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A bicyclist is dead after being hit by a car in Polk County.  The county sheriff’s office says the bicyclist rode out of a driveway onto Highway M near Mulligan Drive in Osceola yesterday morning when they were hit.  The driver reportedly said the bicyclist pulled out in front of  her and she couldn’t see him until it was too late.  The victim later died at the hospital.

An Eau Claire mobile home has heavy damage following a fire early this morning.  Reports say the fire broke out around three o’clock in the 49-hundred block of Olson Drive in the Cozy Acres Mobile Village.  Crews arrived to find the home covered in smoke and flames.  No one was home at the time so no one was hurt.

Illinois people are accused of using fake 100 dollar bills at multiple Eau Claire businesses.  A criminal complaint says Chianne Royster and Jessica Dampier used the bills last Friday and pocketed 85 to 95 dollars in change.  The businesses involved told police about the incidents and they used surveillance videos to track down the suspects.  Royster and Dampire were arrested along with Nigel Lee and Keyon Fowler.  They’re all charged with forgery.

Add more people to the list of folks getting sick after vaping in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said there are now 60 confirmed cases of people who’ve come down with lung and breathing problems after vaping. No one has yet died in the state. Nationally, the CDC says says just over 800 people have gotten sick from vaping. Thirteen people have died.

Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol are taking a victory lap after a new report shows just how much their tax cuts from the past eight years have saved people across the state. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos yesterday said the new report from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau shows tax cuts have saved Wisconsin taxpayers 13 billion-dollars since 2011. Vos says the most recent tax cut plan, approved in the spring, will save taxpayers two thousand-dollars each over the next ten years.

There will be another weekend of cleaning-up for folks in Chippewa and Dunn and Clark counties. Local leaders are organizing more volunteers to head out to the areas hit by this week’s storm. Wheaton Fire Chief Adam Blaskowski says he’ll spend the day today seeing what neighbors in the Town of Wheaton need.

Prosecutors in Barron County are pushing ahead with charges against a driver who they say smashed into a pickup truck, then ran away. The D.A. filed charges yesterday against Edwin Guitierrez. Police say he was going too fast in last week’s fog, crossed the center line, and smashed head-on into a truck. They say Guitierrez then took off. He was eventually caught and arrested. He’s being held on two-thousand-dollars cash bond.

Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator says he’s more bothered by the leaks surrounding President Trump’s call to Ukraine’s president than anything that the President actually said. Senator Ron Johnson yesterday said he didn’t see anything in the call that is worthy of impeachment. Johnson did say that he’s bothered that the whistleblower complaint about the phone call was leaked to the media. Johnson says that may make it tougher for the President to talk candidly with other world leaders in the

No one is saying what they want Wisconsin lawmakers to do, but nearly 200 local leaders say they want lawmakers to do something. The League of Wisconsin Municipalities released a letter signed by 185 local leaders that asks the Wisconsin legislature to act on guns. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says it’s a sign of just how many cities and counties want to see more gun control. Meanwhile, the people who sell guns in Wisconsin could soon be trained to spot potentially suicidal people. A task force looking at

Stout reported the death of a student. 18 Haaris Ameen, a first-year UW-Stout student from Rochester, Minn., passed away overnight. No foul play is suspected, and the death is under investigation. He was majoring in computer and electrical engineering.