when shanties must be removed from waters north of Highway 64 and all other outlying waters by the end of the day. Warm temperatures and rain in the forecast could complicate removal so state officials are urging anglers not to wait until the deadline.

A man who was shot by police in Eau Claire County is going to prison.  Reese Diesterhaft was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison in Dunn County followed by five years of supervised release for leading police on a multi-county chase last August.  A criminal complaint says Diesterhaft was hoping to get shot because he had already been sentenced to ten years in a South Dakota prison for a separate crime.  The two deputies involved in the shooting have

A man charged in connection with a child enticement investigation is pleading guilty.  Luis Guevara pleaded no contest to child enticement in Eau Claire County Court yesterday and had two other charges dropped because of a plea deal.  Guevara was arrested after an Altoona police officer posed as a 14-year-old girl and agreed to meet with Guevara at a park where he was arrested.  Guevara will be sentenced in May. 

The Eau Claire Area School District is seeing an increase in students missing school because of sickness.  Superintendent Mary Ann Hardebeck says 44 students were home sick from Northwood Elementary on Monday along with 35 other kids across the district.  Hardebeck says those numbers are high but an increase in sick absences is common this time of year. 

There are two ways to look at the report from the Wisconsin Elections Commission that confirms 24 people committed voter fraud last November.  You can say that only 24 of the two-point-seven-million people who voted last fall committed a crime.  Or you can say that election managers confirmed that some people voted twice, some felons voted, and even someone who is not in this country legally was able to cast a ballot.

April showers might bring May flowers, but March rains? They bring travel pains! Several roads in Eau Claire County are closed because of flooding.  A flood warning came from the National Weather Service, local officials say a number of roads throughout the county are overrun with water.  Several other area counties were also under flood warnings.

An AMBER Alert is still in effect in the suspected abduction of two-year-old Noelani Robinson.  Dariaz Higgins is accused of killing the child’s mother Sierra Robinson and wounding another woman Monday when the three were meeting for Higgins to return the toddler to Robinson.  He is believed to have the child with him and is considered armed and dangerous. 

A new chairman is in place on the Chippewa County Board after the former chairman resigned following a scandal.  The board selected former Vice Chair Leigh Darrow yesterday to serve the remainder of Jared Zwiefelhofer’s term.  Records show the former chair and Bloomer Police Chief used his department issued AR-style weapon to illegally shoot a deer outside of gun season last November.  He was cited for several charges and resigned as chair.

Wildlife officials are saying that the rough Wisconsin winter could affect harvest quotas for antlerless deer next fall.  Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologists said yesterday that the winter will have a moderate to severe impact on the spring deer population.  County deer advisory councils around the state are meeting to make early harvest quota recommendations for next fall.