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 A western Wisconsin man is headed for a new trial after withdrawing his guilty plea in a 2017 double murder. An Eau Claire County judge yesterday allowed Wayne Price to change his plea. He initially pleaded guilty to killing his sister and her boyfriend six years ago, but he now says his lawyers didn’t advise him of all of his options. Price is serving a 30-year sentence as part of that original plea deal. He will now be re-charged, and held on

The decade-long search for a wanted suspect in Chippewa County has ended. Randy Cain appeared in court last Friday to answer charges that he sexually touched a 16-year-old boy back in 2013. Prosecutors charged him at the time, but Cain then fled to Puerto Rico. He was arrested this spring in the Dominican Republic. Prosecutors say he visited the US Embassy there. Cain is being held on 200 thousand-dollars bond, and is due back in court in Chippewa Falls next

Prosecutors in Winnebago County say an officer was within her rights when she shot and wounded a wanted man who tried to run her down back in March. The officer was one of two who went to arrest the man who’d recently been released from prison, and was a suspect in a domestic violence case. Investigators say the man hit one squad car and was barreling down on the officer when she fired. The man was wounded, treated, and sent

Advocates want Eau Claire to spend even more on housing for the homeless in the city. The Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care pressed the city council last night for more funding for affordable housing, and a sit down with homeless people themselves to see what they need. Eau Claire is in the middle of a larger, homeless plan. The city council says the input from last night’s meeting will be included in that plan.

Child sex dolls could soon be illegal in Wisconsin. Lawmakers at the Capitol in Madison are considering a ban on the dolls that are made to look like children. The dolls can even be made to look like specific children. Five states have already outlawed the dolls, which are sold mainly online. State Rep. Joy Goeben and state Senator Jesse James want to make it a felony to have one of the dolls, and give people who have them three years

Wisconsin’s DNR says the state’s elk population continues to grow. Wildlife managers say the elk herd in the state should top 500 by this summer. Wisconsin re-introduced elk to the state back in 1995 with 25 elk. Wisconsin added 150 more in 2014, and the numbers have only grown since then. The DNR says the population is healthy enough to sustain an elk hunting season that began back in 2018.

 We should get a better sense of the split between Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol over shared revenue today. The State Senate is holding its first hearing on its proposal. Republicans in both the Senate and the Assembly want to use some of the state’s sales tax dollars to send more money to local governments, but there’s a disagreement over a proposed Milwaukee sales tax increase. Assembly Republicans want voters to have a say, while Senate Republicans want to allow Milwaukee and

Wisconsin lawmakers are considering a plan to add Narcan to first aid kits in the state’s schools. A Senate panel will hold a hearing on the proposal later this morning. Schools are already required to have first aid kits, and schools are already allowed to distribute anti-opioid medicine like Narcan. This new plan would combine the two ideas, and require Narcan in first aid kits for public and private schools across the state.

 The NFL world is coming to Green Bay in the spring of 2025. The league yesterday announced that Green Bay will host the draft in two years. It;s part of the NFL’s new approach to move the Draft to different cities, and expand the celebration. Green Bay leaders are expecting hundreds of thousands of people to turn out for the Draft. Kansas City hosted the draft this year, and leaders there say over 300 thousand people turned-out over the Draft’s

 A deadly officer-involved shooting is under investigation in Racine, south of Milwaukee.  The Wisconsin Department of Justice says Racine police pulled over a car just after midnight this morning after getting a shooting report.  The DOJ says the driver ran into a field and fired a gun at officers as they approached.  The officers fired back and killed the suspect.  The officers involved are on administrative leave while the case is being investigated.