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The judge in the Derek Chauvin murder case is rejecting a request for a change of venue.  Judge Peter Cahill said he doubts the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd can find any place in Minnesota that has not heard about this case.  He admitted there was pre-trial coverage that was biased against the defendant.  Cahill is also rejecting a delay of the trial.  He said they’ve been able to seat 12 jurors so far, and they

Two men are facing charges in Chippewa County for allegedly breaking into someone’s home with a gun. The Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office says 23-year-old Quinnten Schug and 25-year-old Antonio O’Brien of Dunn County broke into the home intentionally in connection to illegal drug use. Both men have previously been found guilty of theft in separate cases.

Eau Claire police are training to help people with mental health crises. This week officers went through hours of classroom instruction and event training to help them when these situations happen. Police say they respond to calls for mental health every day. They say the training helps them deescalate situations.

We know who died in Oconomowoc on Wednesday, and how they died, but we do not know why. Waukesha County Sheriff Eric Severson yesterday identified the victims at the Roundy’s warehouse as 51-year-old Kevin Kloth from Germantown and 39-year-old Kevin Schneider from Milwaukee. Both men were shot. But the sheriff is not saying what led to their deaths. There are also few answers about the suspect, 41-year-old Fraron Cornelius. We also learned that there was a couple-hour gap between Kloth

There’s a push to get people who are currently eligible for the coronavirus vaccine to get the shot as quickly as possible. Eau Claire’s city-county health department says 70 percent of people in the county will become eligible for the vaccine as of Monday. That means that people who are eligible now will have to wait longer for an available shot. Monday is the day when anyone 16 to 64 with a pre-existing medical condition becomes eligible for the vaccine

Wisconsin could hit the key milestone in its fight against the coronavirus by the Fourth of July. DHS deputy secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk yesterday said the state could reach herd immunity by July. Herd immunity would mean vaccinating 80-percent of people 16-and-up. Willems Van Dijk says the state should have enough vaccine doses by then. It may be trickier, however, to get all of those doses into people’s arms. Willems Van Dijk said last week that a lot of people

Wisconsin is adding nearly a thousand deaths to the coronavirus death toll in the state’s nursing homes. The Department of Health Services yesterday ‘updated’ its coronavirus data. The deaths were already part of the nearly 65 hundred deaths reported over the past year, but they were not linked to nursing homes or group homes until this week. The update means that 45 percent of Wisconsin’s virus-related deaths can be traced back to nursing or group homes. Almost 92 percent of people who

Governor Tony Evers’ latest stop to sell his Badger Bounce Back plan was in Madison with small business owners. The governor is trying to find support for his state budget that would raise taxes and spend more than a billion-dollars more than the current state budget. The governor told small business owners yesterday that his investments would help the state recover from the coronavirus. Republican lawmakers have made it clear, however, that the governor’s budget is dead on arrival.

The state of Wisconsin is following the IRS’ lead. The state yesterday said it is delaying this year’s tax filing deadline until May 17th. Interest and penalties on state taxes are also being delayed until May. The Department of Revenue says the delay will help about half of the taxpayers in the state. The other half have already filed their taxes.

Nearly a year after unemployment spiked in Wisconsin, the state’s unemployment office is moving toward updating its call center. The Department of Workforce Development yesterday announced a one-point-two million-dollar deal with the federal government that will allow the state to have people man DWD’s call center 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The money is coming from a federal grant. The plan is just for the call center, and not for DWD’s outdated computer system. Governor Evers wants 80