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The Altoona School District is officially working on construction for a new multi-million-dollar sports complex.  Ground broke at Altoona High School yesterday.  New turf is being laid that will include a football and soccer field combination, eight lane track, and concession stand building with bathrooms.  The project is expected to be complete before the start of football season. 

Judge Lisa Neubauer’s campaign is pointing to Wisconsin’s last recount in a race for Supreme Court as proof that she still has a chance.  Neubauer’s campaign yesterday said election managers found 14-thousand votes in 2011 to give Justice David Prosser the win.  Those votes were miscounted on Election Day in Waukesha County, and were reported the next day.  Neubauer is trailing Judge Brian Hagedorn by almost six-thousand votes in this year’s race for the court.

It’s not him.  The FBI says the person claiming to be Timmothy Pitzen is not the little boy who was last seen at the Wisconsin Dells back in 2011.  Investigators yesterday said the person who came forward is actually 23-year-old Brian Rini of Ohio.  Police say Rini has an extensive criminal past and has a history of making false reports. 

An Eau Claire man with a sex offense already on his record will spend a year in jail for molesting a four-year-old girl.  A judge yesterday sentenced 34-year-old Ben Lashley to 12 months in jail.  Lashley was already a registered sex offender after a 2016 child porn conviction. 

The new head of Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources is defending the governor’s new approach to Chronic Wasting Disease.  DNR Secretary Preston Cole yesterday told lawmakers that Governor Evers is dedicated to protecting deer in the state, but he doesn’t want to spend any more money than is necessary to do it.  Cole said the best strategy to contain CWD is to get hunters to turn-in deer heads for study.

School kids across Wisconsin could soon get a heads-up about the next fire drill or school safety drill.  Lawmakers in Madison are considering a plan that would allow local schools to warn students before any drills.  The idea comes after parents in Madison complained that a school shooter drill left their kids traumatized.  Current Wisconsin law says fire drills and tornado drills are to be held without warning.  The law gives schools more leeway on school shooting drills. 

A change of attitude in Illinois could help keep Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan waters much safer.  Illinois Governor JB Pritzker yesterday said he will support a plan to build an electric barrier in the Illinois River to keep Asian carp out of Lake Michigan.  Illinois’ last governor balked at the idea because it would cost the state nearly 100-million-dollars.  Leaders in most Great Lakes states fear that if the carp make it to Lake Michigan, there’s nothing to stop them from spreading

The road to the Eastern Conference Championship will go through Milwaukee.  The Bucks clinched the East and home court advantage in the playoffs with a win last night in Philadelphia.  Giannis had 45 points as the Bucks beat the 76’s 128-122 last night. 

A high-profile Wisconsin inmate has a new address.  Brendan Dassey is serving a life sentence for the 2005 murder of freelance photographer Teresa Halbach.  Dassey was doing time in the Columbia Correctional Institution, but was moved yesterday to the Oshkosh Correctional Institution.  Columbia is a maximum-security prison, while Oshkosh is medium-security.  *Photo Credit: WEAU 13 NEWS

The parents of a baby boy continue their battle to find a liver donor to save their son’s life.  The five-month-old suffers from a rare life-threatening genetic condition.  WITI-TV says there are just 12 known cases in the world.  A recent donor turned out not to be a perfect match and the baby may only have weeks to live.  The boy’s parents are not matches.