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A state grant program is awarding money to over nine-thousand small businesses to help them recover during the ongoing pandemic.  The five-thousand-dollar grants are made possible with money from last year’s COVID-19 stimulus package.  This is the fourth round of money directed to Wisconsin small businesses which have already received more than 240-million-dollars to help navigate the crisis over the last year.

Senator Tammy Baldwin is extending her condolences to the family and loved ones of Congressman Alcee Hastings.  The Democrat from Southern Florida passed away today at the age of 84.  Baldwin called him a champion for civil rights and said she was honored to work with him in the House.  Hastings’ death sets off a battle for his seat in the 20th Congressional District which he had held since 2013.  Hastings also represented the 23rd District in Florida from 1993

Charges are expected in a Barron County Domestic Incident. It was on Monday, April 5th at 2:54 p.m., the Barron County Sheriff’s Department received a call of a domestic abuse incident taking place just east of the City of Rice Lake. The report was a possible hostage situation and shots were fired outside the residence. Neighbors did confirm that several gunshots were heard at the residence. Deputies from the Barron County Sheriff’s Department along with the WI State Patrol, WI

Officials are seeking the publics help in the case of a shooting victim. On Friday, April 2, 2021 at 12:26 am, deputies from the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence on Hungary Lake Lane in the Town of Sand Lake for a call of a deceased female. Upon arrival, deputies discovered the body of a middle-aged, white female deceased in the residence from multiple gunshot wounds. The Sawyer County Coroner’s Office has positively identified the female as Cary

 More witnesses are testifying today in the murder trial of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, who’s accused of killing George Floyd.  Day seven started off with a motion to squash a subpoena for Morries Hall to testify.  Hall, who is currently being held at the Hennepin County Jail on unrelated charges, was in the car with Floyd at the time of his arrest.  Hall’s attorneys argue any testimony he would give would incriminate him and he plans to plead the Fifth

When we get a chance to showcase our community on a national level, we like to take that opportunity, and below you will see a Chippewa Valley connection hard at work. Air Traffic Controlman Airman Lucas Minor, from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, stands marshal control watch for inbound aircraft aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, in the Mediterranean Sea, March 31, 2021. The IKE Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area

Voters across Wisconsin will be picking people to run their schools on this Election Day. Local races for school board and the state superintendent’s race dominate today’s ballot. In southeast Wisconsin, voters will also pick an appeals court judge and will decide in a special election for Scott Fitzgerald’s old Senate seat. The polls are open from 7 a.m. til 8 p.m., and if you have plans to vote today, don’t forget to bring your voter ID.

Colten Treu wants a second opinion about changing his guilty plea. Treu yesterday filed an appeal to try and withdraw his guilty plea in the deaths of three Lake Hallie Girl Scouts back in 2018. Treu says his lawyers gave him bad legal advice. A Chippewa County judge turned down his request last month. Treu is serving 54 years in prison for the girls’ deaths.

Wisconsin’s coronavirus count continues to tick-up. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said the seven-day positivity rate is now three-point-four-percent. It was a little over two-percent last month. But Wisconsin was at 17-percent during the worst of the surge back in November. DHS says 246 people are in the hospital with the virus, including 64 in the ICU. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

Wisconsin’s Elections Commission is going to study voting at the state’s nursing homes, rather than push for new rules. The Commission yesterday decided against creating a new rule or pushing for a new law to clarify how to handle voting during a pandemic. Commission members say with vaccinations rising and coronavirus cases remaining flat, there’s not as much of a chance that nursing home voting will be an issue. The problem last fall was that nursing homes closed to visitors,