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A woman who stole thousands of dollars from Eau Claire County is looking at community service and a chance to wipe her record clean. A judge yesterday sentenced Zer Smith to 20 days of community service for spending over 10 thousand-dollars in county money on herself. Investigators say Smith used her county credit card to buy groceries, clothes, and other personal items. In addition to the community service, Smith has to repay the county the 10 thousand-dollars. If she does

More Afghan refugees are coming to Wisconsin than first thought. The Pentagon yesterday said troops are expanding the facilities at Fort McCoy to accommodate 13 thousand refugees. Governor Tony Evers originally said Wisconsin would get anywhere between ‘a few hundred’ and maybe ‘two thousand’ refugees. No one is saying how many Afghans have already arrived at the fort, or when the next round of refugees will arrive. The governor has also been silent about where the refugees will go when they are allowed to

Wisconsin’s coronavirus count is as high as it was back in January. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported over one thousand new cases. That’s about where the state was at the beginning of the year. The delta variant is driving the uptick in new cases. Wisconsin’s coronavirus peak was last fall, when the state was seeing about eight thousand cases per-day. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

Protesting and passion are fine, but the head of Wisconsin’s school board association says intimidation and anger are not. John Ashley with the Wisconsin Association of School Boards yesterday asked for civility at local school board meetings across the state. He said parents should absolutely be involved in their kids’ schools, but he said it crosses the line when parents threaten violence or hurl obscenities or try to stop school boards from voting. Ashley says parents need to remember that their kids are

Kids in Mosinee schools are looking at much longer bus rides to get to school this year. The school district is one of many in Wisconsin that don’t have enough school bus drivers. Superintendent David Muñoz says they have a 250 square-mile district, and that means hours and hours of running school buses. He’s not alone, schools across the state started telling parents this week that a bus driver shortage means their kids will have longer waits and longer rides to and

It looks like Milwaukee’s next police chief is already on the job. The city’s Fire and Police Commission yesterday unanimously voted to ask acting Police Chief Jeffery Norman to be the only person to apply for the permanent job. Norman has been acting chief since December. FPC commissioners have made it clear for months that they want him to be the next chief, but his promotion was delayed because of the lawsuit over former chief Alfonso Morales’ firing. The FPC

 A Manitowoc County teen is headed to prison for 20 years for the death of a seven-year-old relative.  Damian Hauschultz pleaded guilty to reckless homicide in the 2018 death of Ethan Howard Schultz and was sentenced today.  Other members of the family have faced charges in the case including Damian’s parents.  Tina Hauschultz is serving a five-year sentence for failing to prevent harm to a child and Timothy Hauschultz is charged with felony murder and will go on trial later

The University of Wisconsin’s Madison community is celebrating achieving its COVID-19 vaccination goals.  The university announce today that 91-percent of the Madison campus community is either fully vaccinated or have received at least one dose of the vaccine.  Eighty-eight-percent are fully vaccinated and beyond the two-week waiting period after their final dose.  Ninety-two-percent of students living on campus and 99-percent of professors are fully vaccinated. 

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) confirms that a deer farm in Outagamie County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). Positive samples were confirmed by the National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa. The farm was already under quarantine after receiving animals from a CWD affected farm. The herd of approximately 30 deer will remain under quarantine while an epidemiological investigation is conducted by DATCP and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) veterinarians and staff.

One of Dr. Brady Foust’s greatest joys in life was witnessing the development of the geography students he instructed and mentored during his nearly four-decade career at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. “I loved watching them grow from clueless freshmen to mature responsible adults,” says Foust, a professor emeritus of geography who retired from UW-Eau Claire in 2009 as chair of the geography department. “It has been a pleasure to follow their careers over the years. I’m so proud of