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The Senate is affirming the constitutionality of the impeachment trial of former President Trump.  Lawyers for the ex-president argued that Trump cannot be tried because he is no longer in office.  House impeachment managers said the former president must be held accountable for his actions while he was still in office.  A single House article of impeachment accuses Trump of inciting the violent and deadly attack at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is confirming 681 new COVID-19 cases today.  The number of cases now tops 551-thousand.  There were 39 deaths reported today raising the toll of Wisconsin residents to die from COVID-19 to just under 61-hundred. A second case of a variant of COVID-19 is documented by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.  The variant is known to spread more easily and officials suspect there are many more cases in the state.  The DHS today says it identified the second case over

At 9:30 A.M. the Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by a clerk at a local convenience store who reported that a customer in the store appeared to be very intoxicated. The clerk provided the registration plate number of the van the customer had arrived in. The clerk reported that the customer purchased more alcohol, left the store, and drove to another nearby convenience store within sight of the first store. Sheriff’s Deputies and Officers from the Eau Claire

A Manitowoc woman is jailed on a vehicular homicide charge for a crash that killed her granddaughter.  Monica Walker is being held on a ten-thousand-dollar bond following a court hearing today.  Authorities say she was driving under the influence yesterday when she crashed and her car rolled over.  Nine-year-old Tkyia Brewer was a passenger in her grandmother’s car and was thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene.

A local philanthropist is donating millions of dollars to University Hospital in Madison.  Dr. Kaufman says the gift will allow all of transplant services to be in one central location.  Pleasant Rowland started the Middleton-based Pleasant Company, now American Girl.  Rowland had a kidney transplant in 2012. UW Health announced today they are the recipient of a ten-million-dollar donation from Pleasant Rowland for a new transplant clinic at University Hospital.  Rowland received a kidney transplant in 2012 after battling kidney

The Eau Claire Countywide Snowmobile Trails will be fully open tomorrow, Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. Eau Claire County urges all snowmobilers to abide by State and County regulations. Snowmobile travel is allowed only on designated trails and routes. You are reminded to please respect landowners property because without the landowner’s permission, the countywide trailsystem would not be possible.

Eau Claire police say someone could be out stealing catalytic converters. Police say two were reported stolen early Sunday morning. Police say video surveillance footage showed someone stealing them from two vehicles in the lot. An investigation is ongoing. 

39 year old Jason Wade Newman, from Burknurnett, Texas has been arrested in Dunn County for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 5th offense.It was on Monday, February 8th at approximately 8:05pm, when the Wisconsin State Patrol took a report of a vehicle traveling eastbound on I-94 near Baldwin, that was swerving all over the road and had no tail lights on.Troopers were able to locate and stop the vehicle west of Menomonie, near CTH Q. A subsequent investigation

State health officials are reporting that the state has administered at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to one-third of Wisconsinites 65 and older. That’s about 300-thousand people from that age group and as of yesterday morning, Wisconsin is ranked 10th nationally in the percentage of people who have received at least one dose of the vaccine. Governor Tony Evers hopes to ramp up vaccinations even more as he announced the state’s first community-based COVID vaccine clinic yesterday, which will start in

A Greenwood man is accused in a child pornography case. Twenty-eight-year-old Justin Dunlap is charged with seven counts of possession of child pornography in Clark County. Investigators say law enforcement received a cyber tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce back in October. Police searched a dropbox where they found 28 images and a video of child pornography. Dunlap is scheduled to make his first court appearance on March 23rd.