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Tourism gets a boost in the Dairyland. The Wisconsin Department of Tourism recently announced $51,183 awarded in Joint Effort Marketing (JEM) grants. JEM grants provide partnership funding to help nonprofit Wisconsin organizations promote tourism, including organizations such as Convention and Visitor Bureaus and Chambers of Commerce. With five rounds of grants throughout the year, the JEM grants are part of an ongoing program to ignite projects and grow economic impact.

A Milwaukee man wanted for a 2006 double murder is now on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. The agency added Octaviano Juarez-Corro to the list yesterday. Police say he shot and killed his estranged wife and members of her family during an execution-style shooting at a picnic at South Shore Park in May of 2006. Two people died and three were wounded. Authorities say they haven’t seen Juarez-Corro since the shooting. His picture and information are online, as well

Pumpkin patches are back in Eau Claire. Ferguson’s Orchard’s owner says pumpkins are back earlier than usual due to heavy rain. He says the drought affects when to plant pumpkins and this year they planted them earlier. Pumpkins will be sold until the week after Halloween. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM FERGUSON’S

The VA in Milwaukee is honoring fallen service members from Wisconsin who gave their lives. A ceremony was held yesterday honoring seven service members who were killed in either Iraq or Afghanistan. All of the members were killed following September 11th, 2001.

UW Madison is having in-person classes this year, with some changes. The semester started yesterday and the campus has required students to wear masks indoors. Classrooms are at full capacity and dorm rooms have been converted from doubles to triples to give more space. Ninety-percent of the UW Madison campus is vaccinated.

Only 310-thousand American workers filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week.  That’s 35-thousand fewer than the previous week’s revised total and the lowest in nearly a year and-a-half.  Most analysts were expecting to see today’s numbers come in at around 336-thousand.

Governor Evers’ is not as popular among Wisconsin voters as he was just last month. A new poll from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty says 48 percent of voters think the governor is doing a good job, while 47 percent think he’s failing. That’s down from 50 percent of voters who approved of the governor’s performance back in August. WILL’s Will Flanders says some of the governor’s drop is because of his positions and policies in Wisconsin, while some of it is tied

Wausau won’t be getting Afghan refugees just yet. The First United Methodist Church yesterday said their arrival has been pushed back from October to April of next year. Pastor Rebecca Voss says that gives them more time to figure out where everyone will go, and how the church will support them. No one is saying just how many Afghans are coming to Wausau. There currently are more than seven thousand refugees at Fort McCoy.

Almost every county in Wisconsin is on the CDC’s list of counties with ”high’ coronavirus spread. Only three counties, Lafayette, Menominee, and Iron are listed with substantial spread. No Wisconsin county has low spread. High coronavirus spread is defined as at least a 10 percent positivity rate over the past week. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS. Here locally, the pandemic gets personal as Chippewa Falls’ mayor says he’s feeling better, but he’s not 100 percent back to health. Mayor Greg Hoffman says

There’s a set of plans from some Republican lawmakers that could take social media companies to court for censoring posts online. State Rep. Shae Sortwell and state Senator Roger Roth yesterday introduced the plans they say will protect people’s First Amendment rights online. One of their plans would allow people to sue if their posts are removed or if they are ‘shadow banned’ from any social media platform. Another would give journalists more freedom to post, and the third would