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Attorney General Josh Kaul today announced an arbitration panel has ruled in favor of the State of Wisconsin in a dispute with Philip Morris USA, Inc., RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, and other cigarette manufacturers. The case involved the annual payments manufacturers owe to the State under the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), the landmark public health agreement that Wisconsin and 45 other states reached with the tobacco companies in 1998. “This victory means that big tobacco companies will continue to be

Saturday, September 11, at 8:00am the Chippewa Valley Museum will rededicate it’s newly restored flag pole with a flag raising in memory of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. The VFW Post 305 has organized a color guard to complete a formal flag raising and also supported 25% of the cost of this project. The public are welcome to visit Chippewa Valley Museum’s front lawn and reflect on the 20 years that have passed and celebrate the newly restored

Menomonie is coming alive with the return of students! ABOVE PHOTO: Students move into their residence halls at UW-Stout. / UW-Stout photos by Chris Cooper Rylee Hubers pushed a cart with a shelving unit on it while getting ready to move into her University of Wisconsin-Stout residence hall at her designated time on Aug. 29. “I like it because you get to pick a time when you want,” said Hubers, a first-year student majoring in interior design from Northfield, Minn. “My roommate

Eau Claire’s Downtown budget theater will reopen in less than two weeks. The theater has been closed for a year due to the pandemic. The owner of the theater, Connie Olson, says there have been problems trying to reopen such as finding enough staff and movies to show. She says the theater will play movies after their usual theater run, as well as classics.

The Cub Scouts are inviting families to events to come join their program. The program is open to boys and girls in grades K through five. The activities will teach teamwork, good character, and citizenship through various activities. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

Three of the people who were supposed to be minding inmates at Milwaukee’s House of Corrections are now accused of breaking the rules themselves. Prosecutors yesterday announced charges against two of three HOC guards. The alleged ringleader has yet to be charged. Investigators say the three smuggled cell phones and drugs into the House of Corrections staring back in December of 2020. One of the inmates in on the scheme says a female guard started the process as a way

Prosecutors in Dane County are not offering a motive in the brutal murder of two parents back over the Fourth of July weekend. The son accused of killing his parents, Chandler Halderson, briefly appeared in court yesterday. Investigators say he killed, then dismembered his parents Bart and Krista in early July. Detectives say Halderson made several comments about ‘the whole story’ and told them he wanted to ‘tell them everything’ about the case. Halderson is being held in the Dane

Hospitals across Wisconsin say they are filling-up with coronavirus patients. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said there are now 944 people in the hospital with the virus, 280 of them are in the ICU. The 944 patients is the most since early January. No one is saying just who is in the hospital during this round of the coronavirus.  Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services, however, continues to say that more than 80-percent of the people ever hospitalized with the virus are 70-or-older.

Celebrate outside, wear masks inside, and stay at home if you feel sick. That’s the advice from Eau Claire’s city-county health department ahead of the Labor Weekend. The health department’s Audrey Boerner says with kids going back to school and people heading out for the long holiday weekend, there’s an opportunity for the virus to spread. Boerner says Eau Claire County is seeing a spike in coronavirus cases and hopes to keep the numbers down as much as they can

UW-LaCrosse students are now eligible for some scholarship money. The school yesterday said 70-percent of students are now vaccinated against the coronavirus. That means La Crosse students have a chance at seven, seven-thousand-dollar scholarships. All other UW campuses, except Madison, will qualify for the same scholarships once they hit 70-percent vaccinated as well.