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Governor Tony Evers is wishing Wisconsinites a Happy World Water Day and says he’s committed to making public health investments a priority.  The governor said today safe, healthy drinking water is a basic human right and his administration is going to make sure Wisconsin residents have quality water.  The governor says the state is investing 70-million-dollars to combat water pollution and replace lead pipes.  He’s also setting aside funding for a groundwater and geology study in Southwest Wisconsin. 

The average price for a gallon of regular gas in Wisconsin is up eight-cents-a-gallon from a week ago.  Triple-A says the average price statewide is two-dollars-and-59-cents today, while the national average is two-61.  The lowest prices are posted in Sheboygan and the Janesville-Beloit areas at two-53-a-gallon.  Drivers in the Superior area are paying the most at the pump at two-77 for regular gas. 

An accident resulted in a patrol car being struck at the scene. It was just before 7 on Thursday night the Barron County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call of a head-on crash on Hwy 8 between Poskin and Almena. Initial investigation shows a vehicle pulled from the stop sign on 8th Street onto Hwy 8 into a path of a semi that was travelling east on Hwy 8. The driver of the car was extracted from the vehicle and

A Chicago man is going to prison for over five years after being convicted of possessing heroin with the intent to distribute it.  The Department of Justice reports Terry Glaspie was pulled over in Dunn County in January of 2018 with over 100 grams of fentanyl-laced heroin in his car.  Police say Glaspie was transporting the drugs from Chicago to Minneapolis so it could be sold.  He was sentenced yesterday to 66 months in prison.

A Rice Lake man is going to prison after being convicted of beating a woman.  Jason Rush was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison followed by six years of supervised release.  Rush’s victim claimed Rush was on his way to get treatment for a meth addiction when he got mad, punched her, and hit her with an aluminum pipe.  Rush pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and false imprisonment as part of a plea deal.

An Eau Claire woman is accused of hitting cars in a parking lot because of a dispute over a dog.  A criminal complaint claims 20-year-old Kalika Mayer recently met with a 17-year-old girl and her dog in a pet store parking lot because Mayer said she missed her and the dog.  The teenager’s brother says he saw the two start to argue which led to Mayer ramming her car into three other cars before trying to take the teen’s dog. 

University of Wisconsin is starting its run through the NCAA men’s basketball tournament this afternoon.  The fifth seeded Badgers will take on 12 seed Oregon at 3:30 in San Jose with the winner advancing to take on the winner between Kansas State and UC Irvine.  Although Wisconsin has the much better seed it’s only a two-point favorite. 

Eau Claire city buses are making a change to a popular route past a former K-mart.  Eau Claire Transit says buses used to stop at the store on East Clairemont Avenue but they won’t anymore because of its deteriorated parking lot.  Instead, buses will now use nearby Ridge Road just to the north.  The K-mart that used be on the East Clairemont parking lot has been closed since 2015.

They ‘threw out the trash,’ that’s how Milwaukee police say a local woman described helping Dariaz Higgins dispose of his daughter’s body.  Prosecutors yesterday charged Deloise Lipsey with aiding a felon.  They say she was at Higgins’ side the entire time he was on the run from police, including when he dumped his daughter’s body in rural Minnesota. 

Hansen’s IGA is taking over the Gordy’s on West Clairemont Avenue in Eau Claire.  That location is the only Gordy’s not sold to Nash Finch at auction.  The store is expected to open in mid-April.  There is no word if the store will close during the transition.  They plan to retain all current employees.