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 Former Badger football player Marcus Randle El is heading to prison for the rest of his life for murder. A jury yesterday convicted him for the 2020 murders of two women. It took the jury just about two hours to find Randle El guilty. Prosecutors say Randle El killed the women because he thought they were stealing drugs from him. He’ll be sentenced in May.

 Mark Jensen’s lawyers will now get to make their case in his second murder trial. Prosecutors rested yesterday after calling former Kenosha County Medical Examiner Mary Mainland to the stand. She testified that Jensen’s former wife died from poisoning and was smothered back in 1998. Jensen was convicted of killing her, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered a new trial. No one is guessing how long Jensen’s defense will take.

The U.S. Marshals are now part of the search for a murder suspect from Madison who is one the run. Charvis Blue is facing homicide charges for his role in the shooting death of an 18-year-old on Madison’s north side last July. He hasn’t been seen since. Madison Police and the Marshals are asking anyone who knows anything about Blue’s whereabouts to please come forward.

An escaped inmate from St. Croix County is back behind bars. The sheriff’s office in Hudson says they found Brian Fern in Washington County, Minnesota yesterday. He walked away from the jail earlier in the day. Deputies say Fern had special privileges and was allowed to leave, but he didn’t come back. New charges are likely coming against Fern.

There’s a search for a long-missing woman in western Wisconsin. La Crosse Police are asking for help in finding 37-year-old Jennifer Peterson. Investigators say her family hasn’t heard from her since September. She was living in La Crosse at the time, but she may have moved. Her pictures are online, police are asking anyone who knows anything about her whereabouts to please contact them.

There’s no word what the UW System’s TikTok ban means for UW-Eau Claire. The university yesterday said TikTok can no longer be used or installed on university-owned phones, laptops, and computers. There’s a fear that TikTok’s Chinese owners can spy on American users. But the university isn’t saying just how many employees have university-owned cell phones, and there is no word how many of them actually use TikTok. Students will continue to be able to use TikTok if they like.

Eau Claire is joining the No Mow May movement. The city council last night changed the city’s rule for mowing lawns, pushing back the start date for a grass-height requirement til June, to allow people to grow-out their yards to help bees and other pollinators. Councilman Joshua Miller, who is a former beekeeper, drove the idea.  He says Eau Claire should set an example for communities to encourage pollinators to thrive in the spring. Eau Claire will continue to require

Badger football tickets are now on sale. The university yesterday opened season ticket sales for the 2023 season. You can grab your set for 378 dollars, that’s the same price as last year. Wisconsin will take on Ohio State, Iowa, Nebraska, Northwestern, and Rutgers at home this year. The new season begins September 2nd against the University of Buffalo.

Keith S. Burch, 55, of Warrens, Wisconsin was recently charged in Monroe County Circuit Court with three felony counts of filing a false or fraudulent state income tax return for tax years 2016 through 2018. According to the criminal complaint, Burch failed to report self-employment income he earned from his private investigations business. The complaint alleges that Burch filed tax returns that understated his income by more than $226,000, thereby evading over $13,000 in Wisconsin income tax. Under Wisconsin law, filing

Wisconsin gas prices are still going up.  Triple-A says the statewide average sits at three dollars and 25-cents a gallon, up four-cents overnight and up eight-cents from this time last week.  The average in Madison is up ten-cents from last week at three-20 a gallon.  That’s also up over 40-cents from last month.  Triple-A says the rise in gas prices continues to be driven by high demand.