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We still do not know how many Afghan refugees are coming to Wisconsin, but they are arriving. The commander at Fort McCoy yesterday said the first refugees arrived at the base. Brigadier General Chris Norrie said one-thousand soldiers are at the base to help deal with the people arriving from Afghanistan. Governor Tony Evers has said anywhere from ‘a few hundred’ to up to two-thousand refugees will land in Wisconsin.

It has been one year since Kenosha, Wisconsin was put on the national stage with the shooting of Jacob Blake. On August 23rd, 2020 an officer shot Blake after he fought with police, pulled out a knife, and tried to speed away in his ex-girlfriend’s SUV. Video of the shooting instantly sparked protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the rest of the country. Those protests would turn violent in Kenosha, eventually leading to riots, fires, and the shooting death of two people. Blake’s family

The top Republican in the state Assembly says he’s spoken to former President Trump about the election investigation here. Speaker Robin Vos said he spoke with the former president during a trip down to a rally in Alabama. Vos says they talked about restoring ‘integrity and trust in elections’ in Wisconsin. Vos is leading a review of the 2020 elections, with a focus on outside money and the massive increase in absentee and indefinitely confined voters. Vos says he promised to

The former bishop in La Crosse is out of the ICU as he continues to be treated for the coronavirus. Cardinal Raymond Burke has been fighting the virus since August 10th. Over the weekend, the church said Burke was taken off a ventilator and moved from the ICU. Burke, who is 73, served as bishop in La Crosse before becoming archbishop in St. Louis. He left that job for a post at the Vatican in 2008.

They are changing their minds about masks at UW-Eau Claire. The school on Friday said everyone, regardless of whether they’ve been vaccinated, will now be required to wear a mask while inside any campus building. Earlier this month, UW-Eau Claire said it was recommending masks, but not requiring them. Chancellor Jim Schmidt says requiring masks and offering vaccines are the best ways to try and help the university fight-off a new round of coronavirus cases.

Wisconsin will very likely cross the six-million-vaccine-dose mark by the end of the day. The state’s Department of Health Services says we are 10-thousand doses away from six-million. Last week, DHS reported just 36-thousand doses were handed-out. But that number is expected to rise when DHS updates its count later today. In all, 53-percent of people in the state have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

There is a new Republican boss in Wisconsin. The state party elected Waukesha County Executive Paul Farrow to the job yesterday. He replaces Andrew Hitt who left after just two years. Farrow is a former state lawmaker and will continue to serve as county executive. He takes over a Republican Party facing some very important elections next year and trailing in the fundraising race.

On August 21, 2021 at 9:28 p.m. the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office received a report of an ATV accident with several people injured on CTH-M near Sailor Creek RD in the Town of Grover. Once at the scene Sheriff’s deputies found a white Mini Cooper laying overturned in the ditch , not an ATV as originally reported. A single male subject was found still in the vehicle unresponsive and two other occupants had already exited the vehicle. CPR was performed

The Department of Defense approves Fort McCoy as a place to house Afghan refugees.  Yesterday, officials at the base east of La Crosse said the Pentagon is green lighting the request from the State Department for the military to help out with Afghan refugees.  Fort McCoy spokesperson Tonya Townsell says the DoD has authorized Fort McCoy along with Fort Bliss near El Paso, Texas and Fort Lee south of Richmond to house Afghan Special Immigrant Visa applicants and their families.

Wisconsin state lawmaker Robin Vos joins Donald J.Trump in a rally in Alabama.  The Republican from Burlington and the 45th U.S. President discussed election integrity in Wisconsin yesterday at the event in Cullman north of Birmingham.  Vos says he updated Trump on the Wisconsin state assembly probe which is focused on the 2020 election.  The Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker has appointed former Wisconsin supreme court justice Michael Gableman to lead the investigation.