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The man who hid in the Kohl’s in Eau Claire then tried to clean-out the jewelry case will not be spending any more time behind bars. A judge yesterday sentenced Thomas McRunnel to time served in his burglary case. McRunnel pleaded guilty to burglary and theft charges. Eau Claire Police say he hid inside the local Kohl’s store, lying down on a shelf behind some luggage. He then emerged after the store was closed and stole 23 thousand-dollars in jewelry.

It’s a million-dollars bond for the two suspects in last month’s retaliation shooting in Fond du Lac. A judge yesterday ordered 19-year-old Lamarion Moore and 16-year-old Adamite Willey to be held on seven-figure cash bond for the shooting that killed a 20-year-old woman back on May 23rd. The shooting also wounded a man and his child when stray bullets came through their walls. Prosecutors say the May 23rd shooting was pay-back for a gang related shooting in Fond du Lac

Searchers spent another day in the woods at Devil’s Lake State Park yesterday looking for a missing 13-year-old. They didn’t find him. The Sauk County Sheriff’s Office says 13-year-old James Yoblonski left his house in Reedsburg overnight Sunday. He took a vehicle and a gun and headed to Devil’s Lake. Deputies found the vehicle Monday, but they have not found James or the gun. James’ father yesterday pleaded for his son to come home. The sheriff’s office says the search

The suspect in the firebombing of Madison’s pro-life office is looking to get his federal case dismissed. Lawyers for Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury earlier this month filed a motion that says the arson charges he is facing are unconstitutional. He is also challenging the search warrant for his home and his phone. Investigators say Roychowdhury was the one who tossed two molotov cocktails into the Wisconsin Family Action Office in May of last year. Federal prosecutors say they linked Roychowdhury to the case

Eau Claire’s city council has approved the plan that could change how trash is picked-up. Council members last night approved a new ordinance that they hope will modernize garbage collection. Part of the hope is to see less frequent recycling pick-up, and fewer garbage trucks on the roads. It is a process. Even though the new ordinance passed last night, it will be next year before any changes could begin.

Western Wisconsin’s congressman is pushing to add more federal rail inspectors. Congressman Derrick Van Orden yesterday introduced a plan that would spend three million-dollars to add 15 new inspectors. He says having enough rail inspectors is key to preventing, and getting answers about train derailments. Van Orden said a lack of inspectors is one reason why we still don’t have answers about the derailment in DeSoto, Wisconsin from back in April.

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) announced $23 million in grant funding is available to support dairy businesses’ processing capacity expansion, on-farm improvements, and technical assistance services under the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives grant program. Senator Baldwin authored the bill creating the Dairy Business Innovation Initiative program, successfully shepherding its passage in 2018 and securing funding in the subsequent years since. “Wisconsin’s dairy businesses are key economic drivers of many of our rural communities…” -Baldwin The Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives provide valuable technical assistance and subgrants

A $50,000 Powerball winning ticket was sold at Mega Holiday on 6126 Texaco Dr. in Eau Claire for the Monday, June 12th drawing. The winning ticket matched four of five numbers (2-3-16-23-68) plus the Powerball (7). It is the second time in a week that a Mega Holiday location and a Powerball win are making news. On June 7th, a $50,000 Powerball winning ticket was purchased at a Mega Holiday in Altoona. Five big Powerball winning tickets have been sold in Wisconsin in June so far including: June 12th at Mega Holiday in Eau

Photo: Amanda MacGlashin, 17, of Fall Creek, who has 18 college credits from Chippewa Valley Technical College, is awarded a $1,000 Badger State Sheriff’s Association Scholarship in the name of former Eau Claire Sheriff Ron Cramer, who died in 2022. Looking back, Amanda MacGlashin believes she and her friends were targets of human traffickers while hanging out at the mall. “I remember a couple of times where we’ve had some questionable people come up to us and ask us to