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The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office reports fake GoFundMe pages are being set up for Jayme Closs’ accused kidnapper Jake Patterson.  The sheriff’s office says the accounts are being set up through hacked Facebook accounts and that one person who was hacked is now receiving threats.  The accounts are currently being investigated and anyone in connection to them will be prosecuted. 

An Eau Claire man is accused of stalking and harassing a teenager at a local grocery store.  A criminal complaint claims 22-year-old Robert Sahr used to be a manager at the store and developed a friendship with a 16-year-old male employee last Fall.  The teen says Sahr became obsessed and started spending all his time with him and even threatened to rape him.  Sahr is charged with felony counts of stalking a person under 18 and child enticement and is

A man will do two months in jail for beating an inmate while in Eau Claire County Jail.  Twenty-nine-year-old Erio Oliver pleaded no contest to one felony count of battery by a prisoner yesterday in a 2016 incident in which an officer saw him hitting an inmate over and over again causing him to be sent to the hospital.  Oliver is also charged with 20 counts of child pornography possession in a separate case from 2015.  His trial is scheduled

The ongoing partial government shutdown is starting to impact farmers in northwest Wisconsin.  You may have seen the front page of the Leader-Telegram reporting that farmers are struggling because they don’t have access to government services such as corn loans and some food inspection places.  One farmer from Goetz says nearly no aspect of agriculture is profitable right now.  There’s also a delay in the tariff payments farmers are supposed to be receiving because of the ongoing trade disputes with

The City of Chippewa Falls is planning its 150th anniversary celebration for this summer.  The city was officially settled on March 25th, 1869.  City officials don’t have any concrete plans for the celebration and Mayor Greg Hoffman says anyone with ideas should submit them to the city planner.  For its 100th anniversary in 1969 many men grew lengthy beards and there was also a commemorative pin for the city. 

The man charged in the kidnapping of Jayme Closs and the murders of her parents is being held in a different facility.  Jake Patterson was moved Monday from the Barron County Jail to a jail in Polk County.  Jayme was missing for nearly three months before she escaped from Patterson’s home in Gordon, Wisconsin late last week.  Patterson has admitted to investigators that he committed the murders and the kidnapping.  Barron County authorities say they knew deputies had passed a single vehicle

Democratic Governor Tony Evers and Republican legislative leaders are split on the issue of Medicaid expansion.  Evers has pledged to expand Medicaid in Wisconsin in his first budget proposal.  Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos have both called the move a “nonstarter” for Republicans in the Legislature.   Former Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are in a Twitter fight.  The two got into a dispute yesterday over marginal tax rates.  Ocasio-Cortez is proposing a 70

A conservative legal group is suing for clarification over whether wedding barns will require a liquor license to serve alcohol.  The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty says former Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel put the wedding barn industry in limbo after issuing an informal legal opinion.  The opinion suggests such barns are public venues which would require them to have liquor licenses. 

The Eau Claire City-County Health Department says one in ten area high schoolers has used marijuana in the last 30 days.  A youth risk behavior survey says the statistic has remained steady since 2004.  The survey also says the perception among Eau Claire high schoolers of the risk of marijuana has dropped since 2004. 

The premiere of a new adventure race show is bringing attention to Eau Claire.  The new season of Fireball Run: Big Country featuring Eau Claire premiered last night.  Visit Eau Claire’s Executive Director says exposure on the competition show could have a positive impact on tourism in the city.  The show is available for viewing on Amazon Prime.