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Attorney General Josh Kaul says a different approach is needed for the state to withdraw from a lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act. Kaul told Governor Tony Evers today that the Wisconsin DOJ didn’t have the power alone to withdraw from the lawsuit.  He says approval is needed from the Legislature’s Joint Committee On Finance.  The governor has not indicated his next move on the issue, but has been committed to ending the state’s participation in the lawsuit to overturn the

An analysis by a watchdog group of spending by candidates and election groups reveals record spending in the governor’s race.  The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign says more than 93-million-dollars was spent on the race between Scott Walker and Tony Evers.  Nearly 58-million was spent by Republican candidates and their special interest groups and over 35-million was spent by democrats.  Former Governor Walker dropped over 36-million-dollars on his campaign, which was more than three times what was spent by Governor Tony Evers and his

A lot of people don’t want to see Miller Park become something else.  Nearly 50 thousand people have signed a petition at Change.org to keep the name at the  Brewers’ baseball park.  American Family Insurance announced this week that it will take over the naming rights in 2021.  The petition says Miller Park is the best name for the home of a baseball team called the Brewers.  Some of the people who signed the petition say Wisconsin is the home of beer,

Add a free beer to the list of freebies for furloughed federal workers.  Managers at the Pabst Taproom yesterday said they’re offering any federal worker who is off the job a free pint of Red, White, and Blue for as long as the government is shut down.  Workers simply need to present their government ID. 

A Chippewa Falls man is facing three felonies after being accused of sexually assaulting an eleven-year-old girl in a parking lot.  A criminal complaint says the girl told police Craig Belden assaulted her near a dog park recently while he was on a beer run.  Belden was arrested on child abuse charges and faces up to 72 years in prison.  He’s due in court on January 30th. 

A man accused of shooting and killing his sister and her boyfriend is pleading guilty to four charges.  If you were paging through the Leader Telegram, you might have see that 48-year-old Wayne Price was convicted of two counts of felony battery and two counts of false imprisonment as part of a plea deal.  According to that deal, the prosecution will seek no more than 28-and-a-half years in prison followed by 13-and-a-half years of extended supervision.  Price will be sentenced

A man accused of leading police on a chase through Eau Claire County has reached a plea deal.  Yesterday, Mandlenkosi Cronk pleaded no contest to eight charges related to the 2018 chase and a domestic assault incident.  He will be sentenced on March 12th. 

A company that donated 25-thousand dollars as a reward for the return of Barron teen Jayme Closs says the 13-year-old will receive the money now that she’s been found.  Hormel Foods is the parent company of the Jennie-O Turkey Store that employed Jayme’s parents, James and Denise Closs.  Jayme escaped from her captor nearly three months after she went missing in October.  The teen had been missing 88 days when she approached a woman for help who was walking her

A man accused of burglarizing the Closs home in Barron while Jayme Closs was still missing is being considered not competent to stand trial.  Police say Kyle Jaenke-Annis entered the home in November.  A judge agreed yesterday with a doctor that found Jaenke-Annis not competent to stand trial on burglary charges.  Authorities say he took things he didn’t think people would miss, including clothing that belonged to Jayme.  The man will be put on medication and a judge will review

Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council will be conducting a second homeless count.  Volunteers didn’t find any homeless people in public places during its twice-yearly survey Wednesday night into yesterday morning.  Officials said a new survey would be done Monday night in hopes of getting a more accurate count of Eau Claire’s homeless population.