1410 WIZM

The good news for a robbery victim in La Crosse is that police have recovered his two flat-screen TVs. Bad news is he's still out several thousand dollars in cash. Police say a guy on the city's northside was beat up and robbed in his apartment by thugs he apparently knows. They stole his two flat screens, his phone and about six grand in cash from a safe. Cops nailed 19 year-old Richard Little as one of the robbers this week-end. They also found the flat screens. One of them stored in a bathtub. Police are still on the track of two of the suspects and have yet to find the missing money.

Touch and go for a young guy who suffered a pretty severe head injury this week-end in downtown La Crosse after a bar scuffle. Cops say the victim was punched by Jeffrey Eggebakken, a 23 year-old La Crosse guy. Eggebakken hit the guy hard enough to knock him over a snowbank so that he hit his head on the street. Witnesses coraled the drunk and belligerent Eggebakken long enough for cops to get there. The victim suffered a fractured skull and a subdural hematoma. The injury was the end result of a bar time fight over a beach ball.

We've been hearing about state cuts to local cities, county's and school districts.....but not too much about what Governor Scott Walker's budget proposal would do to seniors in the state.

Well the Governor's budget would see a cut of about 500-million dollars in cuts from Medicaid through a variety of reforms including increasing co-pays and deductibles, but not by reducing benefits. And that says Noreen Holmes-Kuroski of the Lacrosse County Aging Department....would lead to cuts in local senior transportation as well. And that Kuroski says is a must have for seniors and others.

 

Kuroski says most seniors want to stay at home as much as possible, but cuts like these may not make that possible if you take away their means of transportation

A criminal case in Monroe County has brought about a whole new ball game for the Monroe County D.A., a judge and possibly the State of Wisconsin. Judge David Rice ruled that a Canadian truck driver who erratically drove through Monroe County last year for 23 miles in his big rig...will be allowed to return to his home win Canada, with really no punishment for his actions from the incident that happened last May.

44 year old Beant Singh Gill was found not guilty by reason of insanity earlier this year.....and will be allowed to continue treatment he is receiving for a Bi-Polar disorder......in Canada. A first for Monroe County D.A. Dan Cary.

 

Judge David Rice says the case may be the first of it's kind in the state....and though Gill will have to follow the rules given to him under the Department of Health for 6 years.....monitoring his progress will be hard to do since Wisconsin has no jurisdiction in Canada.