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State Attorney General Josh Kaul is joining a bipartisan coalition to stop illegal robocalls.   Kaul says the number of calls must be reduced dramatically.  A coalition of 51 attorneys general and 12 telecommunication companies agreed to adopt eight principles to fight the robocalls.  They include the companies implementing call-blocking technology, monitoring their networks for robocall traffic and developing technology to authenticate that callers are coming from a valid source. 

The average cost for a gallon of regular gas in Wisconsin is down four-cents-a-gallon for the third straight week.  Triple-A says the average price statewide is two-dollars-and-57-cents, three-cents below the national average.  Drivers are paying an average of two-54-a-gallon in Dane County, two-63 in Manitowoc and Marathon counties and two-48 in Fond du Lac.  Elsewhere, the average price at the pump in Sawyer, St. Croix and Chippewa counties is two-64 for regular gas.   

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is holding a press conference this afternoon about a woman who went missing in Saint Croix Falls ten years ago.  The sheriff’s office says then 21-year-old Rose Marie Bly left her house in August of 2009 but was never seen again.  Her car was found in Grantsburg five days later with no signs of struggle.  The sheriff’s office will have an update on the case including age-enhanced pictures at one o’clock. 

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says Wisconsin drivers are being safer.  The DOT says 90 percent of Wisconsin drivers wear their seatbelt.  That’s better than the 26 percent that wore their seatbelt when the state’s first seatbelt law went into effect in 1987.  The DOT says the most people who don’t wear their seatbelts are men between 18 and 35-years-old and truck drivers. 

A man is facing charges after crashing his car into a Beaver Dam middle school.  Police say a woman told them she got into an argument with her roommate Roy Cortez Wednesday night.  A criminal complaint says Cortez ran from police and crashed into Beaver Dam Middle School later that night.  The crash did about 100-thousand dollars of damage to the school.  Cortez is facing five charges and is being held on ten-thousand dollars bond. 

The Vernon County Sheriff’s Office is releasing more information about a deadly accident at the Viroqua Airport.  The sheriff’s office says a plane crashed in a field off Miller Road in the town of Jefferson Monday evening.  The pilot, 65-year-old Jack Wuolle, died in the crash.  It’s unclear exactly how the plane crashed but witnesses say they heard the engine stop before it descended. 

Parents in Eau Claire can now see if their kids will change schools next year.  Eau Claire schools yesterday released an interactive redistricting map that shows any and all enrollment changes.  Eau Claire’s school board voted last month to redistrict seven elementary schools to ‘balance’ the district’s enrollment.  Kids at Lakeshore, Locust Lane, Longfellow, Northwoods, Roosevelt, Sam Davey and Sherman Elementary will be impacted.  CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE ON THE NEW MAP

La Crosse police say all of the evidence they need to convict three people of firing a gun inside a local motorcycle club is on tape.  Prosecutors yesterday filed charges against three people in connection to a shooting at the Society for Brotherhood motorcycle club.  Police say Brandon Stemper and Javier Ortiz fired a gun several times into a wall at the club.  Security video from the club shows the shooting.  The third person, Amber Peters, is facing charges for

Hopefully your phone will stop ringing so much.  Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday said Wisconsin is among the states agreeing with 12 phone companies across the country to new rules that are designed to get tougher on robocalls.  The phone companies are agreeing to new blocking technology and to make sure people know how to block unwanted calls.  Kaul says people need a break from an overwhelming number of unwanted robocalls. 

A new report says Wisconsin is leading the nation in farm bankruptcies.  Wells-Fargo said this week that 45 farms in Wisconsin filed Chapter 12 bankruptcy between July of last year and June of this year.  Kansas is second on the list with 39.  Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin blames the uptick in farm closings to the loss of export markets for dairy farmers in the state.