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Two people are dead after a head-on car crash in Polk County.  The sheriff’s office says a car was eastbound on Highway 8 early yesterday morning when it crossed the center line and hit another car just east of 15th Street near the town of Beaver.  Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene.

A Chippewa Falls man already in prison on drug charges is also accused of providing drugs to two men who died of an overdose.  Reports say Shane Johnson made his initial appearance yesterday on 12 charges including two counts of first-degree reckless homicide.  Johnson is accused of giving drugs to Nicholas Buck and Samuel Ott.  They died of an overdose four days apart in November of 2017.  Johnson is facing nearly 200 years in prison.

Two people from the Milwaukee area are going to prison for trying to help a terrorist group.  Yosvany Padilla-Conde and Waheba Dais were both recently convicted of trying to plan attacks on behalf of ISIS.  Police say Dais tried to recruit others to the group and gave out information on making explosives.  They’re both facing up to 20 years in prison.

Wisconsin lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow parents to vaccinate their children at pharmacies.  Right now, kids under six-years-old can’t get vaccinations at a pharmacy, but the new bill would allow vaccinations with a doctor’s prescription.  If you watched the news, you likely saw that WQOW reports a pharmacist at HSHS Sacred Heart says allowing pharmacies to do vaccinations would make it easier for patients to make appointments rather than having to use crowded doctor’s offices.

The West Allis man who is claiming a huge Powerball prize says he felt lucky the day he bought his ticket.  Twenty-four-year-old Manuel Franco collected his share of the 768-million-dollar jackpot today.  He matched all six numbers including the Powerball in last month’s drawing.  Franco is taking a lump-sum of 477-million-dollars and will receive around 326-million-dollars after state and federal taxes.

The man who police say ran down three Chippewa Falls Girl Scouts is finally answering drug charges from his arrest about a month before that deadly crash.  Colten Treu pleaded not guilty yesterday to felony drug charges in Rusk County.  Authorities there arrested Treu about a month before police say he ran down the Girl Scouts on the side of the road in Chippewa County last October.  Treu was out on bond at the time of the wreck. 

The coworkers of a Greenfield man killed in the Sri Lanka terror attacks say he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Dieter Kowalski’s boss yesterday told his coworkers that Kowalski died in Sunday’s attack on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka’s capital.  Kowalski is from Greenfield and graduated from the University of Wisconsin.  He was in Sri Lanka on business when bombers attacked his hotel. 

You may soon not be allowed to light up in a city park in La Crosse. The city’s park board already approved a ban on cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and vape products.  The full city council will vote next.  Parks Director Jay Odegaard says the idea is to both promote a healthy lifestyle, and to save money by not having to clean-up cigarette butts in every park in the city. 

The Mississippi River will top out just short of major flood stage in La Crosse.  The National Weather Service yesterday said the river should crest at just over 14-and-a-half feet tomorrow.  That’s about a foot below major flood stage.  Forecasters though say it will be a while before the river is back inside it’s banks.  They don’t expect the Mississippi River to fall below 12-feet in La Crosse till some time in May.

Folks in Eau Claire will get a chance to see if an electric vehicle may be in their future.  Managers at the Eau Clare Energy and Chippewa Valley Electric Cooperatives are hosting an electric vehicle preview this weekend.  The idea is to show what new electric vehicles can do, and perhaps get some folks in western Wisconsin excited about trying one for themselves. Wanna plug in to more info? WE MAKE IT EASY TO GET MORE INFO-JUST CLICK HERE!