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A plea deal could mean 26 years in prison for a former Eau Claire man in a 2020 overdose death. Trenton Wik pleaded guilty to first-degree reckless homicide by delivering drugs. This comes after police found a man dead in his car on Cochrane Street back in December of 2020. Wik gave the man who died the drugs that killed him. Wik also pleaded guilty for a jailhouse fight in 2021 that injured another inmate.

The Eau Claire Fire Department responded to a structure fire Sunday evening at the Banbury place complex on Wisconsin St. On arrival, fire crews found fire within an exhaust/chimney system near the American Phoenix business. The exhaust system runs from the street level to the roof; 5 stories high. Fire crews also found fire on the first floor manufacturing area and on the rooftop penthouse. All visible fire was extinguished as crews checked each level of the structure to ensure

The only debate in Wisconsin’s record-breaking race for Supreme Court is tomorrow. Liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz will finally appear alongside conservative Justice Dan Kelly at the debate hosted by the State Bar of Wisconsin and a Madison TV station. Tomorrow’s debate is set for 12:45 tomorrow afternoon in Madison.

The University of Wisconsin’s president says most of the 38 million-dollars he wants from a new tuition hike will go for pay raises for university employees. President Jay Rothman was on Capital City Sunday on Madison TV over the weekend. He said the UW isn’t paying as much as other universities, and he wants to change that. Rothman says inflation is also driving prices higher at the university. Rothman wants a five percent tuition increase, starting next fall.

Mississippi’s Department of Human Services wants a judge to keep Brett Favre as part of their lawsuit to recover misspent welfare dollars. DHS lawyers in Jackson, Mississippi last week asked the judge not to allow Favre to walk away from the case. Favre has never been charged with a crime, but there is evidence that links him to a scheme to mis-spend millions of dollars that were supposed to go to needy families. Favre’s lawyers say the state is using

The Lady Badgers are NCAA women’s’ hockey champions. Wisconsin shut-out Ohio State to win their third national championship in four seasons. The only goal in the game came from UW freshman Kirsten Simms in the first period. After that, Wisconsin held Ohio State off for the rest of the game.

 Illinois officials say the state is making millions of dollars selling marijuana to Wisconsinites.  The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation says they made about 36-million dollars in tax revenue last year from Wisconsin residents driving over the state line to buy cannabis.  The report said Illinois counties bordering Wisconsin made over half of their cannabis sales to out-of-state residents. 

Advocates for transgender healthcare are marching on the State Capitol.  The group called Trans Advocacy Madison organized Saturday’s protest, called the “Resistance to Trans Genocide March.”  The group is demanding Governor Evers to sign an executive order to protect transgender healthcare, and are also calling for a ban on conversion therapy. 

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More Cinderella teams are coming from behind in college basketball’s March Madness.  Three upsets highlighted NCAA Tournament action on Friday.  One of those teams made the record books.  Fairleigh Dickinson is just the second 16-seed in NCAA history to win in the tournament, after shocking top-seeded Purdue, 63-58 in Columbus.  Eleventh-seeded Pittsburgh pulled off an upset over sixth-seeded Iowa State 59-41, while ninth-seeded FAU sent Penny Hardaway and Memphis home with a 66-65 win over the Tigers.  The action continues