Home

When it comes to companies allowing workers to work from home, there is reason for employers to tread lightly.  Mike Bower reports.

Weekly jobless numbers are way down.  The Labor Department reports 326-thousand Americans filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week.  That’s 38-thousand fewer than the previous week’s revised total and well below analysts’ estimate of 345-thousand.  The biggest jumps in initial claims were in California, Michigan, Texas, Washington, DC, and Minnesota.  The sharpest declines were in Virginia, Maryland, Arizona, Louisiana, and Ohio.

It’s a million dollars bond for the woman charged in Fitchburg’s deadly stabbing. Prosecutors filed formal charges against 33-year-old Kania Quinn yesterday. Fitchburg Police say she stabbed and killed 62-year-old Fred Edwards Jr. on Saturday. The two lived together. This is not the first time Quinn stabbed Edwards. She went to prison for stabbing him in Illinois. She was released from prison just last year.

Investigators in Racine say it looks like the suspect who shot a federal agent during a raid yesterday took his own life. Officers found the male suspect dead inside a home not long after they tried to serve a search warrant there yesterday morning. Local authorities say the agent was wounded as they walked to the door. It’s not clear if the agent is with the FBI, and no one is saying who the target of the warrant was. Several

They are looking to start a new Crime Stoppers chapter in Chippewa County. The county’s Rose Baier says they want to have a way for people to report crimes and help keep the community safe. The first step is to nominate a Crime Stoppers board, then create the program that pays cash for tips that lead to convictions.

Eau Claire County is looking at nearly twice the debt load as other counties in Wisconsin. County Administrator Kathryn Schauf on Tuesday said the county is on track to spend about a third of its tax levy on debt alone next year. That works-out to nearly 840 dollars of debt per-person. Wisconsin’s statewide average is almost 450 dollars per-person. But debt isn’t the only budget pressure for Eau Claire County. Schauf says the decision to give all county employees a two-and-a-half-percent raise

The list of Wisconsin cities that are likely to see Afghan refugees is growing. The state’s Department of Children and Families yesterday said refugees are likely to settle in cities that already have refugee service providers. That includes Milwaukee, Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Wausau, and Madison. The State Department has said nearly 400 Afghans will settle in Wisconsin, though not all of them could come from Fort McCoy. There are currently 13-thousand Afghans at Fort McCoy.

The number of people in the hospital in Wisconsin with the coronavirus is holding steady. The Wisconsin Hospital Association yesterday said just over 11-hundred people are hospitalized with the virus. Of them, just over 300 are in the ICU. The Hospital Association doesn’t track how many people are hospitalized because of the virus and how many people are hospitalized for something else. Wisconsin has seen more than a thousand people in the hospital with the virus for the past month or so. CLICK HERE FOR MORE

It’s going to be a contentious day at the Wisconsin Capitol. The Republicans who control the state Assembly are set to hear a series of new, proposed abortion laws today. They include a born alive proposal and a ban on gender, race, or sex selective abortions. Democrats are planning to vigorously oppose all of them. Even if the plans make it out of the Assembly’s Committee on Health, and pass a full vote at the Capitol, there is no way Governor Tony

The mayors in Milwaukee and Madison have a long list of complaints about what the state’s special election investigator wants from them. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett yesterday said the request for information from last fall’s vote is ‘broadly worded,’ while Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway says there’s no way she can produce all that the special investigator wants. Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman is asking the mayors of Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha to provide information about any and